Environmental economics

How small, innovative grassroots groups are discovering a new kind of economy and a richer quality of life Many of today’s most troubling environmental and economic issues have come to seem insoluble: carbon emissions, overshoot, inequality, joblessness, and a dysfunctional food system.

Biodiversity may refer to the diversity of genes, species or ecosystems in general.

A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change.

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities.

Whether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit?

Ausgangspunkt ist die Erweiterung der umweltökonomischen Theorie auf komplexe Umweltprobleme mit hoher zeitlicher und räumlicher Ausdehnung bei teilweise unklaren Schädigungszusammenhängen.

Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdisciplinary collaborations and problem solving.

The drive for change has informed human endeavour throughout history.

This book discusses some of the open questions addressed by researchers in general relativity.

Sagoff draws on the last twenty years of debate over the foundations of environmentalism in this comprehensively revised second edition.

Originally published in 1994, Paradise Lost?

Christina Woitzik untersucht den Grad an Berücksichtigung von Nachhaltigkeitsregeln in der Unternehmenspraxis, wobei sie den Fokus auf die Berichterstattung legt und die Berichtsinhalte bezüglich bestimmter Unternehmenscharakteristika analysiert.

Twenty years after the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "e;The Earth Summit"e;, the Rio+20 conference in 2012 brought life back to sustainable development by putting it at the centre of a new global development partnership, one in which sustainable development is the basis for eradicating poverty, upholding human development and transforming economies.

This book discusses the challenges faced by the homo resaliens and his need for a transition to a more sustainable social, economic, and environmental system.

Zum Schutz der Umwelt wird in Deutschland vornehmlich eine Politik der Verbote und der Gebote betrieben.

Originally presented as public lectures in the 1961 Resources for the Future Forum on Comparative Resources Policy and Administration.

In 1962, the Committee on Urban Economics held a conference on public expenditure decisions in order to promote analysis of the issues facing the public sector of the urban economy.

This book outlines methodologies to estimate the economic impacts of natural disasters based on business surveys conducted after large disasters in Japan.

This book includes the proceedings of the Mitigating Climate Change 2021 Symposium and Industry Summit (MCC2021), which brings together research from experts in academia, industry, and policy arenas to uncover the challenges, sharpen existing solutions, and formulate cutting-edge means to mitigate climate change.

The bioeconomy is steadily becoming more important in regional, national and European public policies.

Eco-labelling programmes have been in existence for many years but their recent growth now extends to many products and services.

This book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation.

First published in 1982, the editors and authors of this book examine the United States' 1973 embargo on the export of soybeans and its effects on U.

A novel theoretical framework to analyse the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs, including ISO 14001.

With climate change in the news, an urban core that has reached boiling point, and many children growing up without role models and with limited dreams, where is hope?

Here, expert authors delineate approaches that can support both decision makers as well as their concerned populations in overcoming unwarranted fears and in elaborating policies based on scientific evidence.

Originally formed around a set of lectures presented at a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), this book has grown in scope and in aspiration to become organised and presented rather more as a textbook than as a standard "e;collection of proceedings"e;.

Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities.

This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries.

Focusing on air pollution, energy efficiency and climate change, this book provides an introduction to Japan's environmental policies and regulations, and offers economic analyses and RIAs (Regulatory Impact Analysis) of environmental regulations implemented or planned by the national and local governments.

This book, originally published in 1974, examines the changes that took place in the market position of the coal industry in the twentieth century.

Tourism economics is partly based on established principles from the economics discipline, but it also incorporates elements from sociology, psychology, organization theory and ecology.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

A seminal global analysis of the adaptation strategies of businesses and corporations in response to climate change.

In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change.

Three quarters of our current electricity usage and transport methods are derived from fossil fuels and yet within two centuries these resources will dry up.

Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting deals with organizations' assessment, articulation and disclosure of their social and environmental impact on various groups in society.

This volume introduces the reader to game-theoretic treatments of group formation.

This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources.

It is widely accepted that limiting climate change to 2(deg)C will require substantial and sustained investments in low-carbon technologies and infrastructure.

This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society.

Advanced Cultural Districts explores the organisational design issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular focus on the advanced forms of cultural districts for local socio-economic development.

Energy is a key resource for transformational development globally.

Water exploitation has increased notably in the world during the last 250 years since the onset of industrialisation.

Focused on renewable energy systems and the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for their integration in smart grids, this book presents recent advances and methods that help to ensure that power generation from renewable sources remains stable, that power losses are minimized, and that the reliable functioning of these power generation units is maintained.

Economical energy supply is vital for a country's financial success, and factors such as price, continuity, environmental pollution and the country's own energy resources are important contributors.

Spatial Modeling of Environmental Pollution and Ecological Risk provides valuable information and insights for researchers, students and professionals in geography, hydrology, sedimentology, soil science, agriculture, engineering and GIS as they face increasingly complex challenges around development strategies for a sustainable society.

Tourism is an activity that anyone can take part in, regardless of their age, gender, nationality or level of income.

This book focuses on novel reduced cell and stack models for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and planar solid oxide fuel cells (P-SOFCs) that serve to reduce the computational cost by two orders of magnitude or more with desired numerical accuracy, while capturing both the average properties and the variability of the dependent variables in the 3D counterparts.

This volume examines how international cooperation can support implementation of domestic climate policies in developing countries.