Environmental Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. Green Industrial Policy in Emerging Countries

   Edited by Anna Pegels

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   For decades, governments have tried to foster industrial competitiveness and economic growth. Many instruments are known to work, and many lessons have been learned. However, humanity is increasingly feeling the effects of natural resource depletion. The rate of this depletion is deeply...

   Published May 9th 2015 by Routledge
2. Water and Climate Change in Africa

   Challenges and Community Initiatives in Durban, Maputo and Nairobi

   Edited by Patricia E. Perkins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

   In the coming decades, countries around the world will face increasingly severe challenges related to global climate change. While the details vary from country to country, the impacts will be especially grave for marginalized people, whose access to food, potable water, and safe shelter may be...

   Published May 9th 2015 by Routledge
3. Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation

   Edited by Suh-Yong Chung

   Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

   The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period. Since 1992, the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol has been the primary legal instrument to respond to the climate challenge. However, the...

   Published May 9th 2015 by Routledge
4. International Climate Finance

   Edited by Erik Haites

   The book is the first to provide a complete overview of international climate finance. In the Copenhagen Accord of 2009, developed countries jointly committed to mobilize US$100 billion per year to address climate change in developing countries. The book presents the best information available...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
5. Post-Petroleum Design

   By George Elvin

   Despite the growing demand for design strategies to reduce our petroleum use, no one has yet brought together the lessons of the world’s leading post-petroleum designers into a single resource. Post-Petroleum Design brings them together for the first time. Readers will be introduced to the most...

   Published May 1st 2015 by Routledge
6. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal

   Partnerships in Action

   By Rory Shand

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case...

   Published April 27th 2015 by Routledge
7. The Elements of Environmental Pollution

   By John Rieuwerts

   Environmental pollution is one of humanity’s most pressing issues and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Anthropogenic activity is disturbing natural cycles and generating pollutants that are altering the atmosphere, accumulating in the food chain and contaminating the world’s soils, rivers...

   Published April 16th 2015 by Routledge
8. Economics for Environmental Professionals

   By Frank R. Spellman

   Environmental professionals are often called upon to find solutions to environmental degradation problems or to lead the way in planning to prevent them. Because they come mainly from the environmental and science disciplines, most environmental professionals have limited training in the...

   Published April 13th 2015 by CRC Press
9. The Limits of the Green Economy

   From re-inventing capitalism to re-politicising the present

   By Anneleen Kenis, Matthias Lievens

   Series: Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy

   Projecting win-win situations, new economic opportunities, green growth and innovative partnerships, the green economy discourse has quickly gained centre stage in international environmental governance and policymaking. Its underlying message is attractive and optimistic: if the market can become...

   Published March 31st 2015 by Routledge
10. Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development

    Edited by Michael Redclift, Delyse Springett

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and...

    Published March 10th 2015 by Routledge