Economists, investors and policy makers need to understand energy systems and the potential for investment in both alternative energy supply and demand side technologies. Biophysical economics has contributed to conventional economics by incorporating thermodynamic and ecological principles and...

Pesticides’ dynamic effects and production uncertainty play an important role in farmers’ production decisions. Pesticides have a current production impact through reducing crop damage in the current period and a future impact through impacting the farm biodiversity which alters the future...

A positivist methodological perspective that emphasises quantitative methods and is incapable of addressing complex social issues overwhelmingly characterises the body of literature published in mainstream accounting journals. The US system of graduate education in accounting is, in large part,...

In recent years, understanding the structure and function of complex networks has become the foundation for explaining many different real- world complex biological, technological and informal social phenomena. Techniques from statistical physics have been successfully applied to the analysis of...