Environmental economics

China has achieved rapid economic growth since the market-oriented reform in 1978 and became the second largest economy in the world in 2010.

A unified theory of conservation that addresses the broad problem of conservation, the principles that inform conservation choices, and the application of those principles to the management of the natural world.

This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services.

Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world's most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending.

This book presents the ways in which three key issues of the modern world - transformation, digitalisation and sustainability - may be combined for the greater good and highlights which activities may be designed to integrate these three directly linked paths.

This presents top scientific research by leading researchers and practitioners on the critical issue of adapting to climate change.

This textbook provides a solid introduction to the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental economics, and their links to environmental policy.

'What does it mean for the environment?

Originally published in 1980.

It is being increasingly realised that water is likely to be one of the most critical resource issues for the first half of the twenty-first century.

This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security.

This book highlights the roles of inter-regional networks in regional economies to explore the drivers of sustained regional economic growth.

The National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), announced in the Government of India's Budget 2010-11, is seen as a major step in India's quest for energy security and reducing the carbon intensity of energy.

Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century.

Shows how the economic approach of modeling natural resources as capital assets can be extended to ecosystems.

A solution to the problem of climate change requires close international cooperation and difficult reforms involving all states.

Intersecting forms of oppression, including subordination based on race, class, gender, and indigeneity, produce environmental injustice and unsustainable development.

This book explores the development of climate change discourses in Russia.

Die Konzeption des vorliegenden Buches besteht im wesentlichen in einer speziellen "Problemsicht", aus der sich methodische und inhaltliche Schwerpunktsetzungen ableiten.

This book illustrates an alternative approach to 'state of sustainability' reporting by presenting cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary discussions on sustainability issues in the context of a developing country, Botswana.

Stochastic Modeling: A Thorough Guide to Evaluate, Pre-Process, Model and Compare Time Series with MATLAB Software allows for new avenues in time series analysis and predictive modeling which summarize more than ten years of experience in the application of stochastic models in environmental problems.

An exploration of Arctic tourism, focusing on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences; this is the first compilation to concentrate on the fundamental essence of the Arctic as being a geographical periphery, but also an experiential core that offers peak tourism experiences.

Due to rapid urbanization and development, water get polluted by the noxious waste released from industrial, sewage and agricultural runoffs.

This collection examines the important and topical issue of the economic, social and environmental implications of concerted attempts to diversify energy sources away from fossil fuels.

First published in 1987, this volume was written to shed some light upon the nature and environmental consequences and wider relevance of development strategies in the Peoples' Republic of China.

How can the Earth's finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis?

This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades.

"e;The Limits to Growth"e; (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies.

This book focuses on land and disaster governance in Asian countries.

This book takes degrowth theorising in the direction of honouring collaboration, creating new dialogues and emphasising growth and human capacities.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting.

Explores the emerging and complex field of environmental product law and brings in new perspectives for research.

Für die Erfassung, Bewertung und Lösung komplexer Umweltprobleme ist eine interdisziplinäre Ausrichtung von Forschung und Lehre unerlässlich.

Global warming reveals that world energy consumption is on an unsustainable path.

Why Asia?

Human impact on natural landscapes through urbanization and agricultural expansion are becoming more and more dramatic and are the cause of serious environmental problems.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

In recent years, much work has been done in formulating and clarifying the concept of sustainable development and related theoretical and research issues.

The indexes used by local, national, and international governments to monitor progress toward sustainability do not adequately align with their ethical priorities and have a limited ability to monitor and promote sustainability.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between environment and sustainable development in society from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This Brief highlights a novel model to find out the feasibility of any location to produce solar energy.

This is a practical book with clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket methods.