This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Rural Tourism as a Tool for Sustainable Development - Lessons Learned in Estonia -- 3. From Communism to Capitalism: The Transition of Bulgarian Tourism Sector and Contemporary Discourses -- 4. From Centrally-Driven Variations to Market-Driven Development: Models of Urban...

This book focuses on the energy transition from a system predominantly based on fossil fuels to one where renewable energy is increasingly important. Through the conceptual lens of sociology, this book aims to critically look at the linkages between renewable energy, civil society, territory and...