Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Environmental Challenges and Governance: Diverse perspectives from Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sacchidananda Mukherjee, Debashis Chakraborty
April 13, 2017
The economies located in East, South and Southeast Asia have witnessed an interesting growth-sustainability trade-off over the last decades. While growth considerations have paved ways for deepened ties with growing trade-investment waves and increasing population pressure necessitated exploitation...
Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Fumikazu Yoshida, Akihisa Mori
April 13, 2017
The concept of green growth, coupled with one of green economy and low carbon development, is a global concern especially in the face of the multiple crises that the world has faced in recent years - climate, oil, food, and financial crises. In East Asia, this concept is regarded as the key in...
The Economics of Green Growth: New indicators for sustainable societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Shunsuke Managi
April 13, 2017
The Economics of Green Growth investigates the possibility of creating an integrated indicator covering three pillars of sustainable development: economy, society and the environment. The excessive pursuit of economic efficiency has resulted in severe environmental problems such as climate change ...
Beyond Reductionism: A Passion for Interdisciplinarity
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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 Marija 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...