Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Environmental Economics

The volume contains papers presented at a conference "On the International Dimension of Environmental Policy." It deals with two issues:
*international environmental agreements;
*environmental policies in open economies.

Both issues are hot topics. The debate on how to cope with global climate change has become increasingly heated and controversial, and the relationship between trade and the environment is on the WTO agenda. The book contains review papers in which leading scholars in the field summarise the state of the art and original research extending the state of the art....

All over the world countries struggle with water stress. Problems vary from water scarcity and a degrading water quality, to floods and a rising sea level due to climate change. The European Union adopted a Water Framework Directive to improve the sustainability of water management in its member states. Water management should be coordinated at the level of river basins as a whole. Interests of various user groups should be better represented. River basin visions should take into account the impact of all human activities on the status of the resource. Water legislation needs streamlining...

Drawing on the middle chapters from the first edition of J. Barkley Rosser's seminal work, From Catastrophe to Chaos, this book presents an unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally continuous. However, an increasing amount of economic research has been done using approaches that allow for discontinuities such as catastrophe theory, chaos theory, synergetics, and fractal geometry. The spread of such approaches across a variety of disciplines of thought has constituted a virtual...

Nach der Bankenkrise stehen Deutschland und die Europaische Union vor einer Reihe wirtschaftlicher Herausforderungen. Die Autoren liefern in ihren Beitragen eine einzigartige Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen und europaischen Wirtschaftspolitik und analysieren die Reformoptionen fur die Sozial-, Wahrungs- und Umweltpolitik. Ihr Fazit: Zielkonflikte im Bereich Wachstum, Beschaftigung und Umweltmodernisierung lassen sich durch geeignete Politikansatze minimieren. Nur durch solche innovativen Ansatze kann nachhaltiges Wachstum erreicht werden.