Environmental economics

World Energy Resources is an explanatory energy survey of the countries and major regions of the world, their geographic and economic settings, and signif- icant inter-relationships.

Since 1997, the AGS China cokemaking team has been examining the rapidly changing relationships among technology, energy, the environment, and health (TEEH) in one of China's most energy-intensive and highly polluting industries--cokemaking.

There are many introductions to the animal ethics literature.

The decade of 1980s was one of crisis for Africa.

The UN's Net Zero goal is to limit the rise in mean global temperatures to 1.

Nothing happens in the world without energy conversion and entropy production.

Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective.

Plantation forestry is the planting, managing, and harvesting of trees for the production of industrial wood.

A concise but comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of global deforestation for a broad audience of scientists and policymakers.

This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations.

This textbook has two main objectives.

This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes.

This report has been prepared by the London Environmental Economics Centre (LEEC).

Africa is a diverse continent.

Presents the state-of-the-art of model-based integration of ecology and economics in the field of biodiversity conservation.

This book provides an accessible and critical appraisal of Australia's regional energy transition initiatives.

This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.

Dieses Buch zum Vergleich der Elektrizitätswirtschaft in den USA und Deutschland befaßt sich mit den Hemmnissen der Stromeinsparung und Kraft-Wärme-Kopplung.

Today, it has become strikingly obvious that companies no longer operate in an environment where only risk return and volatility describe the business environment.

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.

Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics Revisited is the first attempt to bring together a selection of classic papers in natural resource economics, alongside reflections by highly regarded professionals about how these papers have impacted the field.

This interdisciplinary edited collection explores the dynamics of global capitalist expansion through the concept of the 'commodity frontier'.

Published in 1997, this book is about the link between trade and the environment which has become a very important national issue for all countries, in particular, those countries which have been undergoing lengthy periods of trade and investment liberalization programmes recently.

Originally published in 1982.

Faced with the twin threats of peak oil and climate change, many governments have turned for an answer to the apparent panacea of biofuels.

Argues that environmental problems need to be looked at internationally, in terms of the global economic system, and that the degradation of the environment is not natural', but an historical process which is intrinsically linked and shaped by economic and political systems.

Water resource management throughout the world is a very complicated issue, involving various aspects and dimensions and a well-coordinated set of policies.

Member states of the European Union often label themselves as the world's top Green Leaders.

India has been traditionally well-endowed with large freshwater reserves, but increasing population, urbanization and agricultural growth in recent decades are causing overexploitation of surface and groundwater.

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in wood energy as part of a sustainable range of renewable energy options.

What if climate change isn t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?

Multi-hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building: Cross Cutting Issues presents multi-disciplinary issues facing disaster risk reduction and sustainable development, focusing on various dimensions of existing and future risk scenarios and highlighting concerted efforts of scientific communities to find new adaptation methods.

The Price of Climate Change: Sustainable Financial Mechanisms presents a summary of the effects of global warming with specific emphasis on what these phenomena will cost and the price we must pay for trying to mitigate these processes.

Changing relations between science and democracy - and controversies over issues such as climate change, energy transitions, genetically modified organisms and smart technologies - have led to a rapid rise in new forms of public participation and citizen engagement.

A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate change.

How to imagine and then realize an ecological order based on living within our biophysical means.

Game Theory has become one of the main analytical tools for addressing strategic issues in the field of economics and is increasing its influence in other fields of social sciences.

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.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of energy sectors in emerging African and Latin American nations, providing a one-stop source of information and analysis of energy sectors that differ radically from those of developed countries.

India's sustained and rapid economic growth offers an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty.

The Quest for Oil (1970) examines all aspects of the oil industry - what oil is, where it is found, how fuels are produced, transported and sold, and the ways in which the fuels are used.

This book addresses a timely and compelling emerging issue related to the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources and the sustainable development of the coastal community.

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability.