Environmental economics

Provides an overview of international developments in urban ecology, with many examples from cities worldwide.

This is the must-have book for leaders in business, organizations and government who are scrambling to get a grip on sustainability while improving performance in the era of climate change.

Contains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.

These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associations.

A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, and biodiversity conservation, African states face a range of environmental issues.

The development of Nigeria's oil industry is examined comprehensively in this book, originally published in 1984.

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

This is a practical book with clear descriptions of the most commonly used nonmarket methods.

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming.

Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media.

Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today's linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible.

This book reviews and evaluates the nationwide soil conservation effort in the United States and suggests broad outlines of a future conservation program.

This book explains how the U.

Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries.

Originally published in 1999.

Designer Cropping Systems for Polluted Land explores the processes and techniques of making polluted land safe for planting edible and non-edible crops.

Although Africa is the most under-supplied region of the world for electricity, its economies are utterly dependent on it.

The Soviet Economy (1983) examines the long-term prospective growth of the USSR's economy.

As the world plans for economic recovery following the global COVID-19 pandemic, major economies are looking to comprehensive strategies for addressing carbon risks and identifying green finance opportunities.

Sir John Houghton''s definitive, full-colour guide to climate change is fully up-to-date with the latest IPCC findings.

Current images of sustainability are often designed to instil fear and force change, not because we believe in it, but because we fear the consequences of inaction.

Using a new methodology for foresight studies, this book presents new findings and policy recommendations to improve living conditions and make progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

In the face of climate change and resulting environmental and social crises, sustainable consumption has become a widely discussed issue and a key plank of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Environmental Economics explores the ways in which economic theory and its applications, as practised and taught today, must be modified to explicitly accommodate the goal of sustainability and the vital role played by environmental capital.

Ein renommiertes Autorenteam behandelt in diesem interdisziplinären Studienbuch Probleme der Energiegeschichte, Energiesysteme, Energietechnik und der Potentiale der erneuerbaren Energien: Wasser- und Windkraft, Biomasse, Geothermie, Photovoltaik und Solarthermie; der Verbesserung der Rahmenbedingungen für ihre Markteinführung; Handlungskonzepte und Förderungsschwerpunkte der EU, USA und Japans in diesem Bereich; Aktivitäten der Bundesregierung und Vorschläge nichtstaatlicher Akteure hierzu sowie Strategien zur rationellen Energienutzung; Methoden für einen Energiekonsens und Kriterien zur Beurteilung von Energiesystemen; Handlungskonzepte und Vorschläge für den Ausbau der Sonnenenergie im Mittelmeerraum und in Afrika sowie politische Faktoren bei der Markteinführung in der Triade: USA, Japan und der EU.

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

In this book, Professors Baumol and Oates provide a rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic theory of environmental policy.

Although many theoretical developments have been achieved inrecent years, the progress both in understanding andapplication of risk and reliability analysis in waterresources and environmental engineering remains slow.

New information and strategies for managing the energy crisis from the perspective of growing economies are presented.

Many countries have experienced a decline of economic growth for decades, an effect that was only aggravated by the recent global financial crisis.

3 decision support techniques that do not depend exclusively on market incentives and monetary valuation.

The subject of this volume is the human economy and its coevolutionary relationship with the natural world.

To understand the challenges imposed by climate change and the energy transition process on Latin America´s oil producers countries.

At the end of 2009 the World Bank and the IMF published new figures for gross domestic product adjusted for purchasing power.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the adoption of small-scale residential solar photovoltaic systems (RSPSs) in Saudi Arabia.

This is a collection of theoretical papers, including contributions by Partha Dasgupta and three Nobel prize-winning economists: Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stiglitz.

Originally published in 1983, Energy and Household Expenditure Patterns claimed that two-thirds of energy consumption in the United States came from households.

From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines.

Human clustering in coastal areas The coastal zone has gained a solid reputation as a place vocated for recreational activities and this is generally related to the presence of the sea.

Although the successful economic transformation and reform of China since the 1970s could be regarded as a triumph in human history, China has now entered into the New Normal Era and encountered some slow-down in recent years.

With over 50 years of collective reading experience, authors Jan Burkins and Melody Croft bring their expertise to Preventing Misguided Reading: Next Generation Guided Reading Strategies.

ISC 2022 is dedicated to the Niti Aayog policies to promote sustainability through exchange of ideas emerging out of the academia.

International environmental agreements provide a basis for countries to address ecological problems on a global scale.