Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
Energy Security for the EU in the 21st Century: Markets, Geopolitics and Corridors
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Şorman
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 ...