Environmental economics

This volume spans economics, history, sociology, law, graphic design, religion, environmental science, politics and more to offer a transdisciplinary examination of debt.

Handbook of Thermal Management Systems: e-Mobility and Other Energy Applications is a comprehensive reference on the thermal management of key renewable energy sources and other electronic components.

Policy and management decisions are often made on financial grounds.

Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian considers how people keep cool, from Metro Manila to other mega-cities in Southeast Asia.

The capitalist mode of destruction traces contemporary capitalism's economic, ecological and democratic crises.

Over the last three decades the world economy has grown strongly on the back of 'globalization' supported by the policies of free-trade, open markets and privatisation.

The International Atomic Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power generation facilities produce about 200,000 cubic meters of low and intermediate-level waste each year.

This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

A variety of perspectives from leading economists provides fresh insight into how Arab countries may best exploit their oil revenues.

All over the world countries struggle with water stress.

The Community of Oil Exporting Countries (1972) looks at the oil producing countries of the developing world and their economic reliance on oil.

Das Lehrbuch bietet eine leicht zugängliche Einführung in die nachhaltige Unternehmensführung und ist insbesondere für Studierende wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Studiengänge ohne Vorkenntnisse geeignet.

World''s foremost experts explain how polycentric thinking can enhance societal attempts to govern climate change, for researchers, practitioners, advanced students.

Ronnie Lessem and Alexander Schieffer's Integral Green Society and Economy series has three overarching aims.

Federal Facility Environmental Management Systems explains how, why, and when federal agencies need to establish compliant EMSs in accordance with the April 21, 2000, Executive Order.

Energy Economics outlines the fundamental issues and possible solutions to the challenges of energy production and use, presenting a framework for decisions based upon sound economic analysis.

Originally published in 1989.

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

The 2007-2008 financial crisis exposed the shortcomings of mainstream economic theory with economists unprepared to deal with it.

This monograph presents potential remedies for some of the current environmental issues in developed countries in a theoretical or empirical manner with the interdisciplinary approaches of economics, statistics, and engineering.

Described here are the origin and general trends in the development of fishing from the earliest times up to the present in various parts of the world.

This handbook brings together a collection of seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates the effectiveness of the 17 goals for achieving transformative change toward sustainable development.

Contains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.

When it first appeared in 1965, The Conditions of Agricultural Growth heralded a breakthrough in the theory of agricultural development.

This book critically explores how the water-energy-food nexus can be used as an organising framework to address environmental degradation and promote sustainable development.

'This book presents a salient truth: every investor - no matter how large or small - has the power to help address our climate crisis and build a more sustainable world.

Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy.

Until now, an approach to land use management planning that not only addresses economic issues, but also environmental concerns and health issues of land use has been lacking.

Originally published in 1994, this book contains the edited papers of the workshop of the Energy and Environmental Programme at the Royal Institute of Interantional Affairs which examined the interaction between environmental legislation and the energy indusutries.

This book celebrates the life and work of Peter Nijkamp, whose research provides a strong focus on regional science.

Contains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.

We have forgotten how to think about limits.

Economic growth after World War II was made possible through dramatic increases in the use of material resources and energy.

It is a resource book that profiles the geography, demography, economy, political environment and business climates for each of China's 31 provinces.

This volume - like the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on which it is based - addresses the fundamental science that contributes to our understanding of the potential risks from ecological terrorism, i.

Due to the lack of success in climate change mitigation efforts, the importance of adaptation is becoming more and more apparent and is now one of the main imperatives of international research and action.

For decades conservation has been based on the donor-driven principle.

The International Conference (EMTES 2022) is oriented to include the themes like Water Quality Management, Advanced Water Treatment, Advanced Wastewater Treatment, Assessment and Control of Air Pollution, Solid and Hazardous Waste Management, Prevention of Groundwater Contamination, Wetland Management/Phyto-remediation, Case studies in Industrial Pollution Control, Liquid waste management, recent advancement in engineering, technology and management for optimization of environmental issues, application of IOT and IT in remedial measure of Environment and sustainability, Health issues and safety.

This Green Book provides the design engineer with an understanding of the electrical parameters and methods required in designing compact AC and DC lines.

By the end of World War II, the United States had become well integrated into the world markets for forest products.

The ultimate guide to creating, storing and utilizing lifesaving power in the most critical circumstances.

This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of 'structural adjustment programmes the economic reform policies required by the World Bank and IMF as part of their lending operations with borrowing countries.

The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda.

This book is a fully up to date study of the major issues facing forest conservation and the forestry industry, which considers developments at local, national and global levels.

This book applies the principles of cost-benefit analysis, an international program in which an equitable division of costs and gains was an aim, along with economies of coordinated development.