Economics of Sustainable Energy in Agriculture
Economics of Sustainable Energy in Agriculture

Author: Ekko C. van Ierland

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-04-11

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0306480182

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book contains up-to-date studies on the economics of sustainable energy in agriculture. The studies focus on energy efficiency improvement and the use of biomass. Specific attention is paid to the economic aspects of land use and the competition for land, both for food production and dedicated energy crops. The book will be of special interest to economists, agronomists, energy experts, and politicians that deal with energy issues in agriculture, both in developing and industrialised countries. The book is relevant for those who are interested in the topic of global warming and carbon sequestration, and the transition towards carbon-free energy resources.

The Economics of Sustainable Food
The Economics of Sustainable Food

Author: Nicoletta Batini

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2021-06-08

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1642831611

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of food for people and the planet. It illustrates how to transform our broken system, alleviating its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment like regenerative land and sea farming, low-impact urban farming, and alternative protein farming, and toward healthy diets. The book's multidisciplinary team of authors lay out detailed fiscal and trade policies, as well as structural reforms, to achieve those goals. Chapters discuss strategies to make food production sustainable, nutritious, and fair, ranging from taxes and spending to education, labor market, health care, and pension reforms, alongside regulation in cases where market incentives are unlikely to work or to work fast enough. The authors carefully consider the different needs of more and less advanced economies, balancing economic development and sustainability goals. Case studies showcase successful strategies from around the world, such as taxing foods with a high carbon footprint, financing ecosystems mapping and conservation to meet scientific targets for healthy biomes permanency, subsidizing sustainable land and sea farming, reforming health systems to move away from sick care to preventive, nutrition-based care, and providing schools with matching funds to purchase local organic produce.--Amazon.

Economics of solar energy use in agriculture
Economics of solar energy use in agriculture

Author: Uday Kumar M.S

Publisher: Amazon Publishers, USA

Published: 2021-01-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Power is considered to be a core industry as it facilitates development across various sectors of the Indian economy, such as manufacturing, agriculture, commercial enterprises and railways. Keeping this into account, Govt. of India right from the inception of the first five year plan period has given special emphasis for its development. Whereas, Solar power has gained immense importance over the last 5 years as the world moves towards clean energy sources to reduce the negative impact on the environment and to reduce dependence on the limited reserves of coal and gas.Agriculture is the sole provider of human food. Most farm machines are driven by fossil fuels, which contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and, in turn, accelerate climate change. Such environmental damage can be mitigated by the promotion of renewable resources such as solar, wind, biomass, tidal, geo-thermal, small-scale hydro, bio-fuels and wave-generated power. These renewable resources have a huge potential for the agriculture industry. The farmers should be encouraged by subsidies to use renewable energy technology. The concept of sustainable agriculture lies on a delicate balance of maximizing crop productivity and maintaining economic stability, while minimizing the utilization of finite natural resources and detrimental environmental impacts. Hence, there is a need for promoting use of renewable energy systems for sustainable agriculture, e.g. solar photovoltaic water pumps and electricity, greenhouse technologies, solar dryers for post-harvest processing, and solar hot water heaters.

Sustainable Energy Solutions in Agriculture
Sustainable Energy Solutions in Agriculture

Author: Jochen Bundschuh

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-03-07

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 113800118X

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sustainability in agriculture and associated primary industries, which are both energy-intensive, is crucial for the development of any country. Increasing scarcity and resulting high fossil fuel prices combined with the need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, make the improvement of energy efficient farming and increased use of renewable energy essential. This book provides a technological and scientific endeavor to assist society and farming communities in different regions and scales to improve their productivity and sustainability. To fulfill future needs of a modern sustainable agriculture, this book addresses highly actual topics providing innovative, effective and more sustainable solutions for agriculture by using sustainable, environmentally friendly, renewable energy sources and modern energy efficient, cost-improved technologies. The book highlights new areas of research, and further R&D needs. It helps to improve food security for the rapidly growing world population and to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use in agriculture, which presently contributes 22% of the global carbon dioxide emissions. This book provides a source of information, stimuli and incentives for what and how new and energy efficient technologies can be applied as effective tools and solutions in agricultural production to satisfy the continually increasing demand for food and fibre in an economically sustainable way, while contributing to global climate change mitigation. It will be useful and inspiring to decision makers working in different authorities, professionals, agricultural engineers, researchers, and students concerned with agriculture and related primay industries, sustainable energy development and climate change mitigation projects.

Sustainable Energy Solutions in Agriculture
Sustainable Energy Solutions in Agriculture

Author: Jochen Bundschuh

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-03-07

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1315778718

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sustainability in agriculture and associated primary industries, which are both energy-intensive, is crucial for the development of any country. Increasing scarcity and resulting high fossil fuel prices combined with the need to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, make the improvement of energy efficient farming and increased use of rene

Agribusiness Economics
Agribusiness Economics

Author: Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9781778175220

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

« Agribusiness Economics: Advances in Renewable Energy and Global Sustainability calls for a cross-cutting and systemic approach for the interdependent issues of health, the environment, agriculture, management, and economics. The book begins by characterizing the global food system, identifying structural trends and emerging transformations, elements of permanence as well as opportunities for change. The author asks, how will these factors of change combine with trends of permanence? A normative strategy is adopted, namely that of the public authorities which, must ensure that individual eating behaviour, globally and in the long term, is compatible with the objectives of public policies. The book seeks to identify and analyze the lines of transformation to be followed in order to move towards a more sustainable diet. The book concludes by examining, in dept, the potential for renewable energy production in the agricultural sector. It shows the plurality of issues at this level: economic, financial, technological, social acceptability, training, use and access to agricultural land. The book draws up a balance sheet in terms of environmental impact, yield, social acceptability, adaptation of public policies, and technological prospects at the international level. Increasingly, agriculture will have to move towards agroecology and agroforestry, the only way of using land that combines trees and crops, which has many advantages, not only for soil protection but also for the preservation of biodiversity and land productivity. »--

The Economics of Renewable Energy
The Economics of Renewable Energy

Author: Roger Fouquet

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781786437365

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This major reference work brings together for the first time key articles on the economics of renewable energy. From a modest role as a backstop technology in the 1970s to a central role in low carbon transitions today, this collection reveals the emergence and growing importance of this sub-field of economics. Topics covered in this timely volume include the costs of renewable power (taking account of issues related to technological development, intermittency and interconnection), policies that promote renewable energy development, its public and private demand, and its impact on the environment and the economy. This indispensable collection is complemented by a comprehensive introduction that will serve as an essential source of reference for students and researchers.

Geo-Economy of the Future
Geo-Economy of the Future

Author: Elena G. Popkova

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-06-07

Total Pages: 874

ISBN-13: 3030923037

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book presents an international review of the modern geo-economy and a scientific take on the geo-economy of the future. It identifies the challenges of climate change and their impact on the modern geo-economy. Prospects for the geo-economy of the future are outlined based on sustainable agriculture and alternative energy. Policy implications are put forward to develop a geo-economy of the future in response to the challenges of climate change. The book presents management implications for the development of the geo-economy of the future in response to the challenges of climate change at the regional and global scale. It presents the lessons-learned through the COVID-19 pandemic, and applies experiences of countries with different environmental conditions for agriculture and the development of the energy sector. Based on these results, advanced practical recommendations and ready-made frameworks at the national, regional, and enterprise level are provided.

An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture
An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture

Author: Carl F. Jordan

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-05-17

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9400767900

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petroleum products such as fertilizers and pesticides. A systems analysis of farming suggests that agriculture will be more sustainable when services of nature, such as nutrient recycling by soil micro-organisms and natural controls of insects, replace the services now provided by energy from petroleum. Examples are drawn from the Southeastern USA, but lessons learned can be applied worldwide.