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Book Tackling Environmental Problems with the Help of Behavioural Insights

Download or read book Tackling Environmental Problems with the Help of Behavioural Insights written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews recent developments in the application of behavioural insights to encourage more sustainable consumption, investment and compliance decisions by individuals and firms.

Book Environmental Issues

Download or read book Environmental Issues written by Parul Rishi and published by Rawat Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is motivated by the belief that psychology has much to contribute in offering behavioral insights on recent environmental issues which are threatening the existence of the planet. Due to the limited awareness of people regarding the potential of behavioral sciences in offering solutions to environmental problems, much of the environmental issues are oscillating in the hands of technological experts, still longing for lasting solutions. This book, written from the perspective of various scholars in India - psychologists, environmental scientists, corporate managers, and natural resource conservationists - culminates into a chain of thoughts, which take an integrative approach in balancing the interrelationship between people and the environment. The contents of book are varied, ranging from hardcore theories to the consumptive behavior of people, their mind-set, corporate social responsibility, environmental leadership skills, and well-being. The book's unique approach offers behavioral solutions to recent environmental problems, such as global warming, climate change, and urban environment stress. The book will encourage researchers to universally seek desirable new behavioral insights into environmental problems.

Book The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements

Download or read book The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once seen as aspirational and relatively innocuous, 'sustainability' or 'sustainable development' provisions are now changing the face of international trade agreements. The Sustainability Revolution in International Trade Agreements gathers fundamental, first-hand analyses of these novel commitments across dozens of agreements, considering their legal, political, and economic aspects. Drawing on perspectives from different parts of the world and engaging experts in the law and practice of sustainability provisions, this volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the latest developments and innovations in international trade agreements. It also evaluates the development challenges that sustainability requirements pose for countries with limited resources and capacity, for whom lower labour and environmental regulatory costs have been a competitive asset. The present volume explores the intersectional aspects of sustainability - such as gender equality, biodiversity, animal welfare, and Indigenous rights - in addition to the more traditional dimensions of sustainability, namely economic development, environmental conservation, and improvement of labour standards. There is little doubt that a sustainability revolution in global production patterns is needed. Considering the details of its operation - how it can come into being, who will bear the increased production costs, and how decisions on difficult trade-offs will be made - reveals the immense challenges involved in developing a new international law for sustainable trade. Read together, the chapters in this volume outline the contours this emerging legal framework, examine its practical operation, and offer important reflections upon the real extent and the foreseeable consequences of this sustainability revolution in international trade agreements.

Book Environmental Economics

Download or read book Environmental Economics written by Tom Tietenberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of environmental economics that is based on a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research. Students will not only leave the course with a firm understanding of environmental economics, but they will also be exposed to a number of case studies showing how underlying economic principles provided the foundation for specific environmental and resource policies. This key text highlights what insights can be derived from the actual experience. Key features include: Extensive coverage of the major issues, including climate change, air and water pollution, sustainable development, and environmental justice Introductions to the theory and method of environmental economics, including externalities, experimental and behavioral economics, benefit-cost analysis, and methods for valuing the services provided by the environment Boxed Examples and Debates throughout the text, which highlight global cases and major talking points This second edition provides updated data, new studies, and more international examples. There is a considerable amount of new material, with a deeper focus on climate change. The text is fully supported with end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, and self-test exercises in the book, as well as a suite of supplementary digital resources, including multiple-choice questions, simulations, references, slides, and an instructor’s manual. It is adapted from the 12th edition of the best-selling Environmental and Natural Resource Economics textbook by the same authors.

Book OECD Public Governance Reviews Behavioural Insights for Public Integrity Harnessing the Human Factor to Counter Corruption

Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Behavioural Insights for Public Integrity Harnessing the Human Factor to Counter Corruption written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the core of integrity is a human choice. Behavioural research reveals two determinants of integrity: the internal dynamics of how individuals make moral decisions and how these decisions are shaped and influenced by other people. This report describes how behavioural insights can help make ...

Book Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Download or read book Environmental and Natural Resource Economics written by Tom Tietenberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is one of the most widely used textbooks for environmental economics and natural resource economics courses, offering a policy-oriented approach and introducing economic theory and empirical work from the field. Students will develop a global perspective of both environmental and natural resource economics and how they interact. This 12th edition provides updated data, new studies, and more international examples. There is a considerable amount of new material, with a deeper focus on climate change and coverage of COVID-19, social justice, and the circular economy. Key features include: Extensive coverage of major contemporary issues including climate change, water and air pollution, resource allocation, biodiversity protection, sustainable development, and environmental justice. Four chapters specifically devoted to climate economics, including chapters on energy, climate mitigation, carbon pricing, and adaptation to climate change. Introductions to the theory and method of environmental economics, including externalities, benefit-cost analysis, valuation methods, and ecosystem goods and services and updates to the social cost of carbon. New examples and debates throughout the text, highlighting global cases and major talking points. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics supports students with end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, exercises, and further reading in the book, and the companion website offers additional learning and teaching resources.

Book OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2018

Download or read book OECD Regulatory Policy Outlook 2018 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report maps country efforts to improve regulatory quality in line with the 2012 OECD Recommendation on Regulatory Policy and Governance, and shares good regulatory practices. It provides unique insights and innovative approaches to better regulation.

Book Environmental Economics and Policy

Download or read book Environmental Economics and Policy written by Lynne Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Economics and Policy is a best-selling text for environmental economics courses. Offering a policy-oriented approach, it introduces economic theory, empirical fieldwork, and case studies that show how underlying economic principles provided the foundation for environmental policies. Key features include: Introductions to the theory and method of environmental economics, including externalities, benefit-cost analysis, valuation methods, and ecosystem goods and services. Extensive coverage of the major issues including climate change mitigation and adaptation, air and water pollution, and environmental justice. Boxed "Examples" and "Debates" throughout the text, which highlight global examples and major talking points. This text will be of use to undergraduate students of economics. Students will leave the course with a global perspective of how environmental economics has played and can continue to play a role in promoting fair and efficient environmental management. The text is fully supported with end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, and self-test exercises in the book. Additional online resources include references, as well as PowerPoint slides for each chapter.

Book Natural Resource Economics

Download or read book Natural Resource Economics written by Tom Tietenberg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials offers a policy-oriented approach to the increasingly influential field of natural resource economics that is based upon a solid foundation of economic theory and empirical research. Students will not only leave the course with a firm understanding of natural resource economics, but they will also be exposed to a number of case studies showing how underlying economic principles provided the foundation for specific natural resource policies. This key text highlights what insights can be derived from the actual experience. Key features include: Extensive coverage of the major issues, including energy, recyclable resources, water policy, land conservation and management, forests, fisheries, other ecosystems, and sustainable development Introductions to the theory and method of natural resource economics, including externalities, experimental and behavioral economics, benefit-cost analysis, and methods for valuing the services provided by the environment Boxed "Examples" and "Debates" throughout the text, which highlight global cases and major talking points. This second edition provides updated data, new studies, and more international examples. There is a considerable amount of new material, with a deeper focus on climate change. The text is fully supported with end-of-chapter summaries, discussion questions, and self-test exercises in the book, as well as a suite of supplementary digital resources, including multiple-choice questions, simulations, references, slides, and an instructor’s manual. It is adapted from the 12th edition of the best-selling Environmental and Natural Resource Economics textbook by the same authors.

Book LOGIC  Good Practice Principles for Mainstreaming Behavioural Public Policy

Download or read book LOGIC Good Practice Principles for Mainstreaming Behavioural Public Policy written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report outlines good practice principles intended to encourage the incorporation of behavioural perspectives as part of standard policymaking practice in government and governmental organisations.

Book Educating for Radical Social Transformation in the Climate Crisis

Download or read book Educating for Radical Social Transformation in the Climate Crisis written by Stuart Tannock and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks how education can be developed to facilitate the radical social, cultural and economic transformations needed to deal with the ongoing climate emergency. The author illuminates important links between the work currently being done in climate change and education and the broader and older theories of radical education: an area of education theory and practice that has long grappled with the question of how to use education to create a more just society. Highlighting both current work and long traditions that include popular, progressive, feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial education, the author draws on interdisciplinary research to make the case for how radical education can help tackle the climate change crisis. It will have direct relevance for scholars of environmental education and radical education as well as activists and practitioners.

Book Intersecting Health  Livability  and Human Behavior in Urban Environments

Download or read book Intersecting Health Livability and Human Behavior in Urban Environments written by González-Lezcano, Roberto Alonso and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-05-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The promotion of sustainable urban development and livable cities in the past three decades has effectively merged the themes of urban health, urban sustainability, and urban livability into an integrated research field. As more people are predicted to live in a relatively confined space, the balance between the physical/built environment, social environment, and urban dwellers becomes more delicate. Urban systems have evolved to be more complex than ever during this process. While complex systems often offer relative stability, delicate balance requires carefully designed plans and management to avoid collapse. It is, hence, of great interest and importance to know what future sustainable and livable cities look like. Intersecting Health, Livability, and Human Behavior in Urban Environments considers how to improve the quality of the environment and healthy living in contemporary and future urban environments. Covering key topics such as environmental health, smart cities, and urban health, this premier reference source is ideal for policymakers, government officials, scholars, researchers, academicians, instructors, and students.

Book OECD Public Governance Reviews Building Trust and Reinforcing Democracy Preparing the Ground for Government Action

Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Building Trust and Reinforcing Democracy Preparing the Ground for Government Action written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication sheds light on the important public governance challenges countries face today in preserving and strengthening their democracies, including fighting mis- and disinformation; improving openness, citizen participation and inclusiveness; and embracing global responsibilities and building resilience to foreign influence.

Book Modern Economic Regulation

Download or read book Modern Economic Regulation written by Christopher Decker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic regulation affects us all, shaping how we access essential services such as water, energy and transport, as well as how we communicate with one another in the digital world. Modern Economic Regulation describes the core insights of economic theory on which regulatory policies are based and connects this with evidence of how regulation is applied. It focuses on fundamental questions such as: why are certain industries regulated? What principles can inform regulation? How is regulation implemented? Which regulatory policies have been more, or less, effective in practice? All chapters in this second edition are fully updated to reflect the latest research and evidence, while five new chapters cover behavioural economics and the regulation of rail, aviation, payment systems and digital platforms. Each chapter contains discussion questions and topical case studies, and online materials include over 60 applied exercises that explore real-life regulatory problems from around the world.

Book Environmental Law in Arab States

Download or read book Environmental Law in Arab States written by Damilola Olawuyi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Law in Arab States offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the guiding principles and rules relating to environmental protection in the Arab region. Taking an international and comparative approach, the book introduces readers to the latest developments of environmental law across the Arab region through applicable legislation, green finance, and climate technologies The impact of these is assessed in each of the major areas of environmental regulation, air pollution, water pollution, biodiversity, conservation of nature and cultural heritage, infrastructure development, and Islamic ecology. Consideration is given to participatory and bottom-up legal strategies DS focusing on transparency, accountability, gender justice, and other human rights safeguards DS that are needed to achieve greater coherence and coordination in the implementation and enforcement of environmental regulation across the region. The book closes by providing legal assessments and reflections on how Arab countries can, through clear and comprehensive legislation, advance existing national strategies and visions on trade and investment, green growth, Islamic green finance, circular economy, blue economy, and low carbon future amongst others.

Book Smart Cities  Green Technologies  and Intelligent Transport Systems

Download or read book Smart Cities Green Technologies and Intelligent Transport Systems written by Cornel Klein and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes extended and revised selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2020, and the 6th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2020, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2020. The 30 full papers presented during SMARTGREENS and VEHITS 2020 were carefully reviewed and selected from the 117 submissions. The papers present research on advances and applications in the fiels of smart cities, electric vehicles, sustainable computing and communications, energy aware systems and technologies, intelligent vehicle technologies, intelligent transport systems and infrastructure, connected vehicles.

Book Disruptive Technologies  Climate Change and Shipping

Download or read book Disruptive Technologies Climate Change and Shipping written by Barış Soyer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the impact of two vital and contemporary developments on shipping law and practice: disruptive technologies and climate change. It considers the impact of these new technologies, honing in on likely emerging issues and unresolved questions, especially about existing and potential private law liabilities and concentrates, from the point of view of English, EU and international law, on the legal implications of climate change and associated environmental risks in the shipping sector. Written by a contributor team drawn from the most experienced and knowledgeable academics and practitioners in shipping law, this treatment of these growing areas of practice will be of great use to lawyers and administrators across the world.