Globalization and technology

interdependence, innovation systems and industrial policy

Technology and globalization are interdependent processes. Globalization has a fundamental influence on the creation and diffusion of technology, which, in turn, affects the interdependence of firms and locations. This volume examines the international aspect of this interdependence at two levels. First, between locations, by examining ...

Economic models of climate change

a critique

The climate policy debate has been dominated by economic estimates of the costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the models used to derive those estimates are based on assumptions that have largely gone untested. The conventional approach embodies structural features that rule ...

The encyclopaedic of dictionary of environmental change

Environmental change has become a subject of major concern and has a wide and developing terminology. This comprehensive reference provides definitions and explanations of all the important environmental terms likely to be encountered in this field of study. These range from concise entries on basic ...

Energy systems and sustainability

power for a sustainable future

Today energy and sustainability are areas of primary concern. Energy Systems and Sustainability provides a thorough introduction to the economic, social, environmental and policy issues raised by current systems of energy use, as well as describing their key physical and engineering features. It will appeal ...

Globalization and environmental reform

the ecological globalization of global economy

Many writers either glorify globalization or vilify it, particularly for its destructive environmental effects. In this book environmental sociologist Arthur Mol provides a more balanced understanding of the relationship between globalization and environmental quality. Mol bases his arguments on his theory of ecological modernization, which ...

World water actions

making water flow for all

Population growth and increasing living standards are putting heavy pressure on water resources. Unsustainable patterns of consumption and production are degrading ecosystems and reducing their ability to provide essential goods and services to humankind. Reversing this threat and achieving sustainability requires an integrated approach to ...

Environmental and natural resource economics

The Sixth Edition of this best-selling text introduces students to a thorough study of environmental and natural resource economics. In continuing the trend toward a more international focus, Tietenberg pays increased attention to environmental problems and policies in Eastern and Western Europe, China, and developing ...

Économie de l'environnment

Marées noires, effet de serre, Tchernobyl, pluies acides, déforestation... Quelles sont les accusés de cette dégradation environnementale ? Que peut-on faire pour les empêcher ? Pourquoi le Honduras, qui est un petit pays avec peu de ressources forestières, exporte-t-il du bois vers les États-Unis, qui possèdent quelques-unes ...

Computers and the environment

understanding and managing their impacts

Personal computers have made life convenient in many ways, but what about their impacts on the environment due to production, use and disposal? Manufacturing computers requires prodigious quantities of fossil fuels, toxic chemicals and water. Rapid improvements in performance mean we often buy a new ...

Environmental economics and natural resource management

Environmental economics is well established as a field, and increasingly in demand as a course following the prominence of environmentally conscious leaders, the publicity of global environmental threats, and the growing debate over legislation that pits the environment against income and economic growth. Author David ...

Nature-based tourism, environment and land management

Tourism based on natural environments is a huge international industry and this industry needs access to land with scenery, native plants and wildlife. In turn, land managers need money to maintain their land and its natural resources. This book looks at the economic, social and ...

Risk and uncertainty in environmental and natural resource economics

This work explores some of the complexities of decision-making under risk and uncertainty in environmental and natural resource economics. Risk and uncertainty are inherent problems for economists, and the authors in this volume offer numerous challenges and opportunities to improve the tools we use to ...

Ciudad, gestión local y nuevos desafíos ambientales

reflexiones en torno a las políticas neoliberales y sus efectos sobre nuestros territorios

En las últimas décadas, las ciudades argentinas han manifestado un rápido aumento de la población como una notable expansión territorial. Esta producción #rápida# de ciudad, solo suelos productivos o no aptos, con ocupaciones ilegales o precarias, y sin mediación directa del Estado, ha devenido en ...

Does environmental policy work?

the theory and practice of outcomes assessment

At the beginning of the 21st century, a growing struggle has arisen between those who would like to repeal existing environmental policy and those who would like to see greater environmental protection. On both sides, however, many of the arguments remain grounded in ideology. This ...

The human sustainable city

challenges and perspectives from the habitat agenda

Five years after Habitat II culminated with the Istanbul agreement on Sustainable Urban Development, this book brings together leading experts in fields including architecture, urban planning, sociology and geography to assess the successes and failures in fulfilling the objectives decided upon.

Rio plus ten

politics, poverty and environment

Rio Plus Ten took place in South Africa in 2002. In this book, the authors revisit the agenda established in Rio ten years ago and cover the events of the intervening years: global warming and the unfolding of the arguments over climate change, GM crops ...

Aplicación de las técnicas de la ingeniería del conocimiento en el proceso de toma de decisiones empresariales en materia de gestión medioambiental

Mega-projects

the changing politics of urban public investment

Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention. In Mega-Projects, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff analyze the unprecedented wave of large-scale (mega-) public investments that occurred ...

Local partnerships for rural development

the european experience

This volume of papers has been developed from a report of the cross- national Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development in Europe research project. The research focused on the public and private sector rural development experience in Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Economic geography and public policy

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However ...