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During the 1990s, the United States underwent a dramatic transformation: investing in stocks, once the province of a privileged elite, became a mass activity involving more than half of Americans.

Averting Climate Catastrophe Together addresses the necessity of meeting the Paris Agreement temperature target and explores what framework could enable climate action in an effective, efficient and equitable manner that is consistent with that goal.

This book offers a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment (LCA), circular economy (CE), and sustainable development, exploring their achievements and progress across the world.

This book examines the current difficulties facing the U.

';Jill Richardson is a fresh voice in the movement to create a healthier and sustainable food system.

First published in 1985, Emissions Trading was a comprehensive review of the first large-scale attempt to use economic incentives in environmental policy in the U.

This book offers an intellectual history of the libertarian case for markets in education.

One of the central tenets of this book is that governmental policies must be designed to take into account market characteristics and environmental phenomena - simultaneously.

This book addresses the challenges facing stable democratic states in dealing with oil companies in order to secure general welfare gains.

Green issues have a large impact on how an organization is seen and huge implications for the organization's success, brand values and the sales decisions of consumers towards its products.

Originally published in 1983, U.

Ecological economics seeks to socially construct a political economics which will deal successfully with environmental problems and make the individual more visible in economic analysis.

ISC 2022 is dedicated to the Niti Aayog policies to promote sustainability through exchange of ideas emerging out of the academia.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the Digital Technologies in Construction Engineering conference, held in Belgorod, Russia, on June 8-9, 2021.

This 2-volume book covers the state-of-the-art of the research and practices on eco-design.

'Degrowth', a type of 'postgrowth', is becoming a strong political, practical and cultural movement for downscaling and transforming societies beyond capitalist growth and non-capitalist productivism to achieve global sustainability and satisfy everyone's basic needs.

This book is a work that focuses on the forest environmental tax.

The privatization of water supply and wastewater systems, together with institutional restructuring of governance - through decentralization and the penetration of global firms in local and regional markets - have been promoted as solutions to increase economic efficiency and achieve universal water supply and sanitation coverage.

Sustainable consumption is a central research topic in academic discourses of sustainable development and global environmental change.

This book presents statistical processes for health care delivery and covers new ideas, methods and technologies used to improve health care organizations.

The book, written by acclaimed experts from China , is an output of the Low-Carbon City China (LCCC) Programme.

This book explores the question of how urban sustainability can be achieved despite a lack of knowledge integration between different fields.

A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate change.

This book presents a systematic study of transboundary, regional and local water conflicts and resistance across several river basins in South Asia.

Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities.

Over recent decades national environmental policies have converged.

This graduate text provides a compelling narrative of current environmental economics that integrates theory, policy, and empirical topics.

The global food system is characterized by large numbers of people experiencing food insecurity and hunger on the one hand, and vast amounts of food waste and overconsumption on the other.

After lives filled with deep suffering, 74 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide every year on factory farms.

This book discusses Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and their potential to protect and maintain critical infrastructure in a variety of global governmental settings.

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

This short textbook provides a core understanding of the intersection between business and the natural environment.

Responsibility for future generations is easily postulated in the abstract but it is much more difficult to set it to work in the concrete.

Why do some countries and populations suffer from poverty and ill health, whilst others are more prosperous and healthy?

Simulation methods are revolutionizing the practice of applied economic analysis.

This book examines the Thatcher government's attempt to revolutionise Britain's pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism.

This book provides a two-level analytical framework and empirical study to analyze the reason and process of China's transition that is from a follower to driver in the field of global climate governance, and is especially valuable the dialogues and cooperation between the government, media and civil society.

Provides the first scholarly and comprehensive book on the national renewable energy laws of every country that has them (113 countries).

In this volume of the TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) publication series, the key concepts of the project are applied to local and regional policy and public management.

This book is a much-needed account, with numerous detailed examples, of the role of housing in economic growth and development by an author in a unique position to understand its importance and the practical measures for delivering that growth.

Society is an ultrasocial superorganism whose requirements take precedence over individuals.

Originally published in 1952.

In this meticulously curated anthology, exploring the dynamic intersections of creativity, design, and innovation within the healthcare landscape, esteemed experts present novel service design solutions.

Markets for Water: Potential and Performance dispels many of the myths surrounding water markets and gives readers a comprehensive picture of the way that markets have developed in different parts of the world.

Since the 1980s, two different paradigms have reshaped industrial societies: the Neoliberal paradigm and a Research and Innovation paradigm.

Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today.