New Economics for Sustainability
Time for Transformation
- 1st Edition - March 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editor: Angeliki Menegaki
- Language: English
New Economics for Sustainability: Time for Transformation offers a timely and critical examination of sustainability and economics. Each chapter provides fresh insights into sustai… Read more
New Economics for Sustainability: Time for Transformation offers a timely and critical examination of sustainability and economics. Each chapter provides fresh insights into sustainability, offering both a critical assessment of the present and a roadmap for redefining how economic agents can collaborate to protect the environment, strengthen societal bonds, and measure genuine progress. This book serves the crucial purpose of consolidating the latest research and insights on sustainability, addressing the growing need for a cohesive resource in a world where sustainability is a core aspect of governance, economics, and societal well-being. It presents a systematic approach to the often fragmented and ever-evolving field of sustainability, allowing readers to reevaluate past achievements and future challenges. New Economics for Sustainability: Time for Transformation is an essential tool for comprehending and navigating the intricate web of issues shaping our sustainable future.
- Provides up-to-date research on the topic of sustainability
- Explains how economics provide answers to the sustainability in all four sections of economy, environment, society and culture
- Highlights how sustainability is an interdisciplinary approach with economics which has currently not unfolded its full potential and contribution capability therein yet
Research students, professors, academicians, and specialists interested in Sustainability, Environmental Science, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Climate Change
PART 1: ECONOMY
1. Sustainable income- equality of income
2. Sustainable labor- black economy-volunteering work
3. Sustainable capital accumulation
4. Defensive expenditures and sustainability
5. Education economics and sustainability
6. Health economics and sustainability
7. Green finance
8. Others
PART 2: THE ENVIRONMENT
9. Air pollution economics and sustainability
10. Land economics- Land degradation- Soil pollution and sustainability
11. Water economics and sustainability
12. Energy economics and sustainability
13. Resource extraction and sustainability
14. Climate change, Carbon emissions and sustainability
15. Food economics and sustainability
16. Road and other networks and sustainability
17. Others
PART 3: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
18. Artificial intelligence and sustainability
19. Balance of family life with work life and sustainability
20. Neighboring and sustainability
21. Happiness and sustainability
22. Immigration and sustainability
23. Addictions and sustainability
24. Culture and identity preservation and sustainability
25. Others
1. Sustainable income- equality of income
2. Sustainable labor- black economy-volunteering work
3. Sustainable capital accumulation
4. Defensive expenditures and sustainability
5. Education economics and sustainability
6. Health economics and sustainability
7. Green finance
8. Others
PART 2: THE ENVIRONMENT
9. Air pollution economics and sustainability
10. Land economics- Land degradation- Soil pollution and sustainability
11. Water economics and sustainability
12. Energy economics and sustainability
13. Resource extraction and sustainability
14. Climate change, Carbon emissions and sustainability
15. Food economics and sustainability
16. Road and other networks and sustainability
17. Others
PART 3: SOCIETY AND CULTURE
18. Artificial intelligence and sustainability
19. Balance of family life with work life and sustainability
20. Neighboring and sustainability
21. Happiness and sustainability
22. Immigration and sustainability
23. Addictions and sustainability
24. Culture and identity preservation and sustainability
25. Others
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: March 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Angeliki Menegaki
Dr Angeliki N. Menegaki is a Full Professor of Applied Economics in Environment, Energy and Tourism in the Department of Regional and Economic Development in the Agricultural University of Athens-EU CONEXUS. She received her PhD from the University of Stirling UK and her Masters’ Degree from the University of Leeds UK. She holds two Degrees, one in Economics from the University of Crete, and one in Languages, Literature and Culture of Black Sea Countries with the Specialization in Turkish Language. She has taught in various universities and has also worked both in the public and private sector. She has published more than 70 research papers in international journals with an impact factor and has also written or supervised the translation of ten books in Greek or English. She has received more than 2000 citations in Scopus with an H-index=23. Her research interests are on environment, energy and tourism. Currently she is Deputy Head in the Department of Regional and Economic Development and Director of Doctoral Studies. She is also the founder and editor in Chief of the International Journal of the Energy-Growth Nexus (Inderscience Publications) and editor of the Encyclopedia of Energy Economics (Edward Elgar). Moreover, she is Associate Editor in two journals in Elsevier, Gondwana Research and Heliyon. In 2020, 2021 and 2022 she has also received a distinctive ranking in the list of Prof Ioannides (University of Standford) belonging to the top 2% of the most influential scientists worldwide in the topic of Energy (See: https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/data.../btchxktzyw/3, Baas, Jeroen; Boyack, Kevin; Ioannidis, John P.A. (2021), “August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Mendeley Data, V3, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.3). Some of the international journals that have published her research are Energy Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, Empirical Economics, Journal of Choice Modeling, Applied Energy, Energy, Sustainable Production and Consumption, Environment, Development and Sustainability, Tourism Economics, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Energy for Sustainable Development, Ecological Indicators, Energy Policy, Water Resources Research, Energy, Journal of Economic Psychology. She has served as a Guest Editor (with Prof Aviral, K.Tiwari) in Renewable Energy Journal in the SI: [https://www.journals.elsevier.com/renewable-energy/call-for-papers/novel-longitudinal-data-research-methods-renewable-energy]. She is also the editor of the edited volume: “The economics and econometrics of the energy-growth nexus” in 2018 by Elsevier [https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128127469/the-economics-and-econometrics-of-the-energy-growth-nexus] and the sole author in the book entitles “A guide to econometric methods of the energy-growth nexus” in 2020 in Elsevier [https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128190395/a-guide-to-econometrics-methods-for-the-energy-growth-nexus], Her ORCID is 0000-0003-0506-1243 and her Scopus ID is 16053108400.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Regional and Economic Development, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece