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  • The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters

    by Alexandre Borde ...
    Since the turn of the millennium, more than one million people have been killed and 2.3 billion others have been directly affected by natural disasters around the world. In cases like the 2010 Haiti earthquake or the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, these disasters have time and time again wrecked large populations and national infrastructures. While recognizing that improved rescue, evacuation, and ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

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    An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

    by Thomas L. Friedman ...
    #1 New York Times Bestseller • Los Angeles Times BestsellerOne of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now • One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the YearShortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and Longl... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Five Stages of Collapse

    Survivors' Toolkit

    by Dmitry Orlov ...
    A user’s guide to economic, political, social and cultural collapse.In the face of political impotence, resource depletion, and catastrophic climate change, many of us have become reconciled to an uncertain future. However, popular perception of how this future might actually unfold varies wildly from "a severe and prolonged recession," to James Howard Kunstler's "long emergency," to the complete ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Economy of Ireland

    National and Sectoral Policy Issues

    Edited by John W. O'Hagan, Carol Newman ...
    An essential book for students of economics as well as economists and policymakers. The twelfth edition of this enduring and popular book surveys all major changes in the Irish economy in the past fifteen years, with particular emphasis on the last five years. In this new edition, the authors examine: - The broad historical context to a study of the Irish economy. - Ireland's hard landing, ... Read more

    $29.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The World Trade Organization

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Amrita Narlikar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The World Trade Organization (WTO) is scarcely ten years old, but even in these early years of its existence it has generated debate, controversy and even outrage. Rulings on beef hormones and tuna-dolphin cases provide graphic examples of how the organization regulates and intrudes into areas of individual consumer choice, ethical preferences, and cultural habits. This deep and far-ranging impact ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Power to the People

    Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries

    by Astrid Kander, Paolo Malanima, Paul Warde ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Power to the People examines the varied but interconnected relationships between energy consumption and economic development in Europe over the last five centuries. It describes how the traditional energy economy of medieval and early modern Europe was marked by stable or falling per capita energy consumption, and how the First Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century--fueled by coal and ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Sustainability

    Key Issues

    Edited by Helen Kopnina, Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet ...
    Series series Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
    Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Highly original, it covers the very broad spectrum of ideas covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through to culture, sustainable communities and sustainable consumption. Each chapter covers one key ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Evaluating Communication for Development

    A Framework for Social Change

    by June Lennie, Jo Tacchi ...
    Evaluating Communication for Development presents a comprehensive framework for evaluating communication for development (C4D). This framework combines the latest thinking from a number of fields in new ways. It critiques dominant instrumental, accountability-based approaches to development and evaluation and offers an alternative holistic, participatory, mixed methods approach based on systems ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Planet in 2050

    The Lund Discourse of the Future

    Edited by Jill Jäger, Sarah Cornell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    In 2050, the billions of people living on Earth have found a way to manage the planetary system effectively. Everyone has access to adequate food, shelter, and clean water. Human health is no longer considered outside of the health of the ecosystems in which people live. Ecological awareness is an integral part of education. People respond effectively to social and environmental hazards, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rubbish Theory

    The Creation and Destruction of Value - New Edition

    by Michael Thompson ...
    Rubbish is something we ignore. By definition we discard it, from our lives and our minds, and it remains outside the concerns of conventional economics. However, this book explores the dynamics through which rubbish can re-enter circulation as a prized commodity, in many cases far exceeding its original value. Antiques, vintage cars and period homes, after being discarded as valueless, can, even ... Read more

    $29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding the Common Agricultural Policy

    by Berkeley Hill ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    The majority of recent publications on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union address current issues and specific applications. There is little available which attempts to increase understanding of the nature of existing policies, their development, intentions, problems and successes.The aim of this book is to improve knowledge and understanding of the ‘policy process’ and its ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Concepts and Values in Biodiversity

    Edited by Dirk Lanzerath, Minou Friele ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Biodiversity Politics and Management
    Biodiversity may refer to the diversity of genes, species or ecosystems in general. These varying concepts of biodiversity occasionally lead to conflicts among researchers and policy makers, as each of them require a customized type of protection strategy. This book addresses the questions surrounding the merits of conserving an existing situation, evolutionary development or the intentional ... Read more

    $63.99 USD