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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.

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.

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.

More and more people believe there must be a path to a good life beyond growth. But how do the economic crisis and the vision of a post-growth-society change the debate about the good life? This volume addresses the complex relations between the crisis of the growth paradigm and conceptions of the good life.

This book identifies the drivers and success factors of green industrial policy, which seeks to reconcile the synergies and trade-offs which exist between economic and environmental goals. It will be of interest to students, researchers and policymakers in the areas of energy policy, sustainable development, industrial economics and ecological economics.

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 reconciles the growing conflict between the ecological sustainability and full employment objectives, discussing and analyzing the impact that achieving ecological sustainability will have on unemployment and the nature of the workplace.

This book assembles a host of front-line insights on the role of power and inequalities in shaping patterns of land use and resource management. Most of the contributions are informed by the notion of political ecology, recognizing that human relations to the environment and human social relations are not separate phenomena but inextricably intertwined.

Building on empirical research and relevant literature, this book describes and analyzes sustainable economic alternatives and looks at their role in a world where the old paradigms of aggregate economic growth, free trade and perfectly competitive markets are fast losing their appeal. What do the eco-social enterprises do? How do they differ from the mainstream? What are the motivations and implications of their organisational and governance structures? How are they conceptualised from different ideological and geopolitical perspectives? This book addresses these questions and others about these new approaches to production, trading, consumption and finance.

The future of economic growth is one of the decisive questions of the 21st century. However, so far the current debates questioning the viability of perpetual growth lack a thorough historical perspective. This volume addresses the origins and evolution of the growth paradigm, explores transportation, health, resource consumption and material flows as case studies of the complex repercussions of growth, and examines sustainable development, sustainable growth, buen vivir and degrowth as examples of alternative developmental models. The book provides the necessary historical depth to the ongoing discussion on suitable principles of present and future global development.

This book investigates the possibility of creating an integrated indicator covering three pillars of sustainable development: economy, society and the environment. Its objective is to change the direction of economic growth towards one which is more sustainable by introducing new indicators relevant to sustainable development and a green economy and also discusses the key issues for these indicators.

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.

Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare raises the issue of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Consisting of three parts, this book regards the current financial, economic and political crisis in welfare state institutions and addresses methodological, theoretical and wider conceptual issues in integrating sustainability. Furthermore, this text is concerned with the main institutional obstacles to the achievement of sustainable welfare and wellbeing, and how these may feasibly be overcome.

More and more people believe there must be a path to a good life beyond growth. But how do the economic crisis and the vision of a post-growth-society change the debate about the good life? This volume addresses the complex relations between the crisis of the growth paradigm and conceptions of the good life.

Society today faces a difficult contradiction: we know exactly how the physical limits of our planet are being reached and exactly why we cannot go on as we have before ¿ and yet, collectively, we seem unable to reach crucial decisions for our future in a timely way. This book argues that our definition of prosperity, which we have long assimilated with the idea of material wealth, may be preventing us from imagining a future that meets essential human aspirations without straining our planet to the breaking point. In other words, redefining prosperity is a necessary and urgent task.

The future of economic growth is one of the decisive questions of the 21st century. However, so far the current debates questioning the viability of perpetual growth lack a thorough historical perspective. This volume addresses the origins and evolution of the growth paradigm, explores transportation, health, resource consumption and material flows as case studies of the complex repercussions of growth, and examines sustainable development, sustainable growth, buen vivir and degrowth as examples of alternative developmental models. The book provides the necessary historical depth to the ongoing discussion on suitable principles of present and future global development.

Sustainability and the Political Economy of Welfare raises the issue of what is required to make welfare societies ecologically sustainable. Consisting of three parts, this book regards the current financial, economic and political crisis in welfare state institutions and addresses methodological, theoretical and wider conceptual issues in integrating sustainability. Furthermore, this text is concerned with the main institutional obstacles to the achievement of sustainable welfare and wellbeing, and how these may feasibly be overcome.

This book investigates the possibility of creating an integrated indicator covering three pillars of sustainable development: economy, society and the environment. Its objective is to change the direction of economic growth towards one which is more sustainable by introducing new indicators relevant to sustainable development and a green economy and also discusses the key issues for these indicators.

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.

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.

Society today faces a difficult contradiction: we know exactly how the physical limits of our planet are being reached and exactly why we cannot go on as we have before ¿ and yet, collectively, we seem unable to reach crucial decisions for our future in a timely way. This book argues that our definition of prosperity, which we have long assimilated with the idea of material wealth, may be preventing us from imagining a future that meets essential human aspirations without straining our planet to the breaking point. In other words, redefining prosperity is a necessary and urgent task.

This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes.

This book identifies the drivers and success factors of green industrial policy, which seeks to reconcile the synergies and trade-offs which exist between economic and environmental goals. It will be of interest to students, researchers and policymakers in the areas of energy policy, sustainable development, industrial economics and ecological economics.