Environmental economics (336)

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Technology breakthroughs in sustainable renewable energy and energy conservation technologies require that there be a strong institutional ecosystem in place which supports innovation, but the nature of this foundation and how it works is not well-kn...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Alongside other factors, cultural values and identities help to explain different regulatory frameworks for genetically modified organisms. This book uses insights from environmental history and sociology to illuminate the cultural politics of regula...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:The concept of 'Natural Capital' has come to play a central role in current debates about biodiversity and nature conservation. It implies an approach to the natural world based on the valuation of places and species in terms of money. This is, in a ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:The authors examine how far internal policies in the European Union move towards the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 80-95 per cent by 2050, and how or whether the EU's 2050 objective to 'decarbonise' could affect the EU's...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an operational metric, and it shows how t...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This edited collection brings together leading theoretical and applied research with the intent to design a sustainable global financial future. The contributors argue that our world cannot move toward sustainability, address climate change, reverse ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book examines the nuances of the relationship between development and environmental conservation policy in India over the last three decades. While India is taken as the focal point, the study extends to an analysis of global aspects and other ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book investigates the feasibility of developing a tool that enables fire departments to estimate the value of their services to a community in terms of environmental and financial impact. This book provides a summary of this effort, which result...

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:By examining the issues of environmental policy formation and implementation linked to economic development, and reviewing the Japanese experiences and the examples of other Asian countries, this book reveals factors of dynamism between environmental...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Die Sharing Economy boomt. Die Beitragsautoren des vorliegenden Sammelbandes untersuchen Motive, Einstellungen und Effekte dieser neuartigen digitalen Kultur des Teilens und zeigen ihre Potentiale für nachhaltiges Wirtschaften auf. Sie beleuchten inn...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:The capacity of mixed forests to mitigate climate change effects by increasing resilience and lowering risks is pinpointed as an opportunity to highlight the role of tree species rich forests as part of complex socio-ecological systems. This book up...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Our planet faces a systemic threat from climate change, which the world community of nations is ill-prepared to address, and this book argues that a new form of ecologically conscious capitalism is needed in order to tackle this serious and rising th...