Environmental economics

Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded.

This volume, originally published in 1984, analyzes the impact of the 1973-74 oil price increases on the Appalachian coal industry in the USA, which would otherwise have suffered large output reductions as a result of sulfur emission restrictions.

Sustainable development is the central challenge of the 21st Century.

Since the turn of the millennium, more than one million people have been killed and 2.

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 reviews how far East Asian nations have implemented green fiscal reform, and show how they can advance carbon-energy tax reform to realize low-carbon development, with special reference to European policy and experience.

It has always been thought that some level of pollution and waste is unavoidable in development projects.

Over the past decades, considerable debate has emerged surrounding the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to analyze and make recommendations for environmental and safety regulations.

This is the third volume in the CARE-ing for Integral Development series.

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.

This book deals with the increasingly complex issues of eco-innovation.

The overarching contribution of this book is a review and assessment of the current and future impacts of globalization on the world's forests.

A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk.

Independent, rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of climate change.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of the most current developments in environmental and sustainability accounting and its links to reporting.

Economists and others have long believed that by balancing the costs of such public goods as air quality and wilderness areas against their benefits, informed policy choices can be made.

Asian economic development and environmental consequences are not only crucial for the wellbeing of the people, but are of great relevance for the global economy.

Leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of transnational efforts to respond to climate change, for researchers, graduate students and policy makers.

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.

Originally published in 1974 Campaigning for the Environment addresses the issue of the environmental lobby.

The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations.

This book sketches out a framework for analyzing the economic efficiency of particular river basin programs.

A major study of the modern global coal market and its impacts both on energy markets and on climate policy.

Written in a way that facilitates understanding of complex concepts, laws, and policy, Production, Growth, and the Environment: An Economic Approach explores how economic growth usually makes people better off, but also asks at what environmental cost?

Coastal zones represent a frontline in the battle for sustainability, as coastal communities face unprecedented economic challenges.

Economists have proposed a large variety of models of the oil market and this survey integrates them in a coherent framework.

This book explains the role and limitations of liberalized international trade on the global environment and sustainable development.

Since the industrial revolution, progress has meant an increase in labour productivity.

Sustainable capitalism is more than a response to the environmental crisis.

Originally published in 1974, was a pioneering study which summarized, within the pre-existing framework of atmospheric knowledge, the more significant findings that emerged from the first decade of climatological analyses of meteorological satellite data.

Projecting modest future growth for both prices and harvest levels, this study, first published in 1990, provides theoretical and empirical justification for challenging the conventional wisdom that real timber prices will rise for the indefinite future.

It is now widely accepted that the world is likely to face a major water crisis unless the present management practices are improved very significantly.

This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of 'structural adjustment programmes the economic reform policies required by the World Bank and IMF as part of their lending operations with borrowing countries.

Many of the frontiers of environmental economics research are at the interface of large-scale and long-term environmental change with national and global economic systems.

Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought.

Wind energy is the great success story of modern renewable energy.

The new volume aims to form the concept of the Russian Far East gas industry strategy, taking into account the entire range of interests, strategic trends, and opportunities.

The Routledge International Handbook ofHigher Education for Sustainable Development gives a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming research approaches for higher education for sustainable development.

Land use decisions in karst terrains can have immediate and serious impacts on the local landscape and groundwater resources.

Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term sustainability understood as having economic, environmental and social dimensions.

Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future expansion of other renewable technologies.

This book defends and articulates an "e;Engaged Buddhist"e; approach to economics as a response to the destructive effects of global capitalism.

Originally published in 1986.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

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.

Our behaviour in our own homes - our recycling habits, consumer choices and transport preferences - all have a huge impact on the environment locally and globally.

This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us.

The Business of Greening, first published in 2000, debates the relationship between business and greening, and the future form this relationship could take.

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

Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world's most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending.