The case for an eco-emancipatory politics to release the Earth from human domination and free us all from lives that are both exploitative and exploitedHuman domination of nature shapes every aspect of our lives today, even as it remains virtually invisible to us.
This book deals with not just complex linkages, interactions and exchanges that form the relationship between the economic activities, human society and the ecosystems, but also the influences and impacts that each causes on the other.
This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century.
This book sheds new light on the relationship between economy and the environment by approaching the issue from evolutionary and institutional economics.
This book describes the principles of integrated assessment models (IAM) for climate change economics and introduces various computable models for different development mechanisms under climate change governance.
This book is particularly concerned with China's path to green development and how it can be understood, exploring questions such as how the goal of Chinese-led green development can be achieved.
This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats.
This book focuses on multi-level actions that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, decision makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects of low-carbon energy development.
This book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India's agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades.
This book focuses on the application of newly innovated analytical tools for sustainable development on regional economic and environmental issues in Korea.
This book is a compendium of case studies illustrating how economic tools and techniques can be used to address a wide range of problems in the management and conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems in a developing country context.
This book is a volume of essays celebrating the life and work of Yoshiro Higano, professor of Environmental Policy, Doctoral Program in Sustainable Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan.
This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan.
Este libro es el resultado de un dialógico interdisciplinario en el que confluyen profesionales de diferentes campos del conocimiento, pero que tienen en común su preocupación por la crisis socioambiental, además de su optimismo y confianza en que la racionalidad humana tendrá la capacidad de actuar responsablemente con el planeta y podrá revertir la tendencia de agotamiento, degradación y deterioro de la riqueza natural y social que ha caracterizado la economía de mercado hegemónica en los últimas décadas.
"La bioeconomía constituye una estrategia basada en la idea de un uso más eficiente de los recursos, tecnologías y procesos biológicos para la provisión de bienes y servicios que nuestras sociedades demandan.
This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.
El libro presenta las tendencias de la gestión ambiental en el mundo y recoge en su contenido la información necesaria para que cualquier ciudadano entienda de manera simple cuáles son las acciones a tomar para realizar una gestión ambiental acorde con las situaciones y circunstancias de su territorio.
La economia ambiental es aquella rama del analisis economico que sugiere la aplicacion de algunos metodos que permitan valorar economicamente los recursos naturales, fortaleciendo el concepto de valoracion ambiental, que tiene como proposito asignar un valor monetario al dano realizado al recurso natural, al ecosistema o bien a las externalidades o fallas del mercado ocasionadas por las actividades economicas que pueden repercutir positivamente o negativamente a un agente economico, a un bien o a un recurso natural.
En este catálogo se presenta la información relativa a los proyectos nanciados por la Ponticia Universidad Javeriana Cali entre 2014-2018, para el caso de los grupos de investigación de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales.
Focusing on air pollution, energy efficiency and climate change, this book provides an introduction to Japan's environmental policies and regulations, and offers economic analyses and RIAs (Regulatory Impact Analysis) of environmental regulations implemented or planned by the national and local governments.
This book provides a comprehensive review of environmental benefit transfer methods, issues and challenges, covering topics relevant to researchers and practitioners.
Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats.
The books provides a timely analysis in support of a paradigm shift in the field of wastewater management, from 'treatment for disposal' to 'treatment for reuse' by offering a variety of value propositions for water, nutrient and energy recovery which can support cost savings, cost recovery, and profits, in a sector that traditionally relies on public funding.
Since the 1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, the looming prospect of Earth's changing climate has inspired a broad movement dedicated to a sustainable future.
India has been traditionally well-endowed with large freshwater reserves, but increasing population, urbanization and agricultural growth in recent decades are causing overexploitation of surface and groundwater.
This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem - namely, humankind's predilection with continuous GDP-growth.
This book shows, we believe, the breadth and the complexity of issues that econo- mists now tackle in their analysis of the connections between the ecosystem and the economic system.
Technology is taking on an increasingly central and determining role in so- ciety, and can provide contradictory results: wealth on the one hand, but also unemployment, environmental imbalances and other social problems on the other.
