Environmental economics

Auf der Jagd nach dem Mörder im eigenen Körper …In der Zukunft hat man das Problem der explosionsartig angestiegenen Bevölkerung gelöst: Die Lebenszeit wird begrenzt, und die Menschen müssen sich frühzeitig für eine von vier Existenzformen entscheiden – zum Beispiel für einen Gemeinschaftskörper.

Global change possesses serious challenges for water managers and scientists.

Water is a basic human need, and despite predictions of "e;water wars,"e; shared waters have proven to be the natural resource with the greatest potential for interstate cooperation and local confidence building.

Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South.

Although Africa is the most under-supplied region of the world for electricity, its economies are utterly dependent on it.

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming.

Sustainability is a dominant theme in tourism practice.

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

In light of the recent dynamics of the recession sparked by the global economic crisis, a roadmap for the growth and recovery of national economies is urgently needed.

Since the time of Adam Smith, there has been a voluminous literature concerned with the differing wealth of nations and the variation in the nature of economic growth, and several schools of thought have held precedence at different times.

In this book, Professors Baumol and Oates provide a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic theory of environmental policy.

Geoethics for the Future: Facing Global Challenges offers the latest points of view on highly topical issues in geosciences, including climate change, sustainable development, and energy transition, enabling readers to acquire multifaceted knowledge of topics of global relevance and highlighting the importance of the issues affecting geosciences in the 21st Century.

Our post-industrialised global economy has achieved spectacular success and pushed back poverty to an extent previously thought impossible.

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The interlinked issues of air pollution and energy policies in an enlarged Europe are currently subjects of major interest in economic, environmental, geography and regional sciences.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Conference on Efficient Production and Processing, held on February 25-26, 2021.

Im Kontext der Energiewende sind Energiespeicher ein zentrales technisches, wirtschaftliches und energiepolitisches Thema.

Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleagues words: The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.

This edited book brings together insights from scholars and practitioners from many different fields to uncover the role of the construction and real estate sectors and how they align with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

'Advances in Tourism Economics' follows his predecessor 'Advances in Modern Tourism Research' (2007) in providing a thorough assessment of state-of-the-art economic research in this rapidly developing field.

This book is an attempt to acknowledge the discipline 'wetland science' and to consolidate research findings, reviews and synthesis articles on different aspects of the wetlands in South Asia.

'Useful reading for green policy-makers and CEOs, who may discover that they can have their profits - and their environment too.

This book studies the management challenges and possibilities in sustaining farmer producer organisations (FPOs).

The British Economy After Oil (1988) examines the future paths for the British economy as North Sea oil runs out.

This book considers climate change from an economic and international policy perspective.

The concept of circular economy is based on strategies, practices, policies, and technologies to achieve principles related to reusing, recycling, redesigning, repurposing, remanufacturing, refurbishing, and recovering water, waste materials, and nutrients to preserve natural resources.

Today's electricity industry - large power stations feeding a nationwide grid - will soon be a thing of the past.

As global environmental challenges mount, this book offers a policy blueprint for building a safer, sustainable and more inclusive world.

This book explores the microstructure of carbon markets and the pricing of carbon financial instruments generally.

Energy Fables: Challenging Ideas in the Energy Sector takes a fresh look at key terms and concepts around which energy research and policy are organised.

First Published in 2011.

This book examines the water-related impacts of climate change in the UNESCO Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean (IBRM) straddling Spain and Morocco.

A Simple Model of Electric Power Network .

This book consists of chapters based on selected papers presented at the EcoDesign2015 symposium (9th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing).

Inwieweit haben Ergebnisse der vom Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie (BMBF) geförderten Vorhaben Eingang in nationale Gesetze, Verordnungen, Verwaltungsvorschriften, Richtlinien und Normen im Umweltschutz gefunden?

The Agricultural Dilemma questions everything we think we know about the current state of agriculture and how to, or perhaps more importantly how not to, feed a world with a growing population.

The book, a joint work of the African Development Bank and the African Union, presents a comprehensive analysis of the oil and gas resources in Africa.

A comprehensive, critical analysis of the interactions between investment, trade and the environment.

This book is about how societies around the world can accelerate innovation in sustainable transport.

The Handbook of Energy Policy is a unique and novel reference for addressing the policy implications of energy demand and supply from their economic, political, social, planning, and environmental aspects.

This book takes degrowth theorising in the direction of honouring collaboration, creating new dialogues and emphasising growth and human capacities.

This book discusses the future and present regional challenges of southern Europe, adopting a multidisciplinary perspective concerning planning, regional development, the role of innovation and sustainability of cities.

An unprecedented surge in the scope and level of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection has been engulfing the world.

This book brings together a broad range of research that interrogates how real estate market analysis, finance, planning, and investment for residential and commercial developments across the African continent are undertaken.

Discover farming techniques that will decrease soil erosion and costs!