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“alan garman”

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  • Change - Ready or Not: Climate

    Our Choice, Our Responsibility

    by Alan Garman ...
    This book includes insights on global warming and climate change, from a political, economic, scientific and engineering perspective. It speaks about the current situation regarding alterations to the chemistry of the biosphere/atmosphere over the Industrial Age. In particular, it focuses on the accelerating rate of change in the last 100 years and what needs to happen to redress the situation. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    by Jacob Mwitwa, Ambayeba Muimba-Kankolongo, Philimon Ng'andwe ...
    This book is the result of over ten years of field research across Zambia. It covers the production and diverse uses of wood and non-wood forest products in different parts of Zambia. Although a short format, it is a multi-contributed work. It starts an overview of the forestry sector, and covers more specific areas like production, markets and trade of wood and non-wood products; the role of non ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Bleakonomics

    A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and Environmental Destruction

    by Rob Larson ...
    This is a darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.Rob Larson holds mainstream economic theory up against the grim reality of a planet in meltdown. He looks at scientists’ conclusions about climate change, the business world’s opinions about its own power, and reveals the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Multiobjective Decision Support for Environmental Management

    by R. Janssen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Multiple criteria decision making is a major and rapidly growing field of research. Methods resulting from this field of research are used in this book to develop a Multiobjective Decision Support Systems (MODSS) for environmental management. The primary focus of the book is therefore on the issues and practicalities that arise when these methods are applied to support decisions on environmental ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Beyond the Green Economy

    by Ricardo Abramovay ...
    The world needs a new economy. In spite of tremendous and growing material prosperity, inequality is on the rise and the current organization of the Earth’s natural resources has failed to address the basic human needs of billions of people. This book exposes the bottlenecks of the present path of economic growth and discusses the main path to alternatives.In spite of undeniable advances, all ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Investing for Sustainability

    The Management of Mineral Wealth

    by Rognvaldur Hannesson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Mineral deposits are non-renewable; they do not grow in the ground. Sustainable use of finite mineral wealth requires that revenues from mineral extraction be invested in renewable wealth, education and infrastructure, machines and other production equipment, or in financial assets. Different countries, states and provinces have done so with a varying degree of success. Investing for ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Local Climate Change and Society

    Edited by M. A. Mohamed Salih ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society’s relationship with the environment and particularly local communities to adapt to and mitigate climate change. The book analyzes the principles, practices and local responses to micro-level ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Green Signals

    Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India

    by Jairam Ramesh ...
    The debate on whether to privilege economic growth over ecological security is passé. Environmental considerations must be at the heart of economic growth, especially for a country of 1.25 billion people destined to add another 400 million by the middle of the century. Green Signals chronicles the '1991 moment' in India's environmental decision-making, telling the story of how, for the first time, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems

    Theory, Practice, Policy

    Edited by Boaz Moselle, Jorge Padilla, Richard Schmalensee ...
    Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The need for a revolution in the industry becomes further apparent given that 'decarbonization' means an increasing electrification of other sectors of the economy in particular, through a switch from gasoline to electric vehicles. Of the options for producing ... Read more

    $67.99 USD