Environmental economics

Responsibility for future generations is easily postulated in the abstract but it is much more difficult to set it to work in the concrete.

This book describes the changing landscape of European forest ownership and explores the impact a new, often urban, generation of forest owners may have on the future of one of our most basic resources - forests.

This book is the closing report of the national priority program Nature-Inspired Fluid Mechanics (Schwerpunktprogramm SPP 1207: Stromungsbeeinflussung in der Natur und Technik).

This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics.

During the past few decades there has been an advance in the research and development of solving the issue of declining energy resources.

This 800-page premier book on energy focuses on energy sources, utilizations, legislations and sustainability as it relates to a state, a province, or a country, or a community within a state.

We find ourselves at a crossroads between environmental disaster and a new industrial revolution: a shift from the ruthless exploitation of nature toward cooperation with it.

This book presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole.

This book explores the linkages among economic development, energy, and environment.

Examines the successes and failures of the Clean Air Act in order to lay a foundation for future energy policy.

This book highlights the latest research on waste processing technologies, particularly for domestic, agricultural, and petroleum based pollutants, intended to achieve waste valorisation.

Defining the fundamentals of building a risk management plan, Applied Risk Management in Agriculture uses strategic management to organize the process of risk management.

In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world's water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it.

This book examines the factors which contribute to local green development in China and employs political ecology to analyze the relationship between power and the environment.

Pesticides in a Changing Environment: Impact, Assessment, and Remediation covers compounds that repel, kill or to prevent any pest.

This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science.

How are indigenous and local people faring in their dealings with mining and related industries in the first part of the 21st century?

Originally published in 1993.

Nach der Bankenkrise stehen Deutschland und die Europäische Union vor einer Reihe von Herausforderungen.

Sustainable Investing is fast becoming an essential method of generating long-term returns, moving beyond the negative approaches to socially responsible investing that have dominated the field.

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

Esta guía pretende ayudar a las organizaciones a establecer una estrategia de desarrollo hacia un crecimiento sostenible para ser rentables a largo plazo, dejando atrás la dinámica "extraer-fabricar-usar-tirar".

Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security.

With different intensities, depending on the season, every morning and evening of any weekday there are the same peaks in electricity demand.

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt einen aktuellen Überblick über die ökonomische Theorie der Umweltpolitik und beschäftigt sich insbesondere mit der Frage der umweltpolitischen Instrumentenwahl.

First Published in 2011.

Originally published in 1984 Nature's Ideological Language examines the common ideological roots of environmental reclamation and nature preservation.

The nonindustrial private forests are a large and valuable national resource and the best possible understanding of their characteristics, capabilities, and potentials is useful for the formation of national policy on natural resources.

After tracing the history of psychology at Iowa, the contributors reflect on the institution's leadership role in the development of the discipline, describe its long tradition of significant theoretical and empirical contributions to major areas in the field, and profile some of its most important intellectual leaders.

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 book takes stock of micro irrigation systems (MIS), the technological intervention in India's agricultural and water management sectors, over the past couple of decades.

Managing Organizations for Sustainable Development in Emerging Countries focuses on the main challenges and opportunities of managing firms and emerging economies in the light of sustainable development.

Professor Bob Williams examines the essential elements that give ecosystems their durability.

This book provides a unique introduction to Bitcoin mining's energy use and environmental impacts.

A growing number of GHG emissions trading schemes are being implemented at regional or national levels.

This book summarises the environmental implications of globalisation (both positive and negative) in terms of governance (the changing role of the nation-state and other institutions), competitiveness, foreign investments (pollution havens/industrial migration), sectoral economic activities (energy, transport, agriculture), technological change, and corporate environmental strategies.

This critical volume addresses an important contemporary issue, how to determine themost cost-effective approach to solid waste disposal.

This book provides a survey and analysis of the different ways in which women's work is valued throughout the world.

The fisheries sector is in crisis.

Learning Strategies for Sustainable Organisations explores sustainability in the context of organisational practice and its implications for learning.

This book focuses on the interrelationship between nature and the human economy.

Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America.

Responsible Investing serves as a holistic resource on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing for undergraduate and graduate programs.

This book addresses the transdisciplinary subject of urban green space governance in Chinese cities through political sciences, organization theory, sociology, and new institutional economics lenses, with urban planning and ecology perspectives as research foundation and the science of climate change on health and wellbeing research background.

Originally published in 1985, Beth Rose's Appendix to the Rice Economy of Asia provides twenty-six tables detailing various rice statistics across Asia from the beginning of the twentieth century through to the 1980's.