Environmental Economics

How and why do business organisations contribute to climate change governance? The contributors' findings on South Africa, Kenya and Germany demons...

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

In the advent of important crises of both climate change and energy supply (in)security, questions are being asked about changes in energy governan...

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

Rural poverty remains widespread and persistent in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. A group of leading experts critically examines the impact of ...

Alongside other factors, cultural values and identities help to explain different regulatory frameworks for genetically modified organisms. This bo...

Yoshimatsu explores the causes and implications of the diverse degree of institution-building in East Asia by examining two processes of initiating...

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Disruptive digital technologies are poised to reshape world energy markets. A new wave of industrial innovation, driven by the convergence of autom...

This accessible and insightful textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the economics of prehistory. By presenting a chronological account...

As human populations grow, so do the resource demands imposed on ecosystems, and the impacts of anthropogenic use and abuse are becoming ever more ...

What makes the modern world work? The answer to this deceptively simple question lies in four grand transitions of civilization--in populations, ag...

What we make and buy is a major indicator of society's collective priorities. Among twenty-four key trends, Vital Signs Volume 22 explores signific...

Environment, Tenth Edition helps students understand the connection between the core concepts of the Environmental Science and their daily lives. T...

From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and th...

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Hi...

The recent rise to prominence of renewable energy and energy efficiency has been driven by their potential to lower the environmental impacts of en...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It prov...

How should we be putting a price on carbon, particularly in developing countries? This volume takes up this contested issue and examines how diffe...

The growing urgency, complexity and wickedness of sustainability problemsfrom climate change and biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and per...

Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds a revolution in the teaching of economics. Students and lecturers alike are r...

A provocative reassessment of the concepts underlying the struggle for sustainable developmentMuch of the debate over sustainable development revol...

In The Green Leap to an Inclusive Economy, two leading thinkers, Stuart L. Hart and Fernando Casado Cañeque, challenge head on the two biggest issu...

Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to...