Environmental economics (336)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book explores how African countries can convert their natural resources, particularly oil and gas, into sustainable development assets. Using Ghana, one of the continent’s newest oil-producing countries, as a lens, it examines the 'resource curs...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key threats of rising temperature...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book documents the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agency. This shift is analyzed by identifying the conditions under which the expansion of hydraulic fracturing (frack...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:In recent years, Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have been a key issue both in the scientific community and in public debates. This is due to their profound implications for rural development, local sustainability, and bio-economics. This edited col...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This brief explores the business and global implications of the American shale energy, or natural gas, revolution. Specifically, it provides a rational, comprehensive look at the major business themes and management implications that surround the new...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book seeks to enrich the growing literature on mine legacies by examining a case study of a small abandoned mine in Latin America. Using a combination of Rapid Rural Appraisal and secondary source analysis, this study assessed some of the most d...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Caroline Schäfer analysiert die aus einer langfristigen Kooperation mit wechselseitigen Abhängigkeiten resultierende Double-Moral-Hazard-Anreizproblematik und entwickelt darauf basierend für die Energiedienstleistung Energie-Performance-Contracting s...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book highlights the application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and nature based algorithms to solve the problems of water and water based renewable energy resources. The irregularity in availability of resources and inefficiency in uti...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book provides a fresh perspective on the ever-growing relevance of input-output analysis in problem solving. It is based on the “19th National Conference of the Input-Output Research Association of India (IORA)”, held in 2017 in Mumbai, India. T...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book gives readers the theoretical and empirical methods to analyze applied economics. They are institutional economics, information economics, environmental economics, international economics, financial economics, industrial organization, publi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Dies ist das begleitende Arbeitsbuch zum Lehrbuch 'Grundlagen der Mikroökonomik'. Jedes Kapitel bietet eine Vielfalt an Übungen, von grundlegenden Multiple-Choice-Fragen bis hin zu herausfordernden mathematischen Problemen und Fallstudien.Das Lehrbuc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book is based on presentations from the Conference ‘Arctic Marine Resource Governance’ held in Reykjavik Iceland in October 2015. The book is divided into four main themes: 1. Global management and institutions for Arctic marine resources 2. Res...