Intro -- Content -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- Abstract -- Background -- Conclusion and recommendation -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.2 Objectives -- PART I: Overview of Economic Instruments 2006-2009 -- 2. Introduction -- 2.1 Scope -- 2.2 Economic instruments considered -- 3....

Intro -- Content -- Preface -- Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Background and motivation -- 1.2 Objectives of the report -- 1.3 The Nordic approach to chemicals regulation -- 1.4 Scope and definitions -- 1.5 Approach and outline of the report -- 2. The political economy of environmental...

How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, with no growth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to.

Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically—even fatally—on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to environmental...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: The Death of the Huai River -- Chapter Two: A Legacy of Exploitation -- Chapter Three: The Economic Explosion and Its Environmental Cost -- Chapter Four: The Challenge of Greening China -- Chapter Five: The New Politics of the Environment --...

A compilation of definitions, terms, and critical commentary on aspects of sustainable development and environmental policy, with a strong emphasis on policy tools, policy practices, and systems of international environmental governance

This book connects Georgescu-Roegen's earlier work such as consumer choice theory and a critique of Leontief's dynamic model, with his later ambitious attempt to reformulate the economic process as 'bioeconomics'

This book is written in accordance with the syllabus prescribed by HPU for Environmental Studies for engineering students. Various means can be adopted for creating mass awareness about the importance of conserving the environment. Making Environment Education as an compulsory subject can be a...