"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...

"This book establishes a new set of platforms for intellectual discourse and identification of critical and strategic emerging issues, the formulation of cogent and useful policies, and practice recommendations"--Provided by publisher.