Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of energy risks, energy scenarios and energy policies with special reference to the European Union and its member states, emphasizing the economic and geopolitical dimensions of energy security.

In the past decade, the growing realization that biodiversity and human wellbeing are inextricably linked has led to the adoption of numerous environmental policies. The concept of the Green Economy has gained particular attention as an economic system where growth is possible within environmental limits. The preservation of ecosystem services and the halt of biodiversity loss are identified as key pillars of the Green Economy. This book establishes ways to assess biodiversity¿s contributions to the economy and to meaningfully integrate biodiversity concerns in green-economy policies.

Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is using it, thus underlining the potential problems involved in experts from different fields teaming up to tackle sustainability problems. This book shows how sustainability is understood by academics and professionals alike.

Exploring one indigenous society and how they managed to live sustainably with their ecosystems for over two thousand years, this book shows how human systems connect environmental ethics and sustainable ecological practices through institutions.

Investigates environmental indicators accounting for indirect emissions (as embodied in international trade) within the framework of input-output analysis. This book introduces an indicator of environmental responsibility derived from upstream emissions embodied in final demand and downstream emissions embodied in primary inputs.

Environmental education is an important part of all human education. Its aim is to help develop peoples' ability to recognize themselves and their world, and to encounter nature. This book intends to provide a comprehensive view on problems pertaining to the relationship between humans and nature, without limit to any one particular discipline.

Increasing scarcity of land and the consequential strengthening of policy targets pertaining to waste disposal, recovery and generation, has generated a need for empirical analyses that will aid policy effectiveness, while taking into account the relevance of specific regional features and the impact of a comprehensive set of socio-economic drivers. New strands of microeconomic and macroeconomic analyses inspired by the Environmental Kuznets curve literature have emerged during the past years, enlarging the previously heavy managerial focus to bring in wider economic considerations, and complementing the historically stronger literature on the valuation of waste related externalities. The book aims to provide guidelines for policymakers in gathering contributions of both a theoretical and empirical nature that cover and address waste management and disposal issues, embedding them in spatial, systemic and trade related frameworks.

Intends to establish links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. This book is suitable for postgraduates and researchers in Environmental and Ecological Economics.

This book takes a deeper look at the multifaceted aspects of poverty in Asia, identifying the many factors that drive growth, using in-depth research on Asian countries and economies where growth has been more inclusive of the poor.

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.

Explores good governance by using the case of European Union fisheries management. This title also tests some of the seldom questioned assumptions and axioms that are contained within governance theory, and policy documents about the forms and processes that policymaking under the so-called 'turn to governance' now takes.