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.
Preference Data for Environmental Valuation: Combining Revealed and Stated Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By John Whitehead, Tim Haab, Ju-Chin Huang
May 30, 2014
The monetary valuation of environmental goods and services has evolved from a fringe field of study in the late 1970s and early 1980s to a primary focus of environmental economists over the past decade. Despite its rapid growth, practitioners of valuation techniques often find themselves defending ...
The Future of Helium as a Natural Resource
1st Edition
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By William Nuttall, Richard Clarke, Bartek Glowacki
March 27, 2014
The book reveals the changing dynamics of the helium industry on both the supply-side and the demand-side. The helium industry has a long-term future and this important gas will have a role to play for many decades to come. Major new users of helium are expected to enter the market, especially in ...
Carbon Markets or Climate Finance?: Low Carbon and Adaptation Investment Choices for the Developing World
1st Edition
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By Axel Michaelowa
November 08, 2013
This book builds on a decade-long experience with mechanisms provided by the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It discusses the challenges of climate finance in the context of the post-Copenhagen negotiations and provides a long-term outlook of how climate finance in...
Sustainable Energy
1st Edition
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By Klaus Dieter John, Dirk Rübbelke
November 08, 2013
Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term sustainability understood as having economic, environmental and social dimensions. Renewable energy is seen as an effective means...
Optimal Control of Age-structured Populations in Economy, Demography, and the Environment
1st Edition
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By Raouf Boucekkine, Natali Hritonenko, Yuri Yatsenko
September 03, 2013
This book covers a wide range of topics within mathematical modelling and the optimization of economic, demographic, technological and environmental phenomena. Each chapter is written by experts in their field and represents new advances in modelling theory and practice. These essays are exemplary ...
Economic Analysis of Land Use in Global Climate Change Policy
1st Edition
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By Thomas W. Hertel, Steven K. Rose, Richard S. J. Tol
April 12, 2013
Land has long been overlooked in economics. That is now changing. A substantial part of the solution to the climate crisis may lie in growing crops for fuel and using trees for storing carbon. This book investigates the potential of these options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, estimates the ...
Cost-Effective Control of Urban Smog: The Significance of the Chicago Cap-and-Trade Approach
1st Edition
By Richard Kosobud, Houston Stokes, Carol Tallarico, Brian Scott
March 05, 2013
Containing rigorous hard evidence, this book is of immense practical use to postgraduates, researchers and business communities affected by or working in environmental regulation. The author, a leading name in the environmental economics community, examines the problem of urban smog in cityscapes ...
Ecosystem Services and Global Trade of Natural Resources: Ecology, Economics and Policies
1st Edition
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By Thomas Koellner
February 14, 2013
The utilization of natural resources to satisfy worldwide growing consumption of goods and services has severe ecological consequences. Aside from the projected doubling of food consumption in the next fifty years, the growing trade of biofuels and other commodities is a global challenge as the ...
Modeling Environment-Improving Technological Innovations under Uncertainty
1st Edition
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By Alexander Golub, Anil Markandya
September 18, 2012
The issues of technology and uncertainty are very much at the heart of the policy debate of how much to control greenhouse gas emissions. The costs of doing so are present and high while the benefits are very much in the future and, most importantly, they are highly uncertain. Whilst there is broad...
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 ...