Environmental economics

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

China's recent climate-energy policy, an outcome of contemporary challenges, has generated conflict of interest amongst major stakeholders.

There has been a recent explosion of research incorporating a spatial dimension in environmental and natural resource economics, where the spatial aspects of human behaviour or the natural environment make a crucial difference in the analysis and policy response to the problem.

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.

Besteht ein Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltzerstörung, Ressourcenknappheit und gewaltsamen Konflikten?

The objective of the book is to adopt the application of data analytics to enhance the sustainability and resilience of the green supply chain networks.

Following 'Blueprint for a Green Economy' (the Pearce Report), David Pearce and his team have turned their attention to global environmental threats.

The Jordan River has attracted the attention of people around the world.

,This wonderful book demonstrates how rural livelihoods - as well as diets, health and ways of life - are enhanced by the so-called ,neglected and underutilized plant species, which, in the book,s Syrian case study, include such deliciously interesting things as capers, laurel, jujube and figs.

Originally published in 1980, this book by a group of international lawyers and experts from the energy industries suggests ways in which the law may have to change to cope with developments in the oil and nuclear energy industries and the way they impact on marine pollution.

This book is a practitioner's guide to sustainable development, laying out strategies for attracting investment for communities and their partners.

Principles of Environmental Economics and Sustainability was the first textbook to make a serious attempt to systematically integrate ecological and economic principles.

Nonpoint-source pollution (NPSP) poses a special challenge to society's ability to manage its collective environmental good - especially surface and groundwater quality.

This book analyzes the impacts of current and possible future GM crop applications and shows that these technologies can contribute substantially to sustainable agricultural development and food security.

Practical Aspects of Electroorganic Synthesis presents educational insights into the practical aspects of electrosynthesis methods, providing a variety of examples and techniques.

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

The growing urgency, complexity and "e;wickedness"e; of sustainability problems-from climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and persistent poverty and inequality-present fundamental challenges to scientific knowledge production and its use.

Transforming Urban Transport brings into focus the origins and implementation pathways of significant urban transport innovations that have recently been adopted in major, democratically governed world cities that are seeking to advance sustainability aims.

Environmental professionals are often called upon to find solutions to environmental degradation problems or to lead the way in planning to prevent them.

Economists have proposed a large variety of models of the oil market and this survey integrates them in a coherent framework.

Handbook of Power Electronics in Autonomous and Electric Vehicles provides advanced knowledge on autonomous systems, electric propulsion in electric vehicles, radars and sensors for autonomous systems, and relevant aspects of energy storage and battery charging.

In an urbanizing world, the majority of people live in urban settlements predominantly on the coastal edge.

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is one of the most widely used textbooks for environmental economics and natural resource economics courses, offering a policy-oriented approach and introducing economic theory and empirical work from the field.

Globalization is affecting regional economies in a broad spectrum of aspects, from labor market conditions and development policies to climate change.

In today's world - despite the dramatic anthropogenic environmental changes - a proper understanding of the relationship between humanity and nature requires a certain detachment.

This book explains China's approach to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality.

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

Public concern over land management has never been greater.

The third decade of the 21st century brings new and expansive global sustainability challenges.

Forests are considered the lungs of the planet, as they consume and store carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

First Published in 2011.

This book explores structural changes in Greenland's economy and labour markets due to the transformative effects of climatic changes and growing international attention.

In current, uncertain times, it is important for businesses, whether private, public or third sector, to prepare for unexpected impacts.

With the rise of shared and networked vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and other transportation technologies, technological change is outpacing urban planning and policy.

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.

First Published in 2011.

This special issue of the Climate Policy journal outlines the fundamentals of the new European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), assesses the strategies for and impact of implementation and highlights the scheme's potential, including positive aspects and remaining hurdles.

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

First published in 1995.

History tells us that industrial development with all of its pollution, inequity and exploitation is the inevitable destiny of human societies.

This book belongs to the Port Economics and Global Supply Chain Management strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series, commissioned by Hercules Haralambides.

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

This book presents and defends an interpretation of the precautionary principle from the perspective of philosophy of science.