Environmental economics

Originally published in 1983.

First published in 1970, Regional Economic Development: The Federal Role examines the economic viability of depressed areas and regions.

This book discusses the key concepts of the technologies that underpin the drive towards sustainability in today s complex world.

' Measuring the sustainability of development is crucial to achieving it, and is one of the most actively studied issues in the area.

This book is a comprehensive and analytical perspective on the future of electricity demand in a low-carbon world.

This book addresses the production practices employed in the production of food animals and animal products that enable marketers to sell a variety of products to meet consumer demand.

This book discusses and explains the economics of each stage of the natural gas value chain, including the economic impact of restrictions, rules and decisions that are ostensibly technical in nature, as well as commercially relevant contractual stipulations.

This textbook provides a solid introduction to the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental economics and their links to environmental policy.

Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan.

The development of Nigeria's oil industry is examined comprehensively in this book, originally published in 1984.

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

This book presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure.

How to avoid catastrophe and lift prosperity and human welfare – a manual for the transition to a low GHG-emissions economy.

Bringing together a mixture of theoretical discussion, political analyses and illustrative case studies, this volume provides the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the tension between environmental protection and economic development in Turkey.

This book is a much-needed account, with numerous detailed examples, of the role of housing in economic growth and development by an author in a unique position to understand its importance and the practical measures for delivering that growth.

This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges in managing price risk.

Since the 1992 Earth Summit, there have been increased efforts on an international scale to address global climate change.

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.

The COVID-19 crisis has proven that sustainability of an institution or organization requires a constant review of one's strategic positioning and the execution of pertinent plans in response to evolving externalities.

This book focuses on sustainability in fashion retail, which is fast becoming the pivot point of future fashion retail strategies.

Assessing natural resource damages often requires the use of nonmarket valuation techniques that were developed for use in benefit-cost analyses.

This handbook brings together scholars from various disciplines and from around the world to examine the history, characteristics, effects, viability and implementation of basic income.

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature.

The international community has long grappled with the issue of safeguarding the environment and encouraging sustainable development, often with little result.

Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications.

Enriches our understanding of how individuals, groups, and institutions can effectively cooperate to govern shared spaces and resources.

This book approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective.

This book focuses on different sustainable products and services, such as electrical vehicles, green buildings, and biophilic and biomimetic systems, at multiple hierarchical levels within its chapters.

This book is the first attempt to highlight the Great Divergence between Europe and China from the perspective of environmental change.

This book explains how social psychological concepts can be closely integrated with sociotechnical perspectives of energy transitions.

The research projects at Fondazione Mattei have for some time now been dealing with the international dimension of environmental policy.

Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the book should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing indicators for total wealth in the countries covered by the case studies, which include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa.

This volume analyzes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on energy transition and climate change from an economic perspective.

Within the developed world, airlines have responded to the advice of advocates for corporate social and environmental responsibility (CSER) to use the intertwined dimensions of economics, society and environment to guide their business activities.

There is widespread agreement that climate change is a serious problem.

This compendium volume, Urban Land Use: Community-Based Planning, covers a range of land use planning and community engagement issues.

We find ourselves at a crossroads between environmental disaster and a new industrial revolution: a shift from the ruthless exploitation of nature toward cooperation with it.

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

This book identifies and discusses opportunities and constraints in applying the sustainability paradigm to urbanization.

Responding to a need for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the consequences of climate change, this book brings experts in climate science, engineering, urban planning, and conservation biology into conversation with scholars in law, geography, anthropology and ethics.

This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada, two regions experiencing a severe crisis due to overexploitation of fisheries resources.

The only metric that tracks how much nature we have - and how much nature we useEcological Footprint accounting, first introduced in the 1990s and continuously developed, continues to be the only metric that compares overall human demand on nature with what our planet can renew its biocapacity and distils this into one number: how many Earths we use.

Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian transformation and environmental change.

This volume uses historical epistemology in order to address several topics in the history of economic thought, with special emphasis on ecological economics, environmental metaphors of scarcity, and mathematical ecology.

This book is a selection of the most relevant contributions to the LCM 2011 conference in Berlin.