Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1 How Regional Financial Institutions Can Promote Regional Revitalization in Japan: Results from a 2017 Survey on Regional Finance -- Chapter 2 Current Situation and Challenges of Human Resources Management at...

Regional Intelligence is an emerging field that leverages the lessons learned through decades of regional science. By merging spatial analysis with quantitative analytical techniques in the Anthropocene, this book contributes to the multidisciplinary understanding of regional issues. The...

Introduction. The Western Balkans between continuity and change -- Territorial development and governance in the Western Balkans -- New European regionalism: Regional planning in the ex-Yugoslavian countries -- The challenge of public participation. Evidences from Albania and Kosovo -- The...

Part 1: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Climate Change Adaptation: An Overview -- Chapter 2: Defining Net-Zero and Climate Recommendations for Carbon Offsetting -- Part 2: Ecology and the Natural Environment -- Chapter 3: Green Infrastructure Mapping for Adaptation, Biodiversity, and Health and...

Part I: Climate Change challenge, CSR, ESG issues: the state of the art -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapater 2: Self-consciousness and awareness as adaptation enablers -- Chapter 3: Climate change challenges and the policy makers initial response -- Chapter 4: SRI, ESG and Value of...

1. Introduction to Biorights -- 2. Rights Based Approach in Conservation -- 3. Biorights of Commons -- 4. Biorights as a Financial Mechanism -- 5. Economics of Biorights -- 6. Biorights in Local Context -- 7. Biorights in the Climate Milieu -- 8. Biorights in Pandemic Crisis.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Ideological Trick of Climate Change and Sustainability -- 3. Words Count: the Role of Language in Overcoming Climate Inertia -- 4. Measuring Complex Socio-Economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues -- 5. Glaciers: Vanishing Elements of our Mountains and...

Climate Trading provides a comprehensive overview of the emerging greenhouse gas emissions trading markets. The book covers events in the UN climate negotiations and the development of the international emissions trading system under the Kyoto Protocol. The key focus of the book is the emerging...

Chapter 1: Two way association between agriculture and climate change -- Chapter 2: Prioritizing climate smart interventions across various agro-climatic region -- Chapter 3: Adoption of climate smart technologies in Indo-Gangetic Plain in South Asia -- Chapter 4: Role of Women in adoption of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Biophysical Context of the Economy -- 3. Simple Physical Model of Nature and Economy -- 4. Subsystem Model of the Economy -- 5. Rationale for an Economics of a Crowded Planet -- 6. Economic Orthodoxy and Emerging Pluralism -- 7. The Economics of Nature -- 8. Conventional...