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  • Reconsidering the Limits to Growth

    A Report to the Russian Association of the Club of Rome

    Edited by Viktor Sadovnichy, Askar Akaev, Ilya Ilyin, Sergey Malkov, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Echoing the famous "The Limits to Growth" report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report. During the past fifty years, both the concept and understanding of these limits have significantly changed. This book highlights that the evolution of the World System has approached a new ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Digital Transformation and the World Economy

    Critical Factors and Sector-Focused Mathematical Models

    Edited by Andrei Rudskoi, Askar Akaev, Tessaleno Devezas ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive sciences are contributing to the emergence of intelligent computers and robots with elements of artificial intelligence and intelligent machines. This book postulates that these developments are accelerating the technological substitution of jobs and the shift in labor demand towards high qualification levels, putting the jobs of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

    Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

    Edited by Haris Doukas, Alexandros Flamos, Jenny Lieu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of ... Read more

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  • Ecological Economics

    Sustainability in Practice

    by Stanislav E. Shmelev ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents the state of the art in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis of sustainability of global, national and regional economic systems. An elegant guide, the book offers a range of cutting edge methods used in sustainability research including multicriteria decision aid (MCDA), input-output analysis, and life cycle ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Sustainable Development: Society, Ecology, Economy

    Proceedings of the XVth International Scientific Conference 2019, 28 March 2019, Moscow Witte University

    Edited by Aleksander V. Semenov, Igor A. Sokolov ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the results of studies that determine the most effective ways for human development, ensuring a decent life, and preserving natural resources within the framework of the defined issues. Russia is a participant of the United Nations Global Agreement on implementing sustainable development, adopted in 2015. Russia is a large country, both in terms of population and territory, that ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    Rethinking Our Response

    by Judith Curry ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Social Physics

    How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter

    by Alex Pentland ...
    From one of the world’s leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influenceIf the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled remarkable discoveries significant enough to become the ... Read more

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  • The Exhausted of the Earth

    Politics in a Burning World

    by Ajay Singh Chaudhary ...
    **Marrying the scientific and political sides of the climate crisis issue, this is a hopeful call to arms about how we can overcome climate change.Climate change is not only about the exhaustion of the planet, it's about the exhaustion of so many of us, our lives, our worlds, even our minds. So, what is to be done?**To answer this question, Ajay Singh Chaudhary brings together both the science and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

    The Science of a Connected Age

    by Duncan J. Watts ...
    The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks.In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are spearheading to create a blueprint of our connected planet. Whether they bind computers, economies, or ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    by Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Unified Growth Theory

    by Oded Galor ...
    For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent. Then, about two centuries ago, some nations began to emerge from this epoch of economic stagnation, experiencing sustained economic growth that led to significant increases in standards of living and profoundly altered the level and distribution of wealth, population, education, and health across the globe. The ... Read more

    $74.89 USD

  • The Origin of Wealth

    The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society

    by Eric D. Beinhocker ...
    Over 6.4 billion people participate in a $36.5 trillion global economy, designed and overseen by no one. How did this marvel of self-organized complexity evolve? How is wealth created within this system? And how can wealth be increased for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and society? In The Origin of Wealth, Eric D. Beinhocker argues that modern science provides a radical perspective on ... Read more

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