Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
History of the Future of Economic Growth: Historical Roots of Current Debates on Sustainable Degrowth
1st Edition
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By Iris Borowy, Matthias Schmelzer
March 07, 2018
The future of economic growth is one of the decisive questions of the twenty-first century. Alarmed by declining growth rates in industrialized countries, climate change, and rising socio-economic inequalities, among other challenges, more and more people demand to look for alternatives beyond ...
Green Jobs for Sustainable Development
1st Edition
By Ana-Maria Boromisa, Sanja Tišma, Anastasya Ležaić
April 27, 2017
A ‘green economy’ must be built on ‘green jobs’ - the kind of employment that is low carbon, intended to reduce energy use and expected to restore environmental quality. But attempts to define exactly what a ‘green job’ is have led to varied and often contradictory answers. There are many ...
Peak Oil, Climate Change, and the Limits to China’s Economic Growth
1st Edition
By Minqi Li
April 27, 2017
This book studies the limits imposed by the depletion of fossil fuels and the requirements of climate stabilization on economic growth with a focus on China. The book intends to examine the potentials of various energy resources, including oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, and other ...
Redefining Prosperity
1st Edition
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By Isabelle Cassiers
April 27, 2017
Society today faces a difficult contradiction: we know exactly how the physical limits of our planet are being reached and exactly why we cannot go on as we have before – and yet, collectively, we seem unable to reach crucial decisions for our future in a timely way. This book argues that our ...
Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare
1st Edition
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By Max Koch, Oksana Mont
April 27, 2017
Welfare is commonly conceptualized in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing economies. While GDP, income growth and rising material standards of living are normally not questioned as priorities in welfare theories and policy making, there is growing ...
Beyond Reductionism: A Passion for Interdisciplinarity
1st Edition
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By Katharine Farrell, Tommaso Luzzati, Sybille van den Hove
March 29, 2017
This is a book about the work of scientists in the era of the Anthropocene: where human beings appear to have become a driving force in the evolution of the planet. It is a diverse collection of empirical, methodological and theoretical chapters concerned with the practice of interdisciplinary ...
Paving the Road to Sustainable Transport: Governance and innovation in low-carbon vehicles
1st Edition
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By Måns Nilsson, Karl Hillman, Annika Rickne, Thomas Magnusson
December 08, 2016
This book is about how societies around the world can accelerate innovation in sustainable transport. It examines the relationship between policy change and the development of technological innovations in low carbon vehicle technologies, including biofuels, hybrid-electric vehicles, electric ...
Socioeconomic and Environmental Impacts on Agriculture in the New Europe: Post-Communist Transition and Accession to the European Union
1st Edition
By Serban Scrieciu
December 08, 2016
This book looks at agriculture and the environment, placed within the dynamic context of post-communist societal change and entry into the European Union (EU). Scrieciu explores developments in eleven Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and argues for agriculture’s natural place in these ...
Environmental Finance and Development
1st Edition
By Sanja Tišma, Ana Maria Boromisa, Ana Pavičić Kaselj
November 10, 2016
This book focuses on environmental financing in the process of alignment with the EU. Based on comparative analysis of national environmental strategies and financial needs, and their links with strategic development documents in five selected countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, ...
The Appropriation of Ecological Space: Agrofuels, unequal exchange and environmental load displacements
1st Edition
By Kenneth Hermele
June 17, 2016
Although it is recognised that Thomas Robert Malthus was wrong when he posited a contradiction between population increase and agricultural growth, there are increasing signs that he could be proved right in the future. Perhaps Malthus was too late and too early in his prediction? He was too late...
Energy Security for the EU in the 21st Century: Markets, Geopolitics and Corridors
1st Edition
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By José María Marín Quemada, Javier García-Verdugo, Gonzalo Escribano
June 08, 2015
Recent developments like the rising trend in crude oil price, the international economic crisis, the civil revolts in Northern Africa and the Middle East, the nuclear threat in Japan after the tsunami, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the economic growth of emerging countries like China and ...
Green Industrial Policy in Emerging Countries
1st Edition
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By Anna Pegels
June 08, 2015
For decades, governments have tried to foster industrial competitiveness and economic growth. Many instruments are known to work, and many lessons have been learned. However, humanity is increasingly feeling the effects of natural resource depletion. The rate of this depletion is deeply ...