1.Introduction -- 2. National State of Environment Reporting (SoER) -- 3. Integrating environmental targets into government strategy and fiscal policy -- 4. The environmental impacts of fiscal policies -- 5. The fiscal impacts of environmental degradation -- 6. Green budgeting -- 7....

Climate scientists have determined that we must act now to prevent an irreversible and catastrophic climatic tipping point, beyond which neither our own nor many other species can be assumed likely to survive. On the way to that bleak ending, moreover, extreme socio-economic injustice and...

Chapter 1-Creative economy, degrowth and limitation -- Chapter 2-Towards a new paradigm of the creative city or the same devil in disguise? culture-led urban (re)development and sustainability -- Chapter 3-Creative industries and the crisis of social reproduction -- Chapter 4-Re-thinking the...

1. Introduction -- 2. Crop and Livestock Production Responses to Rainfall and Temperature Variation in West Africa -- 3. Agriculture and Food Security in West Africa: Assessing the Feasibility of Realizing the UN SDG 2 -- 4. Improving Agricultural Production and Farm Management Practices and its...

1. An Overview of the Sustainability-Financial Risk Nexus -- 2. The Impact of Climate Change on the Banking and Insurance Industries -- 3. The Transition to a Low-carbon Economy and Stranded Assets -- 4. Sustainability-related Risks, Risk Management Frameworks and Financial Disclosure -- 5....

Chapter 1 “Introduction” by Herbert Dawid and Jasmina Arifovic -- Chapter 2. “Cross-bidding in eBay-like Environments” by Francisco Alvarez and Marcello Sartarelli -- Chapter 3. “Risk–Reward Ratio Optimisation (Revisited)” by Manfred Gilli and Enrico Schumann -- Chapter 4....

Vorwort: Warum wir ein Bewusstsein für Dringlichkeit brauchen -- I: Der Klimawandel: Einfluss auf Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft -- II: Klimawandel der Generationen -- III: Unternehmerische Nachhaltigkeit - aus der Praxis für die Praxis -- IV: Ökonomie und Nachhaltigkeit - Management und...

This book presents essential insights on environmental policy derived from behavioral economics. The authors demonstrate the potential of behavioral economics to drive environmental protection and to generate concrete proposals for the efficient design of policy instruments. Moreover, detailed...