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“alex bowen”

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  • Global Development Of Policy Regimes To Combat Climate Change, The

    by Alex Bowen, Nicholas Stern, John Whalley ...
    Series Book 4 - The Tricontinental Series On Global Economic Issues
    The year 2015 will be a landmark year for international climate change negotiations. Governments have agreed to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris in 2015. The agreement will come into force no later than 2020.This book focuses on the prospects for global ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

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  • The Climate Casino

    Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

    by William D. Nordhaus ...
    Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Humanizing the Economy

    Co-operatives in the Age of Capital

    by John Restakis ...
    How the largest social movement in history is making the world a better place.At the close of the twentieth century, corporate capitalism extended its reach over the globe. While its defenders argue that globalization is the only way forward for modern, democratic societies, the spread of this system is failing to meet even the most basic needs of billions of individuals around the world. Moreover ... Read more

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  • Fossil Capital

    The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming

    by Andreas Malm ...
    A sweeping study of how capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power—and contributed to the worsening climate crisisThe more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess? In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Large-Scale Solar Power Systems

    Construction and Economics

    by Peter Gevorkian ...
    This book is a comprehensive discussion and economic analysis of large-scale solar power systems, specifically referencing critical issues related to design construction and financing. The book provides practical design, installation, and financing guidelines for large-scale commercial and industrial solar power projects. Engineering design and construction methodologies as well as economic ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Your Carbon Footprint

    What It Is. Why It’s Important. How You Can Lower It.

    by Nancy S. Grant ...
    Take the first step toward a better environment.Awareness of global climate change has reached critical mass around the world, and people are looking to see how the choices they make affect the environment. This highly practical and easy-to-use reference helps readers understand how to do their part to combat global warming in simple, but effective ways.• Clear explanations of the relationship ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Limits to Growth Revisited

    by Ugo Bardi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    “The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now at risk and global peak oil apparently a reality, the methods, scenarios, and predictions of “The ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange

    Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World

    by Alf Hornborg ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ‘technology’ itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology implies a kind of global ‘zero-sum game’ involving uneven resource flows, which make it possible for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Governing the Energy Transition

    Reality, Illusion or Necessity?

    Edited by Geert Verbong, Derk Loorbach ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    The Energy Transition, the inevitable shift away from cheap, centralized, largely fossil-based energy systems, is one of the core challenges of our time. This book provides a coherent and novel insight into the nature of this challenge and possible strategies to accelerate and guide such transitions. It brings together prominent European scholars and practitioners from the fields of energy ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Climate Capitalism

    Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy

    by Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson ...
    Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of 'decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether such a transformation is underway, how it might be accelerated, and the complex politics of this process. Given the dominance of global capitalism and free-market ideologies, decarbonisation is dependent on creating carbon ... Read more

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  • Nationalism, Law and Statelessness

    Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa

    by John R. Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    In 1998 a bloody war erupted in The Horn of Africa between Ethiopia and Eritrea. During the war Ethiopia arrested and expelled 70,000 of its citizens, and stripped another 50,000-plus of their citzenship on the basis of their presumed ethnicity. Nationalism, Law and Statelessness: Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa examines the events which led up to the war, documents the expulsions and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A Course in Environmental Economics

    Theory, Policy, and Practice

    by Daniel J. Phaneuf, Till Requate ...
    This unique graduate textbook offers a compelling narrative of the growing field of environmental economics that integrates theory, policy, and empirical topics. Daniel J. Phaneuf and Till Requate present both traditional and emerging perspectives, incorporating cutting-edge research in a way that allows students to easily identify connections and common themes. Their comprehensive approach gives ... Read more

    $72.99 USD