Welfare measurement in imperfect markets

a growth theoretical approach

This book cleverly integrates the research on welfare measurement and social accounting in imperfect market economies. In their previously acclaimed volume, Welfare Measurement, Sustainability and Green National Accounting, the authors focused on the external effects associated with environmental damage and analysed their role in the ...

The ecological economics of comsumption

Research on consumption from an environmental perspective has exploded since the late 1990s. This important new volume cuts across disciplines to present the latest research in the field. Contents: 1. The Place of Consumption in Ecological Economics Part I: Problematizing Consumption 2. Questionable Assumptions about ...

Sustainable consumption

the implications of changing infraestructures of provision

Sustainable Consumption is unique, not just in its inter-disciplinary and substantive subject matter (changing networks of utility consumption and production), but because it examines empirically the key theoretical debates underpinning the social sciences at the beginning of the 21st century. This book shifts the focus ...

The institutional economics of market-based climate policy

The objective of this book is to analyze the institutional barriers to implementing market-based climate policy, as well as to provide some opportunities to overcome them. The approach is that of institutional economics, with special emphasis on political transaction costs and path dependence. Instead of ...

Achieving a sustainable global energy system

identifying possibilities using long-term energy scenarios

Sustainable development and global climate change have figured prominently in scientific analysis and international policymaking since the early 1990s. This book formulates technology strategies that will lead to environmentally sustainable energy systems, based on an analysis of global climate change issues using the concept of ...

Participatory governance

This included a review of participatory budgeting in 25 cities; papers on the strengths and limitations of participatory governance in Costa Rica, Vietnam, Andhra Pradesh in India and Cebu in the Philippines; and governance innovations driven by federations formed by the urban poor in Cambodia ...

Urban transport and the environment

an international perspective

The damaging environmental impact of urban transport, as recognised by the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is a worsening global problem that needs to be tackled with local solutions. At the same time, urban transport has been causing serious local ...

Diet for a dead planet

how the food industry is killing us

Mad Cow disease, bird flu epidemics, tainted meat scandals, and Mercury-laced fish - we are evidently surrounded by unsafe food. In this riveting and timely investigation, award-winning journalist Christopher D. Cook takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to explain why our entire food system - from farm ...

Investigaciones en educación ambiental

de la conservación de la biodiversidad a la participación para la sostenibilidad

Economics of the environment

theory and policy

The book interprets nature and the environment as a scarce resource. It offers a theoretical study of the allocation problem and describes different policy approaches to the environmental problem. The entire spectrum of the allocation issue is studied: the use of the environment in a ...

Organizational change for corporate sustainability

A guide for leaders and c hange agents of the future

The future of oil as a energy resource

What is the future of oil as a primary source of energy? This question assumes paramount importance not only for the oil industry but also for oil-dependent economies, especially those in the Arabian Gulf region. Concerns about the diminishing prospects of oil arise from multiple ...

The economic dynamics of environmental law

In this book David Driesen shows in detail how the concept of economic dynamics can reshape thinking about environmental law and policy. He argues that environmental policymaking in the United States has been poorly served by the dominant, static view of the relationship between environmental ...

The wealth of nature

how mainstream economics has failed the environment

Explaining why neoclassical economic theory cannot account for the costs of doing business in a global environment, this text demonstrates that the central legitimating construct in neoclassical economics, Adam Smith's "invisible hand", is a product of 18th Century Deism

Anuario Fungesma del medio ambiente en España 2003

Aplicación en España de la Directiva europea Marco de Aguas

Construyamos un futuro sostenible

diálogos de supervivencia

Un vivir distinto

cómo el medio ambiente cambiará nuestra vida

Programa LIFE-medio ambiente de la Unión Europea

acciones financiadas en España

Los instrumentos económicos en la gestión del agua en la agricultura