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...

Historische Entwicklung der Energiewirtschaft in Großbritannien -- Zielsetzung der zukünftigen Energie- und Umweltpolitik -- Künftige Entwicklungspfade der Stromwirtschaft -- Entwicklung der Kosten der Stromerzeugung und Großhandelspreise -- Auswirkungen auf den Umwelt- und Klimaschutz --...

Sustainable development, climate policy, biodiversity conservation - all these represent flash points at the intersection of environmental science, economics, and public policy. This volume offers a snapshot of environmental economic research on a range of policy-relevant problems. Academic...

Chapter 1: Overview -- Chapter 2: Ethics and Finance: The Unresolved Puzzle -- Chapter 3: Exploring the Role of Banks in Sustainable Development -- Chapter 4: Emerging Practices in Sustainable Banking -- Chapter 5: Sustainability in Banks: Emerging Trends -- Chapter 6: Being a Sustainable Bank:...

This book explains how income growth and better environmental qualities go hand in hand, and reviews the drivers and barriers to sustainable innovation on the basis of real-life cases. It discusses why innovation-based income growth reduces environmental impacts and how the huge global markets...

This study develops a new indicator for national and global sustainability. The main components of the EIIW-vita indicator are: the share of renewable energy, the genuine savings rate, and the relative "green export" position of the respective countries; it is in line with OECD requirements on...