Environmental economics

With substantial risks arising from resource constraints on global growth, serious questions are being posed about how a scarcity of finite resources may impact global social and political fragility.

What America does - or fails to do - in the next few years to solve the problem of climate change will largely determine the fate of the earth and humanity for centuries to come.

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions.

Since the early 2000s, state-led and innovation-focused strategies have characterized the approach to development pursued in countries around the world, such as China, India, and South Korea.

This book examines how nature is constructed through law, building on the constructivist concept that ''nature'' is a self-perpetuating, self-reinforcing social creation.

First Published in 2011.

When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety.

This two-volume set presents the conference papers from the 2023 iteration of the International Conference on Economics, Development and Sustainability (EDESUS 2023), organized by the VNU University of Economics and Business, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

This book examines Arctic defense policy and military security from the perspective of all eight Arctic states.

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

It is becoming increasingly recognized that for the optimal sustainable development and use of natural resources, an integrated approach to water management, agriculture, food security and energy is required.

Originally published in 1988.

This book explores the development of climate change discourses in Russia.

This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions.

Environmental Economics and Policy is a best-selling text for environmental economics courses.

The global carbon markets are growing at a staggering rate.

The future of economic growth is one of the decisive questions of the twenty-first century.

This book both describes and criticizes the regulatory policies of the Federal Communications Commission (F.

The book provides a comprehensive review of renewable energy from an economic perspective throughout the last two hundred years, starting from traditional renewable energy based on bio and hydro energy.

Originally published in 1984, Douglas A.

A secure supply of energy is essential for all nations, to sustain their economy, and indeed their very survival.

The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us.

The taxation of extractive industries exploiting oil, gas, or minerals is usually treated as a sovereign, national policy and administration issue.

Connections between resources and migration operate as a complex adaptive system rather than being premised in linear, causal mechanisms.

Within only a few years, global warming has emerged from scientific speculation into an environmental threat of worldwide concern.

On April 22-23, 1988, approximately 432,000 gallons of San Joaquin Valley crude oil spilled from an aboveground storage tank at a Shell Oil Company refinery into the surrounding environment, including the northern reaches of San Francisco Bay (the Martinez spill).

A solution to the problem of climate change requires close international cooperation and difficult reforms involving all states.

Through a mixture of innovation and regulation, a future is being mapped out free of carbon and pollutants.

Acidification is one of the most serious environmental problems, especially in Sweden, which suffers most from the consequences of acid rain.

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

This book breaks new ground in the studies of green transition.

The solutions and tools generally offered to policymakers on environmental issues - such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation - most often emanate from neoclassical economists.

High energy prices affect nearly the whole of the American population, arguably affecting some consumer groups more than others.

The resource curse is a variant of a wider rent curse that can also be driven by geopolitical rent, regulatory rent, and labour rent.

How did the universe and life begin and what are the threats to people and the environment in a pandemic?

How can we explain the over-exploitation and degradation of natural resources in the countries of the South?

In this book key predictors of renewable feedstock adoption to achieve carbon neutrality in the European chemical industry are explored.

R&D, Innovation and Competitiveness in the European Chemical Industry explores the science & technology base and the dynamic performance of the European "e;system of innovation"e; in the chemical industry, with particular attention to its contribution to economic growth through innovation and competitiveness, and its ability to translate its research into commercially useful products.

State climate and clean energy policy will play a critical role in the future of the political dialogue and economic development.

This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the 1977 earthquake disaster response by the Ceausescu communist regime, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romania's capital Bucharest.

In today's rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape, the future competitiveness for manufacturers hinges on three interlinked paradigms:1.

Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction by Dr Michael Ridley investigates a novel way to reduce the cost of carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide emission reduction.

`Europe is sometimes credited with a `polis,' but not a `demos'.

A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk.