Environmental economics

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

Argues that the United States will not adequately address climate change until it transforms its fossil fuel energy policy.

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

Argues that the United States will not adequately address climate change until it transforms its fossil fuel energy policy.

In this book leading economists evaluate how the world can best spend money to combat the world''s biggest problems.

Charts the way for recovering from the recession and saving the planet at the same time.

The first detailed description and analysis of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming.

Whitesell discusses the efforts of scientists to understand earth''s climate history and possible risk management policies.

Twenty years of talks have done little to slow global warming.

Whitesell discusses the efforts of scientists to understand earth''s climate history and possible risk management policies.

The first detailed description and analysis of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme.

Charts the way for recovering from the recession and saving the planet at the same time.

This book systematically deconstructs the pervasive and counter-productive discourse surrounding environmental policy.

This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy.

During the 1990s Francis Fukuyama announced the end of history.

This edited collection investigates the role of Italy in pursuing the EU five targets by 2020: R&D/innovation expenditures; the energetic measures for climate change; migration; the counter actions against poverty and social exclusion.

This book explores how energy efficiency is a major component in the development of sustainable real estate.

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.

The authors suggest that China's renewable energy system, the largest in the world, will quickly supersede the black energy system that has powered the country's rapid rise as workshop of the world and for reasons that have more to do with fixing environmental pollution and enhancing energy security than with curbing carbon emissions.

Sustainable wine businesses are being crafted around the world, leaving the land in better shape for the next generation.

Advanced Cultural Districts explores the organisational design issues within the cultural heritage sector, with particular focus on the advanced forms of cultural districts for local socio-economic development.

With China replacing the United States as the world's leading energy user and net oil importer, its relations with the Middle East is becoming a major issue with global implications.

Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives.

This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes.

Green Marketing examines the concept of 'Green Marketing' using examples from Turkey and the rest of the world.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

Growth, Employment, Inequality, and the Environment deals with the fundamental economic problems of our time: employment, inequality, the environment, and quality of life.

Over the last few years the Arctic has become a region of growing interest to the international community.

Explores challenges for developing and emerging economies for enhancing green financing for sustainable, low-carbon investment, looking at Indonesia.

Climate Change and Social Movements is a riveting and thorough exploration of three important campaigns to influence climate change policy in the United Kingdom.

This volume is both a tribute to and study of the French economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi.

The current international financial system has created a huge gap between the wealthy and the rest.

The authors examine how far internal policies in the European Union move towards the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 80-95 per cent by 2050, and how or whether the EU's 2050 objective to 'decarbonise' could affect the EU's relations with a number of external energy partners.

This book examines how the news media in general, and investigative journalism in particular, interprets environmental problems and how those interpretations contribute to the shaping of a discourse of risk that can compete against the omnipresent and hegemonic discourse of modernisation in Chinese society.

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.

Drawing on historical and contemporary evidence, this book argues that growing environmental degradation and wealth inequality are linked to how nature is exploited to create economic wealth.

Both Taiwan and China are extremely populous nations that, due to population pressures and continuing high growth levels, have experienced challenges in sustainable development.

Based on conference proceedings presented at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2012, Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies offers leading insight into and viewpoints on disasters from scholars and journalists working in Japan, China, the United States, and Southeast Asia.

The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change.

Beth Edmondson and Stuart Levy examine why it is so difficult for the international community to respond to global climate change.

This book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics.

Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe.

Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Lessons in Sustainable Development from Japan and South Korea provides a concise overview of sustainable development in Japan and South Korea.

Sustainable Development in Malaysia and Indonesia examines a range of topics pertaining to sustainable development in the two countries.

This EU-funded project examines the dynamics of conflict, collaboration and competition in relation to access to oil, gas and minerals.

From climate change over shale gas to the race for the Arctic, energy makes headlines in international politics almost daily.

A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change.