Environmental economics Books

Book SynopsisEconomic issues arise in almost every water policy context. Water is of most concern when scarce, but physical scarcity is often overcome as human beings move water from place to place, sometimes creating monumental structures. The roles that cost and economic value play in water resource allocation are implicit, but often poorly understood. This second edition clarifies the role of economics and offers material that can be applied to water resource allocation problems around the world. Topics covered include: groundwater, floods and droughts, in situ uses of water, and institutions and law. New to the book is an exploration of water issues outside the United States as well as a new application of behavioral and experimental economics to the topic.A concise introduction to issues of water quality and quantity in both urban and agricultural settings, Water Resource Economics and Policy will be a valuable resource or text for students and researchers in the fields of agricultural economics, geography, law, and hydrology. Those involved in water resource agencies and private utilities will also find the book a useful reference.Acclaim for the first edition:'This textbook is written for first-year graduate students and senior level undergraduates in economics. ... Graduate students in geography, water resources, and environmental management should also be interested. The well-done helpful diagrams and charts are those expected for a textbook in economics at this level. In every chapter many interesting real-world examples illustrate the concept being discussed. Some chapters have easy-to-read case studies set off from the text. ... I plan on keeping this excellent book as a shelf reference and would willingly adopt it for a class in water resource economics.' - Donald E. Agthe, Journal of the American Water Resources Association'This is a much-needed book, which introduces the interested reader to the economics of water resource allocation, and analyzes relevant policy issues derived from all over the world. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first book which is focused on communicating the basic economic concepts that govern water resources allocation. ... The lively writing style of W. Douglass Shaw, which is enriched with excellent examples and case studies from various countries, makes this book an obvious choice for a textbook in relevant courses ... this excellent book should be a compulsory reading for all of us who work in the field of water resources management.' - Phoebe Koundouri, Ecological EconomicsTrade ReviewAcclaim for the first edition:‘This textbook is written for first-year graduate students and senior level undergraduates in economics. . . Graduate students in geography, water resources, and environmental management should also be interested. The well-done helpful diagrams and charts are those expected for a textbook in economics at this level. In every chapter many interesting real-world examples illustrate the concept being discussed. Some chapters have easy-to-read case studies set off from the text. . . I plan on keeping this excellent book as a shelf reference and would willingly adopt it for a class in water resource economics.’ -- Donald E. Agthe, Journal of the American Water Resources Association‘This is a much-needed book, which introduces the interested reader to the economics of water resource allocation, and analyzes relevant policy issues derived from all over the world. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first book which is focused on communicating the basic economic concepts that govern water resources allocation. . . The lively writing style of W. Douglass Shaw, which is enriched with excellent examples and case studies from various countries, makes this book an obvious choice for a textbook in relevant courses. . . this excellent book should be compulsory reading for all of us who work in the field of water resources management.’ -- Phoebe Koundouri, Ecological EconomicsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to water resources, water law, and water resource economics 2. Review of basic microeconomics applied to water resources 3. Water quality issues 4. Water prices and rates for residential use 5. Water and agriculture 6. Uncertainty, risk, and water resources 7. Groundwater 8. In situ uses of water: recreational and environmental values 9. Floods, droughts, and the role of dams 10. Water issues outside the United States 11. Experimental and behavioral economics and water 12. Summary, conclusions, and suggestions for future research Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Dictionary brings together an extensive range of definitive terms in ecological economics. Assembling contributions from distinguished scholars, it provides an intellectual map to this evolving subject ranging from the practical to the philosophical. Following an insightful review of the intellectual and organisational origins of this topic by Joan Martínez-Alier, over 1,100 terms are thoroughly defined with their meanings and uses in ecological economics explained. In addition, most of the terms include recommendations for further reading to provide greater context and understanding, alongside citations to allow for further illustration on how a term is used in the field. Encompassing a broad overview of the field, this Dictionary will be a useful reference for students at all levels, alongside faculty and researchers. It will also be an informative resource for government and NGO professionals in environmental conservation to better understand the crucial vocabulary that governs their field.Trade Review‘The Dictionary of Ecological Economics will prove essential to living in the Anthropocene. The words we use and how we use them affect how we engage with nature and each other. Using more systemic words and giving systemic meaning to old words is essential for the survival of people and other species.’ -- Richard B. Norgaard, University of California, Berkeley, US‘In the age of Google do we really need a dictionary of anything, much less ecological economics? The answer is Yes! If you need consistent, citable definitions from an authoritative source for your next journal article or just to satisfy your curiosity, this is the place to go.’ -- Robert Costanza, University College London, UK

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses present-day landscapes, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity as legacies of the past. It implements an interdisciplinary approach to understand how natural or human-impacted ecological systems have changed over time.Historical Ecology combines theory, methods, regional case studies and syntheses to provide a complete up-to-date overview of historical ecology. Beginning with the crucial role of time and inference from observed patterns, the book critically reviews the main methodological approaches, including monitoring of permanent plots, analysis of old maps, repeat photography, remote sensing, soil analysis, charcoal analysis, botanical indicators, and combinations of these methods applied to forest ecosystems.A series of case studies from various biomes shows how historical ecology can help in understanding today’s socio-ecosystems, such as mainland and island forests, orchards, tundra and coastal dunes. The book concludes by showing how historical ecology can answer timely fundamental research questions and provide science-based evidence for landscape and ecosystem management.Table of ContentsChapter 1 A General Introduction to Historical Ecology 1Guillaume DECOCQ 1.1 The roots of historical ecology 2 1.2 A multidisciplinary approach of socio-ecosystems 3 1.3 Recent trends in historical ecology 4 1.4 The way forward 6 1.5 References 7 Chapter 2 Historical Resurveys Reveal Causes of Long-term Ecological Change 11Donald M WALLER 2.1 Serious ecological changes are pervasive 11 2.2 Anthropogenic drivers of ecological change 12 2.2.1 The missing baseline problem 12 2.2.2 Ecological communities are complex 13 2.3 Kinds of ecological change 14 2.3.1 Natural community dynamics 14 2.3.2 Anthropogenic drivers of ecological change 14 2.4 Understanding the forces driving ecological change 18 2.4.1 Natural experiments 18 2.4.2 Metrics of change 19 2.4.3 Can functional traits reveal drivers of change? 19 2.4.4 Vectors of change – ordination 20 2.5 Conclusion 22 2.6 References 22 Chapter 3 Getting the Right Answer Can Take a While: Long-term Ecological Field Studies as Historical Ecology 27Frank S GILLIAM 3.1 Introduction 27 3.2 Fernow Experimental Forest 29 3.2.1 Background 29 3.2.2 Site description 30 3.2.3 Field design 30 3.3 Long-term studies at Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia 32 3.3.1 Effects of acidification on soil fertility and herb layer cover and foliar nutrients 32 3.3.2 Effects of N addition on soil N dynamics 34 3.3.3 Effects of N addition on herb layer composition and diversity 35 3.3.4 The N homogeneity hypothesis 37 3.3.5 A look at the future: declines in the atmospheric deposition of N 40 3.4 Conclusion 40 3.5 References 41 Chapter 4 Gaps and Cracks in Land Cover Mapping for Historical Ecology 45Francesca Di PIETRO, Roger COLY, Clémence CHAUDRON, Samuel LETURCQ 4.1 Introduction 45 4.2 Three main steps of past land cover mapping 46 4.3 Land cover in the 19th century: the old cadasters 47 4.4 Land cover in the 20th century: aerial photographs 50 4.5 Present land cover: modern databases 52 4.6 From different sources to one land cover typology 53 4.7 Conclusion 55 4.8 References 55 Chapter 5 The Use of Repeat Photography in African Historical Ecology 57Michael Timm HOFFMAN and Rick F ROHDE 5.1 Repeat photography as an emerging tool in African historical ecology 57 5.2 Repeat photography and landscape change in Africa 58 5.2.1 Early contributions 58 5.2.2 Ethiopia 58 5.2.3 Southern Africa 59 5.3 Long-term change in plant populations as revealed by repeat photography 62 5.4 Strengths and limitations 64 5.5 Future directions 65 5.6 References 66 Chapter 6 Remote Sensing for Historical Ecology 71Pierre-Alexis HERRAULT and David SHEEREN 6.1 Introduction 71 6.2 Landscape spatio-temporal changes as a proxy of biodiversity 72 6.3 Mapping landscapes at different dates 73 6.3.1 Airborne laser scanning data 73 6.3.2 Historical maps 74 6.3.3 Old aerial photographs 75 6.3.4 Satellite images 76 6.4 Modeling the effects of spatio-temporal changes on present-day biodiversity 77 6.4.1 Structural spatio-temporal metrics 77 6.4.2 Functional spatio-temporal metrics 79 6.5 References 81 Chapter 7 Soil Archives: Where Soilscape History Meets Present-day Ecosystems 85Boris BRASSEUR, Damien ERTLEN and Vincent ROBIN 7.1 Introduction 85 7.2 Mechanisms of soil archiving and the associated dynamics 86 7.2.1 Pedoturbations of biological and physical origins 86 7.2.2 Eluviation–Illuviation 86 7.2.3 Anthropogenic factors 88 7.2.4 Effects of geomorphological processes on soil archives 88 7.3 Examples of soil archives and their influence on current ecosystems 90 7.3.1 Chemical archives, witnesses of progressive soil transformations 90 7.3.2 Physical archives: reading the soil pit profile and microtopographic features 92 7.3.3 Soil organic matter 93 7.3.4 Botanical remains 94 7.4 Conclusion 95 7.5 References 95 Chapter 8 Continuous and Nested Time in Historical Ecology: Application to Soil Studies 99Damien ERTLEN 8.1 Interdisciplinarity and time in historical ecology 99 8.2 Continuous time 100 8.3 Nested time 102 8.4 Different disciplines, different tools 103 8.5 Examples of nested and continuous time: soils and strata 105 8.6 Conclusion 107 8.7 References 108 Chapter 9 The Analysis of Relic Charcoal Kilns for the Assessment of Forest Trajectories 111Vincent ROBIN, Alexa DUFRAISSE and Claudia OLIVEIRA 9.1 Introduction 111 9.2 Looking at the platform of the kiln 112 9.2.1 Looking at the dimensions of the kiln platforms 112 9.2.2 Platform inventory 113 9.3 Looking at the charcoal pieces 115 9.3.1 Sampling 115 9.3.2 Taxonomic identification 115 9.3.3 Dendro-anthracology 117 9.4 Looking at the ages 117 9.5 Conclusion 119 9.6 References 119 Chapter 10 Ancient Trees and Botanical Indicators as Evidence for Change and Continuity in Landscape Evolution 123Ian D ROTHERHAM 10.1 Introduction 123 10.2 What is ancient woodland? Questions of woods versus old-growth forest, and of continuity versus antiquity 124 10.3 The value of ancient woods 124 10.4 Methodology 125 10.4.1 Evidencing ancient woodlands and the use of indicators 125 10.4.2 Tree form and growth as evidence of antiquity and continuity 128 10.4.3 The importance of ancient and veteran trees in woodland 129 10.4.4 Soils and sediments 130 10.5 An emerging woodland paradigm 131 10.6 A simple new conceptual framework 131 10.7 Conclusion 133 10.8 References 133 Chapter 11 Towards a Methodological Framework for Investigating the Hidden History of Woodland Covers 135Damien MARAGE, Catherine FRUCHART, Isabelle JOUFFROY-BAPICOT, Olivier GIRARDCLOS, Vincent BALLAND 11.1 Why talk about hidden history when studying forest vegetation? 135 11.2 From recent forests: a synecological point of view 136 11.3 From the walls: ancient documents and maps 136 11.4 From the wood: dendrochronology 139 11.5 From the ground: palynology 140 11.6 From the air: LiDAR 142 11.7 Discussion 143 11.8 References 146 Chapter 12 The Gate to the Forest is in its History 151Keith J KIRBY 12.1 Introduction 151 12.2 The ancient woodland idea 152 12.3 Legacies of woodland management 153 12.4 Seeing the trees, not the woods 154 12.5 Exploring the distant past 155 12.6 Trees and woods from the past to the future 157 12.7 References 158 Chapter 13 Plant Assemblages and Ecosystem Functioning, a Legacy of Long-term Interactions with Large Herbivores 163Christophe BALTZINGER and Anders MÅRELL 13.1 Introduction 163 13.2 Large herbivores are ecosystem dominant interactors 164 13.2.1 Large herbivores as ecosystem engineers 164 13.2.2 Large herbivores and plant assemblages 166 13.3 Long-term effects and methodological changes 167 13.3.1 Paleoecological records 167 13.3.2 Modern data 167 13.4 Plant–herbivore interactions over the long-term 168 13.4.1 Quaternary communities of large herbivores and associated flora 168 13.4.2 The forest in the early Holocene 169 13.5 Modern vegetation trajectories driven by large herbivores 170 13.5.1 Herbivory effects 170 13.5.2 Temporal trajectories 170 13.6 Perspectives, rewilding and ecosystem restoration 172 13.7 References 173 Chapter 14 A Historical Ecology of the Compiègne Forest (N France) 177Jérôme BURIDANT, Boris BRASSEUR, Hélène HOREN, Emilie GALLET-MORON and Guillaume DECOCQ 14.1 Introduction 177 14.2 The ancient forest: an intensively managed agricultural landscape? 178 14.3 The Medieval forest: a woodland (re)birth or a savanna-like ecosystem? 184 14.4 The contemporary forest (19th century onward): a closed-canopy multifunctional woodland 188 14.5 Conclusion 190 14.6 References 191 Chapter 15 The Chestnut Orchards in the Bolognese Apennines: A Vanishing Socio-ecological Habitat 195Giovanna PEZZI, Fabrizio FERRETTI, Alberto MALTONI, Patrik KREBS, Marco CONEDERA and Giorgio MARESI 15.1 Introduction 195 15.2 The traditional chestnut orchards 197 15.3 The chestnut groves of the Bolognese Apennines 198 15.4 A changing world: abandonment, diseases and other problems 199 15.5 The turning point of the 1980s 199 15.6 Current constraints and future perspectives 200 15.7 References 203 Chapter 16 Claudius’ Coin in the Forest – Niche Construction and Strategies by Early Colonizers of Boreal Inlands in Central Scandinavia 207Ove ERIKSSON and Karl-Johan LINDHOLM 16.1 Introduction 207 16.2 Concepts and theoretical framework 210 16.3 A historical overview of the colonization 211 16.4 A structured landscape 212 16.4.1 Constructing the environment 212 16.4.2 Managing livestock 213 16.4.3 Shielings (secondary farms) 214 16.5 Concluding remarks 216 16.6 References 217 Chapter 17 Recent History of Vegetation Changes in the Arctic 221Antoine BECKER-SCARPITTA, Bastien PARISY and Tomas ROSLIN 17.1 Introduction 221 17.2 The Arctic tundra biome 222 17.3 The Arctic historical ecological archive 222 17.3.1 Remote sensing over time 223 17.3.2 Field-based records 223 17.4 Changes over time in tundra vegetation 225 17.4.1 Changes in vegetation productivity 225 17.4.2 Changes in vegetation phenology 226 17.4.3 Changes in plant community structure, composition and diversity 227 17.5 Synthesis and perspectives 229 17.6 References 230 Chapter 18 Reconstructing the Impact of Humans on Aotearoa New Zealand’s Biodiversity 233Nicolas J RAWLENCE, Alexander J.F VERRY, Karen GREIG, Justin J MAXWELL, Lara D SHEPHERD and Richard WALTER 18.1 Introduction 233 18.2 Archaeological evidence for anthropogenic impact in New Zealand 234 18.3 Paleovegetation change in pre- and post-European contact New Zealand 237 18.4 Utilizing Aotearoa’s natural resources: Māori cultivation and translocation of flora and fauna 239 18.5 Evolutionary consequences of Polynesian and European arrival 240 18.6 Conclusion 243 18.7 References 243 Chapter 19 Historical Ecology of the Coastal Aeolian Sedimentary Systems of the Canary Islands 247Aarón Moisés SANTANA-CORDERO, Antonio Ignacio HERNÁNDEZ-CORDERO, Néstor MARRERO-RODRÍGUEZ, Leví GARCÍA-ROMERO, Elisabet FERNÁNDEZ-CABRERA, Carolina PEÑA-ALONSO, Emma PÉREZ-CHACÓN ESPINO and Luis HERNÁNDEZ-CALVENTO 19.1 Introduction 247 19.2 Study sites 248 19.3 Historical evolution of the coastal aeolian sedimentary systems of the Canary Islands 251 19.3.1 19th century: territorial consolidation and spread of the agrarian socioeconomic system 252 19.3.2 20th century to the present day: the tourism transformation 253 19.4 Conclusion 255 19.5 References 256 Chapter 20 Historical Forest Microclimates 259Emiel DE LOMBAERDE, Karen DE PAUW, Pallieter DE SMEDT, Jonathan LENOIR, Camille MEEUSSEN, Thomas VANNESTE, Kris VERHEYEN, Florian ZELLWEGER and Pieter DE FRENNE 20.1 Drivers of microclimate at the plot, forest and landscape scale 261 20.2 Methods to infer microclimate from the past and predict into the future 265 20.3 Why do historical microclimates matter? Impacts on biodiversity from the plot to landscape scale 268 20.4 Conclusion 270 20.5 References 270 Chapter 21 Causes and Consequences of Extinction Debts: Perspectives for Historical Ecology and Biological Conservation 273Grégoire BLANCHARD and François MUNOZ 21.1 Introduction 273 21.2 Causes and processes entailing extinction debts 274 21.3 Studying and detecting extinction debts from ecosystem history 276 21.4 Implications for biodiversity conservation and management 280 21.5 Conclusion 281 21.6 References 282 Chapter 22 Historical Ecology for the Past and the Future: Organizing at Local and Regional Scales 285Carole L CRUMLEY 22.1 Introduction 285 22.2 Founding IHOPE 286 22.3 Integrating the social sciences and humanities 287 22.4 Historical ecology 288 22.5 Conclusion 290 22.6 References 291 List of Authors 295 Index 301

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Book SynopsisPresenting critical insights on how economic activity is constrained by the environment's ability to provide material and energy resources, this timely Research Agenda explores how humanity shapes, and is shaped by, environmental change and sustainability challenges. Chapters highlight how, under these constraints, people may seek to improve their lives and standards of living without undermining the abilities of others to do so now or in the future. With contributions from top economic scholars, as well as from a range of other disciplines including ethics, law, and the physical and life sciences, this book explores how interdisciplinary insights can be integrated to provide meaningful investment and policy advice. Offering diverse understandings of the topic from both the Global North and South, this Research Agenda challenges previous economic conceptualizations of human-environment interactions, exploring resource use and environmental impact from micro- and macro-economic perspectives. Students of environmental and ecological economics will find this to be a thought-provoking and stimulating read. The suggestions for future research and use of clear case studies will also prove valuable for environmental law and ethics scholars, as well as environmental policy-makers. Contributors include: D.C. Andersen, Y. Bramoullé, L.P. Breckenridge, M. Faber, M. Frick, A. Kander, R. Kemp, D. Malghan, R.B. Norgaard, C. Orset, S.V. Ramani, M. Ruth, J. Sager, M. Sagoff, M.R. Sers, D.I. Stern, D.J. Thampapillai, E. van Leeuwen, M.d.M.R. Varas, P.A. VictorTrade Review'An insightful collection of articles identifying major areas in which ecological economics is resuscitating the moribund orthodoxy of ''economics as usual''.' --Herman Daly, University of Maryland, College Park, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Roads Less Traveled Matthias Ruth, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2. Environmental Economics is Dead! Long Live Environmental Economics! Mark Sagoff, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA 3. Conceptual and political foundations for examining the interaction between nature and economy Malte Faber and Martin Frick, University of Heidelberg, Germany 4. Ends, Means, and the Economics of Environment Deepak Malghan, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India 5. Ecosystems, Legal Systems, and Governance: An Institutional Perspective Lee P. Breckenridge, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6. Macroeconomics and the Environment Martin R. Sers and Peter A. Victor, York University, Canada 7. Contemporary Economics and Contradictions for Climate Maladies: Lessons from Environmental Macroeconomics Dodo J. Thampapillai, National University of Singapore, Singapore, and Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and Matthias Ruth, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 8. Energy Intensity: The Roles of Rebound, Capital Stocks, and Trade Astrid Kander, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, M. d. Mar Rubio Varas, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and David I. Stern, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 9. Place-based behavior and environmental policies Eveline van Leeuwen, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 10. New Ways of Valuing Ecosystem Services: Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Value of Urban Green Spaces Christian Krekel, London School of Economics, London, England and Jens Kolbe, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany 11. Are Household Borrowing Constraints Bad for the Environment? Theory and Cross-Country Evidence Dana C. Andersen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 12. Manufacturing Doubt: How Firms Exploit Scientific Uncertainty to Shape Regulation Yann Bramoullé, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France and Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France, and Caroline Orset, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France 13. Solution design through a stakeholder process as a new perspective for Environmental Economics with illustrations from Indian case studies René Kemp and Shyama V. Ramani, UNU-MERIT and ICIS, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands 14. Optimizing the Reversal of Life: A Coevolutionary Response Jalel Sager and Richard B. Norgaard, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Index

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Book SynopsisClimate disruption, overpopulation, biodiversity loss, the threats of financial collapse, large-scale damage to our natural and social environments and eroding democracy are all becoming critically important concerns. The editors of this timely book assert that these problems are not separate, but all stem from our overreliance on an out-dated approach to economics that puts growth of production and consumption above all else. Ecological economics can help create the future that most people want - a future that is prosperous, just, equitable and sustainable. This forward-thinking book lays out an alternative approach that places the sustainable wellbeing of humans and the rest of nature as the overarching goal. Each of the book s chapters, written by a diverse collection of scholars and practitioners, outlines a research and action agenda for how this future can look and possible actions for its realization. Sustainable Wellbeing Futures will be of value to academics and students researching environmental and ecological economics, as well as individuals interested in gaining a greater understanding of the concept of a wellbeing future and how we might act to achieve it. Contributors include: M. Abrams, J. Adams, G. Alperovitz, J. Ament, D. Baker, L. Barbeiri, D. Barmes, S. Bliss, R. Boumans, K. Brevik, P. Brown, M. Burke, B.S. Caniglia, C. Carmichael, J.C. Castilla-Rho, R. Costanza, A. Damiano, T. Dietz, E.M.B. Doran, B. Dube, M. Egler, J.D. Erickson, S.C. Farber, J. Farley, L. Fioramonti, M.-J.V. Fox, K. Gallagher, T. Gladkikh, R.K. Gould, J. Gourevitch, J. Gowdy, C. Guay-Boutet, M. Hensher, R.B. Howarth, T. Jackson, X. Ji, D.C. Kenny, K. Kish, C. Koliba, J. Kolodinsky, N. Kosoy, I. Kubiszewski, M.T. Lucas, V. Luzadis, D. Markowitz, S. Marshall, J. McGlade, M. Moser, S. O'Hara, C. Orr, P. Perez, K. Pickett, S. Posner, S. Quilley, T.H. Ricketts, A.B. Schneider, D. Spethmann, R. Svartzman, S. Telle, K. Trebeck, J. Valcour, M. Venkatesan, P.A. Victor, A. Voinov, S. Wallis, R. Wilkinson, G. Yahya Haage, Y. Yoshida, E. Zencey, A. Zia Trade Review'There is no way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals without a systemic approach to economic, environmental and social policies. This is why this is one of the most comprehensive, advanced and useful books I have ever seen to address the huge challenges humanity faces in the XXI Century. This book is a ''must'' for policy makers and analysts, for academic and applied economists and statisticians, as well as for modellers to provide innovative answers to questions coming from the unsustainability of our socio-economic systems.' --Enrico Giovannini, University of Rome ''Tor Vergata'', Italy'Ecological Economics has given us the vision of an economy in service to sustainable wellbeing for over three decades. This essential volume combines the best ideas from the leaders in the field with the thinking of young emerging scholars to set forth the research and action needed to make a finer future a reality.' --Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism Solutions, US'This book beautifully demonstrates that ecological economics, now grown beyond its teenage years, has plenty more to say about human wellbeing and sustainability than the obsolete bodies of knowledge it is replacing. By recognizing our ecological context, it becomes possible to find solutions that serve human wellbeing that can last. This book is the living proof that ecological economics has the power to guide us to a better future.' --Mathis Wackernagel, Global Footprint NetworkTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Jacqueline McGlade xii Preface xv In memoriam: Eric Zencey 1953–2019 xvii 1 Introduction: what is ecological economics and why do we need it now more than ever 1 Robert Costanza, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, and Ida Kubiszewski PART I THE FUTURE WE WANT 2 Creating positive futures for humanity on earth 17 Robert Costanza, Elizabeth M. B. Doran, Tatiana Gladkikh, Ida Kubiszewski, Valerie A. Luzadis, and Eric Zencey 3 Work, labour, and regenerative production 27 Kaitlin Kish and Stephen Quilley 4 The role of technology in achieving the future we want 45 Stewart Wallis, Lindsay Barbieri, Alice Damiano, and Matthew Burke 5 Ecological economics in China: from origins, to inertia, to rejuvenation 61 Xi Ji 6 Taking evolution seriously: the role of ecological economics in escaping the Anthropocene and reaching for the Ecozoic 90 Peter G. Brown and John Gowdy PART II MEASURING AND ACHIEVING WELLBEING 7 Frameworks and systems thinking for measuring and achieving sustainable wellbeing 103 Elizabeth M. B. Doran, Lindsay Barbieri, Ida Kubiszewski, Kate Pickett, Thomas Dietz, Michael Abrams, Richard Wilkinson, Robert Costanza, Stephen C. Farber, and Jeannine Valcour 8 How ecosystem services research can advance ecological economics principles 127 Rachelle K. Gould, Taylor H. Ricketts, Richard B. Howarth, Svenja Telle, Tatiana Gladkikh, Stephen Posner, Jesse Gourevitch, and Yuki Yoshida 9 Wellbeing in the more-than-human world 151 Kristian Brevik, John Adams, Benjamin Dube, Lindsay Barbieri, and Gabriel Yahya Haage 10 From measurement to application: wellbeing indicators in socio-ecological systems 167 Kati Gallagher, Michael Moser, Mairi-Jane V. Fox, and Jane Kolodinsky 11 The struggle for equality and sustainability 179 Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett 12 Human health and ecological economics 188 Martin Hensher PART III THE INSTITUTIONS WE REQUIRE 13 Cultural evolution, multi-level selection, and institutions for cooperation 210 Joshua Farley, John Gowdy, and Stephen Marshall 14 Moral and ethical foundations for ecological economics 229 Dan Spethmann and Valerie A. Luzadis 15 Governing for sustainable development: rethinking governance and ecological economics 243 Christopher Koliba, Megan Egler, and Stephen Posner 16 Money, interest rates and accumulation on a finite planet: revisiting the ‘monetary growth imperative’ through institutionalist approaches 266 Romain Svartzman, Joseph Ament, David Barmes, Jon D. Erickson, Joshua Farley, Charles Guay-Boutet, and Nicolas Kosoy 17 The nature and role of business in an ecological economy 284 Mairi-Jane V. Fox, Abigail B. Schneider, Marilyn T. Lucas, and Beth Schaefer Caniglia 18 Principles of stakeholder engagement for ecological economics 300 Madhavi Venkatesan, Jon D. Erickson, and Christine Carmichael PART IV INTEGRATED, DYNAMIC ANALYSIS AND MODELLING OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 19 Integrated ecological economic modeling: what is it good for? 316 Alexey Voinov, Pascal Perez, Juan Carlos Castilla-Rho, and Daniel C. Kenny 20 Designing participatory decision support systems: towards meta-decision making analytics in the next generation of ecological economics 342 Asim Zia and Roel Boumans 21 A research agenda for ecological macroeconomics 357 Peter A. Victor and Tim Jackson PART V MAKING THE TRANSITION 22 Local economies: leading the way to an ecological economy 374 Sabine O’Hara and Daniel Baker 23 Systemic design and systemic crisis in the United States: the pluralist Commonwealth 386 Gar Alperovitz and Joseph Ament 24 Creating a Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) to motivate and facilitate the transition 399 Robert Costanza, Lorenzo Fioramonti, Ida Kubiszewski, Deborah Markowitz, Christopher Orr, Katherine Trebeck, and Stewart Wallis PART VI SURVEYS OF THE LARGER COMMUNITY ABOUT THE RESEARCH AGENDA 25 Ecological economic goals from emerging scholars 409 Kaitlin Kish and Sam Bliss 26 Assessing ecological economics at 30: results from a survey of ISEE members 427 Benjamin Dube Index 445

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook draws together insightful analyses of natural resource management challenges and solutions in the face of sustainable development targets and a changing global climate. Expert contributors illustrate the ways in which resource- and region-specific challenges shape national and global strategies, exploring the institutional aspects of resource management and their implications for policy making. They consider the economic, legal, environmental, social, financial and technological dimensions of resource management, consolidating interdisciplinary knowledge and setting the agenda for future research. Advancing scientific knowledge in the field, the Handbook offers a roadmap for well-informed policy making, highlighting the uncertainties and risks associated with climate change, energy and sustainability transition, and the need for a forward-looking approach to resource management. Assembling state-of-the-art contributions to provide a clearer understanding of the transformative policy developments ahead, this Handbook is crucial reading for academics and researchers of resource management, public policy, sustainability, energy transition, climate change and environmental studies. It also offers critical empirical insights for policy makers and practitioners developing innovative strategies to meet sustainability targets.Trade Review‘This book contains excellent insights into the management of natural resources in the face of climate and sustainable development targets in many different parts of the world. A must for practitioners and researchers.’ -- Rick van der Ploeg, University of Oxford, UK‘The Handbook of Sustainable Politics and Economics of Natural Resources covers a wide range of topics associated with the management of non-renewable resources. The thread connecting the various research paths explored by the authors is the belief that lessons learned from experience alone are not a good enough compass to guide policy making in today’s deeply interconnected and fast changing economy. The importance of tailoring policy making to local circumstances and the type of non-renewable resource is emphasized throughout the book, and its implications are discussed with regard to the path and speed of energy transition policies in resource-rich countries. A good read that successfully puts non-renewable resource policies in context with other important economic and social imperatives.’ -- Silvana Tordo, The World Bank, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xxii 1 In quest of sustainable politics and economics of natural resources: a summary of contributions and future research directions 1 Stella Tsani and Indra Overland PART I RESOURCE SPECIFICS AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR POLICY MAKING 2 Natural resources and economic development 15 Wee Chian Koh 3 Renewable energy transition, demand for metals and resource curse effects 30 André Månberger 4 Local and global aspects of coal in the ASEAN countries 45 Haakon Fossum Sagbakken, Aidai Isataeva, Indra Overland, Aloysius Damar Pranadi, Beni Suryadi and Roman Vakulchuk 5 Policies and socio-economic tools for sustainable water management 64 Stella Tsani, Stella Apostolaki and Phoebe Koundouri 6 Inflated expectations and commodity prices: evidence from Kazakhstan 76 Victoire Girard, Alma Kudebayeva and Gerhard Toews PART II REGIONAL RESOURCE POLITICS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLICIES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 7 Energy transition, resources and climate change investment policy in the EU 95 Matthias Busse, Oliver Dreute, Vladimir Isaila and Lúcio Vinhas de Souza 8 Climate change policies and resource abundance: the case of Russia 107 Igor Makarov 9 Green policies and sustainable development in Saudi Arabia 123 Stella Tsani and Sarah Najm 10 How ambitious can the Israeli Green Deal be? 136 Ruslana Rachel Palatnik, Ayelet Davidovitch, Volker Krey, Nathan Sussman, Keywan Riahi and Matthew Gidden 11 Powering the uplands: controversies of developing hydropower in upstream Central and Mainland Southeast Asia 153 Stefanos Xenarios, Murodbek Laldjebaev, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt, Joost Buurman and Eduardo Araral 12 Small-scale mining, rural resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa 187 Gavin Hilson, Titus Sauerwein and Matondo Estrela Garcia Cardoso 13 Natural resource policies for future sustainability in the African continent 207 Roula Inglesi-Lotz PART III INSTITUTIONS AND RESOURCE POLICIES 14 Corruption, resource policies and economic growth 220 Heli Arminen, Tiia-Lotta Pekkanen and Jorma Sappinen 15 Local content policies and institutional capacity for sustainable resource management 232 Yelena Kalyuzhnova 16 Success and failures of sovereign wealth funds: on the macroeconomic performance, time-varying objectives and first liquidations of sovereign wealth funds 244 Jean-François Carpantier and Wessel N. Vermeulen 17 Fiscal policy, macroeconomic volatility and the role of institutions under resource abundance 263 Leonor Coutinho and Stella Tsani 18 Legal indicators as tools to assess the effectiveness of international rules related to the sustainable management of natural resources 293 Emmanuella Doussis and Ilaria Espa 19 Resource conservation and environmental ethics: a theoretical framework supported by panel data 303 Fabio Zagonari PART IV CHANGE AND UNCERTAINTY IN RESOURCE POLICIES 20 Stranded assets and the financial system 322 Andreas A. Papandreou 21 Energy modeling for sustainable policymaking: state of the art and future challenges 335 Stella Tsani and Mariia Kozlova 22 Ambiguity in financing corporate mitigation policies 349 Elettra Agliardi and Willem Spanjers 23 Resource abundance and socio-economic shocks: COVID-19 pandemic and the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan 366 Ingilab Ahmadov 24 Hydrocarbons during energy transition: from peak oil supply to peak oil demand and investment? Is energy security at risk? 376 Cyril Widdershoven Index

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook shows how Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), an important decision support tool for strategies, policies, plans and programmes, is applied globally. It reflects on SEA practices and the advancements made over the past three decades in the development of SEA. Forty-six expert international contributors discuss the conceptual approaches and applications of SEA in 31 countries, examining numerous sectors, including land-use, transport, energy and water. They also explore how SEA is applied at trans-national, national, regional and local levels, and at a range of decision tiers, including in strategy and policy, as well as in plans and programmes. Analysing how different situations of application are systematically approached, chapters provide a critical insight into the objectives of SEA and the range of methodologies that are available. Taking a forward-thinking approach, the Handbook also identifies key trends and prospects for SEA in addition to addressing issues of SEA effectiveness and theory development.This Handbook will be a valuable resource for academics and students of environmental governance and regulation. It will also be beneficial for impact assessment practitioners, environmental NGOs and policy makers in the fields of environment and sustainability.Trade Review'Rather than a procedure or a specific approach SEA is considered a toolkit or a family of tools. This fits well with the concept of ''selection logic'' the authors of this book suggest as a basis of an SEA theory: a concept that would allow SEA practitioners to select the best methods, processes and strategies for a given application.' -- From the Foreword by Rob Verheem, Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment'If you want to know what's happening in the developed and developing world in applying Strategic Environmental Assessment, this is the definitive account. The evolving practices surrounding this important decision-making tool are ably and thoughtfully presented. In addition, the editors have done a masterful job of putting together a balanced presentation on the current ''state of the art'' as well as presenting a number of thoughtful observations on the development of a theory of SEA. This is the essential Handbook for teachers, students and practitioners of SEA.' -- William V. Kennedy, Director of the Office of Accountability, US International Development Finance CorporationTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Rob Verheem xix Preface xxi PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to Handbook on Strategic Environmental Assessment 2 Thomas B. Fischer and Ainhoa González PART II APPROACHES TO STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 2 Multi-project-based strategic environmental assessment: practice in Germany 11 Anke Rehhausen, Marie Hanusch and Thomas B. Fischer 3 Objectives for , of and in strategic environmental assessment: UK practice as an example 24 Samuel J. Hayes and Thomas B. Fischer 4 Strategic thinking for sustainability (ST4S) in strategic environmental assessment 39 Maria R. Partidário 5 Territorial impact assessment: a policy assessment-like strategic environmental assessment in action 56 Naja Marot, Thomas B. Fischer, Olivier Sykes, Mojca Golobič, Tara Muthoora and Ainhoa González 6 GIS-based strategic environmental assessment 78 Ainhoa González and Davide Geneletti PART III ISSUES OF EFFECTIVENESS 7 Strategic environmental assessment effectiveness 98 Riki Thérivel and Ainhoa González 8 Does strategic environmental assessment lead to more environmentally sustainable decisions? Reflections on its substantive effectiveness 112 Thomas B. Fischer and Francois P. Retief 9 Guidelines for strategic environmental assessment in developing countries: examples from Asia 124 David Annandale, Thomas B. Fischer, Marcelo Montaño, Caroline Purcell, Jonathan Coles and Thiri Aung PART IV PRACTICE SECTION 1 SECTORAL APPLICATIONS 10 Strategic environmental assessment of spatial land-use plans 140 Ainhoa González 11 Strategic environmental assessment in transport planning 162 Charlotta Faith-Ell and Thomas B. Fischer 12 Strategic environmental assessment in the energy sector 180 Gesa Geißler, Marie Dahmen and Johann Köppel 13 Strategic environmental assessment in the water sector 201 Stephen Eric Mustow SECTION 2 INTEGRATION THROUGH STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 14 Integration through strategic environmental assessment: the case of health in English strategic planning 218 Thomas B. Fischer, Tara Muthoora and Nicola Sworowski 15 Integrating appropriate assessment and strategic environmental assessment 233 Paul Scott 16 Integration of climatic factors into strategic environmental assessment 246 Cian O’Mahony 17 Ecosystem services in strategic environmental assessment: an integrating concept in a world of silos 264 Roel Slootweg SECTION 3 COUNTRY-SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS OF STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 18 Strategic environmental assessment in Australia 282 Tanya Burdett and Carolyn Cameron 19 Strategic environmental assessment in Canada 303 Bram F. Noble 20 Towards advancing strategic environmental assessment practice: learning from experiences of eight European countries 317 Sara Khoshkar, Kedar Uttam, Berit Balfors, Christina Hörnberg and Thomas B. Fischer 21 Strategic environmental assessment in New Zealand 330 Richard Morgan and Nick Taylor 22 Strategic environmental assessment in South Africa: ‘The Road Not Taken’ 347 Francois P. Retief, Carli Steenkamp and Reece C. Alberts 23 Strategic environmental assessment in Brazil: an endangered species? 361 Marcelo Montaño, Ghislain Mwamba Tshibangu and Anne Caroline Malvestio 24 Strategic environmental assessment in Chile: an unfulfilled strategic promise 372 Rodrigo Jiliberto H 25 Strategic environmental assessment in India: trends and prospects 386 Urmila Jha-Thakur and Asha Rajvanshi 26 Addressing the spectrum of strategic environmental assessment potential: evolving practice in Thailand and its effectiveness 401 Chaunjit Chanchitpricha, Kanokporn Swangjang and Angus Morrison-Saunders PART V CONCLUSIONS 27 Conclusions: towards a theory of strategic environmental assessment? 424 Thomas B. Fischer and Ainhoa González Index

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Book SynopsisRecognizing the urgent need to transform energy systems to low-carbon alternatives, this timely book offers evidenced and credible ways to accelerate actions towards meeting the Paris Agreement goals and achieving net zero emissions. Steven Fries analyses through the lens of government, business and household actions—their policies and investments—the systemic changes needed to eliminate net carbon dioxide emissions from energy.Fries explores how advancing low-carbon alternatives could maintain current economic activities while halting climate impacts. But his analysis of accumulating evidence on transforming energy shows how multiple market imperfections hold back alternatives. To overcome these barriers, the book develops heterodox energy reform strategies and ways to coordinate actions across countries, recognizing differences in their specializations and renewable resources. Going beyond orthodox economics, it sets out the role for supporting deployment of low-carbon alternatives in initial markets, calibrating emissions pricing to net zero emission goals, and adapting institutions and infrastructures to low-carbon alternatives. It also signposts policy sequencing and differentiation across sectors and countries.Providing comprehensive energy policy assessments and sound reform strategies, this book will be essential reading for government policymakers and business investors. Its rigorous approach to systemic change also makes it a valuable reference for energy economics and environmental economics scholars.Trade Review‘The world economy must transform fundamentally in the next three decades if we are to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change; we must go to net zero emissions. Radical change in the energy systems will be at the core. This book examines what is involved in, and required, for such unprecedented transformation. It brings great wisdom, knowledge, judgement and analytical strength to a complicated but vital problem. It is based on experience at the highest levels in government, business and finance. It marshals an understanding of systems, policies and markets, with all their imperfections and power, in a very effective and illuminating way. This is a deep, thoughtful and important book; an outstanding contribution.' -- Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics, UK‘Reaching net zero requires transformational change, fast. Steven Fries, who has fought on the front line of climate and energy issues for decades, argues for a “heterodox policy mix”, with governments stepping up their industrial policy. This book offers valuable insight into the changes necessary to get to net zero.’ -- Cameron Hepburn, University of Oxford, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction to Transforming Energy Systems PART I MODERNITY, THE CLIMATE AND NET ZERO EMISSIONS 1. Energy capture and modernity 2. Useful energy and the climate 3. Net zero emissions and low-carbon alternatives PART II ADVANCING AND GUIDING LOW-CARBON ALTERNATIVES 4. Supporting innovation and early deployment of low-carbon alternatives 5. Calibrating emissions pricing 6. Adapting energy-market designs and infrastructures 7. Making better use of energy and materials PART III ENERGY-REFORM INTERESTS AND STRATEGIES 8. Interests in low-carbon technologies and renewable resources 9. Accelerating change References Index

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Book SynopsisThe world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them. Combining the voices of leading academics as well as climate change and environmental activists, entrepreneurs and investors, the book highlights the urgent action that needs to be taken to foster sustainable, resilient and inclusive development in the face of powerful systemic forces. Chapters look ahead to a better path for human wellbeing, security and dignity, offering insight to ways this can be created. The book as a whole shares the visions and hopes of those fighting in a myriad of ways to make a sustainable world, attempting to tip the balance away from the crushing loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels and increasing global mean temperature, whilst increasing living standards across all dimensions, particularly for the poorest people. An imperative read for those concerned about the future of our planet, this book showcases not only why urgent action is now imperative, but also what changes are necessary for a sustainable, resilient and equitable world. It offers crucial insights for those interested in the dynamics of political action, in how change occurs, and in effective communication. Environmental economics, as well as environmental studies and human geography students and scholars more broadly will find this an invigorating read.Trade Review‘The breadth of coverage is impressive both topically and geographically. The science is accurately depicted, and tales are realistically explained. This unusually well-written book is available directly from the publisher via open access. Highly recommended.’ -- R E O’Connor, CHOICE Review of the Week‘The text is frequently passionate, but never shrill. The breadth of coverage is impressive both topically and geographically. The science is accurately depicted, and tales are realistically explained. This unusually well-written book is available directly from the publisher via open access.’ -- R E O'Connor, CHOICE'This is the first major attempt at conveying to the world, both the need for urgent action to curb climate change, and the multiple channels that can be activated to achieve that goal. Leading academics, environmental activists, entrepreneurs and investors have been asked to lay out ideas on how to make economic development more sustainable and more inclusive. This book is a must-read for all economists and more broadly anyone interested about making the world a better place.' -- Philippe Aghion, College de France, and London School of Economics, UK’Standing Up for a Sustainable World underscores the inexorable link between social justice and environmental justice. While people living in extreme poverty are the least responsible for climate change and environmental damage, they are undoubtedly the most impacted by its consequences. Therefore, it is urgent and essential to strengthen the resilience to climate change of people living in poverty, but only through social and economic change that leaves no-one behind, and which actively involves them in making decisions that affect their lives.' -- Donald Lee, President of the International Movement ATD Fourth World, UK and previously at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, US'We are confronted with loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services globally at unprecedented level. This could be attributed to a number of factors: climate change, deforestation, land use change for agricultural expansion, economic imbalance due to unfair trading practises. If we do not take urgent and immediate actions to address these issues, we might suffer irreversible changes affecting the future of our planet and the fate of future generations. This book provides expert opinion and forward looking thoughts to current global challenges. The book links science with policy in ways that will prompt policy makers into actions. Hence, I wholeheartedly recommend the book to be read by all interested in nature's health and sustainable benefits.' -- Sebsebe Demissew, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, (foreign) Member of the Royal Society, UK and Co-Chair (2013-8) of the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel, Germany'It is easy to say, as is frequently repeated, that the future of humanity on earth is at risk. The difficult challenge is to understand the empirical basis of that terrible fear, and also to assess, with best professional scrutiny, what we can do to resist the environmental catastrophe. It is wonderful that we can turn to this wide-ranging study for guidance on each.' -- Amartya Sen, Harvard University, US'Reading Standing up for a Sustainable World is essential to understand our times. Claude Henry, Johan Rockstrom and Nicholas Stern, three internationally renowned academics, have collected the voices of those - activists, entrepreneurs, academics - who are taking action to build a more resilient world. We should learn from them in order to change our economic and social model, reduce inequalities and lay the foundations for a better future.' -- Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, France’We are clearly at a fork in the road in the quest to ensure that our children and grandchildren have a liveable planet. This unique book goes well beyond the endless projections, scenarios and storylines that promise a sustainable future but never really deliver. Instead, this book goes to "ground zero" and explores the mushrooming number of new and exciting approaches already being implemented - revolutionary energy technologies, innovative legal tactics, novel communication tools, community stands against ecological destruction, and many more. Each one on its own can't solve the immense, urgent challenges that face humanity in our quest for long-term sustainability, but together they can move us towards the social tipping point that can deliver the future we want at the scale and in the time period that we need.' -- Will Steffen, Australian National University, and former executive director of the International Geoscience-Bioscience Programme'There is so much doom and gloom about the state of the environment due to our greedy plundering of the planet's finite natural resources that many people are losing hope. Therefore Standing up for a Sustainable World: Voices of Change comes not a moment too soon: it showcases projects from around the world that illustrate what can be done to turn things around before it is too late. Projects that will provide jobs and improve things for people, animals, and the environment. It is a book everyone who cares about our future should read.' -- Jane Goodall DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of PeaceTable of ContentsContents: Preface: a collective book project – the last chance? Voluntary actors in an ecological and economic transition xxiii PART I INTRODUCTION SECTION 1 SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUNDS 1 Science, society and a sustainable future 3 Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern 2 Conservation psychology and climate change 10 Susan Clayton 3 Capitalism and the curse of external effects 24 Claude Henry SECTION 2 SETTING THE SCENE 4 Costa Rica as pioneer of a green social contract 48 Monica Araya 5 The carbon tax in Sweden 59 Thomas Sterner 6 Lessons from the Obama White House: how climate policy really gets done 68 Alice C. Hill 7 Climate policy in China: an overview 76 Ye Qi, Xiaofan Zhao and Nicholas Stern 8 The Paris Agreement on climate change: what legacy? 103 Laurence Tubiana and Emmanuel Guerin PART II DEFENDERS 9 Introduction to Part II 117 Jonathan Watts 10 To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest 125 Maria do Socorro Costa Silva 11 Of chainsaws and grace: direct action by eco-vigilantes in the Philippines 128 Bobby Chan 12 Social justice goes hand in hand with environmental campaigns – and not just in Africa 131 Phyllis Omido 13 Living our values: using art and technology to campaign for nature in Turkey 134 Birhan Erkutlu and Tuğba Günal PART III LITIGANTS 14 Introduction to Part III 137 Marie Toussaint and Claude Henry 15 The Urgenda case in the Netherlands: creating a revolution through the courts 140 Marjan Minnesma 16 Juliana v. United States and the global youth-led legal campaign for a safe climate 151 Patti Moore, Danny Noonan and Erik Woodward 17 How policymakers imperil coming generations’ future and what to do about it 158 Ridhima Pandey 18 Protecting the rights of future generations through climate litigation: lessons from the struggle against deforestation in the Colombian Amazon 163 Camila Bustos, Valentina Rozo-Ángel and Gabriela Eslava-Bejarano 19 People’s Climate Case – families and youth take the EU to court over its failure to address the climate crisis 171E. Deville, L. Dubois Gökşen Şahin 20 Climate change claim on behalf of New Zealand’s indigenous Māori peoples 178 Michael Sharp, Nicole Smith and Tania Te Whenua 21 France: L’Affaire du Siècle : the story of a mass mobilization for climate 185 Marie Toussaint PART IV COMING GENERATIONS ON THE FRONT LINE 22 Introduction to Part IV 194 Claude Henry 23 Fridays For Future – FFF Europe and beyond 196 Anuna De Wever, Luisa Neubauer and Katrien van der Heyden 24 The Fridays For Future Movement in Uganda and Nigeria 211 Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Sadrach Nirere and Adenike Titilope Oladosu 25 The origins of School Strike 4 Climate NZ 218 Sophie Handford and Raven Maeder 26 350.org 231 William “Bill” McKibben 27 How to become an engineer in the ecological crisis? 234 Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois 28 Ecological aspirations of youth: how higher education could fall between two stools 238 Alessia Lefébure PART V ENTREPRENEURS 29 Introduction to Part V 247 Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor 30 Catching mighty North Sea winds 251 Claude Henry 31 Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India 254 Claude Henry 32 Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings 256 Dominique Bureau 33 The rise of supercapacitors: making electric vehicles as convenient as ordinary ones 261 Claude Henry 34 From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport in cities of Southeast Asia 264 Pippo Ranci 35 The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one 271 Geoffrey Heal 36 Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions 274 Claude Henry 37 Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change? 278 Claude Henry 38 Ecological engineering in coastal protection 283 Claude Henry 39 Better to corrupt plastics than the environment 286 Pippo Ranci 40 Drip irrigation: Daniel Hillel’s legacy 291 Claude Henry 41 Making the case for agroecological innovation: the need for technical but also political entrepreneurs 294 Sébastien Treyer 42 Radical transformation in global supply chains: can new business models be based on biodiversity in the agrifood industry? 297 Sébastien Treyer 43 Ethan Brown – the protein revolutionary 301 Geoffrey Heal 44 How to make a sustainable living in a tropical forest: the case of Suruí Indians in the Amazon rainforest – success under threat 304 Claude Henry 45 Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages – Riace in Calabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano 307 Pippo Ranci 46 How Loos-en-Gohelle, a derelict mining town in the north of France, has become a standard in sustainable development 312 Michel Berry PART VI INVESTORS 47 Introduction to Part VI 321 Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor 48 Unleashing the power of financial markets for the green transition 325 Jeremy Oppenheim and Catharina Dyvik 49 The case for fossil fuel divestment 339 Stephen B. Heintz 50 How can finance be used to combat climate change? 349 Alain Grandjean 51 China’s pioneering green finance 358 Ma Jun PART VII COMMUNICATORS 52 Introduction to Part VII 368 Johan Rockström 53 Communicating climate change science to diverse audiences 374 Asmeret Asefaw Berhe 54 Global marine fisheries: avoiding further collapses 382 Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly 55 Why are we so much more afraid of COVID-19 than of climate change? Early lessons from a health crisis for the communication of climate change 394 François Gemenne and Anneliese Depoux 56 Communicating the climate emergency: imagination, emotion, action 399 Genevieve Guenther 57 Climate change: from research to communication 407 Jean Jouzel 58 Communicating biodiversity loss and its link to economics 412 Georgina M. Mace 59 Helping trusted messengers find their voice on climate change 424 Edward Maibach 60 From climate scientist to climate communicator: a process of evolution 431 Michael E. Mann 61 Communicating science beyond the ivory tower 436 David R. Montgomery Index

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Book SynopsisThe world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them. Combining the voices of leading academics as well as climate change and environmental activists, entrepreneurs and investors, the book highlights the urgent action that needs to be taken to foster sustainable, resilient and inclusive development in the face of powerful systemic forces. Chapters look ahead to a better path for human wellbeing, security and dignity, offering insight to ways this can be created. The book as a whole shares the visions and hopes of those fighting in a myriad of ways to make a sustainable world, attempting to tip the balance away from the crushing loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels and increasing global mean temperature, whilst increasing living standards across all dimensions, particularly for the poorest people. An imperative read for those concerned about the future of our planet, this book showcases not only why urgent action is now imperative, but also what changes are necessary for a sustainable, resilient and equitable world. It offers crucial insights for those interested in the dynamics of political action, in how change occurs, and in effective communication. Environmental economics, as well as environmental studies and human geography students and scholars more broadly will find this an invigorating read.Trade Review‘The breadth of coverage is impressive both topically and geographically. The science is accurately depicted, and tales are realistically explained. This unusually well-written book is available directly from the publisher via open access. Highly recommended.’ -- R E O’Connor, CHOICE Review of the Week‘The text is frequently passionate, but never shrill. The breadth of coverage is impressive both topically and geographically. The science is accurately depicted, and tales are realistically explained. This unusually well-written book is available directly from the publisher via open access.’ -- R E O'Connor, CHOICE'This is the first major attempt at conveying to the world, both the need for urgent action to curb climate change, and the multiple channels that can be activated to achieve that goal. Leading academics, environmental activists, entrepreneurs and investors have been asked to lay out ideas on how to make economic development more sustainable and more inclusive. This book is a must-read for all economists and more broadly anyone interested about making the world a better place.' -- Philippe Aghion, College de France, and London School of Economics, UK’Standing Up for a Sustainable World underscores the inexorable link between social justice and environmental justice. While people living in extreme poverty are the least responsible for climate change and environmental damage, they are undoubtedly the most impacted by its consequences. Therefore, it is urgent and essential to strengthen the resilience to climate change of people living in poverty, but only through social and economic change that leaves no-one behind, and which actively involves them in making decisions that affect their lives.' -- Donald Lee, President of the International Movement ATD Fourth World, UK and previously at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, US'We are confronted with loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services globally at unprecedented level. This could be attributed to a number of factors: climate change, deforestation, land use change for agricultural expansion, economic imbalance due to unfair trading practises. If we do not take urgent and immediate actions to address these issues, we might suffer irreversible changes affecting the future of our planet and the fate of future generations. This book provides expert opinion and forward looking thoughts to current global challenges. The book links science with policy in ways that will prompt policy makers into actions. Hence, I wholeheartedly recommend the book to be read by all interested in nature's health and sustainable benefits.' -- Sebsebe Demissew, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, (foreign) Member of the Royal Society, UK and Co-Chair (2013-8) of the IPBES Multidisciplinary Expert Panel, Germany'It is easy to say, as is frequently repeated, that the future of humanity on earth is at risk. The difficult challenge is to understand the empirical basis of that terrible fear, and also to assess, with best professional scrutiny, what we can do to resist the environmental catastrophe. It is wonderful that we can turn to this wide-ranging study for guidance on each.' -- Amartya Sen, Harvard University, US'Reading Standing up for a Sustainable World is essential to understand our times. Claude Henry, Johan Rockstrom and Nicholas Stern, three internationally renowned academics, have collected the voices of those - activists, entrepreneurs, academics - who are taking action to build a more resilient world. We should learn from them in order to change our economic and social model, reduce inequalities and lay the foundations for a better future.' -- Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, France’We are clearly at a fork in the road in the quest to ensure that our children and grandchildren have a liveable planet. This unique book goes well beyond the endless projections, scenarios and storylines that promise a sustainable future but never really deliver. Instead, this book goes to "ground zero" and explores the mushrooming number of new and exciting approaches already being implemented - revolutionary energy technologies, innovative legal tactics, novel communication tools, community stands against ecological destruction, and many more. Each one on its own can't solve the immense, urgent challenges that face humanity in our quest for long-term sustainability, but together they can move us towards the social tipping point that can deliver the future we want at the scale and in the time period that we need.' -- Will Steffen, Australian National University, and former executive director of the International Geoscience-Bioscience Programme'There is so much doom and gloom about the state of the environment due to our greedy plundering of the planet's finite natural resources that many people are losing hope. Therefore Standing up for a Sustainable World: Voices of Change comes not a moment too soon: it showcases projects from around the world that illustrate what can be done to turn things around before it is too late. Projects that will provide jobs and improve things for people, animals, and the environment. It is a book everyone who cares about our future should read.' -- Jane Goodall DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of PeaceTable of ContentsContents: Preface: a collective book project – the last chance? Voluntary actors in an ecological and economic transition xxiii PART I INTRODUCTION SECTION 1 SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUNDS 1 Science, society and a sustainable future 3 Johan Rockström and Nicholas Stern 2 Conservation psychology and climate change 10 Susan Clayton 3 Capitalism and the curse of external effects 24 Claude Henry SECTION 2 SETTING THE SCENE 4 Costa Rica as pioneer of a green social contract 48 Monica Araya 5 The carbon tax in Sweden 59 Thomas Sterner 6 Lessons from the Obama White House: how climate policy really gets done 68 Alice C. Hill 7 Climate policy in China: an overview 76 Ye Qi, Xiaofan Zhao and Nicholas Stern 8 The Paris Agreement on climate change: what legacy? 103 Laurence Tubiana and Emmanuel Guerin PART II DEFENDERS 9 Introduction to Part II 117 Jonathan Watts 10 To protect the Amazon, defend the people of the forest 125 Maria do Socorro Costa Silva 11 Of chainsaws and grace: direct action by eco-vigilantes in the Philippines 128 Bobby Chan 12 Social justice goes hand in hand with environmental campaigns – and not just in Africa 131 Phyllis Omido 13 Living our values: using art and technology to campaign for nature in Turkey 134 Birhan Erkutlu and Tuğba Günal PART III LITIGANTS 14 Introduction to Part III 137 Marie Toussaint and Claude Henry 15 The Urgenda case in the Netherlands: creating a revolution through the courts 140 Marjan Minnesma 16 Juliana v. United States and the global youth-led legal campaign for a safe climate 151 Patti Moore, Danny Noonan and Erik Woodward 17 How policymakers imperil coming generations’ future and what to do about it 158 Ridhima Pandey 18 Protecting the rights of future generations through climate litigation: lessons from the struggle against deforestation in the Colombian Amazon 163 Camila Bustos, Valentina Rozo-Ángel and Gabriela Eslava-Bejarano 19 People’s Climate Case – families and youth take the EU to court over its failure to address the climate crisis 171E. Deville, L. Dubois Gökşen Şahin 20 Climate change claim on behalf of New Zealand’s indigenous Māori peoples 178 Michael Sharp, Nicole Smith and Tania Te Whenua 21 France: L’Affaire du Siècle : the story of a mass mobilization for climate 185 Marie Toussaint PART IV COMING GENERATIONS ON THE FRONT LINE 22 Introduction to Part IV 194 Claude Henry 23 Fridays For Future – FFF Europe and beyond 196 Anuna De Wever, Luisa Neubauer and Katrien van der Heyden 24 The Fridays For Future Movement in Uganda and Nigeria 211 Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Sadrach Nirere and Adenike Titilope Oladosu 25 The origins of School Strike 4 Climate NZ 218 Sophie Handford and Raven Maeder 26 350.org 231 William “Bill” McKibben 27 How to become an engineer in the ecological crisis? 234 Antoine Bizien, Elsa Deville and Lucas Dubois 28 Ecological aspirations of youth: how higher education could fall between two stools 238 Alessia Lefébure PART V ENTREPRENEURS 29 Introduction to Part V 247 Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor 30 Catching mighty North Sea winds 251 Claude Henry 31 Providing electricity from rice husk in rural India 254 Claude Henry 32 Heat pumps for decarbonizing buildings 256 Dominique Bureau 33 The rise of supercapacitors: making electric vehicles as convenient as ordinary ones 261 Claude Henry 34 From scooter to boat: innovations in electric transport in cities of Southeast Asia 264 Pippo Ranci 35 The third attempt at the electric car might be the successful one 271 Geoffrey Heal 36 Solar cookstoves for adaptation to degrading natural conditions 274 Claude Henry 37 Carbon capture from ambient air: a brake on climate change? 278 Claude Henry 38 Ecological engineering in coastal protection 283 Claude Henry 39 Better to corrupt plastics than the environment 286 Pippo Ranci 40 Drip irrigation: Daniel Hillel’s legacy 291 Claude Henry 41 Making the case for agroecological innovation: the need for technical but also political entrepreneurs 294 Sébastien Treyer 42 Radical transformation in global supply chains: can new business models be based on biodiversity in the agrifood industry? 297 Sébastien Treyer 43 Ethan Brown – the protein revolutionary 301 Geoffrey Heal 44 How to make a sustainable living in a tropical forest: the case of Suruí Indians in the Amazon rainforest – success under threat 304 Claude Henry 45 Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages – Riace in Calabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano 307 Pippo Ranci 46 How Loos-en-Gohelle, a derelict mining town in the north of France, has become a standard in sustainable development 312 Michel Berry PART VI INVESTORS 47 Introduction to Part VI 321 Nicholas Stern and Charlotte Taylor 48 Unleashing the power of financial markets for the green transition 325 Jeremy Oppenheim and Catharina Dyvik 49 The case for fossil fuel divestment 339 Stephen B. Heintz 50 How can finance be used to combat climate change? 349 Alain Grandjean 51 China’s pioneering green finance 358 Ma Jun PART VII COMMUNICATORS 52 Introduction to Part VII 368 Johan Rockström 53 Communicating climate change science to diverse audiences 374 Asmeret Asefaw Berhe 54 Global marine fisheries: avoiding further collapses 382 Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly 55 Why are we so much more afraid of COVID-19 than of climate change? Early lessons from a health crisis for the communication of climate change 394 François Gemenne and Anneliese Depoux 56 Communicating the climate emergency: imagination, emotion, action 399 Genevieve Guenther 57 Climate change: from research to communication 407 Jean Jouzel 58 Communicating biodiversity loss and its link to economics 412 Georgina M. Mace 59 Helping trusted messengers find their voice on climate change 424 Edward Maibach 60 From climate scientist to climate communicator: a process of evolution 431 Michael E. Mann 61 Communicating science beyond the ivory tower 436 David R. Montgomery Index

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Book SynopsisPart of the Elgar Series on Central Banking and Monetary Policy, this book explores the relationship between central banking, monetary policy and the economy at large. It focuses on the specific relationship between central banking, monetary policy and the environment as central banks wake up to new realities.The book examines not only the impact of changes in interest rates on the environment, but also the impact that the environment and climate change have on monetary policy. New green policies are proposed for central banks to implement as they move forward and navigate the pitfalls of climate change.Scholars and students interested in central banking, monetary policy and the environment will appreciate this take on Central Banking, Monetary Policy and the Environment.Trade Review‘The editors of this book have produced an amazing book for an equally amazing new series on central banking that could not have come out at a better time. Climate change and environmental issues are at the top of our concerns, and many are wondering what role central banks have to play in this saga. The editors have brought together an incredible list of established and younger scholars alike, from a heterodox perspective. They offer a refreshing analysis of the current situation and dare to offer credible and bold solutions for a green way forward. This book must be on the shelf of every student of economics.’ -- Steve Keen, Independent Economist‘More than any other current research topic, climate change exposes the flaws of mainstream approaches to economics while simultaneously highlighting the importance of insights from heterodox approaches, in particular post-Keynesian. Radical uncertainty is pervasive in even the most sophisticated climate models, complexity is inevitable when dealing with a planetary threat, and institutions cannot be abstracted away when political action is at the core of the problem. This remarkable book addresses these challenges head-on from the perspective of central banking, a subject in which the editors have amassed encyclopedic knowledge. It is essential reading for anyone interested in anything starting with the word “green”, including finance, bonds, quantitative easing, transition, or revolution.’ -- Matheus Grasselli, McMaster University, Canada‘Central Banking, Monetary Policy and the Environment provides a quite complete overview of the challenges and opportunities faced today by the financial and monetary systems in light of the vital imperative to fund worldwide sustainability transitions. At distance with the complacency of “green (market) finance”, the book provides clear cut and deep analyses of the conditions under which endogenous money, central banking or even new currencies can help redirect the power of money creation so as to save our natural ecosystems, our resources and our living conditions.’ -- Gael Giraud, Georgetown University, USTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to Central Banking, Monetary Policy and the Environment 1 Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sylvio Kappes and Guillaume Vallet 1 Central banks and the zero-carbon transition: an institutional challenge 21 Robert Guttmann 2 Monetary policy, environmental sustainability and the climate emergency 54 Malcolm Sawyer 3 Endogenous money, green finance and central bank power 72 Basil Oberholzer 4 Monetary and financial policies for an ecological transition: An overview of central banks’ actions and some reflections on post-Keynesian insights 90 Romain Svartzman 5 Environmental change and the international lender of last resort 110 Michel Aglietta and Etienne Espagne 6 Climate change, financial instability and central banking 134 Giada Valsangiacomo 7 Towards an ecological market 154 Wesley C. Marshall 8 Financial regulation, uncertainty and the transition to a net-zero-carbon economy 175 Josh Ryan-Collins 9 Money and the environment 199 Eric Kemp-Benedict 10 A green mandate: The Central Bank of Nigeria and sustainable development 218 Salewa Olawoye-Mann 11 Mind the gap: Monetary policy and financial regulations for supporting green finance 233 Lilit Popoyan and Giorgos Galanis Index

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Book SynopsisRenewable energy technologies produce many measurable benefits, such as a clear reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. However, it is also apparent that these methods of energy production come with costs. Discussing renewable energy developments within an economic context, this pertinent Handbook provides a comprehensive view of the present and future dimensions of renewable energy use.Divided into six authoritative parts, the Handbook employs economic evaluation to provide an analysis of the benefits and costs of renewable energy, allowing authors to extrapolate potential policy changes. Chapters address the conceptual, methodological and empirical dimensions of renewable energy, providing a broad coverage of key topics while maintaining a clear policy-oriented philosophy.With a structured application of energy economics to renewable energy issues, this enlightening Handbook will be beneficial for environmental and energy policy makers. It will also be an interesting read for academics within such fields as policy regulation, energy economics and environmental economics.Trade Review‘The global need for aggressive deployment of renewable energy is self-evident. This book, a fabulous compilation from the world’s leading thinkers, provides crucial insights to manage the clean energy transition.’ -- Ryan Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US‘Just as the energy and climate crisis trigger a burst of policy initiatives on renewables, 52 researchers that have shaped the economic and policy analysis for renewables over the last two decades review the methodological and empirical foundation. A valuable overview and timely reminder of relevant lessons, for example on framework conditions such as targets and policy stability.’ -- Karsten Neuhoff, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and Technische Universität Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on the Economics of Renewable Energy 1 Pablo del Río and Mario Ragwitz PART I SETTING THE SCENE: THEORETICAL/METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES ON THE ECONOMICS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY 2 Costs and benefits of the energy transition 11 Barbara Breitschopf, Julia Panny and Anne Held 3 Energy system modelling of renewable energy and related energy infrastructure needs 41 Gustav Resch, Franziska Schöniger, Florian Hasengst, Demet Suna, Gerhard Totschnig and Frank Sensfuß 4 Econometric modeling of renewable energy deployment 77 Consolación Quintana-Rojo, Miguel-Ángel Tarancón and Fernando Callejas-Albiñana PART II FOCUS ON SOCIOECONOMIC BENEFITS 5 Extended input-output tables to analyze the benefits of renewable energy deployment 101 Santacruz Banacloche, Ana Rosa Gamarra, Natàlia Caldés and Yolanda Lechón 6 The socioeconomic benefits of renewable energy projects 118 Ana Rosa Gamarra, Santacruz Banacloche, Natàlia Caldés and Yolanda Lechón 7 Green jobs in the Spanish renewable energy sector: an input-output approach 138 Manuel Tomás, Ignacio Cazcarro, Julen Montilla, Cristina Pizarro-Irizar and Iñaki Arto PART III FOCUS ON COSTS 8 The grid costs of renewable energy deployment 158 Joan Batalla-Bejerano, Daniel Davi-Arderius and Elisa Trujillo-Baute 9 Guiding the transition: design challenges in decarbonising electricity markets 179 Timo Gerres, José Pablo Chaves,Francisco Martín, Michel Rivier, Álvaro Sánchez and Tomás Gómez PART IV FOCUS ON THE BOTTOM-UP: SELF-GENERATION AND COLLECTIVE ENERGY ACTIONS 10 An economic approach to photovoltaic microgeneration 206 Pere Mir-Artigues 11 Enhancing energy democracy and tackling energy poverty by fostering the uptake of renewable energy: the case of Greece 231 Eleni Kanellou, Ifigenia Tsakalogianni, Haris Doukas and Yannis Maniatis PART V FUTURE-LOOKING PERSPECTIVES: GEOPOLITICAL, RISKS/FINANCIAL AND INNOVATION PERSPECTIVES 12 The economic benefits of renewable energies: a geopolitical perspective 251 Gonzalo Escribano and Lara Lázaro Touza 13 Drivers and barriers to renewable electricity technologies: lessons from the technological innovation system approach 284 Pablo del Río and Christoph P. Kiefer 14 Analyzing the suitability and role of modern portfolio theory for renewable energy planning 308 Fernando de Llano Paz, Javier Eduardo Afonso Arévalo and Guillermo Iglesias Gómez 15 A mixed-integer linear programming approach for an optimal-economic design of renewable district heating systems: a case study for a German grid 340 Maximilian Sporleder, Michael Rath, Markus Jansen and Robin Mann PART VI RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY 16 The economic analysis of renewable energy policies: a general overview and a historical perspective 365 Christoph P. Kiefer, Pablo del Río, Leticia García-Martínez 17 Renewable energy auctions: an overview 392 Vasilios Anatolitis, Jenny Winkler 18 The role of design elements in instrument mixes: the case of auctions and renewable portfolio standards in South Korea 420 Tae-Hyeong Kwon and Pablo del Río 19 Climate-related development aid for renewable energy projects: an analysis of its trends and role in fostering the low carbon transition in official development aid recipients 442 Cristina Peñasco 20 Conclusion to the Handbook on the Economics of Renewable Energy 471 Pablo del Río and Mario Ragwitz Index 475

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Book SynopsisSituating a comprehensive microbehavioral analysis of the economics of climate change within a discussion of the most pressing global climate change issues and policy negotiations, the Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Climate Change is a timely collection of new research on the behaviors of economic agents that are essential to an exposition of climate change economics and policymaking.Chapters identify both microbehavioral causes of and responses to climate change by numerous economic agents, in doing so elucidating the relationship between climate policies and behavioral changes. This includes examination of individuals’ behaviors to cope with and adapt to climate change; the policy decisions aimed at altering behaviurs at individual, business, and international levels to achieve climate policy goals; and the motivations behind behaviours driven by culture, history, or religion with regards to climate change. These behaviors are contextualised within a global analysis of pressing climate change issues in land-based and ocean-based systems, including Sub-Saharan agriculture, hurricanes and sea-level rises in North America, Latin American Pampas, the small island alliance, South Asian rice agriculture, and hydroelectricity in the Himalayas.With a global scope, this Handbook will prove invaluable to students and scholars of climate change, environmental studies, and behavioral economics. With practical examples and case studies, it will also prove useful for policymakers working in climate legislation.Trade Review‘Niggol Seo has pulled together an extraordinary collection of perspectives from leading scholars on how behavioral economics might guide adaptation to the emerging reality of climate change. Offering an impressive survey of underlying theory, empirical analysis, and on-the-ground implications, the Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Climate Change explores a range of critical issues, geographic settings, and policy challenges.’ -- Daniel C. Esty, Yale University, USTable of ContentsContents: PART I EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION 1 Editor’s introduction to the Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Climate Change 2 S. Niggol Seo PART II OCEAN-BASED SYSTEMS: OCEANS AND COASTAL COMMUNITIES 2 The economics of tropical cyclone adaptation 33 Laura Bakkensen and Logan Blair 3 The economics of efficient adaptation to sea level rise 63 Robert Mendelsohn 4 Climate and cultivation in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river delta 73 Jeffrey Chow, Alder Keleman-Saxena and Alark Saxena 5 Tropical cyclones in the small island developing nations in the world oceans: an economic analysis of the Green Climate Fund’s grant allocations 98 S. Niggol Seo, Alexander J. Felson and Janine Felson PART III LAND-BASED SYSTEMS: AGRICULTURE, WATER, AND NATURAL RESOURCES 6 Climate change and historical changes in rice yield in Thailand 118 Thanyaporn Chankrajang and Khemarat Talerngsri-Teerasuwannajak 7 Climate adaptation in the Indu-Gangetic Basin 143 Upali A. Amarasinghe, Alok Sikka and Lagudu Surinadu 8 Historical changes in the Pampas biome, land use, and climate change 162 Bruno Lanfranco, Enrique Fernández, Bruno Ferraro and Juan M. Soares de Lima 9 Sustainable intensification of agriculture and economy in the Pampas grasslands under climate change 193 Bruno Lanfranco, Enrique Fernández, Bruno Ferraro and Juan M. Soares de Lima 10 Rural households’ income diversification, climate change and food security in Kenya 226 Richard Mulwa and Jane Kabubo-Mariara PART IV RENEWABLE ENERGY 11 Rapid climate risk assessment methodologies for hydropower projects: concepts and theory 245 Johan G. Grijsen 12 Rapid climate risk assessment methodology for hydropower projects: case studies 275 Johan G. Grijsen and Kristin Gilroy 13 An analysis of biogas, biomass, forest credits, and renewable energy programs in Brazil and Argentina supported by the Green Climate Fund 291 Bruno Lanfranco and S. Niggol Seo PART V GLOBAL CLIMATE POLICY NEGOTIATIONS 14 Farmers’ acceptance of carbon offset programs in agriculture 309 Martina Bozzola and Simone Cerroni 15 An analysis of the Paris Agreement: commitments versus performances in Thailand and Vietnam 330 Thanyaporn Chankrajang, Khemarat Talerngsri-Teerasuwannajak and S. Niggol Seo PART VI GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS’ FUNDS 16 An analysis of the behavioral economics of the Green Climate Fund 345 Martina Bozzola and S. Niggol Seo 17 An analysis of Sri Lankan and Indian water projects under the Green Climate Fund 367 Upali A. Amarasinghe and S. Niggol Seo 18 A review of the Green Climate Fund’s grant allocations to Kenya and Ethiopia 385 S. Niggol Seo, Richard Mulwa and Jane Mariara-Kabubo Book Annex 405 Index

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Sustainable Innovation maps the multiple lineages of research and understanding that constitute academic work on how technological change relates to sustainable practices of production and consumption. Leading academics contribute by mapping the general evolution of this academic field, our understanding of sustainable innovation at the firm, user, and systems level, the governance of sustainable innovation, and the methodological approaches used. The Handbook explores the distinctiveness of sustainable innovation and concludes with suggestions for generating future research avenues that exploit the current diversity of work while seeking increased systemic insight. This unique and original book will have a broad appeal among scholars, researchers and advanced students interested in innovation, environmental studies and technological transitions.Trade Review'What is sustainable innovation? This comprehensive Handbook answers this question by outlining and organizing the scope and breadth of this academic field. It is an invaluable resource for both new scholars finding their way into the field and seasoned scholars taking stock of its work and contributions. And for society, the output of this research work will illuminate the critical role that technology development plays in our sustainability solutions.' --Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. An introduction: mapping the field(s) of sustainable innovation Frank Boons and Andrew McMeekin PART I VISIONS OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 2. How does innovation sustain ‘sustainable innovation’? Benoît Godin and Gérald Gaglio 3. Innovation in the circular and the performance economy Walter R. Stahel PART II SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AT THE FIRM LEVEL 4. Determinants of eco-innovation at the firm level Jens Horbach 5. Taxonomy and dimensions of eco-innovation from a resource-based perspective Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla, Christoph P. Kiefer and Pablo del Río 6. Strategies and drivers of sustainable business model innovation Florian Lüdeke-Freund, Stefan Schaltegger and Krzysztof Dembek 7. Sustainable innovation in business models: celebrated but not interrogated Oksana Mont, Katherine Whalen and Julia Nussholz PART III GOVERNANCE AND POLICY OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 8. Reviewing responsible research and innovation: lessons for a sustainable innovation research agenda? Eefje Cuppen, Elisabeth van de Grift and Udo Pesch 9. Policy mixes for sustainable innovation: conceptual considerations and empirical insights Karoline S. Rogge 10. Firms, institutions and politics: the role of corporate political activity in sustainable innovation Jonatan Pinkse PART IV SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION AS SYSTEMS CHANGE 11. Technological innovation systems: a review of recent findings and suggestions for future research Anna Bergek 12. An institutional perspective on sustainability transitions Lea Fuenfschilling PART V USERS AND PRACTICES OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 13. The role of users in sustainable innovation Geert Verbong, Bram Verhees and Anna Wieczorek 14. Sustainable innovation, consumption and everyday life Jo Mylan PART VI SITES AND DOMAINS OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 15. Sustainable innovation as a challenge for urban governance Harald Rohracher and Michael Ornetzeder 16. Innovation and ecological impact: the case of automobility Peter Wells PART VII RESEARCH METHODS FOR SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 17. Sustainable innovation research methods Floortje Alkemade 18. Advances in modelling sustainable innovation: from technology bias to system theories and behavioural dynamics Jonathan Köhler 19 The impact of circular economy Dionne Ewen, Karen Maas and Helen Toxopeus 20. Conclusion Frank Boons and Andrew McMeekin Index

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Book SynopsisAt a time when climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic pose a global existential threat, this timely and important book explores how policy responses to a pandemic create both opportunities and challenges for the increased use of environmental pricing instruments, such as carbon taxes, and tradable permit schemes, and targeted green fiscal incentives.The chapters provide an important foundation of knowledge and analysis about how a pandemic affects environmental tax policy. They identify lessons from policy makers’ responses to the management of the pandemic and implications for addressing the threat of climate change and other environmental challenges. They highlight the need for environmental pricing instruments in the mix of policy instruments even in the wake of a pandemic. They present theory and empirical analysis, and they feature a number of country-specific case studies, including the experience of developing countries.This book takes readers into the important and unprecedented circumstances of our time where pandemic policy meets environmental policy for the short and long terms. It will be of great interest to researchers, students and scholars in environmental policy, tax and law, as well as the industry sector, policy makers and government officials.Trade Review'The 2020-21 pandemic crisis confirms the opportunity for integrating environmental taxation into the core structure of fiscal systems. Carbon taxes, resources taxes, removal of environmental harmful subsidies allow labour taxes to be abated substantially. Economic instruments might not be ''the'' solution, but they are certainly ''par'' of the solution if we wish to achieve the ambitious but necessary objectives of the UN SDGs, Paris Agreement, CBD on biodiversity and natural capital. We have here substantial contributions with robust analysis that can be used by all Governments and researchers.' -- Aldo Ravazzi Douvan, Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition, Past Chair OECD Committee on Tax & Environment, President Green Budget Europe and Professor of Environmental Global Governance, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy’The current Covid-19 pandemic has shown us that once again that science is our best ally to face disease. In this book a scientific position is used to highlight global warming which is another big problem that must be attended urgently. Let’s not wait until we are in the abyss to react as happened with Coronavirus, we can prevent it and do something before it is too late. Human survival depends on our actions and every second counts.’ -- Daniel Irwin Yacolca Estares, National University of San Marcos, PeruTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: fake twins x by Christian de Perthuis PART I CARBON TAX THEORY IN THE PANDEMIC ERA 1 A post-crisis assessment of carbon taxation for members of the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action 3 Simon Black and Ian Parry 2 Setting a price for carbon to achieve carbon neutrality in the European Union 21 Alberto Majocchi 3 The Green New Dividend: a cost neutral market-based alternative to the Green New Deal 35 Russell Mendell PART II COVID-19 AND EU-WIDE TAX POLICIES 4 100 years of externalities 50 Astrid Ladefoged and Mirka Janda 5 Promoting a green economic recovery from the Corona crisis 67 Holger Bär, Matthias Runkel and Kai Schlegelmilch 6 Reconciling EU tax and environmental policies: VAT as a vehicle to boost green consumerism under the EU Green Deal 82 Francesco Cannas and Matteo Fermeglia PART III CARBON PRICING IN LATIN AMERICA IN THE PANDEMIC ERA 7 Carbon pricing in Perú: a matter of climate justice in the Covid-19 context 97 Carlos Trinidad Alvarado and Daniela Soberón Garreta 8 The Carbon Tax in Argentina is sick with COVID-19 112 Rodolfo Salassa Boix 9 Public finance, taxation, and environment post-Covid-19: perspectives for Brazil 127 Daniel Giotti de Paula and Lígia Barroso Fabri 10 Tax incentives for electric vehicles and biofuels: a Brazilian case study 141 Rafaela Cristina Oliari, Carlos Araújo Leonetti and Elena Aydos PART IV EUROPEAN NATIONAL CASE STUDIES 11 Environmental taxation in an age of COVID-19: an Italian approach 156 Alberto Comelli 12 COVID-19 and urban mobility: has the time come for a paradigmatic shift? The potential of environmental tax policies in the pandemic age 170 Marina Bisogno PART V ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORT SCHEMES IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC 13 A taxonomy of environmentally sustainable activities to orient Covid-19 tax measures to environmental objectives 185 Sébastien Wolff 14 Assessing public aid for true green digital recovery: a matter of good tax governance in the European Union 199 Marta Villar Ezcurra and María Amparo Grau Ruiz 15 The purposefulness and serviceability of renewable energy support schemes in view of the COVID-19 crisis 215 Theodoros G. Iliopoulos PART VI LESSONS FOR ALLOWANCE TRADING 16 Covid-19 and EU climate change linking 230 Stefan Weishaar 17 Enforcing sustainable auction-based ETS in a post-COVID-19 world: evidence from and lessons for Northeast Asia 243 Joseph Dellatte and Sven Rudolph Index

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Book SynopsisWith diverse contributions from over 100 authors around the globe, this comprehensive Encyclopedia summarises the developments of ecological economics from the fundamental contributions to the more recent methodological debates in the field.This Encyclopedia further reflects the relevant state of research including past and present major debates about particular concepts, theories, actors and issues at hand. It provides an expansive list of topics including sustainable development, the limits to growth, agroecology, implications of thermodynamic laws for economics, integrated ecologic-economic modelling, valuation of natural resources and services, and renewable and non-renewable resources management. With a strong normative focus, entries include theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions, as the field orientates its efforts to improve environmental policy and governance to enhance wellbeing, environmental quality, and social justice.This unique reference will be a key tool to students, scholars, policy makers and anyone else seeking to understand the link between economic systems and the environment from the perspective of ecological economics, business management, environmental and urban studies.Key Features: Entries include selected references for further study Entries by both leading scholars and up-and-coming voices Addresses the links between the ecological crisis and economic activity Over 90 entries with accessible explanations of key concepts and methods Multi-disciplinary approach across the fields of economics, ecology, sociology, geography, and also political science and history. Trade Review‘Economics for the twenty-first century? This is what this book is all about. It will become the definitive international reference. Top scholars in the field provide thoughtful summaries of key concepts in ecological economics. By doing this, they offer insights and tools on how to reconcile human development with planetary boundaries, arguably the most important challenge of our time.’ -- Federico Demaria, University of Barcelona, Spain‘This amazing volume reflects that ecological economics has become a mature transdisciplinary field, with consolidated concepts, methods and analytical frameworks. The Editors have done an impressive job in mobilizing contributors to offer stepping stones to those interested in learning how to reconcile our economy with a living planet.’ -- Roldan Muradian, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Preface xvii 1 Agent-based modelling 1 Ivan Savin 2 Agroecology 8 Manuel González de Molina 3 Agrowth 14 Jeroen van den Bergh 4 Anthropocene 21 Jon D. Erickson 5 Biodiversity conservation 25 Eduardo García-Frapolli 6 Bounded openness over natural information 32 Joseph Henry Vogel, María Eugenia Santori-Aymat, Óscar Tomaiconza, Bryan Steven Cortés-Lumbi, and Miguel Fernández-Maldonado 7 Bounded rationality 40 Stefan Drews 8 Carbon taxes 43 Andrea Baranzini and Sylvain Weber 9 Circular economy 49 Ignasi Puig Ventosa and Verónica Martínez Sánchez 10 Climate change and social justice 57 Éloi Laurent 11 Coevolution (socio-biophysical coevolution) 65 Miquel A. Gual and Richard B. Norgaard 12 Common property and environmental governance 70 Sergio Villamayor-Tomás 13 Complex social-ecological systems 75 Pedro L. Lomas 14 Consumption 81 Doris Fuchs and Inge Røpke 15 Cost shifting, competition and economic structure 87 Clive L. Spash and Amelia Fuselier 16 Critical materials 94 Alicia Valero, Guiomar Calvo, and Antonio Valero 17 Degrowth 97 Sam Bliss and Giorgos Kallis 18 Deliberative ecological economics 102 Jasper Kenter 19 Discounting and climate change 111 Cédric Philibert 20 Ecofeminisms 117 Corinna Dengler 21 Ecological distribution conflicts 123 Joan Martínez-Alier 22 Ecological macroeconomics 125 Peter A. Victor 23 Ecological unequal exchange 132 Mario Pérez-Rincón 24 Economic anthropology 138 Clemens M. Grünbühel 25 Economic system 145 José Manuel Naredo 26 Economy as an open system 151 Óscar Carpintero and Jaime Nieto 27 Ecosystem services 157 Brigitte L.G. Baptiste 28 Emergy accounting 161 Silvio Viglia and Sergio Ulgiati 29 Energy return on investment: a unifying principle for socio-ecological sustainability 168 Rigo E.M. Melgar and Charles A.S. Hall 30 Energy transition(s) 179 Mar Rubio-Varas 31 Entropy 186 Alicia Valero, Antonio Valero, and Guiomar Calvo 32 Environmental accounting 189 Maddalena Ripa and Sergio Ulgiati 33 The environmental consequences of inequality 198 James K. Boyce 34 Environmental ethics 202 Joaquín Valdivielso 35 Environmental footprints 208 Kai Fang 36 Environmental governance 214 Jouni Paavola 37 Environmental input– output analysis 220 Mònica Serrano 38 Environmental justice 228 Beatriz Rodríguez-Labajos 39 The environmental Kuznets curve 234 David I. Stern 40 Environmental limits 238 Erik Gómez-Baggethun 41 Environmental stewardship 243 Jennifer Welchman 42 Environmental tax reform 245 Paul Ekins 43 Environmental taxation and the double dividend 249 William K. Jaeger 44 Environmentally extended multi-region input–output analysis 255 Klaus Hubacek and Kuishuang Feng 45 Ethics of quantification 261 Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore 46 Fetish, commodity fetishism and ecosystem services 266 Nicolas Kosoy 47 Future generations 269 Richard B. Howarth 48 Georgescu-Roegen’s bioeconomics 273 Kozo Torasan Mayumi 49 Green economy 280 Jonathan M. Harris 50 Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) 285 Helmut Haberl, Karl-Heinz Erb, and Fridolin Krausmann 51 The human ecological footprint 294 William E. Rees 52 Incommensurable values 301 Jonathan Aldred 53 Industrial ecology 305 Anke Schaffartzik 54 Institutions 309 Arild Vatn 55 Joint production 315 Johannes Schiller and Stefan Baumgärtner 56 Kapp, Karl William 322 Tommaso Luzzati 57 Land grabbing 326 Arnim Scheidel 58 Land-time budget analysis 332 Clemens M. Grünbühel 59 Languages of valuation 338 Christos Zografos 60 The laws of thermodynamics 345 Gabriel A. Lozada 61 Material flow accounting 353 Fridolin Krausmann 62 The maximum power principle 359 Mark T. Brown 63 Metabolic flow 364 Mario Giampietro 64 Methodological pluralism 372 Richard B. Norgaard 65 Multi-criteria evaluation 375 Giuseppe Munda 66 Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism (MuSIASEM) 381 Mario Giampietro 67 National accounts and macroeconomic indicators 386 Jordi Roca Jusmet 68 Natural capital 390 Robert Costanza 69 Nature-based solutions 393 Francesc Baró and Erik Gómez-Baggethun 70 Nexus approaches in socio-metabolic research 399 Helmut Haberl 71 Payments for ecosystem services 406 Esteve Corbera and Santiago Izquierdo-Tort 72 Peak oil 412 Christian Kerschner 73 Political and institutional ecological economics 421 Peter Söderbaum 74 Population and environment 427 Hernán G. Villarraga 75 Post-normal science 433 Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome R. Ravetz 76 The precautionary principle 436 Andy Stirling 77 Production and economic development 443 José Manuel Naredo 78 Rebound effect and the Jevons paradox 449 Jaume Freire-González 79 Sensitivity analysis 456 Andrea Saltelli, Arnald Puy, and Samuele Lo Piano 80 Sensitivity auditing 463 Andrea Saltelli, Samuele Lo Piano, and Arnald Puy 81 Social ecological economics 468 Clive L. Spash, Adrien Guisan, and Carlotta Verita 82 Social metabolism 475 Manuel González de Molina 83 Spaceship Earth 482 Óscar Carpintero and Jaime Nieto 84 Steady-state economics 487 Herman Daly 85 Sustainability versus monetary reductionism 492 Peter Söderbaum 86 Sustainable development indicators 495 Philip Lawn 87 Uncertainty, risk and ignorance 503 Andrea Saltelli and Jerome R. Ravetz 88 Uncomfortable knowledge 505 Mario Giampietro 89 Unequal caloric exchange 510 Fander Falconí 90 Water footprint 513 Cristina Madrid-López Index 518

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Book SynopsisThis authoritative Encyclopedia provides an innovative approach to theory, reviews, applications and examples relevant to the basic concepts of water science and water management issues in order to facilitate better interdisciplinary cooperation.In light of the broadening field and study of water management, the expert contributors set the basis for a holistic approach to water science by examining the various technical, cross-disciplinary, socio-economic and policy extents. Using global case studies, elaborated in large European and global research and innovation projects, they illustrate how different approaches to modern water management issues can stem the flow of ongoing climate change and ecosystem collapse challenges to improve future decision-making and policies.Providing concise summaries and knowledge from both a theoretical and an applied viewpoint, this Encyclopedia will be an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and practitioners of water research policy and governance, agricultural and environmental economics, biodiversity, technology, and marine studies.Key Features: With over 85 entries written by experts in the field Uses clear and concise terminology for broader audience interest Uses case studies to illustrate water management issues and approaches Provides concise summaries of the most relevant accumulated knowledge on the subjects explored Illustrates examples to give useful context and background information on how experts approach various water related issues Trade Review‘I am delighted to recommend this Encyclopedia, which is a comprehensive and authoritative source of information on all aspects of water policy, economics and management. Phoebe Koundouri, a renowned water expert has assembled a team of distinguished contributors from diverse disciplines and regions of the world. The breadth and depth of this Encyclopedia covers not only classical subjects but also emerging and interdisciplinary subjects like ChatGPT, computational social science, policy and innovation financing, and their relationship to water.’ -- Dragan Savic, University of Exeter, UK and KWR Water Research Institute, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. A Review Of Water Related Lca Indicators (Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis, Victor Kouloumpis, Antonia Vyrkou, George Arampatzis) 2. Advances In Dynamical And Statistical Downscaling Of Global Climate Change Projections At Local Catchment Scale (Prodromos Zanis, Aristeidis K. Georgoulias, Dimitris Akritidis) 3. Advances In Limnological Research (José Galizia Tundisi) 4. Agricultural Policies And Water Management (Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez, Alberto Garrido) 5. Analysis And Evaluation Of Post-Fire Erosion And Flood Protection Techniques (George Papaioannou, Angelos Alamanos, Fotios Maris) 6. Applications Of Post-Fire Erosion And Flood Protection Techniques (George Papaioannou, Angelos Alamanos, Fotios Maris) 7. Approaches For Optimal Management Of Marine Protected Areas (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 8. Chatgpt And Water Management (Angelos Alamanos) 9. Clean Water And Sanitation For All: Sdg 6 Performance In Global, European, And Regional Level (Phoebe Koundouri, Angelos Plataniotis, Angelos Alamanos) 10. Communication Of Climate Change-Driven Impacts On Water Resources In Wet Regions: The Example Of Ireland (Hammond Antwi Sarpong, Alec Rolston, Suzanne Linnane, David Getty, Angelos Alamanos) 11. Computational Social Sciences In Human-Water Research (Jan Sodoge, Mariana Madruga De Brito) 12. Contemporary Drought Management Techniques To Reduce Crop Water Stress And Enhance Food Security In The Upper Blue Nile Region Of Ethiopia (Fahad Khan Khadim, Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Zoi Dokou) * 13. Cooperation In Transboundary River Basins: Challenges And Research (Modelling) Approaches (Jianshi Zhao) 14. Decisions For Water: The Crucial Role Of Environmental Management Control Systems (Edeltraud Guenther, Thomas Guenther, Samanthi Dijkstra-Silva) 15. Environmental Economics For Efficient Marine Protection: The Example Of The Baltic Sea (Antti Iho, Heini Ahtiainen) 16. Eu Policies And Innovation Financing Related To Water (Stella Tsani, Chrysoula Chitou) 17. Flood Insurance: Economic, Psychological, And Social-Justice Perspectives (Paul Hudson) 18. Freshwater Inflows To Bays And Estuaries (Paul A. Montagna) 19. Full Cost Of Water: Definition And Measurement (Antonio Massarutto) 20. Full Cost Of Water: Recovery And Incentives (Antonio Massarutto) 21. Future Challenges Of Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 22. Gender And Water Security (Vishal Narain) 23. Governing Water In The Cities Of Global South (Gopa Samanta) 24. Groundwater: Our Secret Treasure To Be Secured For A Sustainable Future (Andreas Panagopoulos) 25. Hybrid Economic Models For Managing Integrated Water Resources Allocation As A Wicked Water Problem (Márcia Ma. G. Alcoforado De Moraes, Gerald N. Souza Da Silva, Marcelo Pereira Da Cunha & Ignacio Tavares) 26. Hydrological Hazards (The 4ms: Modelling, Monitoring, Management And Mitigation) (Lampros Vasiliades) 27. Hydrology In Water Management (Maria A. Mimikou) 28. Hydro-Politics And Hydro-Diplomacy: The Case Of South Asia (Tamanna Ashraf, Shlomi Dinar) 29. Ideology In National Water Policy (Richard Meissner, Jeroen Warner) 30. Individual Decision Making Under Flood Risk (Peter John Robinson, W. J. Wouter Botzen) 31. Integrated And Sustainable Water Resources Management: A Systems Theory Approach (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 32. Integrated And Sustainable Water Resources Management: Modelling (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 33. Integrated Water Resources Simulation And Management In Degrading Groundwater Systems In Mediterranean Rural Watersheds (Pantelis Sidiropoulos, Georgios A. Tziatzios, Aikaterini Lyra, Nikitas Mylopoulos, Athanasios Loukas) 34. Integrating Experimental Economics And Living Labs In Water Resource Management (Ebun Akinsete, Alina Velias, Phoebe Koundouri) 35. Large Hydro-Wind-Photovoltaic Hybrid Generation Systems (Pan Liu, Bo Ming, Qian Cheng) 36. Management Of Baltic Sea Eutrophication (Antti Iho, Heini Ahtiainen) 37. Megadroughts And Challenges For Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos) 38. Multi-Stakeholder Platforms In Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 39. Nexus Ecosystems: A New Concept Rooted In Management Science (Svetlana Klessova, Sebastian Engell, Amel Attour) 40. On Identifying Innovative Planning And Management Decisions (Daniel P. Loucks) 41. Optimal Control Approaches To Water Management: Discussing Model Uncertainty (Phoebe Koundouri, Athanasios N. Yannacopoulos) 42. Optimization Applications In Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos, Jorge Andres Garcia) 43. Optimization In Water Resources Management (Angelos Alamanos, Jorge Andres Garcia) 44. Participation (Lucie Baudoin, Dror Etzion) 45. Policies And Investments For The Improvement Of Water Pollution Control: The Example Of China (Dan Dai) 46. Public Acceptability Of Water Supply Innovations (David Lewis Feldman) 47. Public Communication Of Water Scarcity From Water Supply Agencies (Hammond Antwi Sarpong, Alec Rolston, Suzanne Linnane, David Getty, Angelos Alamanos) 48. Rainwater Harvesting (Carlos Galvão, Ronaldo Mendes, Rodolfo L. B. Nóbrega) 49. Recurring Food And Energy Price Crises And The Growing Role Of Water (Claudia Ringler, Mark W. Rosegrant) 50. Reservoir Sedimentation As An Off-Site Effect Of Soil Erosion: Two Different Approaches For The Same Case Study (Konstantinos Kaffas) 51. Monitoring Sustainability Through The Lens Of Water Productivity, Resource Productivity And Eco-Innovation In The Eu-28 (Nikos Chatzistamoulou, Phoebe Koundouri) 52. Science-Supported Policies To Achieve Environmental Sustainability Under Crises (Angelos Alamanos, Phoebe Koundouri) 53. Sediment Transport And Reservoir Sedimentation (Vlassios Hrissanthou) 54. Sharing Of Transboundary Rivers And Making Peace (Ashok Swain) 55. Socio-Economic Consequences Of Water Trading: Reviewing The Evidence For Water Markets In Australia (Céline Nauges, Sarah Ann Wheeler) 56. Sociohydrology (Giuliano Di Baldassarre) 57. Stakeholder Engagement And Communication For Water Policy (Sadie Hundemer, Martha Monroe) 58. Sustainable Provision Of Drinking Water In The Context Of Circular Economy (Guillermo Donoso, Eduardo Leiva, María Molinos-Senante, Pablo Pastén, Daniela Rivera) 59. The Blue Acceleration In Human Use Of The Ocean (Jean Baptiste Jouffray, John Virdin) 60. The Environmental Impacts Of On-Site Domestic Wastewater Treatment Systems – Evaluating Embodied And Operational Life Cycle Performance (John Gallagher, Laurence Gill) * 61. The Evolving Economics Of Agricultural Water In The Western Usa (Richard E Howitt, Duncan Macewan) 62. The Role Of Groundwater In Adapting To Climate Crisis In Greece (Konstantinos Voudouris) 63. The Water Commons (Vishal Narain) 64. The Water-Energy Nexus As Sociotechnical System Under Uncertainty (Andreas Efstratiadis, Georgia-Konstantina Sakki) 65. Tradable Groundwater Permits In Agriculture (Dionysis Latinopoulos) 66. Transboundary Water Management (Robert G. Varady, Tamee R. Albrecht, Andrea K. Gerlak, Margaret O. Wilder) 67. Understanding The Wefe Nexus Paradigm: Principles And Challenges (Patricia Marcos-Garcia, Marco Pastori, Cesar Carmona-Moreno) 68. Unravelling The Unintended Consequences Of Water Interventions: Challenges Of Understanding Adoption Within Human-Water Systems And A Way Forward (Mohammad Faiz Alam, Dani Daniel, Soham Adla, Saket Pande) 69. Valuing European Biodiversity Ecosystems (Phoebe Koundouri, Conrad Landis, Angelos Plataniotis) 70. Water And Cities: Natural Solutions To The Urban Challenges (Zahra Kalantari, Carla Sofia Ferreira & Omid Rahmati) 71. Water And The Water Framework Directive (Alfonso Expósito And Julio Berbel) 72. Water Conservation In Agriculture: Economic And Policy Tools (Eva Iglesias, Paloma Esteve) 73. Water Crisis: Communication Technologies & Public Awareness Policies (Elpida Kolokytha) 74. Water Footprint And Its Monetization (Katherine L. Christ, Roger, L. Burritt) 75. Water Governance In Irrigated Farming Through The Social-Ecological Systems Framework: An Empirical Case In Ethiopia (Debella Deressa Bayissa, Michele Moretti, Joost Dessein, Gianluca Brunori) * 76. Water Innovation: Towards Smart And Resilient Water Systems And Services (Christos Makropoulos) 77. Water Management And Armed Conflict (Gül Özerol, Juliane Schillinger) 78. Water Management In Africa (Ebun Akinsete, Labode Popoola, Femi Oyeniyi) 79. Water Markets In California: Punching Below Its Weight (Kurt Schwabe, Mehdi Nemati) 80. Water Markets: Institutions, Issues, And Remedies (Hao Zhao, David Porter, Stephen Rassenti) 81. Water Policy In Water Scarce Countries: Insights From The Middle East (Mohamed Mostafa Mohamed And Mohamed Ibrahim Kizhisseri) 82. Water Quality Forecasting To Support Decision Making In The European Drinking Water Supply Sector (Ricardo Marroquin Paiz, Eleanor Jennings, Valerie Mccarthy) 83. Water Resources Management In Central Asia (Stefanos Xenarios) 84. Water Resources System Analysis For Addressing Growing Water Management Challenges (Taher Kahil) 85. Water Rights And Legal Pluralism (Vishal Narain) 86. Water Security In The Middle East And North Africa (Mena) Region (Hamed Assaf) Index

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Book SynopsisThis thoroughly revised third edition offers comprehensive coverage of the economics of climate change and climate policy, and is a suitable guide for advanced undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students. Topics discussed include the costs and benefits of adaptation and mitigation, discounting, uncertainty, equity, policy instruments, the second best, and international agreements.Key features: In-depth treatment of the economics of climate change Careful explanation of concepts and their application to climate policy Customizable integrated assessment model that illustrates all issues discussed Specific usage guidelines for each level of reader Companion website with data, quizzes, videos, and further reading Discussion of the latest developments in theory and policy Greater attention to policy and market imperfections than in the second edition. This book is an essential text for students in economics, climate change, and environmental policy, an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners, and a key text to support professors in their teaching.Trade Review‘Richard Tol is not only a leading researcher but also a gifted educator. His textbook Climate Economics has established itself as the leading textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It provides the reader with a thorough grounding in the economics of climate change written in an accessible style.’ -- David Maddison, University of Birmingham, UK‘This book is both a comprehensive course and a reference to the all-important economics of climate change. It does for climate economics what Julia Child did for French Cooking: make it accessible to the serious student.’ -- Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley, US‘Richard S.J. Tol has written a must-read book for anyone caring about the sustainable development of this planet. This book is a delightful guide full of important information for those of us who want to dedicate ourselves to climate economics, so that human society can develop in an environmentally friendly manner.’ -- Lin Bo Qiang, Xiamen University, China

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive guide provides readers with strategies for teaching Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in all its forms, whether through formal university programmes or in the form of short courses offered to professionals and practitioners. Featuring contributions from 39 university teachers and short course trainers, the centerpiece of the book is the suite of 37 recipes for teaching different aspects of EIA. This internationally relevant resource collectively embodies and applies the best practice principles for teaching EIA, developed through a two-year research project with input from a diverse group of international experts. It provides practical and innovative learning activities with complete instructions for successful delivery, and thus represents a truly comprehensive and up-to-date contribution to the field. This latest contribution to our Elgar Guides to Teaching series serves as both a basis for reflection upon curricula and teaching practices, and as a source of inspiration for learning activities that can be adopted and adapted for different contexts by EIA teachers and trainers. It will be a valuable resource to help both new and seasoned EIA educators expand their toolbox in order to teach EIA more effectively.Trade Review‘The authors set out to provide comprehensive coverage of theory of EIA teaching and a practical resource for teachers and trainers. I think they have achieved both. Definitely something for those involved in EIA teaching or training to have on their bookshelf.’ -- Samuel J Hayes, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal'A comprehensive resource for EIA training that bridges the scholar-practitioner model. Morrison-Saunders and Pope establish sound principles for EIA teaching and present a rich collection of hands-on teaching and learning activities drawn from leading EIA educators and trainers from across the globe. This one-of-a-kind resource is an essential toolkit for those engaged in the teaching and learning of EIA - both inside and outside academia.' -- Bram Noble, University of Saskatchewan, Canada'This is a pioneering publication on teaching EIA. It provides a most valuable resource to help those teaching university students or training practitioners to expand their toolbox to contribute more effectively. In addition to the core expertise of the authors, it builds on a wealth of contributions from EIA teachers from around the world with a focus on international best practice. A particular strength is the compendium of 37 teaching recipes; these provide a wonderful cookbook of clearly structured short examples and instructions for teaching activities that can be adapted to fit different teaching contexts worldwide.' -- John Glasson, Oxford Brookes University, UK'More than a teaching manual, this book summarises what EIA teachers around the world have learned. Angus Morrison-Saunders and Jenny Pope structured guidance on What to teach, How to teach and Key learning outcomes around a set of teaching ''principles'' and seasoned them with a menu of recipes. People teaching EIA in 17 countries - from young lecturers to retired professors and including me- contributed their ''recipes'' and shared their experience on engaging with students, fostering critical thinking, and ultimately using impact assessment as a tool towards a more sustainable future.' -- Luis E. Sánchez, University of São Paulo, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I OVERVIEW AND CONTEXT 1. Introduction: setting the scene PART II ABOUT EIA TEACHING 2. Generic EIA process and curriculum 3. Developing EIA teaching principles 4. EIA teaching principles: content 5. EIA teaching principles: pedagogy 6. EIA teaching principles: skills PART III EIA TEACHING RECIPES 7. EIA process recipes 8. Principles-focused recipes 9. Teaching EIA online 10. Epilogue References Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely Handbook recognizes the emergence of climate change as the defining topic of our time. With public climate discourse growing more urgent every year, this Handbook brings together international experts from different economic disciplines to answer critical climate policy questions. Chapters present key ideas and policies to support and accelerate advances in three key areas: the political economy of climate change and climate policy, integrated assessment modelling, and economic and resource sustainability. Contributors discuss the distributional implications of climate change and how policymakers may respond in order to contribute to economic transformation in the midst of a global crisis. With reference to both theoretical and applied economics, this Handbook is critical reading for economists working in the field of climate policy and climate change. It will also appeal to a broader group of environmental scientists and scholars. Contributors include: L.M. Abadie, G.B. Asheim, J.K. Boyce, W.A. Brock, M. Budolfson, G. Chichilnisky, N. Chichilnisky-Heal, F. Dennig, J. Doyne Farmer, D.K. Foley, I. Galarraga, R. Hahnel, J. Hartwick, G. Heal, C. Hepburn, C. Hope, D. Iris, A. Markandya, P. Mealy, T. Mitra, T. Narasimhan, F. Nesje, I. Parry, A. Rezai, E. Sainz de Murieta, N. Schofield, B. Shang, A. Tavoni, L. Taylor, R. van der Ploeg, N. Vernon, P. Wingender, C. Withagen, A. XepapadeasTrade Review'More fruitful interaction between economists and political scientists studying possible policy responses to climate change is long overdue. With this volume of 18 essays, co-editors Chichilnisky and Rezai, along with 32 other distinguished writers, do much to facilitate invaluable progress toward a virtuous circle of mutually reinforcing economic and political analyses.' --Peter J. Hammond, University of Warwick, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Section I: The Political Economy of Climate Change and Climate Policy 1. Distributional Issues in Climate Policy: Air Quality Co-benefits and Carbon Rent James K. Boyce 2. Evaluating Policies to Implement the Paris Agreement: A Toolkit with Application to China Ian Parry, Baoping Shang, Nate Vernon, Philippe Windeger and Tarun Narasimhan 3. Bargaining to Lose: A Permeability Approach to Post-Transition Resource Extraction Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal 4. Host-MNC Relations in Resource-Rich Countries Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal and Geoffrey M. Heal 5. Bargaining to Lose the Global Commons Natasha Chichilnisky-Heal and Graciela Chichilnisky Section II: Integrated Assessment Modelling 6.Integrated Assessment Models of climate change Chris Hope 7. Climate Change Policy under Spatial Heat Transport and Polar Amplification William Brock and Anastasios Xepapadeas 8. Progressive adaptation strategies in European coastal cities: a response to flood-risk under uncertainty Luis M. Abadie, Elisa Sainz de Murieta, Ibon Galarraga and Anil Markandya 9. Economic Growth and the Social Cost of Carbon: Additive versus Multiplicative Damages Armon Rezai, Frederick van der Ploeg and Cees Withagen 10. Optimal Global Climate Policy and Regional Carbon Prices Mark Budolfson and Francis Dennig 11. Tipping and Reference Points in Climate Change Games Alessandro Tavoni and Doruk Iris Section III: Climate Change and Sustainability 12. Climate Change, Malthus and Collapse Norman Schofield 13. Greenhouse Gas and Cyclical Growth Lance Taylor and Duncan Foley 14. Growth and Sustainability Robin Hahnel 15. Intergenerational altruism: A solution to the climate problem? Frikk Nesje and Geir Asheim 16. On Intertemporal Equity and Efficiency in a Model of Global Warming John Hartwick and Tapan Mitra 17. Transformational change: Parallels for addressing climate and development goals Penny Mealy and Cameron Hepburn 18. Less precision, more truth: Uncertainty in climate economics and macroprudential policy Cameron Hepburn and J. Doyne Farmer Index

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Book SynopsisPresenting critical insights on how economic activity is constrained by the environment's ability to provide material and energy resources, this timely Research Agenda explores how humanity shapes, and is shaped by, environmental change and sustainability challenges. Chapters highlight how, under these constraints, people may seek to improve their lives and standards of living without undermining the abilities of others to do so now or in the future. With contributions from top economic scholars, as well as from a range of other disciplines including ethics, law, and the physical and life sciences, this book explores how interdisciplinary insights can be integrated to provide meaningful investment and policy advice. Offering diverse understandings of the topic from both the Global North and South, this Research Agenda challenges previous economic conceptualizations of human-environment interactions, exploring resource use and environmental impact from micro- and macro-economic perspectives. Students of environmental and ecological economics will find this to be a thought-provoking and stimulating read. The suggestions for future research and use of clear case studies will also prove valuable for environmental law and ethics scholars, as well as environmental policy-makers. Contributors include: D.C. Andersen, Y. Bramoullé, L.P. Breckenridge, M. Faber, M. Frick, A. Kander, R. Kemp, D. Malghan, R.B. Norgaard, C. Orset, S.V. Ramani, M. Ruth, J. Sager, M. Sagoff, M.R. Sers, D.I. Stern, D.J. Thampapillai, E. van Leeuwen, M.d.M.R. Varas, P.A. VictorTrade Review'An insightful collection of articles identifying major areas in which ecological economics is resuscitating the moribund orthodoxy of ''economics as usual''.' --Herman Daly, University of Maryland, College Park, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. The Roads Less Traveled Matthias Ruth, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2. Environmental Economics is Dead! Long Live Environmental Economics! Mark Sagoff, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA 3. Conceptual and political foundations for examining the interaction between nature and economy Malte Faber and Martin Frick, University of Heidelberg, Germany 4. Ends, Means, and the Economics of Environment Deepak Malghan, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India 5. Ecosystems, Legal Systems, and Governance: An Institutional Perspective Lee P. Breckenridge, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6. Macroeconomics and the Environment Martin R. Sers and Peter A. Victor, York University, Canada 7. Contemporary Economics and Contradictions for Climate Maladies: Lessons from Environmental Macroeconomics Dodo J. Thampapillai, National University of Singapore, Singapore, and Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and Matthias Ruth, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 8. Energy Intensity: The Roles of Rebound, Capital Stocks, and Trade Astrid Kander, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, M. d. Mar Rubio Varas, Universidad Publica de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, and David I. Stern, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 9. Place-based behavior and environmental policies Eveline van Leeuwen, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 10. New Ways of Valuing Ecosystem Services: Big Data, Machine Learning, and the Value of Urban Green Spaces Christian Krekel, London School of Economics, London, England and Jens Kolbe, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany 11. Are Household Borrowing Constraints Bad for the Environment? Theory and Cross-Country Evidence Dana C. Andersen, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 12. Manufacturing Doubt: How Firms Exploit Scientific Uncertainty to Shape Regulation Yann Bramoullé, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France and Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, France, and Caroline Orset, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France 13. Solution design through a stakeholder process as a new perspective for Environmental Economics with illustrations from Indian case studies René Kemp and Shyama V. Ramani, UNU-MERIT and ICIS, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands 14. Optimizing the Reversal of Life: A Coevolutionary Response Jalel Sager and Richard B. Norgaard, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This updated second edition of the Advanced Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment offers an up-to-date exploration of the current theory and practice of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), a crucial tool for evaluating and mitigating the impacts of development projects on the environment. Angus Morrison-Saunders provides an overview of the key concepts, principles, and methodologies of EIA, with a focus on recent developments, emerging trends, and best practices in the field.Key Features: Fresh analyses of how environment and development intersect in EIA Exploration of the fundamental ideas promoted by the pioneers of EIA Revised content on international best practice EIA principles and how they apply today Reflections on the increasing need to adopt a holistic, sustainability-oriented approach to EIA. With accessible style, comprehensive coverage, and a practical approach, this book is an essential resource for students, scholars, and practitioners in environmental studies, environmental governance, policy and regulation, urban planning, and related fields who want to deepen their understanding of EIA.Trade Review‘This is a must-read for everyone interested in Environmental Impact Assessment. The author provides a clear and masterful overview of the fundamentals of EIA, that is relevant for those who are new to the field as well as for experienced practitioners and scholars who want to advance their understanding of its origins and development.’ -- Jos Arts, University of Groningen, the Netherlands‘Written by one of the world's leading scholars in the field, this book will open up one's mind to the richness and complexity of EIA, drawing on insightful case studies and more than 350 references from the very early days of EIA to the most recent peer-reviewed journal publications.’ -- Alberto Fonseca, Federal University of Ouro Preto, BrazilTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the second edition vii Preface to the first edition viii PART I OVERVIEW AND CONTEXT 1 Introduction: setting the scene 2 Forms of EIA 3 Back to the beginning – EIA and the National Environmental Policy Act 1969 (US) 4 A brief reflection on the goals and purpose of EIA PART II GENERIC EIA PROCESS COMPONENTS 5 EIA and decision-making 6 Screening and scoping 7 Prediction, assessment and mitigation 8 Review, approval decision and EIA follow-up PART III ABOUT DEVELOPMENT 9 Spectrum of development and design considerations 10 Alternatives and mitigation 9PART IV ABOUT ENVIRONMENT 11 Representing environment 12 Engaging with stakeholders PART V BRINGING DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT TOGETHER 13 Science, uncertainty and adaptive management in EIA 14 Holistic and cumulative impact assessment PART VI CLOSING REMARKS ON EIA 15 Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisInterlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals explores the complex relationships between the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by 193 United Nations Member States in 2015. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the interconnections between the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development and the five pillars of the SDGs: peace, people, planet, prosperity, and partnerships.>Covering a wide range of topics and themes, this timely book examines interlinkages at the thematic, regional, and country levels. Featuring case studies from across the globe, contributors explore the synergies and trade-offs among the SDGs using a variety of methodological approaches. Chapters also include examples of best practices and applications, demonstrating how interlinkages can be leveraged to achieve multiple SDGs simultaneously.>This book will be an essential resource for a diverse range of audiences, including students and scholars in the areas of climate action, gender equality, industry, innovation, and infrastructure, and sustainable cities and communities. It will also be beneficial for policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders in both the private and public sectors and civil society.Table of ContentsContents: Preface xi 1 Interlinkages and interactions among the Sustainable Development Goals 1 Ranjula Bali Swain and Yongyi Min 2 Decoupling and redistribution in realising the Sustainable Development Goals 16 Lin Lerpold and Örjan Sjöberg 3 Interactions within Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): the economic and environmental dimensions of SDG Indicator 14.7.1 37 Suyu Liu 4 Patterns of sustainability and policy coherence: some lessons learned from Sweden and global SDG follow-up 52 Viveka Palm 5 Quantitative approaches to explore synergies and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 70 Prajal Pradhan and Anne Warchold 6 Network analysis of SDG interlinkages 94 Jonathan H. P. Dawes 7 An integrated approach to the Sustainable Development Goals from an interlinkage perspective: methodology, decision support tool and applications 129 Xin Zhou and Mustafa Moinuddin 8 Measuring global interlinkages between SDGs applying linear dimensionality reduction tools 163 Jean-Pierre Cling and Clément Delecourt 9 Improving data availability in Colombia to find interlinkages across the 2030 Agenda Karen Chavez Quintero and Natalia Alonso Ospina 189 10 Mainstreaming gender in environment goals across the SDG monitoring framework Sara Duerto Valero and Sharita Serrao 217 11 The gendered impacts of climate change: evidence from Asia Sara Duerto Valero and Sneha Kaul230 12 SDG interactions from a regional perspective: a case study from Sweden Anja Eliasson and Erik Grönlund 259 Index 279

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Book SynopsisGreenhouse gas concentrations are rapidly increasing and pathways to limit global warming require fundamental economic transitions. Green Deals in the Making addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with the implementation of Green Deals, in particular the use of market-based instruments.Expert contributors shed light on the complexities arising for the implementation of Green Deals in times of the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which puts considerable strains on national economies. Chapters present theory and empirical analysis of green pricing instruments and national experiences, assessing the critical issue of finance and recycling carbon tax revenue. The book concludes with an analysis of key issues relating to circular economy considerations and plastics in achieving Green Deal goals. A critical analysis of important topics is presented including green fiscal reform, carbon taxation and sustainable urbanism.This timely book will be of great interest to researchers, students and scholars interested in environmental policy, tax and law, as well as the industry sector, policy makers and government officials.Trade Review‘This volume of Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation collects some very instructive chapters highlighting the opportunities for implementing Green Deals. The authors cover a wide aspect of the prevailing challenges by analysing national experiences from all over the world. A special focus is given to different market-based instrument schemes applied in Europe.’ -- Stefan Ulrich Speck, European Environment Agency, DenmarkTable of ContentsContents: Preface xi PART I GREEN DEALS AND COVID-19 RECOVERY 1 Environmental taxation from a European Union perspective, after the Covid-19 crisis 2 Alberto Comelli 2 Environmental and energy taxation in the context of the EU Green Deal and the recovery plan: the case of Spain 14 Álvaro Antón Antón PART II GREEN DEALS – CARBON PRICING INSTRUMENTS AND EXPERIENCES 3 Abatement in the EU ETS – evidence from Austria 29 Claudia Kettner and Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig 4 Implementing green deals in developing countries: the case of the Mexican pilot emissions trading scheme 46 Bahareh Ghafouri, Joseph Dellatte and Sven Rudolph 5 Environmental neutrality: redesigning EU VAT neutrality to support the implementation of the European Green Deal 62 Francesco Cannas and Matteo Fermeglia 6 Possibilities for a green fiscal reform in Brazil 80 Maria Carolina Maldonado Mendonça Kraljevic 7 A review of recent experiences with carbon taxation and revenue recycling – lessons for implementation in Eastern European countries 96 Mikael Skou Andersen 8 Sustainable urbanism, land value taxation and green deals 112 Paulo Carvalho PART III FINANCING GREEN DEALS 9 Green finance: contribution to climate policy, supporting factors and barriers 127 Daniela Kletzan-Slamanig and Angela Köppl 10 Greening South Africa’s economy through carbon tax revenue recycling 141 Ashley Baldwin and Lee-Ann Steenkamp PART IV GREEN DEALS: CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND PLASTICS 11 An analysis of the Brazilian experience of plastic recycling taxation 158 Lucas N. Holanda 12 Plastic free but no free trade? 170 Rodolfo Salassa Boix 13 Are plastic taxes environmental or fiscal measures? A legal analysis of the Italian and Spanish cases under the circular economy strategy 185 Marta Villaz Ezcurra and Marina Bisogno Index

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Book SynopsisThis crucial Handbook investigates an urgent area for policy-makers, academia and industries alike: the circular economy. International experts on the subject bring together the latest thinking on this critical global issue.Providing a comprehensive overview of the mechanisms and consequences of the circular economy, as well as its limitations, it raises important questions concerning how the world should proceed when non-renewable resources, such as fossil fuels and minerals, are being depleted and the environment is struggling to cope with the waste and emissions of unsustainable production and consumption systems. Contributors explore a broad range of themes, such as new sustainable production and consumption systems, new design requirements, recycling systems, new business models and the social impacts of the circular economy, while also consolidating the many ways in which the topic has been dealt with in research, business and policy-making.Shedding light on a concept that has become increasingly relevant during the last decade, the Handbook of the Circular Economy is essential reading for students, academics and policy-makers trying to make sense of the plethora of ways in which the term has been applied and interpreted.Trade Review'In the present tsunami of new publications on the circular economy, this book sticks out through the broad analysis with regard to topics and regions covered by case studies. Let us hope that the book will motivate managers, policy-makers, educators, material scientists and economists to look at the present slowdown as a facilitator to change course towards a more sustainable and resilient society, towards a circular economy.' -- Walter R. Stahel, Product-Life Institute Geneva, Switzerland and University of Surrey, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword by Janez Potocnik and Julia Okatz xv 1 Introduction and overview 1 Miguel Brandão, David Lazarevic and Göran Finnveden PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY 2 The circular economy: a strategy to reconcile economic and environmental objectives? 8 David Lazarevic and Miguel Brandão 3 The circular economy as a complex adaptive system 28 Jouni Korhonen 4 The role of design as a barrier to and enabler of the circular economy 39 Deborah Andrews 5 Industrial symbiosis networks: application of the circular economy for resource efficiency 50 Michael Martin 6 Product service systems: business models towards a circular economy 61 Sofia Lingegård 7 Consumers in the circular economy 74 Juana Camacho-Otero, Vivian S.C. Tunn, Lucy Chamberlin and Casper Boks PART II ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF A CIRCULAR ECONOMY 8 Material flow analysis of recycling systems 89 Sarah Schmidt and David Laner 9 An element flow analysis approach to support the circular economy 99 Rajib Sinha, Rafael Laurenti, Jagdeep Singh and Björn M. Frostell 10 Modelling material recycling in life cycle assessment: how sensitive are results to the available methods? 116 Tomas Ekvall and Miguel Brandão 11 Environmental economic assessment of novel circular economy and bioeconomy technologies 137 Mikael Skou Andersen and Louise Martinsen 12 Integrated sustainability assessment of a circular economy 147 Kristian Skånberg, Anders Wijkman, Mårten Berglund, Göran Finnveden and Miguel Brandão 13 Sex, drugs and the circular economy: the social impacts of the circular economy and how to measure them 162 Kati Pitkänen, Tiina Kaisa Maria Karppinen, Petrus Kautto, Sara Turunen, Jachym Judl and Tuuli Myllymaa 14 Why and how actors and organizations need to be integrated into a systems-level monitoring for a sustainable circular economy 176 Dominik Wiedenhofer, Stefan Pauliuk, Andreas Mayer, Doris Virág and Willi Haas 15 Circular economy rebound 194 Jason Maier, Roland Geyer and Trevor Zink PART III GOVERNING THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY 16 Between a policy mix and a policy mess: policy instruments and instrumentation for the circular economy 207 Petrus Kautto and David Lazarevic 17 The missing link: regulating waste-based materials in the circular economy 224 Topi Turunen 18 Building ecologies of circular intermediaries 235 Jack Barrie and Wisdom Kanda 19 Transforming business models: towards a sufficiency-based circular economy 250 Nancy M.P. Bocken and Samuel W. Short 20 Putting circular ambitions into action: the case of Accus, a small Swedish sign company 266 Hervé Corvellec, Maira Babri and Herman I. Stål 21 From waste management to natural capital management in the circular economy 278 Graham Aid and David Lazarevic 22 Refurbishing the ‘circular economy’ concept in Russia: from industrial policy towards innovation by co-creation 293 Darya Gerasimenko, Ekaterina Markelova and Raisa Momot 23 The circular economy at the heart of French sustainable public policies: what are the consequences? 307 Nicolas Buclet 24 How Portugal is applying the circular challenge 315 Carlos Borrego, Sandra Rafael, Sílvia Coelho, Bruno Augusto, Afonso Silva, Johnny Reis, Ana Isabel Miranda and Myriam Lopes PART IV SECTORAL AND BUSINESS CASE STUDIES 25 What circular economy measures fit what kind of product? 327 Anne-Marie Tillman, Siri Willskytt, Daniel Böckin, Hampus André and Maria Ljunggren Söderman 26 Circular manufacturing systems 343 Amir Rashid, Malvina Roci and Farazee M.A. Asif 27 The circular nutrient economy: needs and potentials of nutrient recycling 358 Helena Valve, Petri Ekholm and Sari Luostarinen 28 Understanding forest-based value creation in a regional context 369 Antje Klitkou 29 Bioenergy in the circular economy 382 Annette Cowie 30 Do bioenergy, bioeconomy and circular economy systems mitigate climate change? Insights from life cycle assessment 396 Miguel Brandão 31 Straw wars – a consequential saga: the life cycle climate change consequences of replacing plastic with paper 410 Simon Hoge and Miguel Brandão 32 Circularity in the built environment: a call for a paradigm shift 425 Tove Malmqvist, Alice Moncaster, Freja Rasmussen and Harpa Birgisdóttir 33 Implementation of a circular economy at universities 439 Joan Manuel F. Mendoza, Alejandro Gallego-Schmid and Adisa Azapagic 34 A life cycle perspective on the environmental aspects of complex, emerging resource recovery systems: the case of bauxite residue 452 P. James Joyce and Anna Björklund 35 Urban mining: on the potential and multifaceted challenges of facilitating recycling of wire-based city infrastructure 465 Joakim Krook, Björn Wallsten, Niclas Svensson and Stefan Anderberg PART V PROSPECTS 36 Beyond the consumer: enlarging the role of the citizen in the circular economy 479 Kersty Hobson 37 Managing the transition to the circular economy 491 Patrizia Ghisellini and Sergio Ulgiati 38 Prospects for the circular economy and conclusions 505 Miguel Brandão, David Lazarevic and Göran Finnveden Index 515

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Professor Fikret Berkes provides a unique introduction to the social and interdisciplinary dimensions of biodiversity conservation. Examining a range of approaches, new ideas, controversies and debates, he demonstrates that biodiversity loss is not primarily a technical issue, but a social problem that operates in an economic, political and cultural context. Berkes concludes that conservation must be democratized in order to broaden its support base and build more inclusive constituencies for conservation.Key features include: focus on Indigenous peoples' rights, knowledge and practices discussion of commons governance, co-management and responsibility exploration of the history of conservation and the nature stewardship traditions a broad view of conservation that encompasses the well-being of humans as well as ecosystems Taking an interdisciplinary social science approach that includes conservation science concepts, this Advanced Introduction will benefit students of environmental studies, geography, ecology and conservation. It will also be a useful resource for conservation organizations.Trade Review‘[Berkes] is one of the key researchers and teachers of this transformation in conservation, which views people as integral parts of ecosystems, rather than merely as “managers” or “stressors… The book is small, concise, and easy to read… It is not a book of recipes, yet one can start learning how to cook from it… Berkes warns that community-based conservation should not be viewed as a panacea. Rather, flexible and adaptive options require a diversity of governance regimes, and community-based conservation is one of them.’ -- Zsolt Molnár, Conservation Biology‘This book is a well put together synthesis of community-based conservation theory and practice. It could be used both as a textbook for a class in community-based conservation as well as a manual for international conservation practitioners.’ -- Richard Smardon, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences'Fikret Berkes didn't invent the concept of community-based conservation, but he has been its most vigorous and high-profile academic advocate and analyst. His towering impact on the social science of conservation makes this masterful volume all the more essential. It is the indispensable guide for all aspects of conservation science in the remainder of the 21st century.' -- - David Barton Bray, Florida International University, US'Fikret Berkes has helped re-shape conservation. As a leading scholar and educator, he has influenced generations of conservation scholars and practitioners with foundational work on community-based conservation, diversity of ecological knowledge, adaptive management, resilience of social-ecological systems, and biocultural conservation. In his new book, Berkes distills these lessons into a clear and concise narrative that will be a fantastic resource for teachers, students, and anyone interested in understanding the wicked problems biocultural diversity faces and the diverse and dynamic solutions that are possible.' -- - Michael Gavin, Colorado State University, US'Fikret Berkes is internationally renowned for his research and writings in the areas of social-ecological systems and commons theory. This book is a brilliant distillation of research and thinking so far in the area of biodiversity conservation and all that it entails. Professor Berkes' analyses of the key aspects of community-based conservation are clear and elegant, supported by numerous examples from around the world. This is an extraordinary and insightful book that I recommend without hesitation.' -- - Nancy Turner, University of Victoria, Canada‘This is a clear and cogent review of a quiet revolution. It is a globally-important book about a specific type of conservation, one that builds from the specificities of communities and ecosystems. It makes clear that biodiversity loss is a social problem, and that participatory approaches can unlock citizen power. This book could help to save the planet from ecosystem collapse and climate crises. It points to optimism, so much is already working in community conservation. Now these social-ecological practices need to be spread to all countries and ecosystems.’ -- - Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Why community-based conservation? 2. Nature stewardship traditions, historical and contemporary 3. Can local development be made compatible with conservation? 4. Indigenous peoples: Local stewardship for global conservation 5. Multiple ways of knowing: Indigenous and local knowledge 6. No tragedy on the commons 7. Governance: Diverse, flexible, pluralistic 8. Synthesis and conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Professor Fikret Berkes provides a unique introduction to the social and interdisciplinary dimensions of biodiversity conservation. Examining a range of approaches, new ideas, controversies and debates, he demonstrates that biodiversity loss is not primarily a technical issue, but a social problem that operates in an economic, political and cultural context. Berkes concludes that conservation must be democratized in order to broaden its support base and build more inclusive constituencies for conservation.Key features include: focus on Indigenous peoples' rights, knowledge and practices discussion of commons governance, co-management and responsibility exploration of the history of conservation and the nature stewardship traditions a broad view of conservation that encompasses the well-being of humans as well as ecosystems Taking an interdisciplinary social science approach that includes conservation science concepts, this Advanced Introduction will benefit students of environmental studies, geography, ecology and conservation. It will also be a useful resource for conservation organizations.Trade Review‘[Berkes] is one of the key researchers and teachers of this transformation in conservation, which views people as integral parts of ecosystems, rather than merely as “managers” or “stressors… The book is small, concise, and easy to read… It is not a book of recipes, yet one can start learning how to cook from it… Berkes warns that community-based conservation should not be viewed as a panacea. Rather, flexible and adaptive options require a diversity of governance regimes, and community-based conservation is one of them.’ -- Zsolt Molnár, Conservation Biology‘This book is a well put together synthesis of community-based conservation theory and practice. It could be used both as a textbook for a class in community-based conservation as well as a manual for international conservation practitioners.’ -- Richard Smardon, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences'Fikret Berkes didn't invent the concept of community-based conservation, but he has been its most vigorous and high-profile academic advocate and analyst. His towering impact on the social science of conservation makes this masterful volume all the more essential. It is the indispensable guide for all aspects of conservation science in the remainder of the 21st century.' -- - David Barton Bray, Florida International University, US'Fikret Berkes has helped re-shape conservation. As a leading scholar and educator, he has influenced generations of conservation scholars and practitioners with foundational work on community-based conservation, diversity of ecological knowledge, adaptive management, resilience of social-ecological systems, and biocultural conservation. In his new book, Berkes distills these lessons into a clear and concise narrative that will be a fantastic resource for teachers, students, and anyone interested in understanding the wicked problems biocultural diversity faces and the diverse and dynamic solutions that are possible.' -- - Michael Gavin, Colorado State University, US'Fikret Berkes is internationally renowned for his research and writings in the areas of social-ecological systems and commons theory. This book is a brilliant distillation of research and thinking so far in the area of biodiversity conservation and all that it entails. Professor Berkes' analyses of the key aspects of community-based conservation are clear and elegant, supported by numerous examples from around the world. This is an extraordinary and insightful book that I recommend without hesitation.' -- - Nancy Turner, University of Victoria, Canada‘This is a clear and cogent review of a quiet revolution. It is a globally-important book about a specific type of conservation, one that builds from the specificities of communities and ecosystems. It makes clear that biodiversity loss is a social problem, and that participatory approaches can unlock citizen power. This book could help to save the planet from ecosystem collapse and climate crises. It points to optimism, so much is already working in community conservation. Now these social-ecological practices need to be spread to all countries and ecosystems.’ -- - Jules Pretty, University of Essex, UKTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Why community-based conservation? 2. Nature stewardship traditions, historical and contemporary 3. Can local development be made compatible with conservation? 4. Indigenous peoples: Local stewardship for global conservation 5. Multiple ways of knowing: Indigenous and local knowledge 6. No tragedy on the commons 7. Governance: Diverse, flexible, pluralistic 8. Synthesis and conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this timely book, Sven Rudolph and Elena Aydos take an interdisciplinary approach that combines sustainability economics, political economy and legal concepts to answer two fundamental questions: How can carbon markets be designed to be effective, efficient and just at the same time? And how can the political barriers to sustainable carbon markets be overcome?The first part of the book develops an innovative and robust Sustainable Model Rule for evaluating carbon market design, which is demonstrated in practice through chapters assessing the vast majority of real-life emissions trading schemes (ETS) from around the world. In the second part, the focus shifts to political feasibility, providing a political economy framework for evaluating ETS. The authors examine empirical data from case studies in several countries, and identify strategies and policy windows for implementing truly sustainable ETS.The cutting-edge tools outlined in this book for conducting assessments of carbon market design and feasibility will be invaluable for climate policy practitioners and environmental lawyers at national and international levels. The book will also be an important resource for policy makers, think tanks and stakeholders, as well as for scholars and students in environmental economics and climate change law and policy.Trade Review‘The book co-authored by Sven Rudoph and Elena Aydos navigates a complex landscape of global carbon markets and delivers a timely and truly remarkable analysis of the world’s leading emissions trading schemes.’ -- Agnieszka Ason, Oil, Gas & Energy Law Intelligence‘This book is a comprehensive comparative study of emissions trading schemes (ETSs), one of the most important “carbon pricing” instruments today. Its broad coverage of the world's major carbon markets is the most attractive feature of this book. Taking a political economy approach, it explains why ETSs were introduced, how they came to be in their current form, and gives their future perspectives. It will provide readers with an up-to-date understanding of the state of the world's carbon markets, and guidance for future climate policies.’ -- Toru Morotomi, Kyoto University, Japan‘The Paris Agreement helped to put climate change firmly on the agenda of policy makers. Emissions trading is the policy maker’s weapon of choice and proliferating quickly around the globe. This excellent book is the first that puts most if not all systems under ruthless scrutiny and holds them against an objective benchmark of a sustainable model rule that also evaluates social justice. The book relies on the potent public choice methodology to evaluate the critical success factors for a sustainable instrument design. The book comes at a critical moment, when the international community only has a decade to make or break the Paris objectives of limiting global warming to 1.5 ?C degrees. A must read for any policy maker, climate activist and academic interested in and concerned about our common future!’ -- Stefan E. Weishaar, University of Groningen, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents: 1. ETS, sustainability and political economy 2. Sustainable ETS design 3. ETS design in practice: European Union 4. ETS design in practice: North America 5. ETS design in practice: Oceania 6. ETS design in practice: Northeast Asia 7. Lessons learned from the implementation of ETS 8. Political feasibility of ETS 9. ETS politics: Germany 10. ETS politics: Australia 11. ETS politics: Japan 12. Lessons learned from the political economy of ETS 13. Final remarks Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction is an accessible and critical review of the economic foundations of tourism. Taking a regional approach based in macro- and resource economics, David Marcouiller points to how the competitive aspect of tourism can be transformative to regional activity. Offering insight into the decision-making process among both private and public stakeholders, this book makes clear the increasing necessity of using sound planning principles and practice to shape tourism consumption and production.Key Features: Explores integrative and sustainable tourism planning Outlines the features and construction of the tourism product and presents an environmental economics perspective on non-market goods and services Takes a macroeconomic approach to tourism development, highlighting the regional attributes of amenities and tourism demand This timely Advanced Introduction will be crucial reading for scholars interested in tourism economics and development, economic geography and urban and regional economics as well as those looking for a thought-provoking introduction to this evolving area of study.Trade Review‘This volume provides a comprehensive and clearly written exploration of contemporary approaches to understanding the complexity of tourism demand and supply. Written by a wise and experienced voice in our field, the book makes a compelling case for an integrative, locally-sensitive approach to tourism development and it puts leisure and re-creation where they belong, right at the heart of tourism.’ -- Heather Mair, University of Waterloo, Canada‘This book offers insight for both academics and policy makers seeking to understand the tourism phenomenon from a regional economic perspective. Its primary value for scholars is its combination of both demand for (leisure) and supply of (amenities) the tourism product. Policy makers will, on the other hand, benefit from a greater appreciation of the economic effects of tourism, as well as implications for planning.’ -- Jinlong Gao, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, China

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This Advanced Introduction is an accessible and critical review of the economic foundations of tourism. Taking a regional approach based in macro- and resource economics, David Marcouiller points to how the competitive aspect of tourism can be transformative to regional activity. Offering insight into the decision-making process among both private and public stakeholders, this book makes clear the increasing necessity of using sound planning principles and practice to shape tourism consumption and production.Key Features: Explores integrative and sustainable tourism planning Outlines the features and construction of the tourism product and presents an environmental economics perspective on non-market goods and services Takes a macroeconomic approach to tourism development, highlighting the regional attributes of amenities and tourism demand This timely Advanced Introduction will be crucial reading for scholars interested in tourism economics and development, economic geography and urban and regional economics as well as those looking for a thought-provoking introduction to this evolving area of study.Trade Review‘This volume provides a comprehensive and clearly written exploration of contemporary approaches to understanding the complexity of tourism demand and supply. Written by a wise and experienced voice in our field, the book makes a compelling case for an integrative, locally-sensitive approach to tourism development and it puts leisure and re-creation where they belong, right at the heart of tourism.’ -- Heather Mair, University of Waterloo, Canada‘This book offers insight for both academics and policy makers seeking to understand the tourism phenomenon from a regional economic perspective. Its primary value for scholars is its combination of both demand for (leisure) and supply of (amenities) the tourism product. Policy makers will, on the other hand, benefit from a greater appreciation of the economic effects of tourism, as well as implications for planning.’ -- Jinlong Gao, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, China

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Book SynopsisAs numerous jurisdictions implement emissions mitigation mechanisms that put a price on carbon, this incisive book explores the emerging emissions markets and their diverse and fragmented nature. It proposes an innovative model for connecting such markets, offering a significantly more successful and expeditious achievement of climate policy objectives. Justin D. Macinante proposes distributed ledger technology to foster fluid markets that price carbon emissions more effectively, achieve greater scale and efficiency, and are less susceptible to manipulation. He investigates the applicable regulatory frameworks, technology design issues and governance structures for the model proposed for networking emissions trading schemes within the context of the Paris Agreement. Providing a plausible and viable mechanism to achieve desired policy outcomes with economic, political and environmental benefits, Effective Global Carbon Markets will be a key resource for practitioners, policy makers and consultants alike, as well as being of value to scholars and students engaged with environmental and energy law, climate change and environmental economics.Trade Review'This is a ground-breaking book. It offers a wonderful combination of cutting-edge research with practical engagement on a profound question in climate change policy: how in reality to foster international carbon pricing. It starts from the right premise, of inevitably different systems emerging from governments around the world - and shows how modern information technology could be applied to solve the practical and political conundrum of how they could then be linked.' --Michael Grubb, University College London, UK'Blockchain has become a buzzword of late, including in the realm of climate policy. Its appeal stems as much from a vague promise to revolutionize complex processes as from the fact that it is often barely understood. Not so in this new book by Justin Macinante: as one of the very few experts who combine practical experience in carbon trading with critical analysis of distributed ledger technology, he offers a bold vision for the future of market-based climate cooperation that is backed up by unparalleled technical detail. A pioneering treatise that will set the standard for all future work on the topic.' --Michael Mehling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US'Carbon markets, where properly designed and adopted, have proved an effective mechanism to address climate change. However, with the exception of certain mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol, their implementation has tended to be largely fragmented. Macinante provides an effective pathway for linking global carbon markets, reminding us that ultimately such markets, and their role in addressing climate change, should be seen as a central part of our global financial system.' --Martijn Wilder, Founding Partner, Pollination GroupTable of ContentsContents: PART I Introductory matters and background 1. Introduction to effective global carbon markets 2. Background: the problem of and response to climate change PART II The carbon market from three perspectives 3. Compartmentalisation of the carbon market 4. The nature of what is traded in the carbon market 5. Carbon market diversity and reasons to connect PART III 6. The networked market on distributed ledger technology – concept and theory 7. Practical implementation of the proposed networked market PART IV Analysis of the proposal 8. Governance structure for the networked market 9. Analysis of the networked market – legal issues PART V Concluding matters 10. Conclusions on effective global carbon markets Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy highlights various aspects of economic and policy considerations as they are applied to water decision-making and evaluation in a comprehensive and clear manner.Key Features: Presents example-based simplified descriptions of water problems and economic principles used to address them Provides examples from different countries and analysis of main water-using sectors Highlights emerging topics in water economics that address water scarcity and discusses economic and policy aspects related to the management of water at local, regional and international scales Researchers and students will appreciate the comprehensive, straightforward presentation of critical information in this Advanced Introduction that does not get lost in technical jargon.Trade Review‘A very well written book that helps readers understand the issues framing relevant theories and practice. Most chapters provoke further thoughts about the issues. Practical applications make the book relevant for non-specialists as does the understandable, less technical language. One can learn much about water economics and policy problems in this relatively short book.’ -- Petr Sauer, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic‘As a world-class water resources economist, Professor Ariel Dinar is always at the edge of the discipline. The book is another outstanding contribution to the application of economics in hot water issues around the world.’ -- Dajun Shen, Renmin University, ChinaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy 2. Past and future trends in water availability and use 3. Management of water in the agricultural sector 4. Management of water in the residential sector 5. Environment-water interactions and management 6. Economic and policy considerations in groundwater management 7. Economics of water pollution regulation 8. Economics and politics of international water management 9. Climate change and water resources 10. Emerging topics in water economics and policy 11. Summary and concluding remarks to Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy Index

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy highlights various aspects of economic and policy considerations as they are applied to water decision-making and evaluation in a comprehensive and clear manner.Key Features: Presents example-based simplified descriptions of water problems and economic principles used to address them Provides examples from different countries and analysis of main water-using sectors Highlights emerging topics in water economics that address water scarcity and discusses economic and policy aspects related to the management of water at local, regional and international scales Researchers and students will appreciate the comprehensive, straightforward presentation of critical information in this Advanced Introduction that does not get lost in technical jargon.Trade Review‘A very well written book that helps readers understand the issues framing relevant theories and practice. Most chapters provoke further thoughts about the issues. Practical applications make the book relevant for non-specialists as does the understandable, less technical language. One can learn much about water economics and policy problems in this relatively short book.’ -- Petr Sauer, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic‘As a world-class water resources economist, Professor Ariel Dinar is always at the edge of the discipline. The book is another outstanding contribution to the application of economics in hot water issues around the world.’ -- Dajun Shen, Renmin University, ChinaTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction to Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy 2. Past and future trends in water availability and use 3. Management of water in the agricultural sector 4. Management of water in the residential sector 5. Environment-water interactions and management 6. Economic and policy considerations in groundwater management 7. Economics of water pollution regulation 8. Economics and politics of international water management 9. Climate change and water resources 10. Emerging topics in water economics and policy 11. Summary and concluding remarks to Advanced Introduction to Water Economics and Policy Index

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Book SynopsisCritically assessing recent developments in environmental and tax legislation, and in particular low-carbon strategies, this timely book analyses the implementation of market-based instruments for achieving climate stabilisation objectives around the world. Through case studies and broader analysis, international experts examine taxes and subsidies in energy intensive sectors including stationary energy and transport in Europe and South America, and low-carbon strategies in Australia and East Asia. They also address cross-cutting policy issues involving water pollution and biodiversity protection. This work illustrates how economic instruments for a low-carbon transition need to align with other governmental policies and together influence behaviour in multiple domains such as energy, mobility, trade, land use and innovation. Providing a rich economic modelling of environmental fiscal policies, this topical book will be an engaging read for environmental tax scholars and professionals, as well as academics across energy and environmental economics, law and policy. Policy makers and practitioners in energy and climate policy will also benefit from its problem-solving approach. Contributors include: M.S. Andersen, E. Aydos, E. Belletti, M. Bisogno, C. Cámara Barroso, Q. Changbo, G. Chazhong, J. Dellatte, B. Fenfen, L. Feng, S. Geringer, E. Guglyuvatyy, T. Iliopoulos, T. Kawakatsu, D. Kortschak, K. Kratena, V. Kulmer, A. Lerch, I. Meyer, M. Molinos-Senante, M. Pizzol, S. Rudolph, K. Schlegelmilch, S. Seebauer, M. Sommer, C. Sotiriou, N.P. Stoianoff, H. Thodsen, A. Tomo, J. Tumpel, M. Villar Ezcurra, Z. Zachariadis, J.M.M. ZanocchiTrade Review'A very rich book, to be read by all those who suspect that environmental taxation can accelerate the transition toward a low-carbon society around the world.' --Christian de Perthuis, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, FranceTable of ContentsContents: FOREWORD PREFACE PART I ECONOMIC INCENTIVES FOR THE ENERGY TRANSITION 1. Price Support Schemes in the Service of the EU’s Low-Carbon Energy Transition Theodoros Iliopoulos 2. Tax Incentives for Photovoltaic Power Self-Consumption: An Analysis of the Spanish Experience Marta Villar Ezcurra and Carmen Cámara Barroso 3. The Brazilian Newly Inaugurated Net Metering System: A Case Study of a Win-Win Model for the Sustainable Development of the Country’s Energy Matrix Boosted by Renewable Sources José Maria McCall Zanocchi PART II ON THE ROAD TO LOW-CARBON TRANSPORT 4. VAT Rules for Passenger Travel by Air and by Train in the EU Julia Tumpel 5. Incentivizing Favourable Treatment of Electric Vehicles ⎯ Developing Best Practices in the EU from the Austrian Perspective Stefanie Geringer 6. “Ecobonus” and “Ecotax”: Two Recent Italian Fiscal Measures to Promote the Decarbonization in Vehicles Alessia Tomo PART III CHALLENGES TO LOW-CARBON STRATEGIES IN AUSTRALIA AND EAST ASIA 7. Australian Carbon Policy: Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards? Evgeny Guglyuvatyy and Natalie P. Stoianoff 8. May Link Prevail! Or: A Comparative Analysis of Lessons Learnt from (not) Linking Carbon Markets in Japan and Oceania Sven Rudolph, Elena Aydos, Takeshi Kawakatsu, Achim Lerch and Joseph Dellatte 9. Carbon Emission Reduction Effects of China’s Environmental Protection Tax – A Case Study Long Feng, Ge Chazhong, Bi Fenfen, Qin Changbo PART IV PROSPECTS FOR DECARBONISATION AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY 10. How to Reach Paris: A Comprehensive Long-Term Energy-Economy Scenario for Austria Ina Meyer, Mark Sommer and Kurt Kratena 11. The Importance of a Carbon Tax for Timely and Cost-effective Decarbonisation – A Case Study from Cyprus Chryso Sotiriou and Theodoros Zachariadis 12. Trigger or time fuse? An Empirical Framework for Detecting Change Points and Pace in the Diffusion of Low Carbon Technologies Veronika Kulmer, Dominik Kortschak and Sebastian Seebauer 13. The Potential of Reuse in the Circular Economy Strategy: In Search of a Legal Framework – The Italian Tax Perspective Marina Bisogno PART V RELEVANT LEGAL AND ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS FROM OTHER SUSTAINABILITY CONTEXTS 14. Environmental Taxation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Barriers and Policy Options Elena Belletti 15. Implications of Denmark’s Water Price Reform for Riverine and Coastal Surface Water Quality Massimo Pizzol, Maria Molinos-Senante, Hans Thodsen and Mikael Skou Andersen 16. Reduction of Biodiversity Harmful Subsidies and Compensatory Payments for Agricultural Pollutants in Germany Kai Schlegelmilch Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the impact and design of international environmental regimes which are established to preserve natural resources and reduce environmental degradation. The author addresses such regimes from both a conceptual and theoretical point of view as well as using comparative empirical evidence from issue areas such as marine pollution, acid rain, ozone layer depletion and global climate change. He examines specifically a number of controversial institutional issues in international environmental politics. Should, for instance, access to decision-processes be inclusive or exclusive in terms of non-governmental watchdogs? Similar choices and dilemmas exist with regard to decision-making rules, the role of the secretariat, the structuring of the agenda, the organization of the science-politics interface, and the design of verification and compliance mechanisms. Hence, he addresses real dilemmas faced by negotiators, in order to help formulate policies for achieving the most effective organization of international environmental institutions.This book will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in environmental political economy and institutions, and policymakers and practitioners involved in the negotiation process.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. Analysing the Effectiveness and Institutional Design of International Environmental Regimes: The Conceptual Lenses 3. Increasing Concern and Improving Design: The Oslo and Paris Conventions on Marine Pollution in the North-East Atlantic 4. More ‘Discursive Diplomacy’ than ‘Dashing Design’? The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) 5. A Triumph for Institutional Incentives and Flexible Design? The Vienna Convention and Montreal Protocol on Ozone Layer Depletion 6. Combining Comparative and Case Study Evidence: Institutional Findings 7. Designing an Effective Climate Change Regime: A Task ‘Too Hot to Handle’? 8. Designing Effective Environmental Regimes: Launching the Three Conditional Ps (Problems, Phases, and Processes) References Index

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Book SynopsisThis important book examines the factors that influence economic growth and sustainable development in countries with a significant natural resource sector. It addresses the key issue of how to make the primary sector sufficiently productive to provide for investment in both itself and other sectors of the economy.Using individual country experiences as well as cross-country analyses, the authors highlight some of the successful policy measures which have been applied to economies with an abundance of natural resources. They also consider the management of natural resources and sustainable development from a local perspective. In conclusion, they argue that these types of economies need pro-active government policies, successful cooperation between private and public institutions and a gradual process of upgrading of skills and technology in order to achieve sustainable development.This book will be welcomed by development economists and natural resource economists as well as policymakers and planners in government and international agencies.Trade Review'. . . this volume would also be useful reading for postgraduate students of development economics or natural resources management.' -- Elizabeth Bennett, Progress in Development Studies'The issue as to what role the exploitation of natural resources plays in stimulating or retarding economic growth in developing countries is a critical one for the first decades of the new millennium. By examining the key factors determining the development prospects of resource-based economies, this collection of essays is making an important contribution to the debate over a key paradox of our times - the failure of resource-abundant poor countries to "catch up" with the growth rates of wealthier countries.' -- Edward B. Barbier, University of Wyoming, USTable of ContentsContents: 1. Introduction Part I: Resource Endowments and the Options for Development Policy 2. Natural Resource Intensity and Economic Growth 3. Natural Resources, Human Resources and Export Composition Part II: National Experiences with Non-Renewable Natural Resources 4. The Transition from Rent-driven Growth to Skill-driven Growth 5. Managing Mineral Revenues in Botswana 6. Oil Resources in Iraq Part III: National Experiences with Renewable Natural Resources 7. Agricultural Development in Israel 8. From Primary Production to Resource-based Industrialization 9. Horticulture Development Policy in Kenya 10. The Forestry Sector in Ghana Part IV: Natural Resources Policy from a Local and Regional Perspective 11. Mining in Goa 12. The Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe Part V: Conclusions 13. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisEmissions trading has become a central feature of global efforts to control climate change. Its inclusion in the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change represents a victory for advocates of market-based instruments and builds upon twenty years of experience with trading schemes in the United States. However, the concept is controversial and attempts to introduce similar trading schemes in Europe have met with mixed results.This timely book provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of emissions trading including the lessons learnt, the problems faced and the prospects for its extended use. It includes case studies of trading schemes in the US and Europe, and studies of international trading under the European acid rain regime. Problems of practical implementation, especially institutional feasibility and political acceptability, are given particular attention. The prospects for the international trading of greenhouse gases following the Kyoto Protocol are assessed, together with the potential conflict between emissions trading and established regulatory traditions.Pollution for Sale will be of great interest to policymakers, practitioners, researchers and students of environmental policy.Trade Review'It is valuable reading for understanding emissions trading, and helps the reader visualize trading as a useful tool to control greenhouse gases.' -- Hyo-Sun Kim, Resources Policy'This book makes a valuable contribution to the existing literature by bringing together a set of essays that reflect on US experience and examine attempts to introduce trading programs in Europe. . . . The book is accessible to the broad readership for which it is intended. Academics as well as policymakers will find this book worthwhile reading.' -- Robert N. Stavins, Environment'The strength of Sorrell and Skea's analysis comes from the wide selection of topics covered by the papers, all adding valuable - often forgotten - experience. . . . I believe this book to be an excellent addition to the library of anyone who is involved in climate change. It raises awareness of previous experience, both successes and failures, particularly from within Europe, from which lessons should be drawn.' -- Christiaan Vrolijk, International Affairs'Pollution for Sale is a useful reference book for those with an interest in climate change and acidification issues and the potential contribution of economic instruments to effective environmental policy making. Each chapter is accessible to the non-specialist and there is enough academic rigour and further references to keep the specialists satisfied. Pollution for Sale deserves to sell well and widely to academics, students, environmental consultants and policymakers.' -- Rosalind Bark, Journal of Energy LiteratureTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The US Experience Part II: Introducing Trading in Europe Part III: Trading and National Regulatory Traditions Part IV: Scoping Studies: Water and Waste Part V: International Sulphur Trading Part VI: International Carbon Trading Index

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Book SynopsisMarket-based instruments are becoming the environmental management tool of choice and have provided a new perspective on the conventional wisdom about policy instruments. This book analyses the complexities of designing and implementing market-based instruments using case study experiences from the Nordic countries, Japan, France, The Netherlands, Germany and Britain, where a range of green taxes have been introduced.The contributors examine the role of political processes in designing, introducing and implementing green taxes and charges and analyse the extent to which political concerns complicate the approach favoured by environmental economists. The authors then focus on the implementation of market-based instruments to achieve environmental objectives and offer an ex-post evaluation of different countries' experiences with economic instruments.This volume brings together contributions from political scientists and environmental economists and will prove invaluable for academics, practitioners and policymakers interested in the experiences of countries where market-based instruments are well established.Trade Review'. . . the volume does provide the European perspective and frame of reference on environmental emissions trading of some value.' -- Peter Fusaro, The Journal of Energy and Development'Another in an important series of books contributing to the development of policies to combat environmental problems.' -- Aslib Book GuideTable of ContentsContents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Market-based Instruments in Environmental Policies Part II: Politics and Institutions 2. Designing and Introducing Green Taxes 3. Environmental Innovations from the Standpoint of Policy Analysis 4. What the Doctor Should Know Part III: MBIs in the Policy Process 5. Dialogue and Economic Efficiency 6. Efficiency and Fairness 7. Explaining why the Swedes but not the Danes Tax Fertilizers 8. Considering Feasibility and Efficiency Part IV: Implementation Problems of MBIs 9. The Limitations of Economic Instruments as Stimuli for Technical Change, Technological Change and Innovation 10. A Socio-economic Evaluation of the SOx Charge in Japan 11. Assessing the Efficiency of Economic Instruments 12. The Danish Waste Tax Index

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Book SynopsisThis original book presents a new basis for environmental policymaking: environmental networks. This framework graphically simplifies the analysis of environmental problems and emphasizes the spatial nature of economic activity and pollution dispersion.The book first discusses the foundations of environmental economics before going on to apply the environmental network approach to different firm structures. The authors then extend the analysis to incorporate multiple products and pollutants, the presence of transaction costs, the availability of investment in production technologies, and the issue of noncompliance versus compliance. They also apply the network approach to pollution caused by transportation and assess the success of permits in limiting this. The authors then formulate integrated models, analyzing the use of permits and taxes in firms, producers, and consumers, as well as transportation and trade routes. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in environmental and transport economics.Table of ContentsContents: Part I: Introduction and Overview 1. Introduction 2. Foundations of Environmental Economics 3. Methodological Foundations Part II: Firms and the Environment 4. Pollution Permit Models for Single-Product, Single-Pollutant Firms 5. Multiproduct, Multipollutant Firms with Transaction Costs 6. Oligopolistic Markets and Technological Investments 7. Noncompliant Oligopolistic Firms: Statics and Dynamics Part III: Transportation and the Environment 8. Environmental Targets and Single-Modal Traffic Networks 9. Environmental Targets and Multimodal Traffic Networks 10. Emission Pollution Permits for Transportation Networks 11. Multimodal Network Permits: Compliance Versus Noncompliance Part IV: Spatial Price Networks and the Environment 12. Environmental Targets and Spatial Price Networks 13. Pollution Permits and Spatial Price Networks 14. Spatial Oligopolies and Pollution Permits Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis book comprehensively examines the performance of Bangladeshi agriculture in light of the most recent thinking on economic development and the environment. It both analyses the experience during the last five decades and discusses the major issues and challenges with special emphasis on the prospects for sustainable agricultural development in the future.The authors emphasise the importance of distributional aspects of environmental change and development in relation to employment and poverty and also focus on gender issues - often ignored in traditional theory.Many of the issues that arise in Bangladesh in connection with the agricultural-development nexus are not unique to the country. Parallels exist elsewhere in the developing world and as such Bangladesh is useful as an example from which to draw conclusions about much of the developing world. Environment and Agriculture in a Developing Economy will therefore be of particular interest to developmental and environmental economists as well as international organisations and NGOs committed to environment and development issues.Trade Review'It is amazing how much information the authors have managed to compile. . . The book is excellent, easy to read, concise presentation of changes and development in agriculture in Bangladesh during the course of the last 50 years. Its limitation to presenting only essentials will help the reader understand what has happened - and what not - over the last 50 years in agriculture in Bangladesh. It is an outstanding book, especially valuable for those readers who have neither the time for, nor interest in details and a must for people who go to Bangladesh for the first time and therefore need a brief introduction. . . the book is an important contribution to the topic of agriculture in Bangladesh and its development.' -- Frithjof Kuhnen, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture'For readers new to Bangladesh it provides an excellent introduction and guide to the country's natural resources, to trends in their use and to key issues arising. Early chapters provide a valuable and concise source of reference material, bringing together description, categorization and analysis of the complex characteristics of the county's physical environment, its agricultural production potential and risks.' -- L.E.D. Smith, Land Degradation and DevelopmentTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Bangladesh’s Economy, Agriculture and the Environment: Perspective and Issues 2. The Physical Environment of Bangladesh Agriculture: Soil, Land and Physical Constraints 3. Growth and Change in the Crop Sector 4. Overall Food Supply and Self-sufficiency: Some Observations 5. Ancillary Sectors within Agriculture: Livestock 6. Ancillary Sectors within Agriculture: Fisheries 7. Ancillary Sectors within Agriculture: Forestry 8. Agrarian Relations and Property Rights 9. Agrarian Change, Sustainable Resource Use and the Rural Environment in Bangladesh 10. Agricultural Research and Extension 11. Agricultural Growth and Rural Poverty 12. Conclusions, Challenges and Prospects Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this in-depth study describe the theory and techniques that can be applied to the specific case of valuing potable water provided by groundwater supplies. The theory and techniques can be extended to valuing drinking water provided by surface water supplies, and also to valuing alternative levels of water quality. The theory and case studies discussed in the book suggest that important determinants of the economic value of water quality include: the probability of contamination measured objectively and subjectively, information on actual levels of contamination in household water supplies, socioeconomic characteristics of households, and the extent to which the values of water quality people hold include non-use components. The case study results also suggest that empirical valuation results are sensitive to study design effects such as the particular statistical technique used to estimate mean or median values. These results suggest that estimating water quality values using benefits transfer techniques is problematic, but perhaps feasible with improved data and valuation models.Government agencies, private consulting firms and NGOs involved in water quality policy as well as academic researchers, professors and students will find this volume of theory, application and technique an invaluable reference.Trade Review'. . . the book is of immediate policy significance. Those developing ground water management strategies in the USA will find the value estimates useful.' -- Jeff Bennett, Australian Journal of Environmental ManagementTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Economic Value of Water Quality: Introduction and Conceptual Background 2. Determinants of Ground Water Quality Values: Georgia and Maine Case Studies 3. Information and the Valuation of Nitrates in Ground Water, Portage County, Wisconsin 4. Measuring the Value of Protecting Ground Water Quality from Nitrate Contamination in Southeastern Pennsylvania 5. Ground Water, Surface Water, and Wetlands Valuation in Ohio 6. Assessing the Accuracy of Benefits Transfers: Evidence From a Multi-Site Contingent Valuation Study of Ground Water Quality 7. Benefits Transfer: The Case of Nitrate Contamination in Pennsylvania, Georgia and Maine 8. A Preliminary Meta Analysis of Contingent Values for Ground Water Quality Revisited 9. Summary and Conclusions Index

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Book SynopsisThis path-breaking book shows how green accounting can be compatible with ecological economics and how it can contribute to the implementation of sustainability. It explores the history and methodology of green accounting and describes the state-of-the-art construction of green accounts in individual countries.The authors first provide an overview of the history of national accounting and its place in the debate concerning sustainability. In particular they address the social role that accounts play, the relationship of national accounts to economic traditions, and the relationship between green national accounts and ecological economics. They go on to describe issues related to the history of green accounts and the methodologies adopted, and discuss the Dutch experience with the NAMEA system, the use of input-output analysis in national accounting and the conceptual issues raised by green accounting. Finally, the authors show how green accounts are being constructed and used in various countries, by both national governments and corporate businesses. The book features new case studies of green national accounting in Europe, Africa and Canada, the UK experience in establishing green accounts and the process of greening business accounts.Greening the Accounts will be required reading for scholars of ecological economics, environmental studies and business and national accounting.Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Introduction Part I: The History of National Accounts 2. The Social and Political Roles of National Accounting 3. Roots of Green Accounting in the Classical and Neoclassical Schools 4. Sustainability, Ecological Economics and Green Accounting Part II: Green Accounting as a Policy Instrument 5. Indicators and Accounts of Sustainable Development: the NAMEA Approach 6. Formal Models and Practical Measurement for Greening the Accounts 7. The Magic Triangle of Input–Output Tables 8. Alternative Green Accounting Methodologies Part III: Uses of Green Accounting 9. Case Studies: Uses of Green Accounting 10. Constructing Green Accounts 11. Corporate Environmental Accounting: Accounting for Environmentally Sustainable Profits 12. Setting the Agenda for Green Accounting in the 21st Century Index

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Book SynopsisThe link between trade and the environment has focused on two broad issues: how changing trade regimes have affected the environment and how stricter environmental regulations have affected trade. The answers are of particular importance to developing and transition countries where the relationship between trade and the environment has a major impact. This unique book, based on eleven case studies undertaken by research institutes in developing countries with the support of UNCTAD and UNDP, provides detailed empirical evidence from Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Malaysia, The Philippines, Poland, Thailand, Turkey and Zimbabwe. The central questions addressed are: has the international programme of trade liberalization affected the environment negatively? are stricter environmental regulations in both developed and developing countries having an effect on exports and imports and how can these effects be addressed? what impacts, if any, result from differences in environmental standards between richer and poorer countries? what impacts have multilateral environmental agreements had on trade flows between developed and developing countries what impacts are firms' voluntary measures to protect the environment having on the export flows from developing and transition countries? The book provides a wealth of information and shows a wide difference of outcomes from country to country, allowing the authors to draw an interesting set of conclusions. It will be useful for students and researchers in environmental and international economics and will be essential reading for policymakers in government and non-governmental organizations.Trade Review'The main contribution of the volume by Jha et al is the wealth of empirical material presented on the case study countries. Until this book was published, there was little material available on the impact of trade on the environment of specific developing countries.' -- Rhys Jenkins, Journal of Development Studies'This book provides a very useful and welcome contribution to the understanding of the dynamic relationship between liberalized trade and environmental protection.' -- Edith Brown Weiss, EnvironmentTable of ContentsContents: Foreword 1. Overview and Lessons Learnt 2. Environmental Policy, Market Access and Competitiveness: The Experience of Developing Countries 3. Policy Instruments in Multilateral Environmental Agreements: Experience of Developing Countries 4. Brazil 5. China 6. Colombia 7. Costa Rica 8. India 9. Malaysia 10. The Philippines 11. Poland 12. Thailand 13. Turkey 14. Zimbabwe 15. Conclusions and Guidelines for Further Work Index

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Book SynopsisInternational environmental threats have commanded widespread attention since the late 1960s. A number of unprecedented environmental disasters have galvanized public concern, and have reached the international political agenda in part through the activities of new environmental social movements in the industrialized countries.Environment in the New Global Economy is designed as a reference source for both students, researchers and policymakers concerned with the political dimension of international environmental problems. Peter Haas has selected those previously published articles which are seminal in the development of this new field and which have either generated widespread debate or represent a clear application of major approaches to the understanding of these new issues. He has also provided an authoritative introduction to complement his selection.Table of ContentsContents: Volume I: Analytic Approaches to the IPE of the Environment Acknowledgements Introduction Peter M. Haas PART I WHAT IS “THE ENVIRONMENT?” 1. Clive Ponting (1990), ‘Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Development’ 2. Robert W. Kates, B.L. Turner II and William C. Clark (1990), ‘The Great Transformation’ 3. William C. Clark (1989), ‘The Human Ecology of Global Change’ PART II TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS 4. H. Scott Gordon (1954), ‘The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery’ 5. Garrett Hardin (1968), ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ 6. Susan Jane Buck Cox (1985), ‘No Tragedy of the Commons’ 7. David Feeny, Fikret Berkes, Bonnie J. McCay and James M. Acheson (1990), ‘The Tragedy of the Commons: Twenty-two Years Later’ 8. Elinor Ostrom (2001), ‘Reformulating the Commons’ PART III POWER AND LEADERSHIP 9. Daniel Deudney (2000), ‘Geopolitics as Theory: Historical Security Materialism’ 10. George F. Kennan (1970), ‘To Prevent a World Wasteland: A Proposal’ 11. Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy (1994), ‘Must it be the Rest Against the West?’ PART IV INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 12. Detlef Sprinz and Tapani Vaahtoranta (1994), ‘The Interest-based Explanation of International Environmental Policy’ 13. Oran R. Young (1989), ‘The Politics of International Regime Formation: Managing Natural Resources and the Environment’ 14. Oran R. Young (1991), ‘Political Leadership and Regime Formation: On the Development of Institutions in International Society’ 15. Marc A. Levy, Peter M. Haas and Robert O. Keohane (1992), ‘Institutions for the Earth: Promoting International Environmental Protection’ PART V RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY 16. Joao Augusto de Araujo Castro (1972), ‘Environment and Development: The Case of the Developing Countries’ 17. Johan Galtung (1973), ‘“The Limits to Growth” and Class Politics’ 18. Wolfgang Sachs (1991), ‘Environment and Development: The Story of a Dangerous Liaison’ PART VI DOMESTIC POLITICS 19. Robert L. Paarlberg (1999), ‘Lapsed Leadership: U.S. International Environmental Policy Since Rio’ 20. Elisabeth R. DeSombre (1995), ‘Baptists and Bootleggers for the Environment: The Origins of the United States Unilateral Sanctions’ 21. William Ascher (2000), ‘Understanding Why Governments in Developing Countries Waste Natural Resources’ 22. Ruth Greenspan Bell (2000), ‘Building Trust: Laying a Foundation for Environmental Regulation in the Former Soviet Bloc’ 23. Riley E. Dunlap and Angela G. Mertig (1997), ‘Global Environmental Concern: An Anomaly for Postmaterialism’ PART VII NGOs AND CIVIL SOCIETY 24. Sheila Jasanoff (1997), ‘NGOs and the Environment: From Knowledge to Action’ 25. Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink (1999), ‘Transnational Advocacy Networks in International and Regional Politics’ PART VIII ECOLOGICAL IDEAS A Doctrines and Their Consequences 26. Harold and Margaret Sprout (1972), ‘The Ecological Viewpoint – and Others’ 27. Frederick H. Buttell, Ann P. Hawkins and Alison G. Power (1990), ‘From Limits to Growth to Global Change: Constraints and Contradictions in the Evolution of Environmental Science and Ideology’ B Epistemic Communities 28. Peter M. Haas (1999), ‘Social Constructivism and the Evolution of Multilateral Environmental Governance’ 29. Peter M. Haas and Ernst B. Haas (1995), ‘Learning to Learn: Improving International Governance’ 30. Peter M. Haas (1989), ‘Do Regimes Matter? Epistemic Communities and Mediterranean Pollution Control’ C Critical Constructivism 31. Ken Conca (1994), ‘Rethinking the Ecology-Sovereignty Debate’ 32. Eric Laferrière (1996), ‘Emancipating International Relations Theory: An Ecological Perspective’ 33. Karen T. Litfin (1997), ‘Sovereignty in World Ecopolitics’ 34. Peter Doran (1995), ‘Earth, Power, Knowledge: Towards a Critical Global Environmental Politics’ Name Index Volume II: Applications Acknowledgements An introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume I PART I SOCIAL CHOICE/POLITICAL ECONOMY 1. Ronald Coase (1960), ‘The Problem of Social Cost’ 2. Giulio M. Gallarotti (1995), ‘It Pays to be Green: The Managerial Incentive Structure and Environmentally Sound Strategies’ 3. Kenneth A. Oye and James H. Maxwell (1994), ‘Self-interest and Environmental Management’ 4. Ronald B. Mitchell (1994), ‘Regime Design Matters: Intentional Oil Pollution and Treaty Compliance’ 5. Scott Barrett (1990), ‘The Problem of Global Environmental Protection’ 6. Jennifer Clapp (1998), ‘The Privatization of Global Environmental Governance: ISO 14000 and the Developing World’ 7. Kathryn Harrison (1999), ‘Talking with the Donkey. Cooperative Approaches to Environmental Protection’ 8. Peter Dauvergne (1997), ‘A Model of Sustainable International Trade in Tropical Timber’ PART II SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT DOCTRINES 9. W.I. Vernadsky (1944), ‘Problems of Biogeochemistry’ 10. World Commission on Environment and Development (1987), ‘From One Earth to One World: An Overview by the World Commission on Environment and Development’ 11. Sharachchandra M. Lélé (1991), ‘Sustainable Development: A Critical Review’ 12. Robert Costanza, Herman E. Daly and Joy A. Bartholomew (1991), ‘Goals, Agenda, and Policy Recommendations for Ecological Economics’ PART III FREE TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 13. Herman E. Daly (2000), ‘Globalization and Its Discontents’ 14. Eric Neumayer (2000), ‘Trade and the Environment: A Critical Assessment and Some Suggestions for Reconciliation’ 15. Gene M. Grossman and Alan B. Krueger (1995), ‘Economic Growth and the Environment’ PART IV ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL SECURITY 16. Jessica Tuchman Mathews (1989), ‘Redefining Security’ 17. Thomas F. Homer-Dixon (1994), ‘Environmental Scarcities and Violent Conflict: Evidence from Cases’ 18. Daniel Deudney (1990), ‘The Case Against Linking Environmental Degradation and National Security’ PART V COMPLIANCE, IMPLEMENTATION AND EFFECTIVENESS 19. Arild Underdal (1992), ‘The Concept of Regime “Effectiveness”’ 20. Ronald B. Mitchell (1993), ‘Compliance Theory: A Synthesis’ 21. David G. Victor and Eugene B. Skolnikoff (1999), ‘Translating Intent into Action: Implementing Environmental Commitments’ 22. Harold K. Jacobson and Edith Brown Weiss (1995), ‘Strengthening Compliance with International Environmental Accords: Preliminary Observations from a Collaborative Project’ 23. Peter M. Haas (1998), ‘Compliance with EU Directives: Insights from International Relations and Comparative Politics’ 24. Arild Underdal (1998), ‘Explaining Compliance and Defection: Three Models’ Name Index

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Book SynopsisIncreasingly, natural environments are being changed by our activities, and potential human uses of natural resources are often incompatible with environmental protection goals. Travel cost models supply economic information to estimate values in environmental decision-making that otherwise are not available. In the absence of this information, non-market benefits are likely to be ignored in the decision-making process. An important question faced by policymakers centres around the appropriate mix of policies to provide a balance in the use of environments in their natural state versus commodity production. Appropriate analyses of rival policies regarding land usage depend on the availability of data on benefits and costs. This book provides indispensable guidance to the TCM (Travel Cost Method) methodology and its uses, as well as highlighting areas where further development is necessary.The book presents a self-contained treatment of TCM along with a wide range of applications to natural resource and environmental policy questions. It will be an indispensable tool for policymakers in both government and NGOs, natural resource site managers as well as academics and researchers.Trade Review'. . . Ward and Beal have produced a volume that will be a useful addition to the collection of environmental and resource economists who are - or want to be - involved in the estimation of non-market values.' -- Jeff Bennett, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics'The book has a broad scope and is fairly comprehensive in its coverage of different methodological approaches to measurement of travel costs and their relationship to demand for recreation. . . Ward and Beal's book should be easily accessible to readers with either an elementary knowledge of economics or with serious quantitative training from other disciplines such as biology or engineering.' -- Phil Simmons, Economic Record'Frank Ward and Diana Beal set out to provide a self-contained treatment of the travel cost model for readers with little formal training in statistics or economics. The population that they anticipate serving includes policy analysts, environmental scientists and natural resource managers who need to make informed decisions about land use. This niche has long been waiting to be filled and Ward and Beal have done an excellent job of filling it. The authors have produced a highly readable volume that illuminates the important facets of travel cost models in a clear and understandable presentation. . . . The bibliography will also be a very useful reference for researchers and policy analysts alike. Overall, the authors have clearly succeeded in providing a readable and informative manual on the subject of travel cost models and their use in valuing changes in environmental access or amenities. In doing so, they have made travel cost models an even more valuable tool than they have been in the past, by aiding the end-users of these models in understanding what the models measure and how they are constructed. Ward and Beal are to be congratulated on their fine work. This volume will be a valuable addition to any resource manager's library.' -- Catherine Kling, European Review of Agricultural Economics'Travel cost recreation demand modelling has come "of age" thanks to Ward and Beal. Their book provides ready access to this method and highlights emerging research issues. By helping us to understand the intricate nuances of the travel cost methodology for valuing non-market amenities, they have "created" a valuable resource for practitioner and student alike. There is no doubt that it will have a lasting effect on the literature.' -- V. Kerry Smith, Arizona State University, US'This book is the A to Z of the travel cost method. It is all that you will ever need to know to set up a successful travel cost model, complete it, and interpret its results for policy or resource pricing. An authoritative source on all aspects of travel cost models, from economic theory to sampling design and statistical analysis, it is an invaluable guide to all those contemplating using this method. The manual allows you to navigate through the complexities of travel cost analysis with ease; and provides new perspectives and ideas that even established travel cost researchers may not have encountered.' -- Kenneth G. Willis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UKTable of ContentsContents: Introduction 1. Support for Environmental Policy Decisions 2. History and Scope of TCM 3. Demand Theory and TCM 4. Benefits Theory and TCM 5. Design Principles for TCMs 6. Design and Administration of Surveys 7. Measurement of the Variables 8. Data Management and Analysis 9. Developing and Maintaining Expertise Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAlistair Ulph has made a major contribution to the literature on trade-environment issues. This impressive book gathers together a selection of his most influential papers covering the last eight years, paying special attention to strategic environmental policy and its implications.The book addresses the often expressed concern that globalization and trade may have a detrimental effect on the environment. Drawing on the tools of modern trade theory, Alistair Ulph argues that even if governments seek to use their environmental policies to secure strategic trade advantages, this need not imply they will necessarily set too weak environmental policies and regulations. The extent to which governments set these environmental policies to secure competitive trade advantage is also examined.Environmental and trade economists, policy advisors to national governments and international trade and environment agencies, will find this book of immense value in understanding the links between trade and environment policies.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction Part I: The Issues – and An Overview Part II: Strategic Environmental Policy Part III: Strategic Environmental Policy and Plant Location Part IV: Policy Implications Index

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