Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
Economics of Extractivism: Energy and Resources in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Rosa Mª Regueiro Ferreira, Pablo Alonso Fernández, Aurèlia Mañé Estrada
November 14, 2025
Extractivism is an economic model based on the extraction of natural resources for export that is widespread in resource-rich countries. Historically, extractivism was typically used in reference to fossil fuels but in recent decades the drive to find new energy sources has given rise to new ...
The Economics of Sustainable Development and Distribution: The Unfairness and Injustice of Milton Friedman’s Capitalism
1st Edition
By Dariusz Pieńkowski
July 30, 2025
Drawing on a broad transdisciplinary background, this book compares distributive justice systems and related socioeconomic institutions within the liberal and sustainable development traditions. Confronting the capitalist worldview of prominent Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman, the ...
The Circular Bioeconomy: Institutional and Production Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Małgorzata Pink, Agnieszka Józefowska
January 13, 2025
Founded on distinct principles to the fossil fuel-based, linear economy, the sustainable, circular bioeconomy requires different social values and institutions and a better understanding of the complexity of the production process. A circular bioeconomy provides a framework for using renewable ...
The Bioeconomy: Institutions, Innovation and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Nicolas Befort
November 28, 2024
The bioeconomy is steadily becoming more important in regional, national and European public policies. As it encompasses the transformation of agricultural, marine and organic resources into food, feed, fuels, energy and materials, the bioeconomy should become a major new industry, outlining the ...
A History of Ecological Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Marco P. Vianna Franco, Antoine Missemer
August 05, 2024
Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought. The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, ...
Economics, Ecology, and Policy for the Bioeconomy: A Holistic Approach
1st Edition
By Sanja Tišma, Anamarija Farkaš, Anamarija Pisarović, Marina Funduk, Iva Tolić
July 29, 2024
This book demonstrates that a holistic approach to the bioeconomy is essential if it is to achieve its full potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits. Definitions of the ‘bioeconomy’ vary but in general it incorporates the ways...
Radical Ecological Economics and Accounting to Save the Planet: The Failure of Mainstream Economists
1st Edition
By Jacques Richard
July 29, 2024
The solutions and tools generally offered to policymakers on environmental issues – such as carbon pricing and environmental taxation – most often emanate from neoclassical economists. This book shows that the tools of these economists are ineffective for the job and must be replaced by methods ...
The Informal Sector and the Environment
1st Edition
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By Ranjula Bali Swain, Uma Kambhampati
July 29, 2024
The informal economy – broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation – sustains a large part of the world's workforce. It is a diverse, complex and growing area of activity. However, being largely unregulated, its impact on the environment has not ...
Collective Sustainable Consumption: The Case of Poland
1st Edition
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By Anna Horodecka, Alina Szypulewska-Porczyńska
June 21, 2024
In the face of climate change and resulting environmental and social crises, sustainable consumption has become a widely discussed issue and a key plank of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The majority of the sustainable consumption research uses the SDG framework, but this only ...
The Degrowth Alternative: A Path to Address our Environmental Crisis?
1st Edition
By Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, Brian Petersen
May 30, 2022
Degrowth is a planned economic contraction in wealthy countries that reduces production and consumption—and, by extension, greenhouse gas emissions and stresses on global ecosystems—to sustainable levels within ecological limits. This book explores the idea of degrowth as an economic alternative to...
Water Resources and Economic Processes
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiziano Distefano
September 28, 2020
Water exploitation has increased notably in the world during the last 250 years since the onset of industrialisation. The relationships between economic processes and water use are complex and include many interwoven drivers such as: technological development, dietary choices and food production, ...
Economics of Feeding the Hungry: Sustainable Intensification and Sustainable Food Security
1st Edition
By Noel Russell
May 07, 2019
As productivity expands to cater for population increase and shifting diets, many individuals remain hungry, whilst others suffer obesity, and significant amounts of food are wasted. Yet, this triple dilemma oversimplifies the underlying complexity. This book explores this complexity from an ...