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.
Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology: A Case Study of the Integrated Product Policy of the European Union
1st Edition
By Jakub Kronenberg
June 13, 2012
Holistic in approach and rooted in the real world Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology presents a new way of looking at environmental policy; exploring the relationship between ecological economics and industrial ecology. Concentrating on the conceptual background of ecological economics ...
Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation: The People's Republic of China's Path to a Brighter Future
1st Edition
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By Timothy Swanson, Tun Lin
May 09, 2012
This volume assembles a group of eminent scholars to look at the problem of growth and environment from the perspective of environmental regulation. The questions addressed are: How does economic growth interact with regulation, and what are the best approaches to regulation in use today? The ...
Valuation of Regulating Services of Ecosystems: Methodology and Applications
1st Edition
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By Pushpam Kumar, Michael Wood
April 10, 2012
Policy and management decisions are often made on financial grounds. However, the economic value of the benefits that people derive from ecosystems, that is, ecosystem services, may not be fully recognised and hence ecosystem considerations may not be incorporated adequately into decision-making ...
Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances
1st Edition
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By Anna Montini, Massimiliano Mazzanti
March 29, 2012
Eco-innovation is becoming a conceptual reference point for many regional and international public policies and management strategies. This field of research has been focusing on how environmental innovation is particularly related to the intensity of emissions and economic performance. There are ...
Participation in Environmental Organizations
1st Edition
By Benno Torgler, Maria A. Garcia-Valiñas, Alison Macintyre
March 16, 2012
For decades, social scientists have searched for factors that shape pro-environmentalbehaviour. However, only a few studies have investigated the causes andconsequences of participation in environmental organizations. This book fills the gap by analysing in detail the determinants of environmental ...
Benefits of Environmental Policy: Conference Volume of the 6th Chemnitz Symposium 'Europe and Environment'
1st Edition
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By Klaus D. John, Dirk Rübbelke
March 02, 2012
Environmental policy may produce effects which go beyond the scope of the specific policy’s initial aim. Reforestation, for example, generates positive benefits not only in the shape of climate protection but also in the shape of the combat of biodiversity loss and it may also raise the ...
Environmental Amenities and Regional Economic Development
1st Edition
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By Todd L. Cherry, Dan Rickman
December 15, 2011
Economic development and the environment are presumed to be in conflict, but the latter part of the twentieth century experienced a series of economic changes that increasingly questioned this view. Economic activity became more footloose and the ability to attract productive labor became a ...
New Perspectives on Agri-environmental Policies: A multidisciplinary and transatlantic approach
1st Edition
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By Stephan J. Goetz, Floor Brouwer
December 15, 2011
Significant advances have occurred in recent years in Europe and in North America in addressing agri-environmental policies. Land use issues tend to be more pressing in Europe than in the US as a whole because of different spatial exigencies. Because these advances have taken place within ...
The Cooperation Challenge of Economics and the Protection of Water Supplies: A Case Study of the New York City Watershed Collaboration
1st Edition
By Joan Hoffman
December 15, 2011
How can we build the institutions that will promote the cooperation needed to meet our intertwined environmental and economic needs? Efforts to meet these twin goals in New York City’s watershed collaborations offer some guidance. The experience provides lessons in addressing scattered sources of ...
The Use of Economic Valuation in Environmental Policy: Providing Research Support for the Implementation of EU Water Policy Under Aquastress
1st Edition
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By Phoebe Koundouri
December 15, 2011
This book aims to show that economics in general and non-market valuation methods in particular, together with participatory and engineering tools, can facilitate the design and implementation of the different European policies in relation to mitigation of water stress. The results presented in ...
Waste and Environmental Policy
1st Edition
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By Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini
December 02, 2011
This research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialised countries present diverse but critical concerns. It takes a socio-economic and policy-oriented perspective and provides empirical evidence at EU ...
Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development
1st Edition
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By Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual, Melinda Smale
February 18, 2011
This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development. As a new and rapidly expanding subfield at the interface of environmental/ecological, agricultural and development economics, the ...