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True Cost Accounting: Assessing Environmental and Social Damages of Production
1st Edition
By Amelie Michalke, Jennifer Kunz, Tobias Gaugler
May 06, 2025
This book explores the historical and theoretical classification of True Cost Accounting (TCA) and its business-oriented ways of implementation. Tobias Gaugler, Jennifer Kunz, and Amelie Michalke provide compact and comprehensible insights into TCA, which is one approach used to comprehensively ...
The Economics of Estuary Restoration in South Africa
1st Edition
By Douglas J. Crookes
April 14, 2025
This book examines the economic costs and benefits of the ecological restoration of estuaries, utilizing case studies from South Africa. Estuaries are important ecosystems from both an ecological and human perspective. Yet, in many parts of the world they are often degraded environments, facing ...
Food Co-operatives in Turkey: Building Alternative Food Networks
1st Edition
By Özlem Öz, Zühre Aksoy
January 30, 2025
This book addresses the roles played by food co-operatives in the attempt to build alternative food networks, drawing on an in-depth analysis of case studies in Turkey. While many existing studies focus on food co-operatives and alternative food networks in the Global North, this book provides an ...
Food Cultures and Geographical Indications in Norway
1st Edition
By Atle Wehn Hegnes
December 19, 2024
This book analyses the implementation and challenges of using Geographical Indications in Norway. Adapting the modern and global system of Geographical Indications (GIs) to food cultures is a recurring challenge. This text uses Norway as a case study to describe, understand, and explain the ...
Sustainability and the Philosophy of Science
1st Edition
By Jeffry L. Ramsey
December 19, 2024
This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it. Examining assumptions about concepts, theories, evidence, and the moral ideals of sustainability can better orient us as we pursue this urgent and important ...
EU Trade-Related Measures against Illegal Fishing: Policy Diffusion and Effectiveness in Thailand and Australia
1st Edition
By Alin Kadfak, Kate Barclay, Andrew M. Song
November 29, 2024
Focusing on the experiences of Thailand and Australia, this book examines the impact of trade-restrictive measures as related to the EU’s regulations to prevent Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. It is widely accepted that IUU fishing is harmful, and should be stopped, but there are...
Regulating Foreign Direct Investment for Development: Perspectives from Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Nakib Mohammad Nasrullah, Mia Mahmudur Rahim
November 06, 2024
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) regulation and sustainable development in Bangladesh. It is widely accepted that FDI-induced development is essential for the growth of undeveloped economies, but it can create a conflict between ...
Agricultural Digitization and Zhongyong Philosophy: Creating a Sustainable Circular Economy
1st Edition
By Yiyan Chen, Hooi Hooi Lean, Ye Li
October 09, 2024
This interdisciplinary book combines digital technology with Eastern philosophy to examine how the concept of Zhongyong in Confucianism can be used to coordinate digital technology with sustainable agriculture. Zhongyong comes from the connotation of moderate and sustainable in ancient Chinese ...
Climate Governance in China: Policy Diffusion of Emissions Trading in Shanghai and Hubei
1st Edition
By Lina Li, Maia Haru Hall
October 09, 2024
This book explores how and why innovative climate policies spread across subnational regions and between governance levels in China. Despite the significance of emerging economies in a pathway to a zero-carbon future, research to date on China’s transformation governance remains limited. Drawing ...
Regional Political Ecologies and Environmental Conflicts in India
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarmistha Pattanaik, Amrita Sen
October 09, 2024
This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India. It explores broadly, landscape-based analyses of political, economic and social issues, which impact environmental changes, challenges and conflicts at local and micro-local levels. The chapters in ...
Land Tenure Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Interventions in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe
1st Edition
By Steven Lawry, Rebecca McLain, Margaret Rugadya, Gina Alvarado, Tasha Heidenrich
October 07, 2024
This book examines the impacts of land tenure reform interventions implemented in Benin, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Since 2000, many African countries have introduced programs aimed at providing smallholder farmers with low-cost certificates for land held under customary tenure. Yet there are...
Circular Economy and the Law: Bringing Justice into the Frame
1st Edition
By Feja Lesniewska, Katrien Steenmans
August 26, 2024
This book explores the role of law and policy in circular economy transitions and their impacts on justice, including on distributional equity and recognition and procedural rights, especially for people already marginalised under the current dominant economic system. Amid increasing demand for ...