Appetite for fish continues to expand around the globe, despite the stagnant levels of capture fish production. What is the role that aquaculture can play in supplying the world with adequate animal protein? What lessons can be drawn from dynamic Asian aquaculture producers that might guide...

This 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report is the fourth in an annual series that provides a comprehensive overview of major food policy developments and events. In this report, distinguished researchers, policymakers, and practitioners review what happened in food policy in 2014 at the global,...

This book stems from work by the author published in Energy Economics, the International Journal of Exergy and follow-up working papers and a previous book Thermoeconomics. Topics covered include entropy processes in the world, a history of human development, the distribution of income, first...

This third edition of the book stems from work by the author published in Energy Economics, the International Journal of Exergy and follow-up working papers. Topics covered include the gas laws, the distribution of income, first and second laws of thermodynamics, economic processes, elasticity,...

Optimal choices of border tax adjustments (BTA) – tariffs or subsidies on imports and exports – are derived for a coalition of countries working cooperatively to abate greenhouse gas emissions, under an exogenous emissions reduction target. Under a domestic target, the optimal BTA is...

The US is currently the second biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world and one of the highest ranked countries in terms of per capita emissions. Along with other major economies, it will have to cut emissions much more sharply if the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)...