Environmental economics

First published in 1997, this volume examines the urban environments of Accra (Ghana), Harare (Zimbabwe) and Gaborone (Botswana).

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

This study, based on fieldwork and case studies of southeast Asian countries shows how privatization, investment and new energy technologies can be integrated to combat climate change and provide the maximum return for investors.

The existing literature provides very little information on the real and current process of waste disposal and recycling in China.

Extensively revised and updated, this popular text presents an accessible yet rigorous treatment of environmental and natural resources economics, including climate change and the economics of sustainability.

A comprehensive overview of the Green perspective on a range of global politics topics, including concrete strategies for achieving change.

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

A comprehensive reference on the main methodologies used to calculate the benefits of pollution control, with worked examples.

This environmental history of the former Soviet Union explores the impact that state economic development programs had on the environment.

First Published in 2011.

In order to effectively address global warming, many countries have significantly reduced the amount of carbon dioxide emissions that are put into the atmosphere.

In this book Professors Pablo Martinez de Anguita and John E.

This book is a conscious effort to discuss the immeasurable environmental damage caused by the human kind and it is by turning these into nature friendly or green as we call them, we can continue to live without any damage to our surroundings.

Over the last three decades, wine economics has emerged as a growing field within agricultural economics, but also in other fields such as finance, trade, growth, environmental economics and industrial organization.

This Element addresses the often-neglected politics and governance of behaviour change needed to address the climate crisis.

How can we determine if current growth patterns are sustainable, and what changes to we need to make to make them more so?

This book examines the causes of effective climate policies in the US, through statistical analysis and three longitudinal case studies.

This study, first published in 1979, continues by examining the question of whether a competitive economy can efficiently allocate a stock of non-renewable natural resources through time.

This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers - or just curious readers- who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy.

Reauthorization of the Superfund law continues to be a major source of controversy among political leaders and environmental activists.

Professor Ross Garnaut explains why Australia''s contribution is vital to the national interest and matters to the global effort.

USING DISCRETE CHOICE EXPERIMENTS TO VALUE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development and application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) within health economics.

While geopolitics has captured global attention, geoeconomics is the often hidden force that governs countries' relationships.

Water and energy are inextricably linked as unsound management of either resource can have an impact on the cost, availability, and sustainability of the other.

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.

This book takes a compelling approach to describing what is needed to create the kind of future that most people on Earth really want.

In this book key predictors of renewable feedstock adoption to achieve carbon neutrality in the European chemical industry are explored.

Ivanko and Kivirist - innkeepers, authors, and wearers of many other hats - truly walk the green talk, detailing the nitty-gritty of running a green business.

First systematic study of global cities as lawmakers in the world of transnational climate change governance.

Originally published in 1986.

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

Originally published in 1980.

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

The policy of the United States and, by extension, that of many oil importing countries, toward OPEC countries is in large part a function of an estimate of the factors that condition oil decisions in exporting countries.

This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change.

This title was first published in 2002.

This book examines the recent controversy between international trade and environmental policies.

The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.

Despite their obvious importance, the ethical implications of climate change are often neglected in economic evaluations of mitigation and adaptation policies.

While more than 2,700 emergency removals of hazardous materials have taken place under Superfund, implementing the long-term cleanup program has been the object of considerable controversy.

Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more.

This volume examines how far agribusiness corporations are responding to the opportunities and pressures resulting from emerging environmental awareness.

It is zero hour for a new US water policy!

This compilation of key materials in international environmental law takes account of the most significant developments in the field that have occurred during the past decade, including in the areas of climate change, chemicals and pesticides, biosafety, and nuclear safety, as well as good governance, compliance and liability.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

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

Bjørn Lomborg challenges world-class economists to describe the costs and benefits of a range of policies to combat global warming.

Recent developments like the rising trend in crude oil price, the international economic crisis, the civil revolts in Northern Africa and the Middle East, the nuclear threat in Japan after the tsunami, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the economic growth of emerging countries like China and India have a direct relation to the security of energy supply anywhere in the world.