Environmental economics

Howe and Easter analyze existing evidence on direct and indirect benefits attributable to water, as well as the potential costs of interbasin transfers, and examine feasibility of alternatives.

In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates.

This book demonstrates how Morocco and other semi-arid countries can find solutions to water scarcity by rediscovering traditional methods of water resource management.

Implementing the Circular Economy for Sustainable Development presents the concept of the circular economy with the goal of understanding its present status and how to better implement it, particularly through environmental policies.

This book explores how geopolitical tensions have shaped the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) and offers insights into managing future challenges.

This book provides a unique introduction to Bitcoin mining's energy use and environmental impacts.

This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics.

Climate change policy and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are currently discussed at all scales, ranging from the Kyoto Protocol to the increasingly frequent advertisement of 'carbon neutrality' in consumer products.

This volume examines dynamic interactions between the calculative and speculative practices of commerce and the fruitfulness, variability, materiality, liveliness and risks of nature.

In this book, first published in 1990, Judith Rees considers the spatial distribution of resource availability, development and consumption, and the distribution of resource-generated wealth and welfare.

The financial crisis and the economic crisis that followed triggered a crisis in the subject of economics, as it is typically being taught today especially in macroeconomics and related fields.

This book is focused on the application of methodological approaches and systems of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in the field of resource management.

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.

This book explores the concept of greening industrialisation and issues and considerations surrounding it through the lens of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Corporate Environmental Management, Second Edition, provides environmental industry executives, the investment community, and students a basis for measuring corporate environmental activities and standing.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and issues concerning the economic valuation of natural resources.

This book challenges the view that Run- of-River hydropower dams are green, clean and renewable.

Originally published in 1999.

The future of China, India and Asia's other emerging economies and their ability to take a 'low-carbon' and 'climate-resilient' development path determine the future of global carbon emissions and climate change.

The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks.

The period of past four decades has been characterized as one of neo-liberalism, financialization, globalization, privatization and de-regulation.

The circular economy describes a world in which reuse through repair, reconditioning and refurbishment is the prevailing social and economic model.

This book presents essential advances in analytical frameworks and tools for modeling the spatial and economic impacts of disasters.

Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications is a comprehensive eight-volume set of books that discusses in detail the theoretical basics and practical methods of various aspects of natural gas from exploration and extraction, to synthesizing, processing and purifying, producing valuable chemicals and energy.

No matter what forests are used for, forest managers have to deal with interactions between individual trees and between trees and other forest organisms.

Sustainable Investing is fast becoming an essential method of generating long-term returns, moving beyond the negative approaches to socially responsible investing that have dominated the field.

As humanity approaches the 3rd millennium, the sustainability of our present way of life becomes more and more questionable.

It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber.

Significant advances have occurred in recent years in Europe and in North America in addressing agri-environmental policies.

The book deals with the research activities focussed on solar VAD systems evaluating its merit of compatibility with ozone friendly refrigerants and adoptability with solar energy option.

This book provides an introduction to energy economics.

The concept of the 'triple bottom line' (TBL) - the idea that business activity can simultaneously deliver financial, social and environmental benefits - was introduced in the early 1990s.

This book describes the changing landscape of European forest ownership and explores the impact a new, often urban, generation of forest owners may have on the future of one of our most basic resources - forests.

Originally published in 1986, this book discusses the value of weather and climate information in government and business decision-making.

This book argues that society must rethink the notion of formal employment and instead introduce and spread the notion of "e;meaningful work"e; so that societies can become independent of economic growth.

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

The book, as originally conceived, was to be limited to technical considerations, but the scientific course of event has been so interwoven with non-scientific, but nevertheless related events, the authors felt necessary to include an account of this situation.

This volume examines current and previous environmental policies, and suggests alternative strategies for the future.

This graduate text provides a compelling narrative of current environmental economics that integrates theory, policy, and empirical topics.

This title was first published in 2002: This important collection of international research on fisheries economics offers a comprehensive source of contemporary research on key topics in the field, as well as presenting the history of how the economic theory of fisheries exploitation has developed.

Today, there is growing interest in conservation and anthropologists have an important role to play in helping conservation succeed for the sake of humanity and for the sake of other species.

Sustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental, technological and political issues.

This volume defines and analyzes the Blue Economy, a system that encompasses all the economic activities which are happening in and around the ocean within a sustainable development framework, with focus on countries in Asia.

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Over 5 decades of economic and technical assistance to the countries of Africa and the Middle East have failed to improve the life prospects for over 1.

The COVID-19 crisis has proven that sustainability of an institution or organization requires a constant review of one's strategic positioning and the execution of pertinent plans in response to evolving externalities.