Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdisciplinary collaborations and problem solving.
In recent years, the East and South East Asian region has witnessed a rapid expansion of regional economic cooperation through bilateral and plurilateral free trade agreements.
Comparative Evaluations of Innovative Fisheries Management begins with a look at four places outside the European Union known for innovative management: New Zealand, Nova Scotia, Alaska and Iceland.
A water crisis on our immediate horizon is destined to hurt, even kill, millions of children, and the window of opportunity to do something about it is rapidly closing.
En el marco del Congreso organizado por la Cátedra Modelo Económico sostenible de Valencia y su entorno, casi una treintena de investigadores de la Facultat d'Economia e Institutos de Investigación de la Universitat de València, han acometido el reto de investigar y traer propuestas persiguiendo el diseño del modelo económico de la ciudad de Valencia y su entorno para los próximos años.
Fruto de la colaboracion de los ayuntamientos, la Diputacion de Valencia y la Universitat de Valencia, a lo largo del 2013 se han organizado una serie de ciclos, con el territorio como tema comun.
"Para frenar la emergencia climática (si es posible), es necesario que conozcamos las dinámicas del cambio climático y sus implicaciones para la vida, que construyamos en conjunto un modelo alternativo de relacionarnos y de consumir y que nos comprometamos con una transición social y ambientalmente más justa".
Esta guía pretende ayudar a las organizaciones a establecer una estrategia de desarrollo hacia un crecimiento sostenible para ser rentables a largo plazo, dejando atrás la dinámica "extraer-fabricar-usar-tirar".
This book is an attempt to acknowledge the discipline 'wetland science' and to consolidate research findings, reviews and synthesis articles on different aspects of the wetlands in South Asia.
This book is an attempt to acknowledge the discipline 'wetland science' and to consolidate research findings, reviews and synthesis articles on different aspects of the wetlands in South Asia.
This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country's irrigation and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits.
This book presents an enquiry into the interface between nature, economy and society, which is still in its early stages, notwithstanding the commendable progress and advances made in the field of environmental and natural resource economics within the ever-expanding boundaries of economics as a discipline.
This volume provides a systematic framework for energy suppliers, policy makers, academics, students, and all others interested in energy security, and analyzes key issues concerning energy, security and sustainability with the help of a wealth of data.
This book is a compilation of case studies from different countries and covers contemporary technologies including electric vehicles and solar thermal power plants.
The National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF), announced in the Government of India's Budget 2010-11, is seen as a major step in India's quest for energy security and reducing the carbon intensity of energy.
Issues linking climate change and economic growth are now at the centre of discussions regarding development strategies especially in the context of developing countries.
This brief views the environment through diverse lenses - those of standard economics, institutional economics, political science, environmental science and ecology.
This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe.
The world is witnessing a rapid growth in wind and other renewable based electricity generation due to environmental concerns associated with electricity generation from the conventional sources.
While the development of material civilization and industrialization initiated by the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century made possible a more comfortable life for mankind, it caused a concentration of human resources and led to rapid urbanization around the world.
This book demonstrates the challenges and opportunities of climate change actions in developing countries and primarily focuses on case studies in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous country.
This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions, healthcare, and other social systems.
This book investigates the relationship between environmental degradation and income, focusing on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from around the world, to explore the possibility of sustainable development under global warming.
Whether a natural event turns into a disaster depends on the severity of the hazard as well as the condition of the social sphere of its potential victims, i.
