Environmental economics

A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for solutions to manage the frontiers between these two essential elements for urban living.

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

Examines how interactions between ecology and psychoanalysis shifted the focus of the American wilderness narrative from environment to identity.

During the past decade many countries in the world have experienced droughts, with severe impacts on water urban supply systems.

This book examines the relationship between neoliberalism and insecurity, beginning with the post World War II period and continuing up through the present.

This book examines how nature is constructed through law, building on the constructivist concept that ''nature'' is a self-perpetuating, self-reinforcing social creation.

'Biodiversity' at its simplest, refers to the variety of species inhabiting Planet Earth.

Eco-labelling programmes have been in existence for many years but their recent growth now extends to many products and services.

Presents chapters by leading international experts on global change and sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region for researchers and policy makers.

How to survive and thrive in the post-industrial ageIn response to the coming impact of peak oil, John Michael Greer helps us envision the transition from an industrial society to a sustainable ecotechnic world-not returning to the past, but creating a society that supports relatively advanced technology on a sustainable resource base.

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.

Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities.

This volume provides a systematic framework for energy suppliers, policy makers, academics, students, and all others interested in energy security, and analyzes key issues concerning energy, security and sustainability with the help of a wealth of data.

Human progress is heading toward collapse.

This study represents the first scholarly attempt to consider the difficult allocation problems associated with management of natural resources and proposed changes in the natural environment.

The proceedings consist of papers accepted by the 5th ICEMGD, which are carefully selected and reviewed by professional reviewers from corresponding research fields and the editing committee of the conference.

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.

This book provides an introduction to machine learning and cloud computing, both from a conceptual level, along with their usage with underlying infrastructure.

In the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development.

Climate Change and the Private Sector explores the challenges of transforming our energy infrastructure to become carbon neutral and adapting to climate change in the twenty-first century.

For pathways to be truly sustainable and advance gender equality and the rights and capabilities of women and girls, those whose lives and well-being are at stake must be involved in leading the way.

Consumer Product Innovation and Sustainable Design follows the innovation and evolution of consumer products from vacuum cleaners to mobile phones from their original inventions to the present day.

The rise of emerging economies represents a challenge to traditional global power balances and raises the question of how we can combine sustainability with continued economic growth.

There is a growing concern among Chinese researchers and policymakers about China's industrial development being unsustainable and the irreversible depletion of natural resources and deterioration of the ecological environment.

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

Degrowth Decolonization and Development reveals common underlying cultural roots to the multiple current crises.

This book is a compilation of case studies from different countries and covers contemporary technologies including electric vehicles and solar thermal power plants.

Explores the importance of policy evaluation in polycentric climate governance using the European Union as an example.

Sustainable innovation (SI) is considered to be a key driver of societal progress in an era of enormous economic, environmental and societal challenges, and the uncertainties and future consequences that come with them.

Climate change brings about a new set of major economic risks arising from changing weather patterns, extreme weather events and rising sea levels.

Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges.

Following the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, countries took up the difficult task of finding a common approach that would slow down the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere and delay changes to the planet's climate.

Tropical forests are disappearing at an unaltered pace, giving way to alternative land uses.

This work stems from the activities carried out under the European Science Foundation's Environmental Toxicology Programme and its daughter programme, Environmental Damage and its Assessment.

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

Central and Eastern European Countries are undergoing a difficult transition process with consequences for spatial development.

Over the last several decades, many low-income mineral exporting countries have seen their per capita income decline or their standard of living stagnate.

A user's guide to economic, political, social and cultural collapse.

The Chinese government set a target to reduce China's carbon intensity by 40%-45% in 2020 at its 2005 level.

There is a lot written on climate change from various points of view, but this is the first work that demonstrates the connection between the hunger of the poor, the deprivation of safe and healthy food on the part of those who can afford it in the wealthy countries, but still face starvation in the sense of lack of nourishment, and climate change itself.

Forests are considered the lungs of the planet, as they consume and store carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

Ivanko and Kivirist - innkeepers, authors, and wearers of many other hats - truly walk the green talk, detailing the nitty-gritty of running a green business.

Originally published in 1987 this book presents a comprehensive survey of the global natural gas industry: it looks at the problems of supply, the pattern of demand, the economics of the industrya nd how the industry in the 1980s was being affected by changes in other energy sectors.

Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems at local, national and global levels represent a challenge for economics as a social science.

This reissue, first published in 1995, focuses on philosophy and social science in human ecology, and includes case studies dealing with the problems of political implementation of development plans and schemes.