Environmental economics (336)

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Beth Edmondson and Stuart Levy examine why it is so difficult for the international community to respond to global climate change. In doing so, they analyse and explain some of the strategies that might ultimately provide the foundations for appropri...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book provides a synthesis of research findings, in terms of strategic knowledge outcomes regarding emergence of recent regional climate signals, implications for impacts assessment, and mitigation and adaptation response, relevant in the Indian ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book investigates the potential trade opportunity of climate friendly goods and technology (CFGT) in Asia and South Asia region, and uses a case study of India to clarify India's position on global warming and efforts to mitigate climate change ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change. The case is made for the need for institutional evolution to drive the climate innovation, and...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:In this ground-breaking work, Teresa Thorp tackles the causes and effects of climate injustice by methodically mapping out an approach by which to reach a negotiatedconsensus with legal force to protect present and future generations. Using the law a...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book focuses on the risks that climate change poses for the health sector. It discusses the current vulnerabilities to climate-sensitive diseases, the resultant mortality and morbidity in human populations, the projected risks in connection with...

publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Yoshimatsu explores the causes and implications of the diverse degree of institution-building in East Asia by examining two processes of initiating and developing multilateral institutions in five policy areas: trade, finance, food security, energy s...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical rainforests is financed. Beginning with the context of tropical deforestation, alongside an overview of tropical ecology, global environmental policy and finance, the book reviews sev...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book examines the factors involved in consumer responses to food produced in regions near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant following the March 2011 Eastern Japanese earthquake, and assesses how responses to reports on food safety and risk of ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:In diesem Buch wird der Fragen nachgegangen, wie global relevante Nachhaltigkeitsziele (z.B. die UN Sustainable Development Goals) für einzelne Wirtschaftsakteure handlungswirksam werden können. Mit dem hierfür entwickelten Ansatz der „Corporate Sust...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Holds critical information that is needed by anyone who wants to understand how to make money from 'green' technology and how to avoid investments that will soon suffer from hidden carbon liabilities. Readers will learn to de-code a crucial component...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:With frequent discoveries of energy resources in remote and undeveloped areas, the importance of transnational oil and gas pipelines is set to grow ever more prominent. This study dissects the diplomacy and bargaining power of the transit country and...