Environmental economics (336)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Based on micro-level empirical research, this book uniquely addresses the problem of arsenic contamination in ground water in Bangladesh in a comprehensive way. At the outset, the book puts forward the opinions of experts regarding the cause of arsen...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book presents narratives, perspectives and policies on the Arctic and brings to fore the strategies of five Asian countries - China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore who were granted the status of Permanent Observers in the Arctic C...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book presents a model for describing the hierarchical concept of China’s water rights structure, one which takes into account pioneering theories on natural resources and environmental institutional economics. It highlights the basic theory of w...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book aims to identify, present and discuss key driving forces and pressures on ecosystem services. Ecosystem services are the contributions that ecosystems provide to human well-being. The scope of this atlas is on identifying solutions and less...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Nikolaus Ludwiczek zeigt mit seiner empirischen Forschung, dass beim Ausbau der Biokraftstoffproduktion die Verdrängung des Lebensmittelanbaus, der bäuerlichen Landwirtschaft und ökologisch wertvoller Waldflächen vermieden werden kann. Der Autor anal...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book addresses the potential of the transformation of biomass into a wide range of marketable products, and examines the biological, biochemical, physical and thermal processing of biomass into products such as fuels, power, heat, feeds, chemica...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book discusses the regulatory and trade challenges facing the global adoption of biotechnological products and offers strategies for overcoming these obstacles and moving towards greater global food security. The first section of the book establ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Together with Mauritius, Botswana is often categorized as one of two growth miracles in sub-Saharan Africa. Due to its spectacular long-run economic performance and impressive social development, it has been termed both an economic success story and ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future. It addresses this challenge by considering current cities and those of the near futur...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:How and why do business organisations contribute to climate change governance? The contributors' findings on South Africa, Kenya and Germany demonstrate that business contributions to the mitigation and adaptation to climate change vary significantly...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book explores the microstructure of carbon markets and the pricing of carbon financial instruments generally. It provides a critical microstructure analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS), and also examines the theoretical and relat...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:In diesem Band ist ein Gesamt-Überblick über den State-of-the-Art der Energiediskussion, eine Komplettdarstellung aller Technologien und deren physikalische Grundlagen​ für Praktiker und interessierte Leser mit Grundkenntnissen gegeben. Der erste Tei...