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Climate change and sustainable development : new challenges for poverty reduction
Opschoor, Johannes Baptist (contributor);  … - 2009
This unique book provides cutting-edge knowledge and analyses of the consequences that climate change will have for sustainable development and poverty reduction within the context of global development
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850833
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Towards sustainable development in industry? : reports from seven developing and transition economies
Hesp, Paul (contributor); Luken, Ralph Andrew (contributor) - 2003
Many developing and transition economies have not yet undertaken the policy integration measures needed to enhance the impact of industry on sustainable development. In this original and insightful book, national experts from Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850997
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Environmental taxation in China and Asia-Pacific : achieving environmental sustainability through fiscal policy
Kreiser, Lawrence A. (contributor) - 2011
Environmental Taxation in China and Asia-Pacific contains an integrated set of detailed chapters providing insights and analysis on how fiscal policy can be used to achieve environmental sustainability. Highly topical chapters include energy tax policy in China, environmental fiscal reform,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850794
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Towards a competitive, sustainable modern city
Kresl, Peter Karl (ed.) - 2020
Contents: Introduction -- PART I THE SUSTAINABLE CITY -- 1 Towards sustainable urban competitiveness? The role of organizing capacity and distributed leadership / Leo van den Berg and Luis Carvalho -- 2 The modern city and third places: new sources of sustainable entrepreneurs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416717
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Aggregate demand, inequality and instability
Ferri, Piero - 2016
1. Introduction -- Part I: basic concepts -- 2. Piketty's contribution -- 3. Measurement -- 4. Inequality and aggregate demand -- Part II: endogenous dynamics and instability -- 5. Aggregate demand, growth and instability -- 6. Wealth, public debt and instability -- 7. Recursive workhorses --...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419908
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Inequality and economic development : the modern perspective
Galor, Oded (contributor) - 2009
Recommended readings (Machine generated): A.B. Atkinson (1997), 'Bringing Income Distribution in from the Cold', Economic Journal, 107, March, 297-321 -- Oded Galor and Joseph Zeira (1993), 'Income Distribution and Macroeconomics', Review of Economic Studies, 60 (1), January, 35-52 -- Abhijit V....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852249
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Trade and environment : theory and policy in the context of EU enlargement and transition economic
Maxwell, John W. (contributor); Reuveny, Rafael (contributor) - 2005
The debate about how best to manage the interplay between trade, industrialization and the impacts of both on the global environment continues to rage, particularly in the context of the introduction and ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. This book deals with a number of important issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851189
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Managing pollution : economic valuation and environmental toxicology
Spash, Clive L. (contributor); McNally, Sandra (contributor) - 2001
1. Evaluating the impacts of pollution : an introduction and overview -- 2. Environmental toxicology and health risk … assessment in the United States : economic and policy issues -- 3. Calculating morbidity benefits from reducing air pollution : a … Spanish case study -- 4. Air pollution and agricultural crop damage : can Europe learn from the United States? -- 5. Monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851486
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Governing the environment : salient institutional issues
Breton, Albert (contributor) - 2009
This book examines how different countries define and address environmental issues, specifically in relation to intergovernmental relations: the creation of institutions, the assignment of powers, and the success of alternative solutions. It also investigates whether a systemic view of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851560
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Joint production and responsibility in ecological economics : on the foundations of environmental policy
Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2006
This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at how environmental problems emerge from economic activity and how they may be addressed in a responsible and sustainable manner. At its centre is the concept of joint production. This captures the phenomenon whereby several effects necessarily emerge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851862