Environmental economics

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection.

This volume investigates how mining affects societies and communities in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan.

Economic valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services is possibly the most powerful tool for halting the loss of biodiversity while maintaining incomes and livelihoods.

Considers the role of economics in discussions about the depletion of finite stocks of natural resources including oil.

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.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.

More than one billion people still live below the poverty line - most of them in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Accessible to students and practitioners without an advanced degree in environmental economics, this essential reference work pinpoints the role of the economy in both creating and solving many of the world's most pressing environmental challenges.

Coal occupies a large share in the global energy basket.

As the world reels from the credit crunch and fall into recession of late 2008, the search is on for a better way to do business.

A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publicationAfrica has long attracted China.

Originally published in 1971, this volume contains papers invited for a conference on economic research relevant to national urban development held in September of the same year.

This volume showcases how the climate change phenomena (CCP) have been causing multifaceted threats to humankind through increasing numbers of extreme events, affecting social, economic, and human development worldwide.

Now in its third edition, Hendrik Van den Berg's International Economics: A Heterodox Approach covers all of the standard topics taught in undergraduate international economics courses.

The fonner Egyptian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and fonner UN Secre- tary General, Butros Butros Ghali stated after the second Gulf War "e;The next war in the Middle East will not be fought for oil, but for water.

First Published in 1986.

The capitalist mode of destruction traces contemporary capitalism's economic, ecological and democratic crises.

Originally published in 1973 and now reissued with a new Preface, this striking book challenges the whole structure of our thinking on how societies develop - why some are primitive and others advanced.

Der vorliegende Sammelband möchte auf die Herausforderungen, die Chancen und auf die Erfolgspraktiken eines koordinierten Vorgehens im Aufbau von Resilienz aufmerksam machen.

This study attributes the chronic economic distress of the valuable Pacific salmon industry not only to decline in catch but also to the economic problems of open access ocean fisheries.

This book focuses on environmental financing in the process of alignment with the EU.

The purpose of this book is to establish a connection between the traditional field of empirical economic research and the emerging area of empirical financial research and to build a bridge between theoretical developments in these areas and their application in practice.

Clean technology does not just aim to dilute or detoxify industrial waste.

Oil and Development in the Arab Gulf States (1985) brings together in one volume the manifold sources of information on the Arab Gulf region, especially the impact of oil revenues on its economic, political and social development.

This book examines the increasing recognition that the environment is a subject for protection in constitutional texts and for vindication by constitutional courts.

Recent Advancement of IoT Devices in Pollution Control and Health Applications covers current developments in Internet of Things (IoT)-based pollution control, solid waste management, transportation, and healthcare systems.

Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environmental resources are finite.

Revised to include new discussions on climate justice, green political parties, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles.

EU-Russian energy dialogue represents a policy issue that forces us to take a serious look at several crucial questions related to the present and future of Europe such as: how can the EU area ensure its future energy security when it is running out of its own energy resources and at the same time incorporating new members who are also dependent on energy imports?

Turbo-Kapitalismus, Klimakrise, Ungleichheit: Wie schaffen wir die sozial-ökologische Transformation der Wirtschaft?

The Hartwell Approach to Climate Policy presents a powerful critique of mainstream climate change policies and details a set of pragmatic alternatives based on the Hartwell Group's collective writings from 1988-2010.

Maximizing reader insights into the methodologies and cutting-edge research concerning the financial aspects of carbon markets, this book analyzes the economic and financial effects of carbon trading and regulations on the stock market prices of individual companies as well as the joint effects of regulations and of the prices of oil and gas on the prices and volatility of the traded carbon securities.

This volume is an indispensable addition to the multidisciplinary coverage of the science of the Mediterranean Sea.

Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity?

This volume, originally published in 1983 investigates join venture participants in outer continental shelf sales from institutional, theoretical and statistical points of view.

This book examines the sustainability of supply chains in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), in developed and emerging economies.

This book focuses on the impact of monetary policy and food price volatility and inflation in emerging and developing economies.

Nous vivons une révolution sans précédent mais qui en a conscience ?

Experts from business, academia, governmental agencies and non-profit think tanks to form a transnational and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the combined challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in the United States and Germany.

As global great power competition intensifies, there is growing concern about the geopolitical future of Antarctica.

This book focuses on the risks that climate change poses for the health sector.

This book offers a lively account of the humanitarian, economic, societal, and planetwide impacts of the pandemics, the COVID-19 pandemic included, which are traced back to as early as the 14th century plague pandemic.

Deep reductions in energy use and carbon emissions will not be possible within political economies that are driven by the capitalist imperatives of growth, commodification and individualization.