Books in the Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics series

This book identifies several areas in which we must fundamentally rethink our societal organisation, asking what it means to abandon the objective of economic growth and how we can encourage the emergence of other visions to guide society.

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

This book aims to analyze the impact of green growth and low carbon development on the transformation of energy systems and international trade and to evaluate the environmental and economic consequences of such policies in Northeast Asia. Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia, thereby, uncovers the limitations and challenges of advancing sustainable development world-wide.

This is a key text for those studying water governance and management. Taking on a multi- and inter-disciplinary viewpoint, Water Resources and Economic Processes offers an up-to-date collection of contributions from leading scholars and gathers research on important aspects of relevant fields.

An annual GDP growth rate of around three per cent is regarded as the minimum necessary to prevent unemployment from escalating. This book intends to resolve the environment-employment dilemma by suggesting ways and means to achieve low rates of unemployment, or preferably full employment, in the context of a low-growth or steady-state economy.

A contextualised collation of ideas articulated by the 50 participants of the Planet 2050 workshop held in Lund in October 2008, as part of The Planet in 2050, an interdisciplinary Fast Track Initiative of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.

Combines two disciplines together, regional and ecological economics. This book presents a way to understand ecological economic concerns from a regional perspective, and provides a mathematical tool to measure their interrelationships.

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

This book analyzes how the governance of innovation can foster sustainability. The quest for innovation is consistently at the top of the agenda for policy makers around the globe, on the supra-national level, as well as for the nation states and all the way down to debates in local governance and policy boards.

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

The uplands are a crucial source of ecosystem services, such as water provision, carbon retention, maintenance of biodiversity, provision of recreation value and cultural heritage. This book offers knowledge of the British uplands from diverse but interrelated fields of study, demonstrating their importance in 21st Century Britain.

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

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

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

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

Drawing on both economics and ecology, this book offers telling insights into the confusing 'jobs versus environment' debates as well as charts a recommended path towards a co-habitable relationship. It illuminates why our nation's natural environment is both better and worse than years ago.

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

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

Explores the implications for the agricultural and food sectors for Central and Eastern European countries in the light of transition and European Union integration, with primary focus on the environmental and socio-economic dimensions of agricultural development.

This is a book about the work of scientists in the era of the Anthropocene: where human beings appear to have become a driving force in the evolution of the planet. It is a diverse collection of empirical, methodological and theoretical chapters concerned with the practice of interdisciplinary social-ecological systems research.

This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers - or just curious readers - who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an approach to environmental policy that radically diverges from mainstream prescriptions. Institutions and technologies - and not only markets - are at the heart of a systemic and dynamic analysis of those structural changes which are needed to create a sustainable economy. Actors for change - and their ability to influence politics and policy - are explicitly taken into consideration. These issues are analyzed from different viewpoints by contributors to the book: some focus on behavior and institutions, others analyze the interaction of economic and technological dynamics; some provide sectoral case studies and others have the ambition to provide the reader with an overall picture. But all authors view environmental policy as a combination of actions that can trigger - and make viable - those structural changes which are needed to reach sustainability.