A growing number of GHG emissions trading schemes are being implemented at regional or national levels. However, even as the number of different schemes grows, few linkages exist between them. Major cap-and-trade proposals are currently at important stages in their development, especially in the United States, Japan and Australia, some of which explicitly emphasize the aim of linking with other schemes. One of the strategic goals of European climate policy is linking the EU ETS with other compar...
America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy
by Professor James Gustave Speth
Si, Nda Bot and Ayong (Rural Development Forestry Network Paper, v. 21e)
by Mariteuw Chimere Diaw
Neoliberal Structural Change and the Electricity Sector (Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics)
by Lynne Chester
This book presents an unparalleled account of the drivers and outcomes of electricity sector liberalisation, and argues that this industrial restructuring has created pervasive threats to long-term economic growth, financial market stability, environmental degradation and society's well-being. The hegemony of neoliberalism has led to the radical restructuring of industry sectors of which electricity is a very prominent example. Australia has been at the forefront of this restructuring with a mo...
Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)
by Zo Marriage
Analysis of North African revolt against authoritarianism, known as the 'Arab Spring', embraced reductionist explanations such as the social media, youth unemployment and citizens' agitations to regain dignity in societies humiliated by oppressive regimes. This book illustrates that reductionist approaches can only elucidate some symptoms of a social problem while leaving unexplained the economic and political structures which contributed to it. One outcome of quiescence, resource-based ethnic a...
Population and Development: The Search for Selective Interventions
by Professor Ronald G Ridker
International Aid and the Making of a Better World: Reflexive Practice (Rethinking Development)
by Rosalind Eyben
The Pricing of Internationally Traded Gas
This is the first book on the pricing of gas in international trade. Gas accounts for around 25% of global energy demand and international gas trade is growing rapidly. The volume examines the theory of energy pricing and looks at the contribution that theory can make to the study of international gas pricing. It traces the historical origins and development of international gas pricing in North America, Europe, Asia, and the former Soviet Union since the 1970s, and other regions up to the earl...
Inventory of estimated budgetary support and tax expenditures for fossil fuels
Environmental Degradation from Mining and Mineral Processing in Developing Countries
Environment and Development Economics
by Scott Barrett, Karl-Goran Maler, and Adams University Professor Eric S Maskin
This book honours Partha Dasgupta, and the field he helped establish; environment and development economics. It concerns the relationship between social systems (to include families, local communities, national economies, and the world as a whole) and natural systems (critical ecosystems, forests, water resources, mineral deposits, pollution, fisheries, and the Earth's climate). Above all, it concerns the poverty-environment nexus: the complex pathways by which people become or remain poor, and...
Sustainable Development in Amazonia: Paradise in the Making (Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development)
by Kei Otsuki
Environmental and Resource Economics Set (Earthscan Library Collection)
by Various
Capturing the economic value of natural resources has become an integral part of their successful management and conservation. The Environmental and Resource Economics Set contains seminal texts covering a range of ecosystems and valuation methods. In the last two decades, environmental threats and the challenge of sustainability have moved to the very centre of political, business and, increasingly, personal agendas. The Earthscan Library Collection has been created to bring back into print t...
Democratic Sustainability in a New Era of Localism
by Dr John Stanton
This stimulating series is the beginner's guide to a wide range of scientific concepts and topical issues affecting our daily lives. Alternative Energy examines the economic, environmental and politcal dimensions of the world's energy problems and examines how these issues are being addressed.
Integral Community Enterprise in Africa (Transformation and Innovation)
by Anselm Adodo
At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management, enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa. For over three decades, Africa was the recipient of billions of dollars in aid funds that were meant to catapult the continent from undeveloped to developed status. Yet the more the aid poured in, the poorer African countries became. The devastating effec...
The Multilateral Trade and Investment Context for Biofuels
Natural Resources and the Environment: Economics, Law, Politics, and Institutions provides a new approach to the study of environmental and natural resource economics. It augments current contributions from the fields of public choice, law, and economics, and the burgeoning field of what used to be called the "New Institutional Economics," to describe, explain, and interpret how these new developments have been applied to better understand the economics of natural resources and the environment...
Protecting The Environment, Privately
Most volumes in the environmental economics literature consider the environment to be a public good and hence write out a role for the private sector in a source of supply. Yet there is ample evidence of the private sector being involved, driven both by profit and altruism. This book provides the necessary conceptual base for the inclusion of the private sector in the environmental protection supply equation and deliver an extensive set of examples in a wide range of contexts. In an economic cli...
Global Energy Economics and Climate Protection Report 2009
by Valentin Crastan
At the end of 2009 the World Bank and the IMF published new figures for gross domestic product adjusted for purchasing power. In addition to the new assessment of various developing and emerging nations, the considerable downgrading of the mean purchasing power of China and India is of particular significance. The present English edition of the book takes this into account. Con- quently it is not simply a translation of the German edition, but is also an update, in both the introduction and the...
A Journey Toward Environmental Stewardship
by Michael D Zagata Phd
Brazil in the Anthropocene (Routledge Environmental Humanities)
Brazil is considered one of the world's most important environmental powers. With a continental territory containing almost 70 per cent of the Amazon rainforest, along with a rich biodiversity and huge amount of natural resources, its geopolitical role in environmental decisions is crucial to ongoing global negotiations surrounding climate change. Development policies based on extraction and exportation of raw materials by the mining and agribusiness sectors threaten the global environmental b...