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This book deals with the increasingly complex issues of hybrid environmental and economic accounts.

The bioeconomy is steadily becoming more important in public policies. Therefore the bioeconomy should become a major new industry, outlining the possibility of a post-fossil future. This book is the first attempt to depict the origins, formation and challenges of this new industry.

This edited volume demonstrates that the informal sector is a major source of environmental pollution and a major reason behind the environmental degradation accompanying the expansion of economic activity in developing countries.

This book calls for a holistic approach to the bioeconomy to achieve its potential in driving economic growth while simultaneously providing ecological, social and technological benefits. Essential reading for students and scholars of ecological economics, environmental economics, sustainability, innovation, and regional development.

Explores good governance by using the case of European Union fisheries management. This title also tests some of the seldom questioned assumptions and axioms that are contained within governance theory, and policy documents about the forms and processes that policymaking under the so-called 'turn to governance' now takes.

Explores the implications for the agricultural and food sectors for Central and Eastern European countries in the light of transition and European Union integration, with primary focus on the environmental and socio-economic dimensions of agricultural development.

Combines two disciplines together, regional and ecological economics. This book presents a way to understand ecological economic concerns from a regional perspective, and provides a mathematical tool to measure their interrelationships.

Drawing on both economics and ecology, this book offers telling insights into the confusing 'jobs versus environment' debates as well as charts a recommended path towards a co-habitable relationship. It illuminates why our nation's natural environment is both better and worse than years ago.

Investigates environmental indicators accounting for indirect emissions (as embodied in international trade) within the framework of input-output analysis. This book introduces an indicator of environmental responsibility derived from upstream emissions embodied in final demand and downstream emissions embodied in primary inputs.

Exploring one indigenous society and how they managed to live sustainably with their ecosystems for over two thousand years, this book shows how human systems connect environmental ethics and sustainable ecological practices through institutions.

Environmental education is an important part of all human education. Its aim is to help develop peoples' ability to recognize themselves and their world, and to encounter nature. This book intends to provide a comprehensive view on problems pertaining to the relationship between humans and nature, without limit to any one particular discipline.