The book 'Economic Trends and Sustainable Environmental Assessment' attempts to x-ray the economic and socioeconomic activities, and cultural or behavioural aspects from the concept of sustainability by employing several related research scenarios spanning the micro-, meso-, and macro-level approaches.
This book focuses on the economics of smart meters and is one of the first to present comprehensive evidence on the impacts, cost-benefits and risks associated with smart metering.
Sustainability Accounting and Integrated Reporting deals with organizations' assessment, articulation and disclosure of their social and environmental impact on various groups in society.
This book contributes to the understanding of environment-economy relations from the perspective of economic geography, grounded in the institutional context of China.
This collection of essays brings together discussions arguing that the circular economy must be linked to society and culture in order to create a viable concept for remodelling the economy.
Umweltschutzziele wie die Bewahrung der Schöpfung werden selbst in hierarchisch organisierten Gemeinschaften wie katholischen Orden auf unterschiedlichste Weise interpretiert, bewertet und verhandelt.
Interest in biomass energy resources from forests, farms and other sources has been rapidly increasing in recent years because of growing concern with reducing carbon dioxide emissions and developing alternatives to increasingly scarce, expensive and insecure oil supplies.
In Islam and Sustainable Development, Odeh Al-Jayyousi addresses the social, human and economic dimensions of sustainability from an Islamic perspective.
This book Innovations and the Environment aims to review the state of knowledge and to provide an empirical basis for the development and use of new technologies, products and services to reduce the impact of human activities on environmental quality.
This volume synthesizes research from a five year program supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development to assess how coastal communities in Tanzania can adapt to climate change impacts such as sea level rise, and better assert their rights to implement decisions regarding coastal resource management in the context of global climate change.
This book provides research that shows tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increases occurring over the North Atlantic and with the strongest hurricanes.
The sign that 'Africa is on Sale' has been appearing with regular frequency in major newspaper accounts across the world, indicating that large amounts/expanses of Africa's rich farmlands are being sold to transnational investors, usually on long-term leases, at a rate not seen in decades - indeed not since the colonial period.
This Handbook offers a broad yet unified treatment of many philosophical issues connected with climate change, ranging from foundational puzzles to detailed applications.
This book demonstrates that a holistic approach to the bioeconomy is essential if it is to achieve its full potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits.
Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century.
Energy Economics outlines the fundamental issues and possible solutions to the challenges of energy production and use, presenting a framework for decisions based upon sound economic analysis.
Due to the urbanisation of American society and the economic problems that accompanied it; a series of conferences was held to explore the economics of human resources.
Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development.
This handbook examines how existing laws and policies fail to protect communities from major disasters and describes the actions needed to promote greater resilience.
The contributors explore the decision-making processes that surround environmental issues and attempt to provide realistic models for making policy decisions.
The book provides an overview on national policies and regulations related to water resource management in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), where water scarcity problems are critical.
This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and transfer strategies, and discusses several practical issues, chiefly focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Ausgehend von einer Analyse der Krise der globalen Biosphäre und ihrer Bedeutung für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung leiten die Wissenschaftler Prinzipien für eine erfolgreiche internationale "Biosphärenpolitik" ab.
The Communist Economic Challenge (1965) examines the substantial industrial development in the Soviet Union, and its European satellites, and China, looking at Khrushchev's boast that by 1970 the USSR's industrial output would surpass that of the USA.
