Environmental decision-making, like economic decision-making, often involves trade-offs. Decision-makers need techniques with which to compare the costs and benefits involved. For some environmental problems, such as global warming, there are insuperable difficulties to making operational what...

BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE The need for a new economics -- PART TWO Putting people first -- 1 A FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE -- 'HUMAN-SCALE ECONOMICS: THE...

Ekins breaks new ground in defining the conditions of compatibility between economic growth and environmental sustainabilty, and provides measures and criteria by which the environmental sustainabilty of economic growth can be judged

Hydrogen could be a significant fuel of the future, with the potential to make a major contribution to the resolution of pressing social and environmental problems such as carbon emissions, energy security and local air pollution. This book, based on four years of detailed research, subjects the...