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 ...

Urban transport and the environment

an international perspective

The damaging environmental impact of urban transport, as recognised by the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is a worsening global problem that needs to be tackled with local solutions. At the same time, urban transport has been causing serious local ...

Diet for a dead planet

how the food industry is killing us

Mad Cow disease, bird flu epidemics, tainted meat scandals, and Mercury-laced fish - we are evidently surrounded by unsafe food. In this riveting and timely investigation, award-winning journalist Christopher D. Cook takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to explain why our entire food system - from farm ...

Investigaciones en educación ambiental

de la conservación de la biodiversidad a la participación para la sostenibilidad

Economics of the environment

theory and policy

The book interprets nature and the environment as a scarce resource. It offers a theoretical study of the allocation problem and describes different policy approaches to the environmental problem. The entire spectrum of the allocation issue is studied: the use of the environment in a ...

Organizational change for corporate sustainability

A guide for leaders and c hange agents of the future

Anuario Fungesma del medio ambiente en España 2003

The future of oil as a energy resource

What is the future of oil as a primary source of energy? This question assumes paramount importance not only for the oil industry but also for oil-dependent economies, especially those in the Arabian Gulf region. Concerns about the diminishing prospects of oil arise from multiple ...