Environmental and Agricultural Economics
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Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management
4th Edition
The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits against uncertain consequences. From reluctant-but-necessary calculations of the value of life, to quandaries over profits at the environment’s expense, the...
To Be Published September 24th 2013 by Routledge
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The Bioregional Economy
Land, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
In a world of climate change and declining oil supplies, what is the plan for the provisioning of resources? Green economists suggest a need to replace the globalised economy, and its extended supply chains, with a more ‘local’ economy. But what does this mean in more concrete terms? How large is a...
Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
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A New Blueprint for a Green Economy
Published in 1989, Blueprint for a Green Economy presented, for the first time, practical policy measures for 'greening' modern economies and putting them on a path to sustainable development. This new book, written by two of the Blueprint for a Green Economy authors, revisits and updates its main...
Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Planetary Economics
The Three Domains of Sustainable Energy Development
The oil shock, the credit crunch and the near-collapse of global climate negotiations demand a radical rethink of current policies. Michael Grubb and his co-authors present a path to tackling climate change that can also enhance international and energy security, and help global financial and...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Principles of Environmental Economics and Sustainability
An Integrated Economic and Ecological Approach, 3rd Edition
Recent years have witnessed considerable consolidation between the disciplines of environmental and ecological economics at research level, but until now textbooks in the area have done little to reflect this. Ahmed Hussen’s book is to date the only one to reconcile the two standpoints. The central...
Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Ecological Economics from the Ground Up
Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of internationally relevant topics, to teach the principles, concepts, methods and tools of these fields,...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Analyzing Global Environmental Issues
Theoretical and Experimental Applications and their Policy Implications
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
The existence of environmental dilemmas and political conflicts leads us to appreciate the need for individuals and groups to behave strategically in order to achieve their goals and maintain their wellbeing. Global issues such as climate change, resource depletion, and pollution, as well as...
Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
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Government and the Environment
The Role of the Modern State in the Face of Global Challenges
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
This book provides an inquiry into the economic role of government in the 21st century. Its focus is on direct collective (political) action and the design of good systems of incentives; both of which are needed to face the challenges of taking care of global public goods and externalities...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Oligopoly, the Environment and Natural Resources
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious. Following a long period of time where the profit incentives of firms have prevailed over preservation of the...
Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
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Entrepreneurship and Management in Forestry and Wood Processing
Principles of Business Economics and Management Processes
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
Forestry has long been in a rather favourable position in offering a valuable raw material source in high demand. However, with rapidly changing end-user demands and cost competitiveness within the forest and wood chain as a whole, the industry is needing to adapt. Explaining entrepreneurial action...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Complexity and Sustainability
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
Complex dynamic system studies have been studied explicitly in the natural sciences, and most only implicitly throughout other fields. Yet much great social theory and philosophy is in fact based in complexity, and important concepts like postmodernism, risk, and collapse all stem from complexity....
Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Waste Management in Spatial Environments
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
The increasing scarcity of land and the ever-rising amount of waste produced worldwide, coupled with the consequent change of focus by policy makers from waste disposal and recovery to waste prevention is boosting research in the 'economics of waste'. This volume addresses waste-management and...
Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Beyond Reductionism
A Passion for Interdisciplinarity
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
This is a book about the work of scientists in the era of the Anthropocene: where human beings appear to have become a driving force in the evolution of the planet. It is a diverse collection of empirical, methodological and theoretical chapters concerned with the practice of interdisciplinary...
Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Climate Economics
The State of the Art
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert...
Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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The Economic Value of Landscapes
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its...
Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
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Good Governance, Scale and Power
A Case Study of North Sea Fisheries
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
In recent years there have been several alarming predictions about the future of the planet’s fish stocks. As a result, many national governments and supranational institutions, including the European Union, have instituted reforms designed to mitigate the crisis. This book examines the discourse...
Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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Post-Kyoto Climate Governance
Confronting the Politics of Scale, Ideology and Knowledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
In the midst of human-induced global climate change, powerful industrialized nations and rapidly industrializing nations are still heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Even if we arrive at a Hubbert’s peak for oil extraction in the 21st century, the availability of technologically recoverable coal...
Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
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Agricultural Finance
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
This textbook integrates financial economics and management in the area of agricultural finance. The presentation of financial economics discusses how the credit needs of farmer/borrowers are met by depositors through commercial banks. The financial management content presents methods used to make...
Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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Food Economics
Industry and Markets
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
Food and food markets still enjoy a pivotal role in the world economy and the international food industry is moving towards greater consolidation and globalization, with increased vertical integration and changes to market structure. Companies grow bigger in order to obtain economies of scale and...
Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
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The World of Agricultural Economics
An Introduction
Series: Routledge Textbooks in Environmental and Agricultural Economics
This textbook takes a truly international approach towards agricultural economics, uniting many different perspectives on the subject and providing insight into agriculture in general, and into how practical farming works in particular. The book is laced throughout with real world examples and...
Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
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Principles of Agricultural Economics
This book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, natural resources and other sectors. The result is an agricultural economics textbook that provides students and instructors with a...
Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
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Environmental Management Accounting
Case Studies of South-East Asian Companies
Sustainable development will not happen without substantial contributions from and leading roles of companies and business organizations. This requires the provision of adequate information on corporate social and ecological impacts and performance. For the last decade, progress has been made in...
Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
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An Introduction to Ecological Economics, Second Edition
An Introduction to Ecological Economics, Second Edition is the definitive introduction to the field of ecological economics, which is concerned with extending and integrating the study and management of ecological as well as economic needs, sustaining both "nature's household" and "humankind's...
To Be Published February 28th 2014 by CRC Press
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Environmental Economics
An Integrated Approach
Rigorous, yet written in a way that facilitates understanding of sometimes difficult material, this book provides practical and working knowledge of how environmental policy analysis is conducted in the United States and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere. It details the tools required to conduct that...
To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by CRC Press
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Bankrupting Nature
Denying Our Planetary Boundaries
This powerful book shows us that we are in deep denial about the magnitude of the global environmental challenges and resource constraints facing the world. Despite growing scientific consensus on major environmental threats as well as resource depletion, societies are largely continuing with...
Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Environmental Commodities Markets and Emissions Trading
Towards a Low-Carbon Future
Market-based solutions to environmental problems offer great promise, but require complex public policies that take into account the many institutional factors necessary for the market to work and that guard against the social forces that can derail good public policies. Using insights about...
Published December 19th 2012 by RFF Press
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Food Policy and the Environmental Credit Crunch
From Soup to Nuts
The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending. This is certainly true from the perspective of food prices in the short run, but also from the perspective of sustainability and...
To Be Published September 18th 2013 by Routledge
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Food Policy in the United States
An Introduction
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
This book offers a broad introduction to food policies in the United States. Real-world controversies and debates motivate the book’s attention to economic principles, policy analysis, nutrition science and contemporary data sources. It assumes that the reader's concern is not just the economic...
Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
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Handbook of Forest Resource Economics
It is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem services, such as being sinks for greenhouse gases, hotspots of biodiversity, tourism and recreation. They are also vitally important in preventing soil...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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International Climate Finance
The book is the first to provide a complete overview of international climate finance. In the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, developed countries jointly committed to mobilize US$100 billion per year to address climate change in developing countries. The book presents the best information available...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Transferable Groundwater Rights
Integrating Hydrogeology, Law and Economics
Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
The principle of transferable groundwater rights is that by making water rights capable of being traded in the market, water resources can be used more sustainably and efficiently. Groundwater would achieve its economic value, by switching from the high volume-low value irrigation, which is...
Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity
International Experiences
Series: RFF Press Water Policy Series
Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it. In this book the role of water trading as an instrument of integrated water resources management is explored in depth. It is also shown to be...
Published November 18th 2012 by RFF Press
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Federalism of Wetlands
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
This book investigates the consequences of redundant state and federal environmental regulations in the United States. Drawing on the most exhaustive statistical analysis of US federal wetland permits ever constructed, the book uncovers the disjointed world of wetland regulation. The author starts...
Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
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The Political Economy of Global Warming
The Terminal Crisis
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the...
To Be Published August 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. There is great uncertainty regarding its future impacts on a planetary scale and the extent to which each eco-system and region will be affected. Although there has been much published on climate change mitigation policies,...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Water Tech
A Guide to Investment, Innovation and Business Opportunities in the Water Sector
This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water. It outlines how stakeholders can improve water use in their homes, their businesses, and the world. In particular, it focuses on the role of stakeholders in...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge