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...

Profit-Driven Environmental Responsibility in Supply Chains: Motives -- Consumer Markets in Closed-Loop Supply Chains -- Market Behavior Torwards Remanufactured Products -- Assessing Consumers' Valuations of Socially Responsible Products with Controlled Experiments -- Profit-Driven Environmental...

Green Office -- Ökonomische und ökologische Potenziale nachhaltiger Arbeitsund Bürogestaltung -- Green Building -- Nachhaltiges Bauen und Bewirtschaften -- Nachhaltige Gebäudehüllen – Anforderungen und Lösungsansätze für Büros -- Beleuchtung von Büroumgebungen mit Tages- und...

Economic growth and globalisation create traffic growth, leading to congestion, which again increases travel times and costs. Road pricing is an instrument that may efficiently reduce the negative impacts. This volume is a collection of research papers on the use of road pricing. The focus is on...

Chemikalienregulierung und Innovationen zum nachhaltigen Wirtschaften — konzeptionelle Ansätze -- Einführung -- Der Einfluss umweltpolitischer Regulierung auf Innovationen -- Auf der Suche nach dem innovationsfördernden Politikmuster für die neue europäische Chemikalienpolitik -- Die...

It is widely acknowledged that, in addition to global and regional efforts to cope with climate change by means of mitigation measures, adaptation initiatives can and perhaps should play a key role in enabling communities from across Africa to better handle the problems related to it. Due to the...

1. Market Solutions for Climate Change -- 2. Energy Security in the Asia-Pacific Region -- 3. Asia’s Role in the Global Economic Architecture -- 4. Energy Economics in China’s Policy-Making Plan -- 5. The Economics of The Green Industrial Revolution -- 6. The Logic of Qualitative Business...

Optimal Economic Growth with an Environmental Constraint: The Problem of Optimal Endogenous Growth with Exhaustible Resources Revisited -- Optimal Pollution, Optimal Population, and Sustainability -- Optimal Proportions in Growth Trends of Resource Productivity -- Biodiversity, Abatement and...

Preface -- Part I: Methodologies and tools for environmental sustainability -- 1 Food for thought: seeking the essence of Industrial Symbiosis -- 2 LCA and linear programming for the environmental optimization of waste management systems: a simulation -- 3 Urban Metabolism: many open questions...

Current LCA methodologies employed to assess the intensity of environmental impacts lack a regional view, even though the sensitivity of the receiving environment is important in determining the specific levels of risks. This book seeks to redress the balance and develop a globally applicable,...