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.
Arctic Oil and Gas: Sustainability at Risk?
1st Edition
Edited
By Aslaug Mikkelsen, Oluf Langhelle
February 16, 2011
This book analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from the perspective of Sustainable Development (SD) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The focus is on the territories of the Arctic rim where the current and future oil and gas activities in the Arctic are and will be ...
Avoided Deforestation: Prospects for Mitigating Climate Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles Palmer, Stefanie Engel
February 16, 2011
Avoided deforestation can be characterized as the use of financial incentives to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation, with much of the focus on forests in tropical countries. While avoided deforestation, as a policy issue, is not new, the current debate in academic and policy ...
Renewable Energy from Forest Resources in the United States
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry Solomon, Valerie A. Luzadis
December 01, 2010
Interest in biomass energy resources from forests, farms and other sources has been rapidly increasing in recent years because of growing concern with reducing carbon dioxide emissions and developing alternatives to increasingly scarce, expensive and insecure oil supplies. The uniqueness of this ...
The Taxation of Petroleum and Minerals: Principles, Problems and Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Daniel, Michael Keen, Charles McPherson
June 10, 2010
There are few areas of economic policy-making in which the returns to good decisions are so high—and the punishment of bad decisions so cruel—as in the management of natural resource wealth. Rich endowments of oil, gas and minerals have set some countries on courses of sustained and robust ...
Biotechnology and Agricultural Development: Transgenic Cotton, Rural Institutions and Resource-poor Farmers
1st Edition
Edited
By Rob Tripp
September 17, 2009
This book addresses the continuing controversy over the potential impact of genetically modified (GM) crops in developing countries. Supporters of the technology claim it offers one of the best hopes for increasing agricultural production and reducing rural poverty, while opponents see it as an ...
Environmental Economics, Experimental Methods
1st Edition
By Todd L. Cherry, Stephan Kroll, Jason Shogren
September 08, 2009
The experimental method is one commonly applied to issues of environmental economics; this book brings together 63 leading researchers in the area and their latest work exploring the behavioural underpinnings of experimental environmental economics. The essays in this volume will be ...
Game Theory and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Ariel Dinar, José Albiac, Joaquín Sánchez-Soriano
September 08, 2009
Game Theory has become one of the main analytical tools for addressing strategic issues in the field of economics and is increasing its influence in other fields of social sciences. With the increased level of extraction of natural resources and pollution of environments, game theory gains its ...
Environmental Sustainability: A Consumption Approach
1st Edition
By Raghbendra Jha, K.V. Bhanu Murthy
March 25, 2009
With globalization fast becoming an irreversible process, it is necessary to pay increased attention to the implications for environmental sustainability. However, the so-called environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) argument implies that rapid economic growth in many developing countries should be ...
Land Use Problems and Conflicts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions
1st Edition
By John C. Bergstrom, Stephen J Goetz, James S. Shortle
March 25, 2009
The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. Not only is urban land use and sprawl a hot-button issue, but issues of rural land use have also been in the headlines. Policy makers and citizens are starting to realize that ...
Greenhouse Economics: Value and Ethics
1st Edition
By Clive Spash
August 31, 2005
Examining one of the most crucial issues in the modern world: human induced climate change, here Clive Spash provides a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective, pulling together strands of natural science, economics and ethics. Described by John Gowdy as ‘the best exposition to date on the ...
Alternatives for Environmental Valuation
1st Edition
By Michael Getzner, Clive Spash, Sigrid Stagl
December 03, 2004
Environmental cost-benefit analysis was developed by economists in the belief that monetary valuation of the environmental repercussions of economic activity is essential if the "environment " stands any chance of being included in government and business decisions. This volume examines the ...
The Economics of Climate Change
1st Edition
By Nick Hanley, Anthony D Owen
July 06, 2004
This impressive new collection couldn't come at a better time. With global warming now becoming physically noticeable and the Kyoto treaty stalling in its efforts to get the developed world on board, to take a look at the economic factors of global warming is very much welcome. With contributions ...