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  • Environmental Issues in China Today

    A View from Japan

    by Hidefumi Imura ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Economic development and environmental issues in China are attracting more and more attention internationally as the country’s large population and vast demands for food, energy, water, minerals, and other resources play an increasingly important role in deciding the fate of the world. There is great interest in learning more about environmental issues in China, but it is not easy to obtain ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Environmental Systems Studies

    A Macroscope for Understanding and Operating Spaceship Earth

    by Hidefumi Imura ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The environmental field is deep and wide. In the flood of information, how can people understand the underlying causes of what they hear about the environment from newspapers and television? This book was originally published in Japanese, with the aim of providing basic information about the ideas and methods to see and understand the interconnection between nature and human activities from a ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Beyond Smoke and Mirrors

    Climate Change and Energy in the 21st Century

    by Burton Richter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Global climate change is one of the most important issues humanity faces today. This updated, second edition assesses the sensible, senseless and biased proposals for averting the potentially disastrous consequences of global warming, allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions on switching to more sustainable energy provision. Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist who has served ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Global Environment

    Edited by Kei Takeuchi, Masatoshi Yoshino ...
    The ffiM Japan International Symposium Energy and Environment - Global Warming was held in the Keidanren Guesthouse at the foot of Mt. Fuji, from October 21 to 24, 1990. The symposium was conducted in the context of ffiM Japan's longstanding commitment to good corporate citizenship. On this beautiful planet with its inter-dependent waters, lands and atmo sphere, we consider that the problems ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Conservation of the Biological Diversity as a Prerequisite for Sustainable Development in the Black Sea Region

    Edited by M. Uppenbrink, V. Kotlyakov, V. Metreveli ...
    Series Book 46 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    This volume is a collection of reports presented at the International NATO Advanced Research Workshop Conservation of the Biological Diversity as a Prerequisite for Sustainaible Development of the Black Sea Region. The seminar was held at Batumi - Kobuleti, Georgia, on the Black Sea during October 5 -12, 1996 with participants from the countries of the Black Sea Region -Georgia, Russia, the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction: Joint Implementation in the Framework Convention on Climate Change

    by M.A. Ridley ...
    Series Book 10 - Environment & Policy
    Lowering the Cost of Emission Reduction by Dr Michael Ridley investigates a novel way to reduce the cost of carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide emission reduction. This book asks whether allowing countries to substitute emission reduction undertaken abroad in lieu of emission reduction at home will reduce the cost of emission reduction and allow more rapid and acute falls in pollution.Analysing US ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Water Resources Management Sustaining Socio-Economic Welfare

    The Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive in Asopos River Basin in Greece

    Edited by Phoebe Koundouri, Nikos A. Papandreou ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The aim of this book is to offer a river-basin management plan which is directly implementable and consistent with the European Union -Water Framework Directive (EU WFD).The contributors, who are leading world experts in their respective fields, develop an integrated water resources management plan for the Asopos river basin in Greece which is economically efficient, socially equitable and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Economics of Climate Change: The Contribution of Forestry Projects

    by Wolfram Kägi ...
    Series Book 21 - Environment & Policy
    Climate change is one of the major global environmental problems, one that has the potential to confront us with great costs during the decades to come. Climate change is caused by emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide (CO). As z deforestation leads to CO emissions and growing forests sequester CO, forestry z z projects provide us with options to mitigate CO effects. This ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Global Stability through Decentralization?

    In Search for the Right Balance between Central and Decentral Solutions

    Edited by Peter A. Wilderer, Martin Grambow ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The authors of this book, who represent a broad range of scientific disciplines, discuss the issue of centralized versus decentralized control and regulation in the context of sustainable development. The stability and resilience of complex technical, economic, societal and political systems are commonly assumed to be highly dependent on the effectiveness of sophisticated, mainly centralized ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Transforming Energy

    Solving Climate Change with Technology Policy

    by Anthony Patt ...
    Climate change will be an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe unless we move quickly to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Policy experts advise us that we need to make major changes to our lifestyles, and our governments need to agree globally binding treaties and implement market instruments like carbon taxes. This advice is a mistake: it treats technological innovation as being at the ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Climate Change and Water Resources Planning Criteria

    Edited by Kenneth D. Frederick, D.C. Major, Eugene Z. Stakhiv ...
    Global climate change is expected to have major impacts on water resources and aquatic ecosystems. This prospect presents planners, who are already struggling to meet the demands of growing populations and economies, with new challenges. This volume examines these challenges and the resulting conceptual issues for water planning and project evaluation practices. The book is the first attempt to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cradle to Cradle

    Remaking the Way We Make Things

    by William McDonough, Michael Braungart ...
    A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 ... Read more

    $21.99 USD