Environmental economics

Principles of Sequence Stratigraphy, Second Edition presents principles to practical workflow that guide applications in a consistent manner that is independent of model, geological setting and the types and resolution of the data available.

The most important theme of the discourse on sustainable development and sustainability challenges concerns the relationship between innovation and sustainability.

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Mining, Geotechnical and Geoengineering provides recent advances in mining, geotechnical and geoengineering, as well as applications of artificial intelligence in these areas.

Founded on the core notion that we have reached a turning point in the governance, and thus the conservation, of ecosystems and the environment, this edited volume features more than 20 original chapters, each informed by the paradigm shift in the sector over the last decade.

This book explores the development of the gas industry within Latin Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain).

Developing countries have quietly constructed a network of international agreements that redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor.

Since 2005 the carbon market has grown to a value of nearly $100 billion per annum.

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.

As globalization links economies, the value of a country's irrigation water becomes increasingly sensitive to competitive forces in world markets.

An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.

This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes.

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels.

This reference work analyzes and assesses global environmental management techniques for environmental materials with a focus on their performance and economic benefits, proposing eco-friendly solutions and designating policies that will sustain the environment for future generations.

REDD+ operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South.

Ein industrieller Betrieb ist in der Regel auf unbefristete Produktionsleistungen ausgelegt.

Some countries are earlier than others in the development and introduction of environmental innovations.

Recent agri-food studies, including commodity systems, the political economy of agriculture, regional development, and wider examinations of the rural dimension in economic geography and rural sociology have been confronted by three challenges.

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in 'the commons' based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing.

Alongside other factors, cultural values and identities help to explain different regulatory frameworks for genetically modified organisms.

Das Wort „Klimakatastrophe“ wurde von der Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS) als Wort des Jahres 2007 gekürt.

Consumption, Jobs and the Environment argues that the present pattern of development, based on everlasting economic growth, is completely unsatisfactory from a welfare point of view.

This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain.

This book focuses on the applications of optimal control theory to operations strategy and supply chain management.

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

Taking eleven countries in Europe, Canada, South Africa, America, Latin America and Australia, this book discusses recurring barriers to cluster development in the renewable energy sector.

This book considers climate change from an economic and international policy perspective.

This book explores the complex problem of how to measure the 'success' of social organisations, projects and activities.

Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries.

Economic values are increasingly used in policy analysis and legal settings.

Environmental policy may produce effects which go beyond the scope of the specific policy's initial aim.

Capitalism and the Commons focuses on the political and social perspectives that commons offer, how they are appropriated or suppressed by capital and state, and how social initiatives and movements contest these dynamics or build their struggles on commoning.

Im Zusammenhang mit der EU-Gesetzgebung werden auf allen Planungsebenen Konzepte zur Definition von Umweltzielen und Umweltindikatoren, basierend auf der Agenda 21, gefordert.

Analyses quantitatively in a comprehensive, consistent, and integrated manner the production structure and productivity of post-war Japanese agriculture for the latter half of the twentieth century, more specifically, 1957-97.

Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance brings together an international cast of leading authorities to map out and display the disparate voices, traditions and professional communities engaged in social finance activity.

Integral Green Zimbabwe: An African Phoenix Rising by Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer and Liz Mamukwa is the first book in the Integral Green Society and Economy series, a series which has three overarching aims.

This book investigates the consequences of redundant state and federal environmental regulations in the United States.

For centuries, criminologists have looked for scientific ways to study, understand, and ultimately prevent crime.

Economic valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services is possibly the most powerful tool for halting the loss of biodiversity while maintaining incomes and livelihoods.

This accessible and insightful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of prehistory.

This volume, originally published in 1983 investigates join venture participants in outer continental shelf sales from institutional, theoretical and statistical points of view.

Originally published in 1987.

Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.

Interfuel substitution is an issue that is - and will likely remain - an important topic of inquiry for many years, as governments around the world seek to set policies that are intended to restrain carbon emissions or steer economies toward or away from certain fuels.

Originally published in 1984, this book develops a quantitative model designed for use in the evaluation of the relative merits of alternative energy R&D programmes.