Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
Post-Kyoto Climate Governance: Confronting the Politics of Scale, Ideology and Knowledge
1st Edition
By Asim Zia
May 21, 2015
In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Even if we arrive at a Hubbert’s peak for oil extraction in the 21st century, the availability of technologically recoverable coal ...
Climate Economics: The State of the Art
1st Edition
By Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth Stanton
February 27, 2015
Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert...
Good Governance, Scale and Power: A Case Study of North Sea Fisheries
1st Edition
By Liza Griffin
February 27, 2015
In recent years there have been several alarming predictions about the future of the planet’s fish stocks. As a result, many national governments and supranational institutions, including the European Union, have instituted reforms designed to mitigate the crisis. This book examines the discourse ...
Waste Management in Spatial Environments
1st Edition
Edited
By Alessio D'Amato, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini
February 27, 2015
The increasing scarcity of land and the ever-rising amount of waste produced worldwide, coupled with the consequent change of focus by policy makers from waste disposal and recovery to waste prevention is boosting research in the 'economics of waste'. This volume addresses waste-management and ...
Complexity and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Jennifer Wells
July 17, 2014
Complex dynamic system studies have been studied explicitly in the natural sciences, and most only implicitly throughout other fields. Yet much great social theory and philosophy is in fact based in complexity, and important concepts like postmodernism, risk, and collapse all stem from complexity. ...
Creating a Sustainable Economy: An Institutional and Evolutionary Approach to Environmental Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerardo Marletto
July 03, 2014
This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers – or just curious readers – who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an ...
Hybrid Economic-Environmental Accounts
1st Edition
Edited
By Valeria Costantini, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini
June 19, 2014
National Accounting Matrices of Environmental Accounts (NAMEA) tables are used to analyze a range of environmental pressures and economic data resulting from consumption and production patterns – helping us gain a far better notion of the consequences of individuals’, households’ and firms’ actions...
The Economic Value of Landscapes
1st Edition
Edited
By C. Martijn van der Heide, Wim Heijman
June 19, 2014
This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its ...
From Bioeconomics to Degrowth: Georgescu-Roegen's 'New Economics' in Eight Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Mauro Bonaiuti, Nicolas Georgescu-Roegen
May 30, 2014
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's (1906-94) most original contribution is his bioeconomic theory. Based on a profound rethinking of the foundations of neoclassical economics, bioeconomics represents a completely new paradigm compared to both the standard and the Marxist approach. Opening economics to ...
The Metabolic Pattern of Societies: Where Economists Fall Short
1st Edition
By Mario Giampietro, Kozo Mayumi, Alevgül Sorman
May 30, 2014
It is increasingly evident that the conventional scientific approach to economic processes and related sustainability issues is seriously flawed. No economist predicted the current planetary crisis even though the world has now undergone five severe recessions primed by dramatic increases in the ...
Economic Theory and Sustainable Development: What Can We Preserve for Future Generations?
1st Edition
By Vincent Martinet
May 16, 2014
Is development sustainable? When addressing the sustainability issue, decision-makers are faced with two challenges: taking into account conflicting issues, such as economic development and environmental preservation, while also ensuring intergenerational equity. Tackling these challenges amounts ...
The Business Case for Sustainable Finance
1st Edition
Edited
By Iveta Cherneva
May 16, 2014
This edited volume brings together finance industry perspectives from top global institutions, which focus on the bottom line for integrating ESG factors into the operations of the finance industry. Executives and senior practitioners answer the question: 'does following sustainable finance ...