Environmental economics

As the first biography of Professor Herman Daly, this book provides an in-depth account of one of the leading thinkers and most widely read writers on economics, environment and sustainability.

Fostering inclusive green growth in Africa means addressing existing and emerging development challenges, while efficiently managing Africa's natural capital and building resilience to environmental, social and economic risks.

Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development offers a unified, transdisciplinary approach for transforming the industrial state in order to promote sustainable development.

Textbook on the science and methods behind a global transition to 100% clean, renewable energy for science, engineering, and social science students.

This handbook brings together recent advances in the areas of supply chain optimization, supply chain management, and life-cycle cost analysis of bioenergy.

This book explores the causes and consequences of market failure in bridging societal differences to create a shared economy.

This brief views the environment through diverse lenses - those of standard economics, institutional economics, political science, environmental science and ecology.

Air Transport and the Environment provides an overview of the main issues relating to aviation environmental impacts.

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability.

A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of nutrition in generating hierarchical societies and cultivating a global epidemic of chronic diseases.

An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.

Governance challenges and solutions for the provision of global public goods in such areas as the environment, food security, and development.

With such a wide range of social and economic uses, energy has become essential to global infrastructure and operations, regardless of economic or environmental cost.

This book presents narratives, perspectives and policies on the Arctic and brings to fore the strategies of five Asian countries - China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore who were granted the status of Permanent Observers in the Arctic Council in 2013.

The importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, with strict environmental regulations now a feature of the working lives of planners, contractors, building designers, and quantity surveyors alike.

This book provides a wider understanding of the geographies of the platform economy, focusing on the critical perspectives that have emerged on this new economic and digital context.

Integrating science, economics and policy, this book explains the urgency of sticking to a strict carbon budget.

This book addresses the puzzle, Can David take on Goliath in multilateral economic negotiations, and if so, then under what conditions?

Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are, in principle, more sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated.

This book explores the present conflictual relationship between the economy, the environment, and society.

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.

The oak tree was a boon companion as humans expanded their presence across much of the globe.

In 1962, the Committee on Urban Economics held a conference on public expenditure decisions in order to promote analysis of the issues facing the public sector of the urban economy.

The most practical, up-to-date guide for turning Brownfields into Greenfields This ready-to-use, how-to manual--edited by active developers who have bought, remediated, and sold brownfields--gives you a commanding look at one of today's leading environmental issues.

Sustainable engineering is of great importance for resilient and agile technology and society.

Household appliances encompass a large variety of equipment including the cold appliances (refrigerators and freezers), the wet appliances (washing machines, dishwashers and dryers), the space conditioning appliances (heaters, air- conditioners, heat pumps, fans, boilers), the water heaters, the cooking appliances, a wide array of consumer electronics (such as TVs, VCRs, HiFi systems) and miscellaneous small appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, irons, toasters, hairdryers and power tools).

This book focuses on the application of newly innovated analytical tools for sustainable development on regional economic and environmental issues in Korea.

This book explores environmental challenges in the Baltic region from an economic perspective.

Urban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in a more practical way than a typical urban economics book.

During the last few decades, China has accomplished unprecedented economic growth and has emerged as the second largest economy in the world.

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations.

Since the 1980's, market-based instruments for environmental policy have become increasingly important.

Forestland investment has surged in the past few decades as a result of land ownership change in the forestry industry.

The increasing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics, and pests to pesticides, threatens to undo some of the most remarkable advances made in public health and agriculture during the past century.

A challenge facing society today is how to develop a meaningful strategy for integrated hazardous waste management.

The market of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and disposal has changed substantially over the past thirty years.

Explores how we should react to the political dilemmas of adapting the global economy to confront climate change.

This companion volume to Economic Instruments for Environmental Management presents essential information on the applications of economic valuation to environment and development.

Growing concerns about the impacts of climate change and dependence on fossil fuels have intensified interest in bioenergy from sugar cane and other crops, highlighting important links between energy, environment and development goals.

Environmental challenges have never been greater than today.

The purpose of this collection of essays is to shed some light on the complex relationship between environmental quality and the distribution of income.

This edited collection broadens the definition of sustainable real estate based on industry trends, research, and the Paris Climate Agreements.

Winner of the 2024 Silver Nautilus Book Award in the Rising To The Moment category.

Regionale Unterschiede innerhalb der EU im Umgang mit der Ressource Wasser beruhen zum einen auf unterschiedlichen hydrogeologischen Gegebenheiten, zum anderen aber auch auf Unterschieden in den Gebrauchsgewohnheiten aufgrund spezifischer Voraussetzungen.

The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications.

Climate change could have a substantial economic impact, particularly on coastal states where seas level rises will be felt most strongly.