Environmental economics

This book offers a vision of the future of electricity supply systems and CIGRE's views on the know-how that will be needed to manage the transition toward them.

This book is devoted to the systems rethinking of the role of the leading digital technologies and circular innovations to reduce the environmental footprint of the modern economy.

A geographer''s perspective on environmental politics for advanced students and researchers in geography, social and political science.

Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally.

Finance is a critical issue for municipal governments around the world, and a major constraint on the delivery of pro-poor services at the local level.

Drawing on more modern expressions of economic analysis, this book explores the interplay between wellbeing, nature and moral values in economics.

World''s foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students.

Surface Modifications of Nanocellulose: Strategies, Methods, and Applications establishes the basic framework of nanocellulose.

The increasing scarcity of land and the ever-rising amount of waste produced worldwide, coupled with the consequent change of focus by policy makers from waste disposal and recovery to waste prevention is boosting research in the 'economics of waste'.

The 2nd edition of An Introduction to Climate Change Economics and Policy explains the key scientific, economic and policy issues related to climate change in a completely up-to-date introduction for anyone interested, and students at all levels in various related courses, including environmental economics, international development, geography, politics and international relations.

A topical and authoritative examination of the current crisis in the fishing industry, offering a political analysis of the reasons for the crisis and suggesting ways in which this might be overcome.

This book highlights the latest advances in the science and practice of using ecosystem services to inform decisions for economic development in the context of the developing countries.

Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research.

In a period of planetary crisis, this book shows how large-scale change occurs in global environmental politics.

Over the last several decades, many low-income mineral exporting countries have seen their per capita income decline or their standard of living stagnate.

An innovative, interdisciplinary analysis of the increasingly important relationship between EU environmental and competition law and policy.

Leading scholars from economics, management studies, and political science suggest effective environmental policies to mitigate human impact on the environment.

A Circular Economy seeks to rebuild capital, whether this is financial, manufactured, human, social or natural, and offers opportunities and solutions for all organisations.

Since its inception some 40 years ago, petroleum-specific taxation in the UK has been subject to numerous modifications.

This book focuses on the new concept of bioeconomy which collects the wisdom from life science, medicine and economics.

Civil society participants have voiced concerns that the environmental problems that were the subject of multilateral environmental agreements negotiated during the 1992 Rio processes are not serving to ameliorate global environmental problems.

This book arose out of a paper that I wrote for the World Bank at the request of Ariel Dinar, the editor for the series in which this volume appears.

Forest management auditing is expanding from its traditional focus on forest management, stewardship and Chain of Custody certification to more innovative topics such as ecosystem services, forest carbon credits, Non-Wood Forest Products, wood energy and Fair Trade certification.

Local Food Systems and Community Economic Development provides scholarly and practical knowledge on a range of issues often associated with local food system development.

Freshwater is the most precious and valuable natural resource essential for all kind of life on the land surface.

Over the past two decades, existing documentation of women in the agricultural sector has surveyed topics such as agricultural restructuring and land reform, international trade agreements and food trade, land ownership and rural development and rural feminisms.

This book systematically deconstructs the pervasive and counter-productive discourse surrounding environmental policy.

Green finance is heralded in theory and practice as the new panacea - the ideal way to support the green transition of businesses into more sustainable, environmentally responsible forms, by means of incentivized financial investments.

It is vital that we adopt interdisciplinary approaches such as ecological economics to gain an understanding of the values that determine human interaction with, and use and abuse of, the environment.

The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits against uncertain consequences.

Considerable attention has been given during the past few years to the water crisis that many regions of the world may face in the coming decades.

This fully updated second edition presents a conceptual framework of outdoor recreation management in the form of a series of management matrices.

Employing a practice theoretical approach, this study centers on how German multinational enterprises transfer three selected production-related training practices to their subsidiaries in emerging economies: onboarding of new employees, shop floor inducting of machine operators, and German-style dual apprenticeship training for specialized technicians.

This book brings together contributions by leading scholars that systematically cover the most important ethical issues concerning nuclear energy.

Efforts to effectively conserve and manage marine resources are facing increasing complexity of environmental and governance challenges.

This impressive new collection couldn't come at a better time.

This book provides a dynamic simulation model based on input-output table.

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

This book focuses on the level of industrial synergy development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China.

The policy of the United States and, by extension, that of many oil importing countries, toward OPEC countries is in large part a function of an estimate of the factors that condition oil decisions in exporting countries.

Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley's study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries.

Originally published in 1984.

This book is mainly about the examination of shifting in the field of ecological economics resulting from its evolution over the past three decades.

A controversial, wide ranging and clearly documented survey of the state of the global environment.

The Routledge Handbook of Latin America and the Environment provides an in-depth and accessible analysis and theorization of environmental issues in the region.

In Islam and Sustainable Development, Odeh Al-Jayyousi addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of sustainability from an Islamic perspective.

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.

A variety of perspectives from leading economists provides fresh insight into how Arab countries may best exploit their oil revenues.

Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run.