Economics of specific sectors

Explores how dictators maintain their grip on power by seizing control of oil, metals, and minerals production.

Shows readers how we can all help solve the climate crisis by focusing on a few key, achievable actions.

Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism''s impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.

This pioneering study on environmental case-law examines how courts engage with science and reviews legitimate styles of judicial reasoning.

Systematic analysis of the determinants of climate policy durability, combining state-of-the-art policy theories with empirical accounts of landmark political events

This handbook examines how existing laws and policies fail to protect communities from major disasters and describes the actions needed to promote greater resilience.

Examines international grievance mechanisms for those suffering environmental/social harm resulting from multilateral development financing.

The first comprehensive analysis of capacity markets, an increasingly important and controversial component of electricity markets.

Shows readers how we can all help solve the climate crisis by focusing on a few key, achievable actions.

Explores how dictators maintain their grip on power by seizing control of oil, metals, and minerals production.

A comprehensive overview of the Green perspective on a range of global politics topics, including concrete strategies for achieving change.

A comprehensive overview of the Green perspective on a range of global politics topics, including concrete strategies for achieving change.

An evidence-based policy summary to help governments, local authorities and businesses meet internationally agreed environmental goals.

Solar geoengineering could reduce climate change, but poses risks.

Solar geoengineering could reduce climate change, but poses risks.

Reviews the entrepreneurial, firm-specific and external environment-specific aspects that influence the key lifecycle stages of high-tech start-ups.

Proposes an new strategy for the beyond-GDP community which aims to replace the economic paradigm centred on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2030.

Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.

Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.

Explores the local politics of mining in Africa, explaining when communities benefit, and when conflict and repression occur.

Brings scientists, policy makers, land and water managers and citizen stakeholders together to resolve natural resource and environmental problems.

Provides an international, unifying perspective, based on the ''public choice'' tradition, to explain how patient-citizens interact with political institutions to determine health policies.

Based on fieldwork in four African countries, this study reveals how African businesses can be key responders to wider social and political crises.

Explores the political impacts of ethnic diversity and the growth of the middle class in urban Africa.

Explores the political impacts of ethnic diversity and the growth of the middle class in urban Africa.

Revised to include new discussions on climate justice, green political parties, climate legislation and recent environmental struggles.

Essays by leading intellectuals and public figures explore extreme events, environments, and achievements.

Intersecting forms of oppression, including subordination based on race, class, gender, and indigeneity, produce environmental injustice and unsustainable development.

Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of resilience in agriculture, and implications for producers seeking to adapt to change and uncertainty.

Brings scientists, policy makers, land and water managers and citizen stakeholders together to resolve natural resource and environmental problems.

Addresses in roughly equal measure the science and management behind several recent marketable biomedical innovations.

This book will help decision makers model nature-based solutions to the complex problem of sustainable development, locally and globally.

Outlines the demographic and political threats to the welfare state.

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

A comprehensive and systematic guide to environmental rights and their relationship with standards of protection globally, nationally and locally.

Provides an international, unifying perspective, based on the ''public choice'' tradition, to explain how patient-citizens interact with political institutions to determine health policies.

First systematic study of global cities as lawmakers in the world of transnational climate change governance.

Presents the state-of-the-art of model-based integration of ecology and economics in the field of biodiversity conservation.

Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

An innovative, big data approach to tracking the impact and benefits of publicly funded research, focusing on food safety.

Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

Feeding the World documents the emergence of Brazil as an agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century.

Presents the state-of-the-art of model-based integration of ecology and economics in the field of biodiversity conservation.

This book redesigns environmental governance for a sustainability transition, helping academics and decision-makers truly understand the socio-economic impacts of policy.

An overview of the forms of agency in urban climate politics, discussing their strengths, limitations, and the power dynamics between them.

A comprehensive overview of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience for natural hazards research for both physical and social scientists.

An original and empirically grounded analysis of the Gulf monarchies and their role in shaping the political economy of the Middle East.

Feeding the World documents the emergence of Brazil as an agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century.