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  • Economic Development, Agriculture and Climate Change

    by Antonio Yúnez-Naude, Jorge Mora-Rivera ...
    Series Book 15 - World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy
    Climate change (CC) is currently an unquestionable phenomenon. If not stopped, it will be catastrophic for life on earth. Scientific evidence shows that human activities are the primary driver of CC tendencies since the industrial times. In this book, we present the relationship between development and CC, with special reference to agriculture, the rural sector, and policies aimed to promote ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • The Informal Sector and the Environment

    Edited by Ranjula Bali Swain, Uma Kambhampati ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    The informal economy – broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation – sustains a large part of the world's workforce. It is a diverse, complex and growing area of activity. However, being largely unregulated, its impact on the environment has not been closely scrutinised or analysed.This edited volume demonstrates that the informal sector is a major ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Global Environmental Politics

    Problems, Policy and Practice

    by Hayley Stevenson ...
    Concern about humanity's impact on the planet has never been greater, but what are the drivers of environmental change? This wide-ranging introductory textbook outlines the competing explanations of why environmental problems occur and examines the different political approaches taken to address them. Adopting a case study approach, Hayley Stevenson enables students to gain a detailed ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Sustainable Development

    by Peter P. Rogers, Kazi F. Jalal, John A. Boyd ...
    This volume is the most comprehensive textbook on sustainable development. It has been developed with students and professionals from around the world specifically for those who need a thorough grounding in the subject. Coverage includes: background to sustainable development and global environmental issues; measurement and sustainability indicators; environmental assessment, management and policy ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Environmental Governance

    Institutions, Policies and Actions

    by Arild Vatn ...
    Environmental governance encompasses our relations to nature, spanning institutions and policies in fields such as biodiversity loss, climate change, land use and pollution. This book offers tools for the study of environmental conflicts, analyzes the current status of environmental policies and discusses why we are so far from resolving many of the issues we face. It also offers alternative ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Is Science Enough?

    Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice

    by Aviva Chomsky ...
    Series Book 9 - Myths Made in America
    Why social, racial, and economic justice are just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastropheWe are facing a climate catastrophe. A plethora of studies describe the damage we’ve already done, the droughts, the wildfires, the super-storms, the melting glaciers, the heat waves, and the displaced people fleeing lands that are becoming uninhabitable. Many people ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Escape from Overshoot

    Economics for a Planet in Peril

    by Peter A. Victor ...
    An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.—Jason Hickel, author, Less is MoreEarth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and stretching inequality and injustice to the breaking point. But does it really need to be this way? And if not, what are the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Is the Planet Full?

    Edited by Ian Goldin ...
    What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Gender and Climate Change Financing

    Coming out of the margin

    by Mariama Williams ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication.Gender ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Economics of Climate Change

    The Stern Review

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this challenge. The Stern Review is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic ... Read more

    $122.99 USD

  • Green Growth

    Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives

    Edited by Gareth Dale, Manu V. Mathai, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira ...
    The discourse of 'green growth' has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model.But the green growth project is deeply ... Read more

    $32.99 USD