This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system. Drawing on methods from engineering, the management sciences and economics, which it...

Eco-innovations are crucial for reducing the environmental damages arising from economic activities, and are one of the main drivers of a successful transition towards sustainable development and remedying essential climate change problems. This book provides an overview of recent advances in...

Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the return on investment as...

This book explains why the climate change crisis is a symptom of a much larger underlying problem - namely, humankind’s predilection with continuous GDP-growth. Given this starting point, the world’s high-income nations must begin the transition to a qualitatively-improving steady-state...

Vorwort -- Part A: Neue Geschäftsmodelle, Transformationen und Zukunftsentwürfe -- Part B: Herausforderungen aus der Sicht verschiedener Akteure -- Part C: Energieeffizienz, Smart Metering und intelligente Gebäude -- Part D: Transformation der Netze zu Smart Grids -- Part E: Smart Cities und...

Problemstellung und Ziel der Untersuchung -- Stand der Forschung: ein Literaturüberblick -- Forschungsleitende Hypothesen und Wirkungsmodell -- Fallstudien -- Telefonische Breitenbefragung -- Schlussfolgerungen und Handlungsempfehlungen.

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...

This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools,...

This book investigates the socio-economic impacts of Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific region. The authors put forward a strategy and action plans that can enhance the capacity of government agencies and non-governmental organizations to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. The needs...