Las áreas litorales de España

del análisis geográfico a la gestión integrada

El objetivo principal de este libro es ofrecer una visión detallada sobre la planificación y gestión del litoral en España.La estructura del contenido viene definida por tres partes bien diferenciadas.La primera de ellas está dedicada a realizar un análisis general del litroal.La ...

Logística inversa y medio ambiente

aspectos estratégicos y operativos

La preocupación por el medio ambiente ha pasado de ser minoritaria a extenderse de una manera notable: prensa, políticos, organizaciones sociales, todos se hacen eco de las voces autorizadas de científicos que, desde hace años, han venido alertando sobre la degradación acelerada que estamos provocando ...

Medio ambiente y fiscalidad autonómica

Medio Ambiente y Fiscalidad Autonómica, es un libro imprescindible para el profesional y el académico. Muestra de manera concisa y rigurosa los elementos esenciales de las configuraciones tributarias ambientales que han puesto en marcha por parte de las distintas Comunidades desde el año 1981 hasta ...

Domestic wastewater treatment in developing countries

Affordable and effective domestic wastewater treatment is a critical issue in public health and disease prevention around the world, but particularly so in developing countries, which often lack the financial and technical resources necessary for proper treatment facilities. This practical guide provides state-of-the-art coverage of ...

Guía española para la utilización de los mecanismos basados en proyectos del Protocolo de Kioto

Eco-Finance

the legal design and regulation of market-based environmental instruments

Market-based environmental instruments are the most creative of the many initiatives devised to combat air and water pollution and promote biodiversity. Among these, none has attracted more attention than the burgeoning trade in environmental allowances and credits. Originally developed in the United States around 1990 ...

Sustainable development and innovation in the energy sector

Almost every energy scenario assumes an enormous growth in the demand for energy in the coming decades. Meanwhile, at international conferences and other venues, the primary concern is massive reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, especially of the CO2 produced by fossil-fuel energy consumption. Experts also ...

The business of global environmental governance

The Business of Global Environmental Governance takes a political economy approach to understanding the role of business in global environmental politics. The book's contributors -- from a range of disciplines including international political economy, management, and political science -- view the evolution of international environmental governance ...

Business, government and sustainable development

Keijzers provides a concise and authoritative introduction to the evolution of the collaborative stakeholder approach to sustainable development in the context of changing environmental policies. The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of ...

Earth system analysis for sustainability

Earth System Analysis for Sustainability uses an integrated systems approach to provide a panoramic view of planetary dynamics since the inception of life some four billion years ago and to identify principles for responsible management of the global environment in the future. Perceiving our planet ...

Beyond Kyoto

a new global climate certificate system: continuing Kyoto Commitments or a global'Cap and trade'scheme for a sustainable climate policy?

This balanced analysis presents news from the #climate-protection front#. On the down-side, neither the current 'Kyoto-Protocol' Climate Protection System with (legally binding) commitments by major countries to reduce or limit their greenhouse gas emissions nor various proposals for improving the commitment system are capable of ...

Alternatives for environmental valuation

ÍNDICE: 1. Exploring alternatives for environmental valuation CLIVE L. SPASH, SIGRID STAGL AND MICHAEL GETZNER PART ONE: Extending the environmental valuation approach 2. A framework for valuing nature: regional biodiversity MICHAEL GETZNER 3. Non-use values and attitudes: wetlands threatened by climate change JÜRGEN MEYERHOFF 4 ...

The environment encyclopedia and directory 2005

Examining environmental issues throughout the world, this reference title contains thorough definitions and explanations of terms relating to the environment. The volume includes detailed maps, an extensive bibliography and a Who's Who section, making this an essential one-stop reference work for anyone interested in ...

The ecological economics of comsumption

Research on consumption from an environmental perspective has exploded since the late 1990s. This important new volume cuts across disciplines to present the latest research in the field. Contents: 1. The Place of Consumption in Ecological Economics Part I: Problematizing Consumption 2. Questionable Assumptions about ...

Game practice and the environment

Game theory is one of the most powerful tools that economists can use to deal with complex economic and policy problems. At the same time, environmental issues are at the heart of many domestic and international policy processes, where interactions among different stakeholders play a ...

The institutional economics of market-based climate policy

The objective of this book is to analyze the institutional barriers to implementing market-based climate policy, as well as to provide some opportunities to overcome them. The approach is that of institutional economics, with special emphasis on political transaction costs and path dependence. Instead of ...

Welfare measurement in imperfect markets

a growth theoretical approach

This book cleverly integrates the research on welfare measurement and social accounting in imperfect market economies. In their previously acclaimed volume, Welfare Measurement, Sustainability and Green National Accounting, the authors focused on the external effects associated with environmental damage and analysed their role in the ...

Participatory governance

This included a review of participatory budgeting in 25 cities; papers on the strengths and limitations of participatory governance in Costa Rica, Vietnam, Andhra Pradesh in India and Cebu in the Philippines; and governance innovations driven by federations formed by the urban poor in Cambodia ...

Sustainable consumption

the implications of changing infraestructures of provision

Sustainable Consumption is unique, not just in its inter-disciplinary and substantive subject matter (changing networks of utility consumption and production), but because it examines empirically the key theoretical debates underpinning the social sciences at the beginning of the 21st century. This book shifts the focus ...

Achieving a sustainable global energy system

identifying possibilities using long-term energy scenarios

Sustainable development and global climate change have figured prominently in scientific analysis and international policymaking since the early 1990s. This book formulates technology strategies that will lead to environmentally sustainable energy systems, based on an analysis of global climate change issues using the concept of ...