Environmental economics

In an era where economic progress and environmental sustainability must go hand in hand, this book offers an essential exploration of how renewable energy can drive both growth and sustainability.

This academic book critically examines the concept of sustainable futures and its interdependence with the policy framework of Green New Deals.

As climate change intensifies globally, it also poses unprecedented challenges to the banking sector that require attention.

This textbook provides a solid introduction to the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental economics and their links to environmental policy.

In this book, we have contributions from experts working on diverse aspects of waste management and waste entrepreneurship with an aim to contribute toward a holistic understanding of the existing and forthcoming waste handling challenges.

The book is intended as a primary resource for Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), all professionals with interest in sustainability as well as sustainability courses at CBS International Business School and other universities.

In this book, we have contributions from experts working on diverse aspects of waste management and waste entrepreneurship with an aim to contribute toward a holistic understanding of the existing and forthcoming waste handling challenges.

Sustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental, technological and political issues.

This book discusses how energy efficiency benefits the global environment, national energy security, local pollution mitigation, natural resource conservation, and utility bill reduction.

Differing interpretations, perspectives and expectations on the term sustainability exist.

Germany is seen as a leader in thermal retrofit policy and practice, but how effective is its approach?

Pollution Under Environmental Regulation in Energy Markets provides a study of environmental regulation when energy markets are imperfectly competitive.

Although the exergy method has been featured as the subject of many publishing papers in scientific and engineering journals and at conferences, very few comprehensive books on this subject have been published so far.

The Chinese government set a target to reduce China's carbon intensity by 40%-45% in 2020 at its 2005 level.

Energy has moved to the forefront in terms of societal and economic development.

Sustainable mobility is a highly complex problem as it is affected by the interactions between socio-economic, environmental, technological and political issues.

Increasingly over the next few decades, the oil and gas industry faces the complex task of decommissioning its offshore platforms, pipelines and sub-sea equipment as they reach the end of their operational capabilities.

This book is a timely overview of the various aspects of consumer perception related to food.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the general framework of sustainable development paths in relation to where countries stand at present, by outlining the main challenges they face, and the potential pathways ahead to foster the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy is a beyond-the-hype account of the underlying issues that encourage or plague widespread dissemination of renewable energy (RE) technologies.

This book primarily focuses on the coordinated development of port groups and the environment.

This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the general framework of sustainable development paths in relation to where countries stand at present, by outlining the main challenges they face, and the potential pathways ahead to foster the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Climate change is mainly caused by emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels, which provides over 85% of the world's energy.

This book presents an empirical study of the effects of environmental policies on China and its neighboring countries, with a focus on waste and climate policies in China.

This book presents an empirical study of the effects of environmental policies on China and its neighboring countries, with a focus on waste and climate policies in China.

As climate change intensifies globally, it also poses unprecedented challenges to the banking sector that require attention.

This book highlights the application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and nature based algorithms to solve the problems of water and water based renewable energy resources.

This book primarily focuses on the coordinated development of port groups and the environment.

This book provides a detailed coverage of how the circular economy aims to change the paradigm in relation to the linear economy, by limiting the environmental impact and waste of resources, as well as increasing efficiency at all stages of the product economy.

Although the expression "e;responsibility to future generations"e; is firmly established in public and political vocabulary, its operational meaning and practice are inadequately understood and yet to be systematically evaluated.

Although the expression "e;responsibility to future generations"e; is firmly established in public and political vocabulary, its operational meaning and practice are inadequately understood and yet to be systematically evaluated.

This book offers an up-to-date and comprehensive picture of the Vietnamese economy which is the fast-growing economy in Southeast Asia.

This seventh edition of Agribusiness Management provides students and managers with a fundamental understanding of the key concepts needed to successfully manage food and agribusinesses in a rapidly changing, global, high-tech, consumer-oriented, and uncertain world.

The global energy crisis is a two-dimensional phenomenon: on the one hand, the gap between a continuously depleting supply capacity of fossil fuel and rapidly increasing demand for energy is fast widening, and, on the other, the burning of fossil fuels intensifies the problem of global warming day by day.

Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability - both as a concept and as a political objective.

The book describes the results of the AGaStor Project's social research carried out in northwestern Poland which recognizes the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to society.