Chapter 1: Domestication and Localization of Sustainable Development Goals in Africa -- Chapter 2:Effect of Shea Fruit Sugar Content on Shea Butter Quality -- Chapter 3: Some Theoretical and Policy Issues and Green Economy -- Chapter 4: Climate Change and Rapidly Evolving Pests and Diseases in...

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...

The implementation of the circular economy will entail a major transformation from a resource-destroying, linear economy to a circular one that operates within the planet’s regenerative boundaries. This book presents an interim assessment of the implementation of a circular economy in the EU....

1. Introduction: Ghana’s Petroleum Industry in Transition -- 2. Examining Ghana’s New Exploration and Production Act and Other Legislative Developments -- 3. The Ghana-Cote-d’Ivoire Maritime Border Dispute and Transboundary Resource Management in the Gulf of Guinea -- 4. Upstream Petroleum...

This book rejects the idea that natural resource industries are doomed to slow growth. Rather, it examines the case of Norway to demonstrate that such industries can prove highly innovative and dynamic. Here, the case is compellingly made that a key empirical problem with the popular ‘resource...

1. Introduction to sustainable agriculture and agribusiness in Iran -- 2. Agricultural Risk Management Through Weather-based Insurance in Iran -- 3. Determining Conditional Value at Risk (CVaR) for Food Industry Companies’ Stocks Portfolios in the Tehran Stock Market -- 4. Assessing Climate...