Designed specifically for students of economics, business economics, and allied areas at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, this book includes specially contributed articles by acknowledged experts of the discipline from all over the world. It covers critical areas like theory of externalities and market failure, valuation and accounting of environmental impacts, economic instruments for industrial pollution and environmental resources, poverty and environmental degradation, and corporate environmental management. The book also explores how to make development more sustainable, micro...
Designed specifically for students of economics, business economics, and allied areas at the undergraduate and postgraduate level, this book includes ...
Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and decomposition, plant pollination and flood control, all of which are dependent on biodiversity. They are predominantly public goods with limited or no markets and do not command any price in the conventional economic system, so their loss is often not detected and continues unaddressed and unabated. This in turn not only impacts human well-being, but also seriously undermines the sustainability of the economic system. It is against this...
Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature. Examples include water and air quality regulation, nutrient cycling and d...
Since environmental goods and services are not fully transacted through the market, people attempt to estimate the value through non market valuation methods. This book analyzes the issues and covers the basic concepts and application of methodologies through case studies from all over the world.
Since environmental goods and services are not fully transacted through the market, people attempt to estimate the value through non market valuation ...
The development of the ecosystem services paradigm has enhanced our understanding of natural capital as an indispensable form of capital asset along with produced and human capital. This book highlights the latest advances in the science and practice of using ecosystem services to inform decisions in the context of the developing countries. Mainstreaming natural capital into development policy is designed to help decision makers at all levels (governments, businesses, multilevel development banks and individuals) integrate ecosystems and their services into their decision making.
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The development of the ecosystem services paradigm has enhanced our understanding of natural capital as an indispensable form of capital asset alon...
