Paul Reed Ekins

Hydrogen Energy: Economic and Social Challenges

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 pr...

Energy 2050: Making the Transition to a Secure Low-Carbon Energy System

The United Kingdom is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by at leasteighty per centby 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 d...

Carbon-Energy Taxation: Lessons from Europe

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 ...

Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment: A Critical Look at Methods and Outcomes

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 e...

Living Economy: New Economics in the Making

GAIA Atlas of Green Economics (Gaia Future)

Every day, all over the world, billions of people play their part in humanity's global growth economy. Money is the god, material wealth the principal virtue, and market economics the ruler of our times. But this economics of consumption is full of hidden costs. It is drawing us ever deeper into soc...

Environmental Tax Reform (ETR): A Policy for Green Growth (Creating Sustainable Growth in Europe)

Many people have serious concerns about the environment and wonder whether solving environmental problems is compatible with continuing economic growth. This book provides an in-depth exploration of a proposed reform to the national tax system, whereby the burden of taxes is shifted from conventiona...

Real Life Economics

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 impa...

The Gaia Atlas of Green Economics

The Living Economy: A New Economics in the Making

The Living Economy: A New Economics in the Making

Paul Ekins

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