This volume brings together leading climate change policy experts to set out the economic analysis and the nature of the negotiations at Copenhagen. It looks at the costs and benefits of climate change and policy responses in relation to the diverse perspectives of the US, China…
This volume brings together leading climate change policy experts to set out the economic analysis and the nature of the negotiations at Copenhagen. It looks at the costs and benefits of climate change and policy responses in relation to the diverse perspectives of the US, China…
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems. Many publications deal with economic issues relating to mitigation policies, but the economics of adaptation …
"New drilling techniques for oil and natural gas are propelling an energy production renaissance in the United States. As the US economy struggles to emerge from the Great Recession, many see the boom as a possible source of economic salvation that could reduce unemployment and …
"New drilling techniques for oil and natural gas are propelling an energy production renaissance in the United States. As the US economy struggles to emerge from the Great Recession, many see the boom as a possible source of economic salvation that could reduce unemployment and …
"'Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene' provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically -even fatally- on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed…
Drawing on historical and current data, this thought-provoking book summarises the pathways to the present predicament and maps out strategies to develop financial and economic systems for a sustainable world. The content is arranged in three parts addressing 'Stylised Market Eq…