Environmental economics

In line with the Water Framework Directive, this book stresses the need for an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach to balance the competing demands on water-domestic, agricultural, industrial, tourism and environmental/ecological- and promote economically efficient, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable water use in selected regions from Southern Europe, the Mediterranean and the developing world.

Originally published in 1987 this book presents a comprehensive survey of the global natural gas industry: it looks at the problems of supply, the pattern of demand, the economics of the industrya nd how the industry in the 1980s was being affected by changes in other energy sectors.

The events of the last decade have challenged the contemporary neo-classical synthesis in all branches of economics, but particularly public finance.

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world.

This book answers the following questions: How will the global oil and gas market change in the next decade?

A provocative work that urges governments and policymakers to concentrate on existing policies and tools for combating climate change.

Human Capital in Gender and Development addresses timely feminist debates about the relationship between feminism, neoliberalism, and international development.

This latest volume in the New Naturalist series provides a comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain, concentrating on events in the last 30 years.

This book was written for anyone wishing to understand how sustainable scenarios emerge from current innovations.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.

Nicolae Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994) is considered today as perhaps the chief founder of the transdisciplinary field today known as Ecological Economics, but that he defined himself as Bioeconomics.

This book is a selection of the most relevant contributions to the LCM 2011 conference in Berlin.

As prosperity levels rise, so too does the number of products and services being consumed.

This book employs a political ecology lens to unravel how industrial crops catalyse ecological, agrarian, socioeconomic, and institutional transformation.

Over the last decade, market-based incentives have become the regulatory tool of choice when trying to solve difficult environmental problems.

At the beginning of the 1970's, global grain reserves were level and food prices were low however as the decade progressed crop production plummeted leading to a food crisis.

In 1908 an atmospheric explosion in northern Siberia released energy equivalent to 15 Mton of TNT.

For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe.

More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth.

Climate Liberalism examines the potential and limitations of classical-liberal approaches to pollution control and climate change.

Women as a group have often been divided by a number of intersecting inequalities: class, race, ethnicity, caste.

In addition to constituting an evolving area of inquiry within the social sciences, agricultural certification, and particularly its Fair Trade and organic components, has emerged as a significant tool for promoting rural development in the global South.

This book responds to a congressional request to evaluated criteria by which land is acquired under the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

This revised and expanded edition of Colin Price's seminal publication provides a richly comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of landscape economics, a subject which has until now been addressed only in limited aspects.

This book examines the interplay between trade and the environment, with a focus on the Indian textile sector.

Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance brings together an international cast of leading authorities to map out and display the disparate voices, traditions and professional communities engaged in social finance activity.

This standard textbook analyses environmental problems and environmental policy from an economic point of view, providing not only a comprehensible presentation of environmental economics & from its microeconomic foundations to the latest research approaches & but also guidance for current environmental policy discussions.

In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption.

Community forestry is an expanding model of forest management around the world.

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection.

Das vorliegende Buch stellt eine direkte Verbindung zu der Abfallproblematik des stationären Lebensmitteleinzelhandels her und liefert zwei unterschiedliche logistische Lösungsansätze zur Abfallreduktion im Handel.

Partisan Priorities investigates issue ownership, showing that American political parties deliver neither superior performance nor popular policies on the issues they ''own''.

This study, originally published in 1990, seeks to address several important policy questions associated with the ongoing depletion of forested wetlands.

This book covers various data scientific approaches to analyze the issue of grid integration of renewable energy for which the grid flexibility is the key to cope with its intermittency.

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 envisages a different form of our economies where care work and care-full relationships are central to social and cultural life.

Critique of the effect of World Bank and IMF structural adjustment agreements on developing countries.

The book brings together twelve original essays on the meaning and implications of sustainable development.

The threats posed by global climate change are widely recognized and carbon emmissions are the major source of greenhouse gases accumulating in the atmosphere.

This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South.

Originally published in 1984.

This book presents essential advances in analytical frameworks and tools for modeling the spatial and economic impacts of disasters.

Green and Social Economy Finance is a compilation of chapters by experts, linking research and practice.

Every year, the world's governments spend over US $700 billion subsidizing activities that harm the environment.

The present study is a slightly revised version of my PhD thesis which was accepted at the Economics Department of Dresden University of Technology in July 2008.

Originally published in 1984.