This book presents interdisciplinary approaches towards achieving regional sustainability. The relevance of interdisciplinary research and its consequences for economic research into the environment are elaborated, and new approaches are developed to integrate knowledge from ecological and...

Introduction -- A Market Approach -- Global Development and Climate Change: A Game Theory Approach -- On the Edge of Climate Change: In a Search of an Adequate Agent-Based Methodology to Model Environmental Dynamics -- Greenhouse Gas, Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth: Empirical...

This volume illustrates the relationship between environmental factors and economic development of countries from various angles. Global warming has become a problem that threatens the whole world, especially in recent years. It is known that the main reason for this is carbon emissions. On the...

The book focuses on the consequences of industrial mobility for optimal public policy. A theoretical framework is introduced: There are several locations with independent governments, industries differ in mobility, and there are local markets for some resources (for instance, labour). The...

The volume provides a thorough analytic treatment of recent environmental policy problems. All papers discuss these problems by a rigid economic analysis of these issues. The contributions of this volume discuss the double dividend hypothesis, the role of non-profit organisations for...

This book supplies a categorization of the manifold interlinkages between trade and environment. It investigates two central ones in detail. The trade regulatory is pursued on a theoretical as well as original paradigmatic basis. For an open economy unilaterally setting its environmental process...

Chapter 1 – Introduction -- Chapter 2 -Sustainable Growth, Welfare and Short-termism -- Chapter 3 - Non-Sustainable Growth, Resource Extraction, and Boom-Bust Cycles -- Chapter 4 - Fossil Fuel Resources, Environment and Climate Change -- Chapter 5 - Limits on the Extraction of Fossil Fuels,-...