Biofuels: An Introduction of Market and Impacts -- Technologies, Production Costs, and Support Policies -- Biofuels and Global Food Crisis.-Impact on Land -- Biofuels and Poverty -- Oil Price and Biofuels -- Biofuels and Climate Change Mitigation -- Policies for Biofuels: Direct Subsidies to...

Introduction -- Characteristics of the Study Area -- Evaluation of Water Pollutant-Minimization Policies with Adopting Present Technology -- Analysis is Optimal Environmental Policies with Advanced Technologies for Effective Treatment of Stockbreeding Wastes -- Comprehensive Evaluation of...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Origins of CBA of Wter Use Conflicts -- 3 A Simple Cost-Benefit Rule -- 4 The Main Items in the Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 5 Towards Empirical Measurement of Externalities -- 6 Blueprint for a CBA -- 7 Concluding Remarks -- 8 References -- 9 Appendices -- Index

German economic history in the industrial age has classically formed an important basis for the study of economic growth and industrialisation more generally. This book aims to introduce English-language readers to modern German economic history based on a selection of work by one of Germany's...

This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly...

Die allgemeinen Rahmenbedingungen der Immobilien-Projektentwicklung im Veranstaltungsmanagement und ihre nachhaltigen stadtwirtschaftlichen Effekte -- Grundlegende Aspekte zur Immobilien- Projektentwicklung -- Wesentliche Aspekte zum Veranstaltungsmanagement -- Bedeutung und Umfeld nachhaltiger...

Die ökonomische Sicht der Dinge -- Marktversagen durch externe Effekte -- Das Coase Theorem -- Die Charakteristika von Umweltgütern -- Instrumente der Umweltpolitik -- Der Klimawandel als globales Umweltproblem -- Empirische Evidenz zur Bereitstellung öffentlicher Güter -- Übungsaufgaben.

This book provides insight into the implementation of Life Cycle approaches along the entire business value chain, supporting environmental, social and economic sustainability related to the development of industrial technologies, products, services and policies; and the development and...

This book offers 32 texts and case studies from across a wide range of business sectors around a managerial framework for Sustainable Business. The case studies are developed for and tested in executive education programmes at leading business schools. The book is based on the premise that the...