This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such a transition. Chapters explore the nature of the transformation from a ‘brown’ to ‘green’...

Introduction -- Sustainable Development and Global Climate Change -- Lean Production Philosophy -- The Precast Concrete Industry -- Modelling the Lean Production Philosophy -- Research Design and Methodology -- Applications in Precast Concrete Factories -- Case study of a Precast Concrete...

Climate change and its implications for consumers and policymakers, have been discussed extensively. Adrian Renner provides a unique perspective on how stockholders react if companies move towards a carbon-conscious future. A multi-country event study approach was used to analyze stock market...

This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes. Lo makes a case for understanding the policy change in terms of discourse and in relation to narratives of national power and development

1. Introduction to Emissions Trading -- 2. CO2 Price Fundamentals -- 3. Link With The Macroeconomy -- 4. The Clean Development Mechanism -- 5. Risk-Hedging Strategies And Portfolio Management -- 6. Advanced Topics: Time-To-Maturity and Modeling the Volatility of Carbon Prices -- Solutions -- Index

Novel pathway of regional economy development -- Pedigree of model technologies -- Greenhouse gas control -- Ecological capacity evaluation -- Regional economic prediction -- Energy structure optimization -- Land resource utilization -- Industrial structure adjustment -- Low carbon industrial...

This book explores the opportunities and barriers within the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) framework of the Paris Agreement for low-carbon technology diffusion. Further, it proposes appropriate and feasible mechanisms required at local, national and regional levels to...

Low Carbon Transportation.- Industrial Security under Low Carbon Development -- Workshop on Green Supply Chain Management -- Low Carbon Logistics -- Green Buildings -- Low-Carbon Technology And Low-Carbon Policy -- Low-Carbon Project Management -- Worshop on Low-Carbon Transportation and...