Environmental economics

This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond.

This book explores the historical and theoretical classification of True Cost Accounting (TCA) and its business-oriented ways of implementation.

Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies.

This is the third volume in the Environmental Management Accounting Network (EMAN) series of selected refereed papers on environmental management accounting drawn primarily from papers presented at EMAN-Europe's annual c- ferences.

The goal for consumer oriented business should be to make a profit and to do it without costing the Earth.

This book takes the concept of social audit and lifts it beyond the role of functioning largely as a management tool.

The Handbook of Regional Science is a multi-volume reference work providing state-of-the-art information, prepared by respected scientists in the field.

An investigation of the sustainability of European farming systems in response to economic, environmental, institutional, and social challenges.

Water infrastructure is an essential element in water management.

This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.

Sustainable development, climate policy, and biodiversity conservation are examples of issues on the current political agenda in many countries.

This book provides a balanced critique of a range of international sustainability certification schemes across nine agricultural and natural resource industries.

This book examines the complex interrelationships between water availability, governance and violent and non-violent conflicts, drawing on in-depth case studies of Lake Naivasha in Kenya and Lake Wamala in Uganda.

This book analyzes the competitiveness of European regions and presents forecasts for 2030 and 2100 under different climate scenarios.

This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe.

This book presents specific case studies of climate finance in the Arctic and examines how the green revolution could be a game changer in this sensitive region.

International climate change policy can be broadly divided into two periods: A first period, where a broad consensus was reached to tackle the risk of global warming in a coordinated global effort, and a second period, where this consensus was finally framed into a concrete policy.

Water provides benefits as a commodity for agriculture, industry, and households, and as a public good such as fisheries habitat, water quality and recreational use.

A fascinating account of the contribution that natural resource exploitation has made to economic development in world history.

The economic upturn and performance of Mauritius is a far cry from predictions made in the 1960s.

This book is the result of over ten years of field research across Zambia.

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Bringing together case studies from Kenya, Benin, Cameroon and the Philippines, this volume provides a multidisciplinary overview of the economics of natural resource management in Tropical regions, at household and village level.

This book provides an up-to-date series of advanced chapters on applied financial econometric techniques pertaining the various fields of commodities finance, mathematics & stochastics, international macroeconomics and financial econometrics.

This book provides a succinct account of what may happen to the energy sector in the former Soviet Union in the medium- to long-run under alternative scenarios for macroeconomic reform.

Mid-Latitude Slope Deposits (Cover Beds), Second Edition focuses on widespread deposits and discusses their properties, genesis and age in subdued mountains of Central Europe, where to date most research on the matter has been conducted.

The 'Pearce Report', Blueprint for a Green Economy, puts the role which monetary evaluation of environmental costs and benefit.

In the today's global "e;commercial society"e; an inquiry into the economic role of government is gaining momentum.

Die Umweltverträglichkeitsuntersuchung (UVU) beinhaltet den wissenschaftlichen Kern einer Umweltverträglichkeitsprüfung (UVP).

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Informationsversorgung des betrieblichen Umweltmanagements.

What it means for global sustainability when environmentalism is dominated by the concerns of the affluent—eco-business, eco-consumption, wilderness preservation.

Originally published in 1982.

Worst-case scenarios are all too real, and all too common.

Environmental Economics and Sustainability presents a collection of peer-reviewed research articles contributed by international experts that reveal the current state of our knowledge in the field of environmental economics.

This book presents new research on solar mini-grids and the ways they can be designed and implemented to provide equitable and affordable electricity access, while ensuring economic sustainability and replication.

Why do some economies seem to excel at effective pollution management while others miss the mark when responding to deteriorating urban environments?

First Published in 2011.

First published in 1976, this book deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World, caused by hunger, malnutrition and poverty, perpetuated by an imbalance in the distribution of world resources.

This comprehensive book presents an alternative fresh look at date palm byproducts as a springboard for the future circular bio economy.

The grim history of Nauru Island, a small speck in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia, represents a larger story of environmental degradation and economic dysfunction.

This book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more sustainable future.

Originally published in 1991.