Environmental economics

The introduction of Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has traced a path for private and public entities interested in pursuing sustainable development.

Climate change is an environmental problem of unprecedented complexity, not just in terms of its physical, social, economic and political impacts, but particularly in terms of the range of policy instruments being designed by countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

As economic growth continues to rise, so does economic degradation.

The tropics is an area of enormous opportunity and potential.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan.

This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens.

This special issue of the Climate Policy journal outlines the fundamentals of the new European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), assesses the strategies for and impact of implementation and highlights the scheme's potential, including positive aspects and remaining hurdles.

This book presents new research on innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement nature-based solutions (NBS) at various scales and in different contexts.

This book stems from a four-year experience of a Training Programme addressing members of several Chinese governmental Institutions which, given the moment of extremely intense and fast development of their country, consider the issues of environment and sustainable growth among the foremost priorities.

Huge quantities of natural resources are illegally harvested and their proceeds laundered in the Asia-Pacific region, fostering corruption and undermining environmental governance.

This study, based on fieldwork and case studies of southeast Asian countries shows how privatization, investment and new energy technologies can be integrated to combat climate change and provide the maximum return for investors.

This book presents research on a kind of water use conflicts that is becoming more and more common and important: How to best manage moving water in times of increasing demand for electricity as well as environmental services.

Following the report by the World Commission on Environment and Development, research efforts devoted to sustainable development were promoted by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research (FRN).

This book explores smart grid from a social perspective, for advanced students, academic researchers, and energy professionals.

This book investigates positive energy buildings (PEBs).

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour.

A presentation of the challenges of European rural landscape management, exploring alternatives that incorporate place-based approaches.

'Cool Companies' turns on its head the idea that measures to avert global warming and climate change will pile massive costs on to the industrial sector.

To solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies.

Assessing natural resource damages often requires the use of nonmarket valuation techniques that were developed for use in benefit-cost analyses.

This book argues that, if redistribution was the dominant political theme of the 1960s, that of the 1970s would have been most assuredly quality.

Originally published in 1991, this study uses the 1983 outbreak of Giardiasis in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania as a case study to explore the social costs of waterborne illnesses to a community.

Die globale Süßwasserkrise wird sich zukünftig weiter verschärfen.

A comprehensive, global review of the impact ships have on the environment, covering pollutant discharges, non-pollutant impacts and international legislation.

During the last century international trade has become indispensable for many economies.

Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition.

This book contributes to the understanding of environment-economy relations from the perspective of economic geography, grounded in the institutional context of China.

It is now well accepted that deforestation is a key source of greenhouse gas emissions and of climate change, with forests representing major sinks for carbon.

For many people, the word ';industry' brings to mind images ofsprawling factories belching toxic emissions in a blighted natural landscape.

This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking - and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines - could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems.

This book defends and articulates an "e;Engaged Buddhist"e; approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism.

L’expansion du capitalisme est fondée sur l’exploitation de la nature comme un don gratuit.

Originally published in 1983, Energy and Household Expenditure Patterns claimed that two-thirds of energy consumption in the United States came from households.

This book provides a framework for analyzing and forecasting a variety of mineral and energy markets and related industries.

This book studies the limits imposed by the depletion of fossil fuels and the requirements of climate stabilization on economic growth with a focus on China.

This book looks at institutional reforms for the use of energy, water and resources toward a sustainable future in East Asia.

This handbook is the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary work on marine conservation and fisheries management ever compiled.

The circular economy is a policy approach and business strategy that aims to improve resource productivity, promote sustainable consumption and production and reduce environmental impacts.

Written in a way that facilitates understanding of complex concepts, laws, and policy, Production, Growth, and the Environment: An Economic Approach explores how economic growth usually makes people better off, but also asks at what environmental cost?

This book shows how promoting clean energy technologies - from solar panels to electric cars - can end human-induced climate change.

Understanding the ground rules of climate change for business.

Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma explores how the phenomenon of ethnic violence can be understood as a form of security dilemma by shifting the focus of the concept away from its traditional concern with state sovereignty to that of identity instead.