Environmental economics

This textbook helps students to understand the social, economic, and environmental importance of the mutual relations between industries in the same and in different regions and nations and demonstrates how to model these relations using regional, interregional, and international input-output (IO) models.

Over the past two decades, economic theory has extended its field of application to non-market goods such as environmental resources and health.

The story of the worst environmental disaster in American history and its enduring consequencesBP Blowout is the first comprehensive account of the legal, economic, and environmental consequences of the disaster that resulted from the April 2010 blowout at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico.

Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers.

This book explores the concept of degrowth, beginning from a basic assumption, not of resource depletion, as is common in most literature in the field, but rather from a state of abundance, arguing that there is a vast amount of energy on the planet waiting to be utilized by all its inhabitants.

This book focuses on high-speed rail (HSR) and new town planning and development related to HSR, approaching the issue from three different perspectives: economic cooperation at a regional level; HSR-based economic growth point at a city level; and mixed land use and building environment in the periphery area of HSR stations.

The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) has been at the epicenter of global energy markets because of its substantial endowment of hydrocarbons.

Ausgehend von der Idee des Stoffstrommanagements und dessen Stellung innerhalb des "Sustainable Development"-Konzepts werden dem Leser Informationsgrundlagen, Bewertungsmethoden und Organisationsformen vorgestellt, die für konkrete Stoffstrommanagement-Aktivitäten erforderlich sind.

examines principal energy policy decisions and their lingering effects, by recounting the historical context surrounding the interplay of law, markets, and technology.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

This book discusses climate change from an academic point of view centered on and from Latin America.

It is in the best interest of all concerned that tourism become sustainable and environmentally compatible.

Brings together a collection of papers from academia, government, and policy think tanks on US energy tax policy.

In this book, the authors analyze big data on global interdependence caused by the flows of commodities, money, and people, using a network science approach to obtain differing views of globalization and to clarify the facts on isolation of communities.

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries.

This book provides a critical assessment of the contemporary global food system in light of the heightening food crisis, as evidence of its failure to achieve food security for the world's population.

Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media.

The book provides an in depth analyses of the experience and lessons in Chinese energy and emissions reductions policies in a climate change constrained scenario.

This book provides insight into the development of effective climate policy instrumentation in two divergent and mutually exclusive directions.

The living standards and scale of development around the world are vastly unequal.

This book, from the perspectives of the spatial and intergenerational externalities of environmental public goods, provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts and theories concerning environmental public goods supply and illustrates how to design the mechanism for promoting resident participation in effective environmental public goods supply under the guidance of the government.

The experimental method is one commonly applied to issues of environmental economics; this book brings together 63 leading researchers in the area and their latest work exploring the behavioural underpinnings of experimental environmental economics.

The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis, particularly the USA, China, India, Japan and EU countries, but also developing countries having to boost their economic growth precisely when more powerful economies will prevent them from using the limited supply of fossil energy.

A novel theoretical framework to analyse the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs, including ISO 14001.

Many of the environmental and social problems we face today are symptoms of a deeper systemic failing: a dominant cultural paradigm that encourages living in ways that are often directly counter to the realities of a finite planet.

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?

This book describes structural analysis methods for examining energy demand and energy efficiency that are important in formulating regional economic and environmental policies.

This volume includes a selection of papers presented at the EURESCO Conference "e;The International Dimension of Environmental Policy"e; held in Kerkrade, The Netherlands, in October 2000.

Originally published in 1977.

Drawing on historical and current data, this thought-provoking book summarises the pathways to the present predicament and maps out strategies to develop financial and economic systems for a sustainable world.

Highly acclaimed textbook on the science, economics, and policy of modern climate change, for both science students and non-science majors.

This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy.

An authoritative reference on food system transformation and how it can be achieved in the face of climate change.

There isn't one conversation about animal ethics.

Politicians stand at a crossroads where the path to green policies is fraught with political risks, as the immediate costs to society may overshadow the profound future benefits.

Thousands of surveys on rural livelihoods in developing countries are being done every year.

This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century.

One of the central tenets of this book is that governmental policies must be designed to take into account market characteristics and environmental phenomena - simultaneously.

Biodiversity loss is one of the major resource problems facing the world, and the policy options available are restricted by inappropriate economic tools which fail to capture the value of species and their variety.

With the environment, climate change, and global warming taking center stage in the national debate, the issues seem insurmountable and certainly unsolvable at the local level.

This book covers a wide range of topics within mathematical modelling and the optimization of economic, demographic, technological and environmental phenomena.

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While water is an increasingly scarce resource, most existing methods to allocate it are neither economically nor environmentally efficient.

This book explains why governance is polycentric and what that means in practice, using examples of complex natural resource management.