This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European trading system of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...

John Kenneth Galbraith famously argued that many of the health problems faced by modern advanced economies were a result of increased consumption, ushered in by the large corporation. Although attracting a degree of attention and notoriety around the time of publication, Galbraith's analysis of...

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...

This paper presents a new approach to modeling, analyzing, and solving a class of environmental control problems dealing with sediment deposition. An efficient dynamic programming algorithm is designed to handle the spatial characteristics of soil movement through a watershed, and its ultimate...

The objectives of the policy on organic farming, the strategies of the policy are explained here.