Environmental economics

The book examines the issues of sustainability in general.

The theoretical arguments for environmental taxes and other types of economic instruments for environmental protection have been discussed extensively in the literature.

Independent, scientifically based, integrated, policy-relevant analysis of current and emerging energy issues for specialists and policymakers in academia, industry, government.

This book is a fully up to date study of the major issues facing forest conservation and the forestry industry, which considers developments at local, national and global levels.

The strict conversation of financial capital allows accountants to preserve capitalism in its current form.

A lively answer to those who sound alarms about population growth and resource useThe Ultimate Resource challenges conventional beliefs about the scarcity of energy and natural resources, the pollution of the environment, and the perils of overpopulation for our standard of living.

The use of legislation by EU governments to define environmental standards for industry has been criticised for its poor track record in arresting the decline in the quality of Europe's environment.

A multidisciplinary and multifaceted approach is employed to identify principal ecosystems and natural resources in the U.

Improving Health and Nutrition through Bioactive Compounds: Benefits and Applications presents bioactive compounds and functional foods as a therapeutic approach to disease and overall health and well-being.

Blueprint 4 continues the theme of Blueprint 2 in looking at the opportunities for using market forces for environmental ends.

The first systematic investigation of changes in oil market governance in the advanced industrial democracies over the last three decades.

This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development.

The book discusses the failure of many African governments in providing the social needs of the masses, thereby placing the citizenry on the desperate quest for economic resources.

Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war.

The first fully comparative study of fuel poverty across the EU, this work analyses the relationship between domestic energy efficiency, fuel poverty and health.

Prefaced by Bjorn Stigson, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, this book is one of the few that treats this topic by putting representatives of industry at centre stage.

Important progress has been made in recent years in the valuation of social costs of energy and transport.

As the world reels from the credit crunch and fall into recession of late 2008, the search is on for a better way to do business.

While the development of material civilization and industrialization initiated by the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century made possible a more comfortable life for mankind, it caused a concentration of human resources and led to rapid urbanization around the world.

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

Published in 1998.

This book introduces the Eora, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and World Input-Output (WIOD) databases and provides detailed metadata on the data sources, database structures and construction techniques used to build each system.

It is really no longer necessary to stress the importance of availing of sound statistical information on the environment.

Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It considers plastic''s harms and offers a spectrum of public and private solutions.

The topic of 'stranded assets' created by environment-related risk factors has risen up the agenda dramatically, influencing many pressing topics in relation to global environmental change.

The Social Impact of Oil (1982) examines how the town of Peterhead in the UK, hitherto a remote fishing port, was changed by North Sea oil.

Carbon pricing is one of the key policy instruments available to help countries reach the goals of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Every year, the world's governments spend over US $700 billion subsidizing activities that harm the environment.

A unique insider''s account of climate change and the diverse ways in which it is understood.

The year 2007 could perhaps accurately be described as the year when climate change finally received the attention that this challenge deserves globally.

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

First Published in 2017.

The latest scientific knowledge on climate change indicates that higher greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere through unchecked emissions will provoke severe climate change and ocean acidification.

This book asks the question, how would economics look today and into the future if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the second workshop on Evaluation and Planning held at Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes (CIHEAM) in Valenzano (Bari) in November 1993.

The first edition of this important work was the winner of the 2002 Publication of Enduring Quality award by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of energy sectors in emerging African and Latin American nations, providing a one-stop source of information and analysis of energy sectors that differ radically from those of developed countries.

This book addresses the case for a Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement (SETA) and the move from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

This title was first published in 2001.

Material flow management gets right to the core of industrial production and its environmental impact.

Since the 1980s, two different paradigms have reshaped industrial societies: the Neoliberal paradigm and a Research and Innovation paradigm.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

Schnell und bequem auffindbare, wissenschaftlich fundierte, somit verlässliche, neutrale und umfassende Information zu modernen Energietechnologien stellt dieses Handbuch bereit.

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

Nils Petter Gleditsch International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) & Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trond- heim This book could hardly have happened but for the end of the Cold War.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.