Environmental economics

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.

Traditionally, Sociology has identified its subject matter as a distinct set - social phenomena - that can be taken as quite different and largely disconnected from potentially relevant disciplines such as Psychology, Economics or Planetary Ecology.

The appearance of this Second Edition has been encouraged by the favorable reception of the first.

This book is an urgent call to reimagine our social, political and economic systems so that we might transform to a sustainable society.

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly support livelihoods.

Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term sustainability understood as having economic, environmental and social dimensions.

Originally published in 1983.

Originally published in 1994, The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade provides a detailed analysis of the economic linkages between the trade and forest degradation.

Es mag zwar im Forschungsbetrieb der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ungewöhnlich sein, daß sich Angehörige einer naturwissenschaftlich-technisch ausgerichteten Großforschungseinrichtung und eines außenpolitischen Forschungsinstituts zu gemeinsamer Arbeit zusammenfinden, jedoch der Charakter der sich im Energiebereich stellenden Probleme erzwingt in steigendem Ausmaß eine Arbeit im Verbund zwischen Natur- und Sozialwissenschaft.

Combining theory, case studies and speculative fiction, a range of contributors, from leading UK academics to pioneering renewable activists, create a compelling picture of the potential perks and pitfalls of a low carbon future.

An in-depth and balanced economic analysis of the costs, hazards, regulation and politics of nuclear power.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to leveraging nature-based economic initiatives for sustainable rural development.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of Brexit on British agriculture and associated areas, discussing the Common Agricultural Policy and the Agriculture Act 2020.

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The theoretical arguments for environmental taxes and other types of economic instruments for environmental protection have been discussed extensively in the literature.

This collection brings together leading economists from around the world to explore key issues in economic analysis and the history of economic thought.

This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene.

Most of the world's freshwater resources in the liquid state (i.

Circular Economy (CE) is considered as one of the important strategies in addressing Sustainable Development Goals.

This book explores the linkages among economic development, energy, and environment.

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world's largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns.

This book discusses sustainable forest management from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, politics, economics and policy.

With globalization fast becoming an irreversible process, it is necessary to pay increased attention to the implications for environmental sustainability.

Drylands are a sizeable part of the world's potentially arable land.

The existing literature provides very little information on the real and current process of waste disposal and recycling in China.

This book deals with the increasingly complex issues of eco-innovation.

An evidence-based policy summary to help governments, local authorities and businesses meet internationally agreed environmental goals.

This book focuses on multi-level actions that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, decision makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects of low-carbon energy development.

This book addresses a timely and compelling emerging issue related to the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources and the sustainable development of the coastal community.

This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the 1977 earthquake disaster response by the Ceausescu communist regime, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romania's capital Bucharest.

"e;[The authors] argue that with more integration and cooperation between businesses, governments and communities, a more sustainable economy is possible.

Originally published in 1988.

This book examines the Union-State and inter-State relations concerning water issues in India.

Ecotaxation covers two distinct ideas.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

Tackles the politically sensitive, complex issues of climate change, development and development cooperation, offering theoretical, political, and practical perspectives.

The attractiveness of product labeling stems from their voluntary nature to achieve environmental and social goals.

Economic literature is often too theoretical for engineers and policymakers to put into practical use, while scientific literature on the remediation of contaminated aquifers rarely considers costs and benefits.

All over the world countries struggle with water stress.

Economic growth, reflected in increases in national output per capita, makes possible an improved material standard of living and the alleviation of poverty.

Why the global economy has become increasingly unstable, and how financial “de-carbonization” could break the pattern of bubble-driven wealth destruction.

Energy and agriculture are both extremely broad subjects and their interactions - the subject of this book - cover almost the full spectrum of the agricultural sciences.

This book aims to show that economics in general and non-market valuation methods in particular, together with participatory and engineering tools, can facilitate the design and implementation of the different European policies in relation to mitigation of water stress.

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.