Environmental economics

What are the potential adverse impacts of climate change?

International commodity markets have traditionally attracted the attention of economists, econometricians, and policy makers especially in and following politically tumultuous times.

Air Transport and the Environment provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts.

Climate technology becomes more and more relevant in international environmental policy negotiations.

Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to environmental economics, using ecosystem services as the underlying framework.

Since the 1980s, and especially since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, there has been a substantial extension in the adoption and use of Environmental Assessment (EA) procedures in developing countries and countries in transition (low and middle income countries).

Class insecta is numerically the largest class of the largest phylum outnumbering the total number of all the other known species of the rest of the animal kingdom.

Now forty years old, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) remains a landmark act in conservation and one of the world's most comprehensive laws designed to prevent species extinctions and support recovery efforts for imperiled species.

The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself.

This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.

First Published in 2011.

Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded.

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series.

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How should we be putting a price on carbon, particularly in developing countries?

The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique - a form of 'environ-metrics' - to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.

Environmental Economics explores the ways in which economic theory and its applications, as practised and taught today, must be modified to explicitly accommodate the goal of sustainability and the vital role played by environmental capital.

Initially published in 1983, in association with the International Labour Organisation (ILO), this book is about the meaning, relevance and process of agrarian reform in contemporary developing countries.

Essays by leading intellectuals and public figures explore extreme events, environments, and achievements.

The concept of circular economy is based on strategies, practices, policies, and technologies to achieve principles related to reusing, recycling, redesigning, repurposing, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recovering water, waste materials, and nutrients to preserve natural resources.

Originally published in 1981, this book discusses the development of higher cost North Sea gas and oil fields.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the technologies and processes involved in renewable energy generation, with a specific focus on their role in improving the circular economy.

Limits to Privatization is the first thorough audit of privatizations from around the world.

This book utilizes statistical techniques to define a quality of life (QoL) indicator combining the three dimensions of economy, health, and education.

Energy price rises have been amongst the biggest change that has taken place in our society over the last few decades.

Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority.

Die "Konvention über die biologische Vielfalt", ein Ergebnis der Konferenz der Vereinten Nationen für Umwelt und Entwicklung (UNCED) 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, hat die verschiedenen internationalen Naturschutzbemühungen erstmals auf eine umfassende, globale Grundlage gestellt.

In this book, Page addresses the range of issues that need to be considered in establishing a materials policy.

In 2023, the Brent oil benchmark, a key international oil price marker for global crude oil underwent a substantial change.

This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz.

This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics.

Access to new sources of energy and their efficient conversion to provide useful work have been key drivers of economic growth since the industrial revolution.

At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management, enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa.

Providing an updated state of the art report on the effects of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform, this volume has a particular emphasis on the governance of institutional changes and national/regional implementation.

China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world's population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions.

A firsthand, trench-view story of the failure of the modern environmental movementand an inspiring prescription for change.

Putting forward an up-to-date waste-to-energy approach that combines experience, sophisticated modeling and technical-economic analysis, this book examines the current need for the maximum utilization of energy from waste and the associated environmental impacts.

This graduate text provides a compelling narrative of current environmental economics that integrates theory, policy, and empirical topics.

This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity provides balanced analysis of environmental problems and their potential solutions.

This textbook explores sustainability, climate change, and the corporate responsibility movement from a broad array of perspectives, including the challenges, risks, and opportunities of ESG policies, energy and environmental science, economics and philosophy, and sound public and private sector management.

Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South.