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Wildfire Policy: Law and Economics Perspectives by Dean Lueck
RRP: €154.70€139.73During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflects the first-ever forum for law and economics... -
We Are the Economy: The Buddhist Way of Work, Consumption, and Money by Kai Romhardt
RRP: €19.03€11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946764584Author Kai RomhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax Press -
Big Data's Big Potential in Developing Economies: Impact on Agriculture, Health and Environmental Security by Dr. Nir Kshetri
RRP: €117.80€110.80Big data involves the use of sophisticated analytics to make decisions based on large-scale data inputs. It is set to transform agriculture, environmental protection and healthcare in developing countries. This book critically evaluates the developing... -
Financing Water Security and Green Growth by Robert C. Brears
RRP: €83.30€75.85Financing Water Security and Green Growth offers a comprehensive overview of the innovative financial instruments and approaches available to implement water security and green growth initiatives at various scales and in different contexts. Robert C... -
Entropy Law, Sustainability, and Third Industrial Revolution by Ramprasad Sengupta
RRP: €54.73€49.67In mankind's relentless quest for prosperity, Nature has suffered great damage. It has been treated as an inexhaustible reserve of resources. The indefinite scale of global expansion is still continued and now the earth's very survival is under threat... -
East Asian Economic Integration: A China-ASEAN Perspective by Wang Liqin
RRP: €77.35€63.08This book reviews and analyses East Asian economic integration by looking at China-ASEAN economic relations and the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA). The book explores the economic relations between China and ASEAN after the Cold War ended,... -
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth 9781603587969
RRP: €21.42€17.77A Financial Times "Best Book of 2017: Economics" 800-CEO-Read "Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs" Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides... -
Global Energy Fundamentals: Economics, Politics, and Technology by Simone Tagliapietra
RRP: €40.45€34.82This book provides a rigorous, concise guide to the current status and future prospects of the global energy system. As we move away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy solutions, the complexity of the global energy system has increased... -
Climate Economics: Economic Analysis of Climate, Climate Change and Climate Policy, Second Edition by Richard S.J. Tol 9781786435095
€49.24This unique textbook offers comprehensive coverage of the economics of climate change and climate policy, and is a suitable guide for advanced undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral students. Topics discussed include the costs and benefits of... -
A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy by Marian Radetzki
RRP: €36.88€31.86The dramatic price falls of 2014-2015 marked the end of the most powerful and enduring commodity boom since the Second World War. Now in its third edition, this book acts as a guide to the ins and outs of the primary commodity universe. Updates to this... -
Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive By Investing in Nature by Mark R. Tercek 9781610916950
RRP: €29.75€26.06In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also the smartest commercial investment any business or... -
Gaian Economics: Living Well Within Planetary Limits by Jonathan Dawson 9781856230568
RRP: €17.79€11.11Gaian Economics is the second volume in the Four Keys to Sustainable Communities series and sets out to explore how we can develop healthy and abundant societies in harmony with our finite planetary resources. Using contributions from a wealth of authors... -
The Political Economy of Soil Erosion in Developing Countries by Piers Blaikie
RRP: €39.26€36.33First published in 1985. This book examines wide variety of ways in which environmental deterioration, in particular soil erosion, can be viewed and the implicit political judgements that often inform them. Using the context of developing countries,... -
Ecological Economics: An Introduction by Michael S. Common
RRP: €70.20€62.40Taking as its starting point the interdependence of the economy and the natural environment, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of ecological economics. The authors, who have written extensively on the economics of... -
Economics Unmasked: From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good by Manfred Max-Neef
RRP: €17.84€13.65An inspiring outline of a new economics system, where justice, human dignity, compassion and reverence for life are the guiding values. The economic system under which we live not only forces the great majority of humankind to live their lives in... -
Green Gone Wrong: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Eco-Capitalism by Heather Rogers 9781844679010
RRP: €23.79€20.11Faced with climate change, many counsel "going green," encouraging us to buy organic food or a "clean" car, for example. But can we rely on consumerism to provide a solution to the very problems it has helped cause? Heather Rogers travels from Paraguay... -
The Politics of Permaculture by Terry Leahy
RRP: €22.60€18.22'Inspiring. [...] Crammed with lively interviews and grounded examples' Ashish Kothari, founder of Kalpavriksh Permaculture is an environmental movement that makes us reevaluate what it means to be sustainable. Through innovative agriculture and... -
From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady-State Economy by Herman E. Daly 9781783479962
RRP: €43.97€41.64This timely collection of essays is a magnificent testament to Daly's pioneering work over four decades. Armed with clear scientific principles and an unfailing logic, Daly sets out on an urgent quest to develop an economics fit for purpose on a finite... -
Integrating Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management: A Practitioner's Guide by Asian Development Bank 9789292695330
€28.91This guide explores the benefits of using nature-based solutions to promote sustainable and resource-efficient infrastructure.Nature-based solutions are interventions to protect, restore, and sustainably manage natural or modified ecosystems to support... -
Pricing Nature: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy by Nick Hanley 9781848444706
RRP: €42.78€41.64Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) is one of the most useful tools of applied economics for the social appraisal of public projects and government policies. Nick Hanley and Edward Barbier show how CBA can be applied to environmental policy choice and... -
Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World's Most Urgent Problems by Georgia Levenson Keohane
RRP: €29.75€23.34Despite social and economic advances around the world, poverty and disease persist, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change, natural disasters, political conflict, mass migration, and economic inequality. While governments commit to... -
Nature in the Balance: The Economics of Biodiversity by Dieter Helm 9780199676880
RRP: €58.30€50.10This book sets out the building blocks of an economic approach to biodiversity, and in particular brings together conceptual and empirical work on valuation, international agreements, the policy instruments, and the institutions. The objective is to... -
China's Engine of Environmental Collapse by Richard Smith
RRP: €26.17€20.93As the world hurtles towards environmental oblivion, China is leading the charge. The nation's CO2 emissions are more than twice those of the US with a GDP just two-thirds as large. China leads the world in renewable energy yet it is building new... -
Investing in a Changing Climate: Navigating Challenges and Opportunities by Ludovic Subran 9783031471711
RRP: €65.44€58.74Net Zero is not enough. We have dithered so long about climate change that, by now, we would need to go to negative-emissions territory, well before 2050, to keep global warming under the iconic 1.5 DegreesC target. The national commitments made so far... -
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet by Gernot Wagner
RRP: €19.03€15.39If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10... -
Circular Economies in an Unequal World: Waste, Renewal and the Effects of Global Circularity by Patrick O’Hare 9781350296633
RRP: €26.17€22.94This landmark first anthropological open access volume on the topic of 'circular economies' brings together a range of international scholars with regional specialisations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America to examine the concept's global... -
Who Owns the World: The Surprising Truth about Every Piece of Land on the Planet by President Kevin Cahill
RRP: €26.17€23.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780446581219Author President Kevin CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Warner Books IncPublisher Time Warner Trade PublishingWeight(grams)... -
ISE Environmental Economics by Barry Field
RRP: €77.34€72.08Environmental Economics is an introduction to the basic principles of environmental economics as they have been developed in the past and as they continue to evolve. The examples discussed in this text represent only a sample of the full range of issues... -
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by Mohammad Shamsudduha
RRP: €7.74€7.59Gaia: A New Look At Life on Earth may continue to divide opinion, but nobody can deny that the book offers a powerful insight into the creative thinking of its author, James E. Lovelock. Published in 1979, Gaia offered a radically new hypothesis: the... -
Transforming Energy Systems: Economics, Policies and Change by Steven Fries 9781035309078
RRP: €39.21€37.32Recognizing the urgent need to transform energy systems to low-carbon alternatives, this timely book offers evidenced and credible ways to accelerate actions towards meeting the Paris Agreement goals and achieving net zero emissions. Steven Fries... -
Greening the Global Economy by Robert Pollin
RRP: €26.18€19.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262028233Author Robert PollinFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 13mm -
The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics by Jon D Erickson
RRP: €30.94€27.04We live under the illusion of progress: as long as GDP is going up and prices stay low, we accept poverty and pollution as unfortunate but inevitable byproducts of a successful economy. In fact, the infallibility of the free market and the necessity of... -
Carbon Finance: A Risk Management View by Martin Hellmich
RRP: €107.10€86.37Mastering climate change has been recognised as a major challenge for the current decade. Besides the physical risks of climate change, the accompanying economic risks are substantial. Carbon Finance: A Risk Management View provides an in-depth analysis... -
Natural Resource Economics: Analysis, Theory, and Applications by Jon M. Conrad 9781108713375
RRP: €53.54€46.15Mathematical analysis is key to the modeling and management of natural resources. By presenting required mathematical methods, classic dynamic models for non-renewable and renewable resources, and by exploring several contemporary problems, this text... -
Killing Sustainability by Lawrence Michael Heim 9780692998564
RRP: €16.05€14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692998564Author Lawrence Michael HeimFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Lawrence HeimPublisher Lawrence HeimWeight(grams) 195g -
Managing without Growth, Second Edition: Slower by Design, not Disaster by Peter A. Victor
RRP: €48.73€46.45Ten years after the publication of the first edition of this influential book, the evidence is even stronger that human economies are overwhelming the regenerative capacity of the planet. This book explains why long-term economic growth is infeasible,... -
Smart Green Cities: Toward a Carbon Neutral World by Woodrow Clark II
RRP: €39.26€36.81Smart Green Cities: is a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable. Woodrow W. Clark II and Grant Cooke have produced a book that is both practical and visionary. They have examined the infrastructure needs -... -
Forest Economics by Professor Daowei Zhang
RRP: €58.31€50.22An indispensable resource for students and practitioners of forest management, natural resource conservation, and environmental studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774821537Author Professor Daowei ZhangFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint University of... -
The Wealth of Nature: How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment by Robert L. Nadeau 9780231127981
RRP: €65.45€50.15Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from... -
Responsibility Beyond Growth: A Case for Responsible Stagnation by Stevienna de Saille
RRP: €26.17€22.73Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this enlightening study sparks new debate on the role and nature of responsible innovation. Drawing on insights from economics, politics, and science and technology studies, it proposes the...