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  • Stopping Climate Change

    Policies for Real Zero

    by Paul Ekins ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy
    Written by one of the leading experts in the field, Paul Ekins, Stopping Climate Change provides a comprehensive overview of what is required to achieve ‘real zero’ carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, and negative emissions thereafter, which is the only way to stop human- induced climate change.This will require innovation in socio-technical systems, and in human behaviour, on an unprecedented scale ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability

    The Prospects for Green Growth

    by Paul Ekins ...
    A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to protect vthe environment. At the heart of this has been the heated debate over the nature of the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Is environemental sustainability economic growth or `green growth', a contradiction in terms?Avoiding the confusion that often surrounds ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • A New World Order

    Grassroots Movements for Global Change

    by Paul Ekins ...
    Begins by identifying a global problematique, a coincidence of four sustained factors; war, insecurity and militarisation; the persistance of poverty, the denial of human rights; environmental destruction. The conventional policy approaches to these problems are analysed through a rigorous critique of the three United Nations reports of the 1980s. Describing the partial solutions of the Brandt, ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Carbon-Energy Taxation

    Lessons from Europe

    Edited by Mikael Skou Andersen, Paul Ekins ...
    When taxes are introduced on carbon and energy, and the revenue is used to reduce other taxes, will a positive effect be achieved both for the environment and for the economy? In 1990 Finland was the first country to introduce a tax on CO2. Later, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Slovenia, Germany and the UK followed suit with tax reforms that shifted taxation from labour to carbon and energy. Over ... Read more

    $137.99 CAD

  • Hydrogen Energy

    Economic and Social Challenges

    Edited by Paul Ekins ...
    Hydrogen could be a significant fuel of the future, with the potential to make a major contribution to the resolution of pressing social and environmental problems such as carbon emissions, energy security and local air pollution.This book, based on four years of detailed research, subjects the promise and potential of hydrogen to searching, in-depth socio-economic analysis. It discusses the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Living Economy

    Edited by Paul Ekins ...
    First Published in 1986. Economics is in trouble. Its policy instruments are blunt, its experts disagree and its theories are in disarray in the face of global economics disorder: unprecedented levels of indebtedness, endemic inflation, high unemployment , deepening world poverty and gross environmental degradation. The Living Economy analyses conventional economic theory in the light of ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Real Life Economics

    Edited by Paul Ekins ...
    The past fifty years have witnessed the triumph of an industrial development that has engendered great social and environmental costs. Conventional economics has too often either ignored these costs or failed to analyse them appropriately. This book constructs a framework within which the wider impacts of economic activity can be both understood and ameliorated. The framework places its emphasis ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Global Warming and Energy Demand

    Edited by Terry Barker, Paul Ekins, Nick Johnstone ...
    This book presents a range of current views on the use of economic measures to control greenhouse gas emissions. the authors discuss the responsiveness of the energy market to changes in prices, taxes and incomes. The book's concern with global warming involves analyses of possible energy use both in the long and short term. ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment

    A Critical Look at Methods and Outcomes

    Edited by Paul Ekins, Tancrede Voituriez ...
    Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization. Trade sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) were introduced as a means of generating better understanding especially of the social and environmental impacts of trade liberalisation, and of making those impacts more consistent with ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law

    Edited by Richard Ekins, Paul Yowell, NW Barber ...
    In Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law, leading public law scholars reflect on the nature and limits of the judicial role and its implications for human rights protection and democracy. The starting point for this reflection is Lord Sumption's lecture, 'The Limits of the Law', which grounds a wide-ranging discussion of questions including the scope and legitimacy of judicial law-making, the ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Green Fiscal Mechanism and Reform for Low Carbon Development

    East Asia and Europe

    Edited by Akihisa Mori, Paul Ekins, Stefan Speck, Soo-Cheol Lee, Kazuhiro Ueta ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    This book reviews how far East Asian nations have implemented green fiscal reform, and show how they can advance carbon-energy tax reform to realize low-carbon development, with special reference to European policy and experience.East Asian nations are learning European experiences to adopt them in their political, economic and institutional contexts. However, implementation has been slow in ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Energy 2050

    Making the Transition to a Secure Low-Carbon Energy System

    by Jim Skea, Paul Ekins, Mark Winskel ...
    The United Kingdom is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at least eighty per cent by 2050, a target that will only be achieved by transforming the way that energy is supplied and used. At the same time there are anxieties about the security of energy provision in terms of European dependency on natural gas and the reliability of electricity supply. This book explores in detail ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD