Environmental economics

The use of pesticides to control agricultural pests both benefits farm production and imposes health and environmental costs on producers and society.

Hungary has made significant progress in decoupling its output growth from main environmental pressures, largely due to implementing requirements of EU directives.

Managing Resource Abundance and Wealth: The Norwegian Experience describes the sundry and significant challenges, both economic and political, facing petroleum-producing countries.

Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of resilience in agriculture, and implications for producers seeking to adapt to change and uncertainty.

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'This book provides an excellent overview of more than a decade of transformation in a forest landscape where the interests of local people, extractive industries and globally important biodiversity are in conflict.

Originally published in 1989, this book provides an overview of the economic dimensions of climate and human activities, and considers how the variable nature of the atmosphere must be accepted as an integral part of the management package.

Climate change and ecological instability have the potential to disrupt human societies and their futures.

Originally published in 1979.

This book explores recent developments in the theory, strategic perspective and international practice of corporate social responsibility.

What America does - or fails to do - in the next few years to solve the problem of climate change will largely determine the fate of the earth and humanity for centuries to come.

This book provides the first comprehensive and systematic account of the multi-level governance system adopted by China in realizing the Dual-Carbon transition.

A timely analysis of carbon pricing that contains important lessons for anyone concerned with the development of post-Copenhagen climate policy.

Aligning global governance to the challenges of sustainability is one of the most urgent international issues to be addressed.

Plastics show up in every area of our lives.

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades.

Despite their obvious importance, the ethical implications of climate change are often neglected in economic evaluations of mitigation and adaptation policies.

v Geleitwort Wenige Bereiche finden heute in der Öffentlichkeit und damit in den Medien ein so starkes Interesse wie der Umweltschutz.

A program for building a global clean energy economy while expanding job opportunities and economic well-being.

This title was first published in 2003.

China faces many modernization challenges, but perhaps none is more pressing than that posed by climate change.

How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begunfrom lower test scores to higher crime ratesand how we might tackle them todayIt's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe.

Economic Sociology provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of the promises of economic sociology.

Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more.

This book emphasizes resource use and efficiency in the agricultural sector and offers facts and analytical concepts of interest to welfare economists, sociologists, and agricultural policy makers.

This guide explores the idea of economic growth, tracing its history and questioning why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful when unlimited growth in a finite world is ultimately impossible.

Ocean and coastal management regimes are increasingly subject to competing demands from stakeholders.

To plan successfully and manage the increased uncertainties posed by likely future climate change, knowledge needs to advance much more for the water profession beyond what it is now available.

Natural Resources and the Environment: Economics, Law, Politics, and Institutions provides a new approach to the study of environmental and natural resource economics.

The Changing Era of Diseases not only explores how to end humanity's suffering from illness, but also attempts to explain the challenging problems that may arise from the control of future disease.

The best all-around book yet on fracking (San Francisco Chronicle) from a Pulitzer Prize finalist: Gold's work is a tour de force of contemporary journalism (Booklist).

This two-volume book provides an important overview to EU economic and policy issues related to the development of the bioeconomy.

The current international financial system has created a huge gap between the wealthy and the rest.

This book presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole.

This book uses a quantitative science-based approach to explain where the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted by the fashion industry are generated and it explores what strategies can be deployed to achieve Net Zero by 2050.

Climate Crisis Economics: A Race of Tipping Points draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, and business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonised economy and sustainable future.

The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform (1988) is a collection of essays in honour of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.

First Published in 2011.

India has moved along an impressive growth path over the last decade, marked with falling share of agriculture, stagnating manufacturing, expanding services segment, growing trade orientation, enhanced FDI inflows etc.

Die Erderwärmung ist Fakt, das Klima wird bedrohlich; ungebremst bewegen sich die Umweltdaten in die falsche, unheilvolle Richtung.

This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes.

Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies.

Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances.