Book Search

1. The Green Fiscal Mechanism and Reform for Low Carbon Development

   East Asia and Europe

   Edited by Akihisa Mori, Paul Ekins, Soo-Cheol Lee, Stefan Speck, Kazuhiro Ueta

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   This book reviews how far East Asian nations have implemented green fiscal reform, and show how they can advance carbon-energy tax reform to realize low-carbon development, with special reference to European policy and experience. East Asian nations are learning European experiences to adopt them...

   To Be Published October 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Energy 2050

   Making the Transition to a Secure Low-Carbon Energy System

   By Jim Skea, Paul Ekins, Mark Winskel

   The United Kingdom is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least eighty per cent by 2050, a target that will only be achieved by transforming the way that energy is supplied and used. At the same time there are anxieties about the security of energy provision in terms...

   Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
3. Hydrogen Energy

   Economic and Social Challenges

   Edited by Paul Ekins

   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...

   Published March 28th 2010 by Routledge
4. Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment

   A Critical Look at Methods and Outcomes

   Edited by Paul Ekins, Tancrede Voituriez

   Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization. Trade sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) were introduced as a means of generating better understanding especially of the social and...

   Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
5. Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability

   The Prospects for Green Growth

   By Paul Ekins

   A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to protect vthe environment. At the heart of this has been the heated debate over the nature of the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Is environemental sustainability...

   Published November 24th 1999 by Routledge
6. Global Warming and Energy Demand

   Edited by Terry Barker, Paul Ekins, Nick Johnstone

   This book presents a range of current views on the use of economic measures to control greenhouse gas emissions. the authors discuss the responsiveness of the energy market to changes in prices, taxes and incomes. The book's concern with global warming involves analyses of possible energy use both...

   Published December 14th 1994 by Routledge
7. Real Life Economics

   Edited by Paul Ekins, Manfred Max-Neef

   The past fifty years have witnessed the triumph of an industrial development that has engendered great social and environmental costs. Conventional economics has too often either ignored these costs or failed to analyse them appropriately. This book constructs a framework within which the wider...

   Published July 15th 1992 by Routledge
8. A New World Order

   Grassroots Movements for Global Change

   By Paul Ekins

   Ekins combines a compendium of our planet's greatest ills with stirring, real-life examples of people breaking out of old moulds to become practical problem solvers....

   Published January 8th 1992 by Routledge
9. The Living Economy

   Edited by Paul Ekins

   Published September 17th 1986 by Routledge