Environmental economics

In view of the increasing quest for environmental management in businesses, this book provides a good reference to firms to understand how they may manage their supply chains to improve business and environmental performance.

Dieses Buch versammelt etwa 300 Schlüsselbegriffe, auf Deutsch und auf Englisch, die sich auf nachhaltige Entwicklung und auf ökologische, soziale und Unternehmensführungsthemen beziehen.

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute.

Effective policies to prevent global warming and climatic change are urgently required by the world community.

The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo.

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

"e;The labor of nature is paid, not because she does much, but because she does little.

Earth Observation for Monitoring and Modeling Land Use presents a practical guide and theoretical overview of the latest techniques and Earth observation technologies applied to land use and land cover change through qualitative assessment of Earth observation technologies.

Originally published in 1987.

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.

Over the past decades, considerable debate has emerged surrounding the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to analyze and make recommendations for environmental and safety regulations.

Effective policy is vital for creating greener economies, new jobs and industries, for securing energy supplies and for protecting the climate and environment.

The early 1990's marked an environmental watershed for our countly.

First Published in 2011.

Why do affluent consumers almost automatically acquire new versions or variations of products already at their disposal?

Die konsequente Optimierung von Gemeinkosten in mittelständischen Unternehmen kann für ein Renditeplus im zweistelligen Prozentbereich sorgen.

This book explains China's approach to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.

This fourth revised edition sets out to analyze and compare the operational mechanisms of the Chinese economy between the pre- and post-reform periods and through national, regional and local dimensions.

This volume of the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Second Edition, describes technologies that actively convert solar radiation into useful heat in a temperature range from just above ambient up to more than 1,000(deg)C.

Clonal forestry has come of age.

The Business of Greening, first published in 2000, debates the relationship between business and greening, and the future form this relationship could take.

The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth.

Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management.

Rapid structural transformation and urbanization are transforming agriculture and food production in rural areas across the world.

Chitin is the second most abundant natural polymer in the world after cellulose, mainly derived from the food waste of shrimp and crabs.

Macroeconomic policies have devastating effects on the environment.

This book is a study on the Japanese city gas industry, which has been rapidly liberalized in recent years.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

The first comprehensive treatment of data science as a new and powerful way to understand and manage human-environment interactions.

First Published in 2011.

The oil industry is set to change dramatically over the next decade with oil consumption needing to drop substantially to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.

In recent years, interest in climate change has rapidly increased in the social sciences and yet there is still relatively little published material in the field that seeks to understand the development of climate change as a perceived social problem.

Jedes Jahr verursacht unsere bisherige Produktions- und Verbrauchsweise große Mengen an Hausmüll.

This textbook provides an introduction to the field of mineral economics and its use in understanding the behaviour of mineral commodity markets and in assessing both public and corporate policies in this important economic sector.

This book provides a timely and insightful analysis of the expansion of biofuels production and use in recent years.

 A guide to the ins and outs of the primary commodity universe, now in its third edition.

As productivity expands to cater for population increase and shifting diets, many individuals remain hungry, whilst others suffer obesity, and significant amounts of food are wasted.

In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies, what is the plan for the provisioning of resources?

The environmentalist's bible' Times Higher Education Supplement.

This title was first published in 2000.

The monetary valuation of environmental goods and services has evolved from a fringe field of study in the late 1970s and early 1980s to a primary focus of environmental economists over the past decade.

This book explores the conquest, predation and management of human bodies and emotions by the growing capitalist digital community.

Elements of Ecological Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of ecological economics, an interdisciplinary project trying to give answers to the problems related to the overexploitation of the earth's resources today.

Originally published in 1986, this book takes an inter-disciplinary approach to the options for energy in the future.