Environmental Economics

The production of oil and natural gas in the United States has increased rapidly over the past decade. As of 2014, domestic production of crude oil...

Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2021 for Writing on Global Conservation Climate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today. While t...

Unlike existing books on the topic that cover more on non-economic aspects of natural disasters, this book covers economic aspects of natural disas...

Water institutions establish the incentives, information, and compulsions that guide behaviour and influence economic outcomes. Water pricing polic...

This book contains the edited versions of papers presented at the Third International Conference on Environmental Economics and Investment Assessme...

Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natur...

Access to adequate food and nutrition is a fundamental human right. However, a significant population worldwide presently suffers from malnutrition...

This book is designed to reclaim a vision of our future, under a Green Economics Scenario, perspective for resilience and survival in the 21st and...

We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shop...

Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship betw...

Are natural resources really so limited that, as Mahatma Gandhi once famously said, Earth provides enough to satisfy every man''s need, but not ev...

Peru and the United States have a strong and cooperative relationship. Several issues in U.S.-Peruvian relations are likely to be considered in dec...

This book explores the purposes, methodologies, modelling techniques and weaknesses in energy forecasting. It provides a rare appraisal of what is ...

Gaian Economics is the second volume in the Four Keys to Sustainable Communities series and sets out to explore how we can develop healthy and abun...

The recent global financial crisis has raised widespread concern for the sustainability of the global economy. Much has been written concerning the...

This book sheds light on the interaction between the utilisation of energy and the environment, as well as the economic aspects involved with this ...

This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn't grow.For decades, it has been widely recognised that there are eco...

Green Economics: Reform and Transformation. Written by a young Portugese economist, from NOVA School of Business and Economics, Portugal, Research...

In developing countries, coastal resources hold significant value for a number of different sectors of the economy, such as mining, fisheries, fore...

This book discusses the ecology, diversity and environmental impact of Siberia. Chapter One discusses cultural interaction and mutual influence of ...

China has achieved spectacular growth in the past forty years, and its economic structure has experienced great transformation. The country has als...

Miriam Kennet is CEO, director and co-founder of the Green Economics Institute and the founder and editor of the International Journal of Green Eco...

Both the individual circumstances of the Deepwater Horizon incident, as well as the overall framework for how the federal government responds to oi...

Global climate change is one of the nation''''s most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activities are producing increasingly large qua...

Relations between Australia and New Zealand, also sometimes referred to as Trans-Tasman relations due to the countries being on opposite sides of t...

It is a scientific fact that primary energy has always been one of the principal drivers behind the growth of human prosperity; it is also a scient...

Urbanisation has re-shaped China''''s economy, society, and energy system. Between 1990 and 2007 China added 290 million new urban residents, bring...

Increasing concerns about energy systems and their environmental implications, as well as the costs, supply and security of energy resources, are f...