Environmental economics

This book investigates how the EU member states' domestic energy policies have transformed in the last two decades as a consequence of horizontal and vertical integration forces.

Originally published in 1931 (this re-issues the 8th edition of 1953), this book gives students a comprehensive account of global climatic types and the impact of climate on economics, issues of race, health, meteorology and geography.

This book looks at agriculture and the environment, placed within the dynamic context of post-communist societal change and entry into the European Union (EU).

During the last 100 years, the worldwide yields of cereal grains, such as wheat and rice, have increased dramatically.

This book explores how the circular economy influences product design in today's business and society.

This volume presents new developments in the research on ancillary benefits.

This book highlights the social, economic and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations, and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional and international input-output (IO) models.

Rigorous exploration of the Trump administration''s pro-fossil fuel policy and its lasting impact on public health, the economy, and the environment.

This book provides a survey and analysis of the different ways in which women's work is valued throughout the world.

In recent years, the Green New Deal has moved from relative obscurity to front and centre of policy discussions and public debates about how to respond to the climate crisis.

Meta-analysis is a formal synthesis of results and findings of scientific studies, which can assist in gaining new insights, explaining differences between results of similar studies, or determine useful directions of research.

This book explores one of the most prevailing problems of the contemporary urban world, i.

In this fascinating and challenging work, the author analyses the way water for drinking is produced, distributed, owned, acquired, and consumed in contrasting ways in different settings.

International Partnership in Russia provides a unique insight into the joint ventures formed by international oil companies in Russia during the post-Soviet era.

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments.

The Making of Low Carbon Economies looks at how more than two decades of sustained effort at climate change mitigation has resulted in a variety of new practices, rules and ways of doing things: a period of active construction of low carbon economies.

Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the electricity industry in China, the world's largest power producer and carbon emitter.

This book provides insight into the development of effective climate policy instrumentation in two divergent and mutually exclusive directions.

This book presents a new economic theory developed from physical and biological principles.

Over the past decade the importance of natural resources for sustainable agricultural development has been increasingly discussed at international forums and conferences.

There is a truly enormous literature on using stated preference information to place a monetary value on environmental amenities.

The Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies at Connecticut College is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary program that builds on one of the nation's leading undergraduate environmental studies programs.

This is the first book to address and review the United Nations' Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2018.

The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India.

The world's deserts are sufficiently large that, in theory, covering a fraction of their landmass with PV systems could generate many times the current primary global energy supply.

Originally published in 1982.

This book examines the factors affecting the demand for agricultural land in the United States and the costs of meeting increasing demand.

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy Management presents the state-of-the-art in hybrid electric vehicle system modelling and management.

Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.

Many of the world's fisheries face major challenges including overfishing, overcapacity and low returns.

Hierarchical Modeling of Energy Systems presents a detailed methodology for hierarchical modeling of large-scale complex systems with a focus on energy systems and their expansion planning and control.

A dictionary of social movements and alternatives for a future beyond economic growth, capitalism, and domination.

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A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future.

Economic Trends in Soviet Russia (1930) examines the economic position of the USSR a decade after the Revolution.

Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) became the basis of Mexican society.

This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across subnational regions and between governance levels in China.

This book shows how humankind can 'prevent dangerous interference with the c- mate system' without dangerous interference with the global economic system.

This volume is a collection of essays that provide a comprehensive coverage of multiple aspects of the discourse on environment, development and sustainability.

Why do some economies seem to excel at effective pollution management while others miss the mark when responding to deteriorating urban environments?

This book approaches Green Civilization based on the background of international initiative on sustainable development and in-depth analyzes the valuable era consensus reached by 193 countries on the UN Sustainable Development 2030 Agenda.

This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.

Originally published in 1985.