Useful Books
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Sustainable Agricultural Practices
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ISBN: 9781836083375Publication Date: 2024-11-28Agricultural industries across the world have adopted modern technologies to boost yields, but these methods frequently cause environmental harm due to the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides. While the 'green revolution' has enhanced food security for numerous regions, it has also worsened the qualities of the environmental assets. Sustainable Agricultural Practices: Economic and Environmental Implications presents a comprehensive exploration of contemporary challenges and innovative solutions in agriculture. This comprehensive collection provides insights for researchers and academics in agriculture and environmental studies. Policy makers and government officials, as well as international development practitioners, may also reap benefits from the analysis of food security issues, environmental health and socioeconomic development.
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The Green Frontier
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ISBN: 9780881327519Publication Date: 2024-06-15Addressing climate change will entail major challenges for economic growth, employment, inflation, and public finances. Mitigating the impact of global warming will yield benefits and costs that are yet to be quantified and defined for the global economy and for nations, workers, households, and companies. The Green Frontier: Assessing the Economic Implications of Climate Action offers research originally presented at a major conference at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in June 2023 in Washington, DC, organized to shed light on this still unexplored field of study and recommend policies for the future. -
Bioeconomy for Sustainability
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ISBN: 9819718368Publication Date: 2024-06-01In recent years, competition has increased for determinate resources. There is an urgent need to look for sustainable, non-polluting alternate sources to meet the demands of an ever-increasing population. Sustainable processes and production while using biological material can produce food, fodder, agricultural inputs, fuel etc. with lesser inputs and reduced emission of pollutants. The Bioeconomy can be a possible way to address these challenges. This book is a valuable source for researchers, teachers, and undergraduate and graduate students of environmental science, environmental economics, agriculture science, biotechnology, ecology, and soil science. -
Economics of Sustainable Agriculture
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ISBN: 9789819635016Publication Date: 2025-03-29Fertilizers are indispensable for agricultural production. Chemical fertilizers have significantly improved agricultural productivity. However, the excessive use of fertilizers has caused serious nitrogen pollution. What is the reason of a lack of progress in addressing nitrogen pollution? What is necessary to achieve sustainable nitrogen use in agriculture? By analyzing the effects of "visualizing" the nitrogen footprint on the behavioral changes of farmers and consumers, this book not only highlights the limitations of conventional agricultural policies but also provides recommendations for future agricultural environmental policies. -
Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance
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ISBN: 9780128036150Publication Date: 2015-11-04The use of financial concepts and tools to shape development is hardly new, but their recent adoption by advocates of sustainable environmental management has created opportunities for innovation in business and regulatory groups. The Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance summarizes the latest trends and attitudes in environmental finance, balancing empirical research with theory and applications. Covering implications from the Kyoto and Paris Protocols, it presents an intellectually cohesive examination of problems, opportunities, and metrics worldwide.
Resources and Professional Organizations
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System of Environmental Economic Accounting (SEEA)Developed by the United Nations, SEEA is a framework that integrates economic and environmental data to provide a more comprehensive and multipurpose view of the interrelationships between the economy and the environment and the stocks and changes in stocks of environmental assets, as they bring benefits to humanity.