Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
About the Book Series
Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics was established in 2001 and has since provided a key port of call for leading research in the field. As well as the core discipline of environmental economics, the remit of the series extends to natural resources, ecological economics, environmental studies and environmental science, with issues explored including energy, permit trading, valuation, taxation and climate change. The series is edited by Nick Hanley of the University of St Andrews.
Game Theory and Water Diplomacy: Transboundary Water Conflicts and Cooperation
1st Edition
By Anamika Barua, Tanushree Baruah
November 11, 2025
Transboundary water negotiations are complex as they are driven by diverse national interests, multiple legal and policy frameworks, historical and asymmetric power relations. To induce the states to move from a national unilateral agenda to a shared cooperative agenda requires several rounds of ...
Economics of the Energy Crisis: Environment, Policy and Security in the Indian Subcontinent
1st Edition
Edited
By Anindya Bhukta, Somnath Hazra
August 22, 2025
The global energy crisis is a two-dimensional phenomenon: on the one hand, the gap between a continuously depleting supply capacity of fossil fuel and rapidly increasing demand for energy is fast widening, and, on the other, the burning of fossil fuels intensifies the problem of global warming day ...
Economics of Energy Security: Perspectives of Natural Gas Exporters
1st Edition
By Honorata Nyga-Łukaszewska
June 27, 2025
There has been a burgeoning interest in energy security in recent years due to the transformation of the energy landscape through deepening market deregulation, rising environmental challenges, growing energy hunger, and significant political changes. Depicting energy security as an evolving ...
Green National Accounting in Theory and Practice: From GDP to Green GDP
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Birch Sørensen
June 13, 2025
This book explains the theoretical and empirical foundations for constructing a measure of a country’s Green GDP and how this measure relates to the conventional GDP. Opening with an overview of the academic literature on green national accounting, the first chapter sets up an analytical model of ...
Low Carbon Transition in Emerging Economies: Climate Policy, Carbon Pricing and the Effect on Employment
1st Edition
By Erkin Erdoğan
May 27, 2025
Many emerging economies are on the front line of the devastating impacts of global warming such as desertification and extreme weather events, but, for historical and political reasons, they follow ambitious growth targets with seemingly little concern for climate change and environmental ...
Carbon Pricing in Emerging Economies: Challenges and Opportunities for Türkiye
1st Edition
By İzzet Arı
May 13, 2025
Carbon pricing is one of the key policy instruments available to help countries reach the goals of the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This book explores the challenges and opportunities facing emerging economies in the implementation of ...
Economic Growth and Environmental Quality in a Post-Pandemic World: New Directions in the Econometrics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
1st Edition
Edited
By Muhammad Shahbaz, Daniel Balsalobre Lorente, Rajesh Sharma
December 18, 2024
In response to the damage caused by a growth-led global economy, researchers across the world started investigating the association between environmental pollution and its possible determinants using different models and techniques. Most famously, the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesizes an ...
Sustainable Finance and the Global Health Crisis
1st Edition
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By Pasquale Marcello Falcone, Edgardo Sica
December 18, 2024
The speed with which the various economies recover from the Covid-19 pandemic will significantly determine the economic pressure placed on the environment in the medium-to-long-term. Furthermore, the pandemic has highlighted the strong interrelations between natural and societal systems, with ...
Environmental Finance and Green Banking: Contemporary and Emerging Issues
1st Edition
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By Samsul Alam, Sergey Sosnovskikh
November 28, 2024
Environmental finance and green banking are central drivers of the transition to a sustainable economy and essential components in solutions to climate change. This book presents the latest research on theory and practices in these interdisciplinary fields, incorporating both public and corporate ...
The Clean Hydrogen Economy and Saudi Arabia: Domestic Developments and International Opportunities
1st Edition
Edited
By Rami Shabaneh, Jitendra Roychoudhury, Jan Frederik Braun, Saumitra Saxena
April 18, 2024
This book provides a first-of-its-kind analysis of the emerging global hydrogen economy from the vantage point of one of the world’s biggest energy providers: Saudi Arabia. In 2021, and within the context of the Circular Carbon Economy framework, Saudi Arabia announced its goal to reach net-zero ...
Economics and Engineering of Unpredictable Events: Modelling, Planning and Policies
1st Edition
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By Caterina De Lucia, Dino Borri, Atif Kubursi, Abdul Khakee
September 25, 2023
In recent decades, the intensification of unpredictable events including the Covid-19 outbreak, Brexit, trade warfare, religion-inspired terrorism and civil wars, and climate change has resulted in serious loss of human lives and property, a decrease in biodiversity and natural hazards (with ...
Pricing Carbon Emissions: Economic Reality and Utopia
1st Edition
By Aviel Verbruggen
January 09, 2023
Pricing Carbon Emissions provides an economic critique on the utopian idea of a uniform carbon price for addressing rising carbon emissions, exposing the flaws in the economic propositions with a key focus on the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS). After an Executive Summary of the contents, the ...