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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Author -- Introduction -- 1. Causes of Climate Change and Legal Regulations -- 1.1 Causes of Climate Change -- 1.2 The Consequences of Climate Change -- 1.3 Sources and Dynamics of Greenhouse Gases -- 1.3.1 Energy -- 1.3.2 Transport -- 1.3.3 Industry -- 1.3.4 Forest Sector -- 1.4 Legal Regulation -- 2. Sustainable Development and Climate Change -- 2.1 The Concept and Objectives of Sustainable Development -- 2.1.1 Sustainable Development Goals -- 2.1.2 Integration of Culture to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals -- 2.2 The Link between Sustainable Development and Climate Change -- 2.2.1 Development Targets and Sustainable Development Tasks -- 2.3 Implementation of Sustainable Development and Climate Change Policies -- 2.4 Sustainability Assessment Methods -- 2.4.1 Indicators and Indices -- 2.4.2 Conceptual Framework and System Dynamics -- 2.4.3 Multi-Criteria Analysis -- 2.4.4 Vulnerability Analysis -- 3. Globalisation and Climate Change -- 3.1 Globalisation -- 3.2 Liberalisation of Markets and Climate Change -- 3.3 The Impact of Climate Change Mitigation Policies on Business Development -- 4. Climate Change Mitigation -- 4.1 Climate Change Mitigation Concept -- 4.2 Economic Climate Change Mitigation Approaches -- 4.2.1 Economic Instruments of Environmental Protection -- 4.2.2 Features of Taxes and Market Instruments -- 4.3 Emissions Trading Theory -- 4.4 Environmental Management Systems -- 4.5 Eco-Labelling of Goods -- 5. Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts -- 5.1 Climate Change and Migration -- 5.2 Climate Change and Developing Countries -- 5.3 Climate Change and Cities -- 5.3.1 Extreme Heat -- 5.3.2 Extreme Heat and Poverty -- 5.3.3 Water Availability -- 5.3.4 Food Security -- 5.3.5 Sea-Level Rise -- 5.3.6 Sea-Level Rise and Energy Supply.

"This book aims to develop a framework for the assessment of population preferences in climate change mitigation policies by applying Willingness to Pay (WTP) approach and presents the results from several case studies in Lithuania on renewable energy generation and renovation in different households. These analyses of climate change mitigation policies and measures, based on the assessment of their effectiveness, provide recommendations for developing innovative measures in other countries. Since public preferences are variable, climate change mitigation policies can change these preferences and allow to form new ones. A useful reference for academics, policy makers, and business community"--

The paper aims to assess the willingness to pay (WTP) for renewable electricity of Lithuanian households and to compare WTP of Lithuanian consumers with support provided for renewable by Lithuanian government in terms of Feed-in prices. The paper reviews the situation of renewable electricity generation and consumption in Lithuania and presents the results of empirical study aiming at assessment of Lithuanian household's willingness to pay for electricity produced from renewables. The results of study indicated that the WTP of Lithuanian households is significantly lower than subsides for renewable electricity provided in the form of Feed-in prices in Lithuania. Therefore feed-in prices need to be revising taking into account WTP of Lithuanian consumers.

1.7 Corporate Social Responsibility in the Context of Sustainable DevelopmentChapter 2 Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Commitment to Employees; 2.1 Concept and Levels of Corporate Social Responsibility; 2.2 Tools of Corporate Social Responsibility Implementation; 2.3 The Role of the Company' s Stakeholders; 2.4 Reasons for Implementing Corporate Social Responsibility Principles; 2.5 Corporate Social Responsibility Towards Employees; 2.6 Workplace Quality and Work Satisfaction; Chapter 3 Management and Leadership; 3.1 The Correlation Between Management and Leadership

The article discusses theoretical and practical aspects of labour market and economic cycles. According to the collected theoretical and practical data, the analysis of the concepts of labour market, economic cycles is carried out, and the assessment of dependence between the labour market and economic cycles in the EU countries is done in this paper. The main problem of this article is that so far labour market and economic cycles are being analyzed as separate subjects, without emphasizing common points, and the links between indicators reflecting economy's cyclicity and indicators of unemployment are not found. This paper aims to explore the dependence between labour market and economic cycles, as well as to do the research of the EU labour market indicators operating in economic cycles. According to the created test model of economic cycles and unemployment rate dependence analysis the change of the EU labour market indicators in economic cycles was examined. The aim was to investigate the level of indicators' contra cyclicity from different aspects. The theory of economic cycles and labour market theory, as well as the theory of unemployment can be linked and viewed as closely related systems of indicators. Therefore, the analysis of the indicators of these separate spheres is necessary in order to balance the labour market and at the same time economy in changing economic cycles. Thus it is important to investigate the dependence of indicators and their possible values. In order to investigate the dependence between unemployment rate and GDP, the quantitative research method was used – correlation regression analysis based on the EUROSTAT data. Correlation coefficients were used during the analysis of the dependence between the unemployment and economic cycles. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.24.4.2898 ; The article discusses theoretical and practical aspects of labour market and economic cycles. According to the collected theoretical and practical data, the analysis of the concepts of labour market, ...