Environmental economics

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2019), organized by the University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This volume analyzes the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on energy transition and climate change from an economic perspective.

This book contains a collection of studies on the interactions between businesses in Africa and Global Value Chains (GVCs) in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability.

This book is the first attempt to highlight the Great Divergence between Europe and China from the perspective of environmental change.

This is the first book that employs economics to develop and apply an analytical framework for assessing progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book describes the alarming condition of agriculture in the Anthropocene, when the ethical conception of agriculture as a service of common utility for both society and environment has progressively been marginalized.

This Edited Collection provides a rigorous and rich overview of current bargaining research in economics and related disciplines, as well as a discussion of future directions.

In the fast-changing policy arena of a country as diverse as India, gauging regional implications of policy shifts is critical but challenging.

Common wealth dividends are universal cash payments funded by fees on the private use of common resources like land, minerals, and the atmosphere as a carbon sink.

This book provides a critical perspective on several interconnected themes that relate to the implementation of both domestic and international environmental standards.

This book presents research related to energy and environmental technologies in the context of market liberalization and global warming.

This book provides a novel and holistic perspective on the deployment of prepaid electricity meter technology among energy impoverished (vulnerable) households based in developing or under-developed communities of Sub-Saharan Africa.

This book provides the first comparative assessment of the energy-efficiency retrofit programs in the social housing sector of Canadian cities, focusing on program efficiency and effectiveness.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the most important water-related issues that centre on Italy, analysed from several disciplinary perspectives - such as hydrology, economics, law, sociology, environmental sciences and policy studies - in order to promote full understanding of the challenges the country is facing and the ways it could best tackle them.

The purpose of this volume, bringing together key actors of the well-being community, including scholars and policy-makers, is to advance the understanding and undertaking of the well-being transition away from growth and toward resilience and sustainability, at a time when this progress has become a vital necessity.

This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies.

This book approaches economic problems from a systems thinking and feedback perspective.

This book offers new perspectives on the economic development of the Middle East and North Africa region.

This textbook provides a broad introduction to the relationship between climate change, economics, and climate policy for young readers and future generations.

This book examines the Ecological Footprint and biocapacity accounting within an applied development content  for Costa Rica.

This book explores the present conflictual relationship between the economy, the environment, and society.

This textbook explains the main economic mechanisms behind energy markets and assesses how governments can implement policies to improve how these markets function.

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This textbook provides an overview of economic perspectives on sustainability.

The period of past four decades has been characterized as one of neo-liberalism, financialization, globalization, privatization and de-regulation.

Economic growth and increasing population impose long-term risks to the environment and society.

This book explores three particular strategies in the extractives sector for creating shared wealth, increased labour opportunities and positive social, environmental and economic outcomes from corporate projects, namely: state wealth funds (SWF), local content policies (LCP) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices.

This book argues that the theory of sustainable development lost some of its rigor because of two main reasons.

The book illustrates the use of spatial econometric models to analyze the economic resilience of regions to climate-related shocks.

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 provides a comprehensive account of the electricity industry in China, the world's largest power producer and carbon emitter.

This book presents an important discussion on the implementation of sustainable soil management in Africa from a range of governance perspectives.

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

There is no more fundamental substance to life on earth than water.

This book discusses sustainable housing issues in urban areas throughout the Global South, revealing their complexity in terms of urban dynamics, housing markets and human interactions with the environment.

This book, based on lectures on natural and environmental resource economics, offers a nontechnical exposition of the modern theory of sustainability in the presence of resource scarcity.

Is safe and sustainable water and sanitation for all an unaffordable pipedream?

This book asks, how would a stable, prosperous economy of the future look if one started with a blank sheet of paper?

This volume critiques the current model of the creative economy, and considers alternative models that may point to greener, cleaner, more sustainable and socially just cultural and creative industries.

This book explains how water, electricity/power, roads and other infrastructure services are linked together within the general basket of development and how to obtain the optimum use of resources.

This book is a philosophical critique of the economics of climate change from both an ethical and philosophy of economics perspective.

This book illustrates an alternative approach to 'state of sustainability' reporting by presenting cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary discussions on sustainability issues in the context of a developing country, Botswana.

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.

Sustainable innovation (SI) is considered to be a key driver of societal progress in an era of enormous economic, environmental and societal challenges, and the uncertainties and future consequences that come with them.

This volume gathers a selection of research contributions on Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), including theoretical and methodological studies and real-world case studies.

Sustainable and Environmentally Friendly Dairy Farms presents an innovative environmental proposal.

This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and transfer strategies, and discusses several practical issues, chiefly focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book offers a vision of the future of electricity supply systems and CIGRE's views on the know-how that will be needed to manage the transition toward them.

Fostering inclusive green growth in Africa means addressing existing and emerging development challenges, while efficiently managing Africa's natural capital and building resilience to environmental, social and economic risks.