Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability explores the critical issue of how taxes can be applied across relevant environmental areas – including transport, nuclear power, and water and waste management – to achieve sustainability. Containing topical chapters written by environmental...

"This book examines the economic and political aspects of green trading and energy use from a global perspective. It also highlights the issues related to carbon trading, carbon credit, diplomatic conflicts in implementing environmental policies, energy use and energy efficiency, and the impact...

Introduction: README -- All the Malthusian millennia -- Power over the earth : the industrial era -- Industrial errors -- Earth Day and its debates -- The dematerialization surprise -- Crib notes -- What causes dematerialization : markets and marvels -- Adam Smith said that : a few words about...

Diese Studie wurde für das Umweltbundesamt erstellt und soll darüber hinaus Anstöße für das vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung initiierte Projekt "Neue Techniken für den integrierten, medienübergreifenden Umweltschutz" liefern. Den Hintergrund für die Studie bildet die...