Environmental economics

Businesses are expected to act sustainably; it is also in both societal and their interests if businesses seek and grasp opportunities to develop more sustainable products or services.

This book describes the latest microeconomic concepts and operations research (OR) techniques needed to comprehend the design and operation of power markets, as well as the actions of their agents: producers, consumers, operators, and regulators.

Drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world.

Im August 2015 begann in Frankreich ein neues energiepolitisches Kapitel: Nach jahrelangen Verhandlungen trat die transition énergétique in Kraft.

Centralized, top-down management of water resources through regulations has created unnecessary economic burdens upon users.

Our economies currently encourage excessive consumerism, weakening social ties, and depleting natural resources.

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

China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs.

Every decision about energy involves its price and cost.

This book provides an original contribution to contemporary research surrounding the environmental, humanitarian and socio-political crises associated with contemporary capitalism.

Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the whole story.

This book brings together contributions by leading scholars that systematically cover the most important ethical issues concerning nuclear energy.

This book explores a new model for addressing the central issue of environmental and other collective actions.

The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India.

Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of natural resource economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research.

The Sunday Times bestseller *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize*A New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year'This book calls for nothing less than a revolution in the future of food' Kate RaworthFrom the bestselling author of Feral, a breathtaking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanityFarming is the world's greatest cause of environmental destruction - and the one we are least prepared to talk about.

The catalyst for this study was the Fukushima-Daiichi major nuclear accident of 11 March 2011.

Governing Arctic Seas introduces the concept of ecopolitical regions, using in-depth analyses of the Bering Strait and Barents Sea Regions to demonstrate how integrating the natural sciences, social sciences and Indigenous knowledge can reveal patterns, trends and processes as the basis for informed decisionmaking.

Originally published in 1979.

In recent decades, the intensification of unpredictable events including the Covid-19 outbreak, Brexit, trade warfare, religion-inspired terrorism and civil wars, and climate change has resulted in serious loss of human lives and property, a decrease in biodiversity and natural hazards (with long-term negative impacts on environment), and impeded social and economic development.

This volume is the result of the International IDNDR-Conference on Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters, held at the Geo- ForschungsZentrum in Potsdam, Germany from 7-11 September 1998.

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How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted citiesOver the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption.

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'.

Geltender ökonomischer Logik folgend, schreitet die weltweite Übernutzung der nat- lichen Umwelt mit großen Schritten voran.

The 'neoliberal' economic policy of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP Party, which has delivered extraordinary growth in Turkish GDP over the last decade, has been one of the foundations of the party's popular appeal.

During recent years, there has been a growing awareness that a better understanding of human activities and the behavioural components of environmental problems is needed.

USING DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO VALUE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development and application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) within health economics.

The book creates an augmented knowledge about human security beyond the warfare concept in the Arctic.

Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged.

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.

This book builds on a decade-long experience with mechanisms provided by the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The book examines problems associated with green growth and sustainable development on the basis of recent contributions in economics, natural sciences and applied mathematics, especially optimal control theory.

Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour.

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

A growing number of GHG emissions trading schemes are being implemented at regional or national levels.

Privatizing public resources by creating stronger property rights, including so-called rights to pollute, is an increasingly popular environmental policy option.

Umweltökonomik bedeutet, nach Mitteln zur möglichst effizienten Bereitstellung von Umweltgütern wie etwa sauberes Wasser und Klimaschutz zu suchen.

Green Marketing examines the concept of 'Green Marketing' using examples from Turkey and the rest of the world.

After years of official disrepute, industrial policy (IP) is back in vogue at regional, national and international levels driven by concerns over competitiveness, globalisation, de-industrialisation, unemployment and the comparatively slow growth of the EU economy especially in this post-recession phase.

Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today.

Scientists directly involved in studying the Exxon Valdez spill provide a comprehensive synthesis of scientific information on long-term spill effects.

Center for European Integration, University of Bonn, Germany Instituto Nacional de Administradio, Lisbon, Portugal Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Danish School of Public Administration, Frederiksberg, Denmark Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione, Rome, Italy The papers presented in this volume were originally presented at the Paris and Bloomington conferences.

Condensed, accessible review of latest state-of-the-art assessments of IPCC, within context of sustainable development.

The Green Revolution - the apparently miraculous increase in cereal crop yields achieved in the 1960s - came under severe criticism in the 1970s because of its demands for optimal irrigation, intensive use of fertilisers and pesticides; its damaging impact on social structures; and its monoculture approach.

Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.

Urban sanitation and solid waste sectors are under significant pressure in East Africa due to the lack of competent institutional capacity and the growth of the region's urban population.