Environmental economics

This book is devoted to strengthening the theoretical and methodological basis, systematization of international experience, and scientific elaboration of prospects for developing a climate-smart economy and business as a vector of the sustainable development of Industry 4.

This volume, originally published in 1984, analyzes the impact of the 1973-74 oil price increases on the Appalachian coal industry in the USA, which would otherwise have suffered large output reductions as a result of sulfur emission restrictions.

This book provides a detailed and comparative assessment of the humanitarian responses to major disasters in Asia over the past two decades.

Few scientific developments have given rise to as much controversy as biotechnology.

This book clearly and authoritatively addresses significant issues of water policy in the western United States at a time when the growing scarcity of western water and the role of the Bureau of Reclamation in the allocation of that resource are becoming increasingly urgent issues.

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health.

This book is devoted to investigating the policy design and effectiveness of financial and market-based instruments to promote energy efficiency financing.

Tomasz Janasz demonstrates that digital technologies and new mobility concepts can lead to a reduction of the automobiles in urban areas by a factor of 10.

This book describes the principles of integrated assessment models (IAM) for climate change economics and introduces various computable models for different development mechanisms under climate change governance.

Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism''s impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.

This book presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives.

How can we build the institutions that will promote the cooperation needed to meet our intertwined environmental and economic needs?

This book is a revision of the author's original doctoral thesis on emergency preparedness through community radio in North Indian villages into a widening array of possible reapplications in other community development fields.

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options.

Whitesell discusses the efforts of scientists to understand earth''s climate history and possible risk management policies.

This 2005 book analyzes how natural resources, social infrastructure, and institutions might be optimally sustained.

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.

According to the conventional wisdom, we live in a post-industrial information age.

(2) Do existing estimates of the no-regret potential stand up to are-evaluation within this framework?

A controversial, wide ranging and clearly documented survey of the state of the global environment.

Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before.

This book introduces ethnoeconomics, explaining how cultural, social, and historical factors influence economic behavior and decision-making.

A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, Nature in the Global South is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch.

Die Erneuerbaren Energien sind in Deutschland zu einem bedeutenden Industriezweig geworden und ein Motor für Innovation, Wachstum und Beschäftigung.

Algal Bioreactors: Science, Engineering and Technology of Upstream Processes, Volume One, is part of a comprehensive two-volume set that provides all of the knowledge needed to design, develop, and operate algal bioreactors for the production of renewable resources.

This 13-volume collection originally published between 1929 and 1982 contains a selection of titles from the fields of economics and political science.

This book argues that the theory of sustainable development lost some of its rigor because of two main reasons.

Urban planning as a discipline is deeply integral to implementing a low-carbon future.

Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context.

Implementing the Circular Economy for Sustainable Development presents the concept of the circular economy with the goal of understanding its present status and how to better implement it, particularly through environmental policies.

This study investigates the complex link between natural disasters, individual behaviour - in the form of an individual's risk-taking propensity and level of trust - and the demand for microinsurance.

This book provides an insightful guide to the economic challenges currently defining Europe.

A 'green economy' must be built on 'green jobs' - the kind of employment that is low carbon, intended to reduce energy use and expected to restore environmental quality.

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment.

Efforts to effectively conserve and manage marine resources are facing increasing complexity of environmental and governance challenges.

This volume synthesizes research from a five year program supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development to assess how coastal communities in Tanzania can adapt to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, and better assert their rights to implement decisions regarding coastal resource management in the context of global climate change.

Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources.

Originally published in 1989.

This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil's Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains.

During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history.

This book addresses the challenges facing stable democratic states in dealing with oil companies in order to secure general welfare gains.

This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy.

Business is coming under increasing pressure from government, customers and campaigning groups to improve its environmental performance.

An exploration of the duALIne project''s insights, presenting state-of-the-art research in food sustainability and identifying priority areas for further study.

Recent developments like the rising trend in crude oil price, the international economic crisis, the civil revolts in Northern Africa and the Middle East, the nuclear threat in Japan after the tsunami, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the economic growth of emerging countries like China and India have a direct relation to the security of energy supply anywhere in the world.

Applied Welfare Economics uses important results in the welfare economics literature to extend a conventional Harberger cost-benefit analysis.

At the end of 1991, the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei hosted the Integration Symposium of the Confederation of European Associations of Economists on "e;Europe between East and South"e;.

This book provides technical information on different biological and hybrid wastewater treatment systems for the treatment of wastewater and reuse, and tracks their progress towards practical and field-scale applications including strategies to be adopted for minimizing the losses and maximizing the benefits, as well as protecting the environment through the application of advanced biological and hybrid wastewater treatment Technology.

This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives.