"Over the last thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of...

"For all too long, "environmentalism" has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the political left. This book, however, makes the case that markets, free enterprise, limited government, private property rights are a far better way of addressing ecological challenges than are our present institutions...

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...

Interest in biofuels began with oil shocks in the 1970’s, but the more rapid development and consumption of biofuel industry in recent years has been primarily driven by mandates, subsidies, climate change concerns, emissions targets and energy security. From 2004 to 2006, fuel ethanol grew by...

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...