Renewable energy expert Mark Diesendorf issues a powerful challenge in this clear and comprehensive guide to the technology and policies we need to adopt to ensure an ecologically sustainable energy future for the planet. Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change brings together the science, technology, economics and policy issues to provide a unique and truly interdisciplinary approach. It details the enormous recent changes in the energy sector and profiles the renewable energy technolo...
In the last one hundred years, imported water has transformed the environment of the Golden State and its quality of life, with land ownership patterns and real estate boosterism dramatically altering both urban and rural communities. The key to this transformation has been expanded access to water from the Eastern Sierra, the Colorado River, and Northern California rivers. "Whoever brings the water, brings the people," wrote engineer William Mulholland, under whose leadership the process of...
The UK Environmental Foresight Project
Colombia 2014 (OECD Environmental Performance Reviews)
Political Economy of the Environment (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan)
by Shigeto Tsuru
This study of Japan's environmental problems places the issues within a socio-economic context. It provides an historical account of environmental disruption in Japan, and considers countermeasures against environmental problems.
Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks (World in Transition, JG 1998)
Global risk potentials and their interplay with economic, social and ecological processes of change have emerged as a challenge to the international community. By presenting this report, the Council hopes to contribute constructively to an effective, efficient and objective management of the risks of global change. The approach taken by the Council is first to classify globally relevant risks and then to assign to these classes of risk both established and innovative risk assessment strategies a...
Sustainable Economic Development: Resources, Environment, and Institutions presents 25 articles that lay the foundations of sustainable development in a way that facilitates effective policy design. The editors mix broad thematic papers with focused micro-papers, balancing theories with policy designs. The book begins with two sections on sustainable development principles and practice and on specific settings where sustainable development is practiced. Two more sections illuminate institutions,...
This book assesses the validity of the pessimistic approach of the contemporary economic theory of exhaustible resources by reviewing the work of both the classical and early neoclassical writers. This book should be of interest to students and researchers of Economic Theory.
Proceedings of The Green Economics Institute 7th Annual Green Economics Conference 17th -21st July
by Miriam Kennet, Juliane Goeke, and Kristina Jociute
Proceedings of the Green Economics Institute 7th Annual Green Economics Conference July 19th 20th 21st 2012 at Mansfield College, Oxford University Green Economy: Reform and Renaissance of economics and its methodology - Green Economics - the solutions for the 21st century Green Economy: Rethinking Growth: RIO +20
Montenegro (Environmental performance reviews, #41)
The present publication contains the third Environmental Performance Review of Montenegro. The review takes stock of the progress made by Montenegro in the management of its environment since the country was reviewed in 2007 for the second time. It assesses the implementation of the recommendations contained in the second review. The third review covers policymaking, implementation and the financing of environmental policies and projects. It discusses waste management and the protection of water...
Environmental Regulation and Public Disclosure (Environment for Development)
by Shakeb Afsah, Allen Blackman, Jorge H. Garcia, and Thomas Sterner
This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. In 1995 the Indonesian Ministry of Environment took the bold step to launch an environmental disclosure initiative called the Program for Pollution Control, Evaluation and Rating (PROPER). Under PROPER, environmental performance of companies is mapped into a five-color grading scale – Gold for excellent, Green for very good, Blue for good, Red for non-...
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
by Senior Lecturer in Economics Roger Perman, Yue Ma, Michael Common, David Maddison, and James McGilvray
This is an updated and revised edition of a highly respected environmental economics text which combines rigorous economic theory with practical applications to provide the most thorough coverage of the subject.
The issue of mining in Ghana has attracted an important and recent debate. On the beneficial side, there are those who point to state revenue, industrial development, employment opportunities and social amenities such as the building of roads, schools and clinics, and provision of electricity and granting scholarships to children. Adherents to such a stance see mining as the propeller of economic development and growth. However, there are those who see mining as leading to environmental degradat...
Locating the Industrial Revolution: Inducement and Response
by Eric L Jones
The familiar industrialisation of northern England and less familiar de-industrialisation of the south are shown to have depended on a common process. Neither rise nor decline resulted from differences in natural resource endowments, since they began before the use of coal and steam in manufacturing. Instead, political certainty, competitive ideology and Enlightenment optimism encouraged investment in transport and communications. This integrated the national market, intensifying competition bet...
The more we debate about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we continue to burn. How did we get caught up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Malm claims that it all began in Britain with the rise of steam-power. So why did manufacturers turn from traditional fuels, notably water, to steam? Overturning established theories of the transition and offering a radically new view of our warming world, this study shows how steam was adopted as a superior sou...
Intimate Economies of Development (Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration)
by Chris Lyttleton
Aspirations, desires, opportunism and exploitation are seldom considered as fundamental elements of donor-driven development as it impacts on the lives of people in poor countries. Yet, alongside structural interventions, emotional or affective engagements are central to processes of social change and the making of selves for those caught up in development’s slipstream. Intimate Economies of Development lays bare the ways that culture, sexuality and health are inevitably and inseparably linked...