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  • Managing a Material World

    Edited by Pier Vellinga, J. Gupta, Frans Berkhout ...
    Series Book 13 - Environment & Policy
    As we reach the end of the 20th century, the question of how to meet human needs and preferences while safeguarding the global environment is a major concern facing humanity. This book reflects the state of the art of thinking on the necessary concepts, tools and instruments that are likely to help producers, consumers and governments to adjust their policies and practices. It covers theories and ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Climate Change and European Leadership

    A Sustainable Role for Europe?

    Edited by M.J. Grubb, J. Gupta ...
    Series Book 27 - Environment & Policy
    The issue of climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges for mankind in the 21st century, not only because it may ultimately affect many areas of our environment, nature and human activity but also because its mitigation may have far reaching consequences for almost all sectors of the economy where energy conversion takes place. Although climate change is firmly ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Global Warming

    The Complete Briefing

    by John Houghton ...
    How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, full colour guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best and latest information available, including the latest IPCC findings. The simple, logical flow of ideas gives an invaluable grounding in the science, as well as ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0

    Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America

    by Thomas L. Friedman ...
    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Best Book of the YearA Businessweek Best Business Book of the YearA Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearIn this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent need for national renewal and explains how a green revolution can bring about both a sustainable environment... ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World

    Choosing Between Progress and Planet

    by Andrew Charlton ...
    Series Book 44 - Quarterly Essay
    Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words: 'The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.'In this groundbreaking essay, Charlton discusses the rift that will shape our future- progress versus planet- rich versus poor. In ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Life Cycle Design

    A Manual for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

    Edited by Siegfried Behrendt, Christine Jasch, Maria C. Peneda, Hans van Weenen ...
    Small and medium-sized enterprises can serve as promising cradles for challenging ideas and pioneering initiatives. That is exactly what is required in order to make progress towards sustainable levels and patterns of production and consumption. Of all the continents of the world, Europe is most likely to lead the way towards a more sustainable relation with the environment. Having been the cradle ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • 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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  • Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East

    Securing Livelihoods, Building Peace

    by Christopher Ward, Sandra Ruckstuhl ...
    The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity. One of the poorest countries in the world sits alongside two of the wealthiest, whilst the region's natural resources range from immeasurable oil and gas reserves to some of the scantiest natural endowments anywhere in the world. Yet through this diversity runs a common thread: water scarcity. Now, through the impact of human ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Anthropocene

    The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Future

    by Christian Schwägerl ...
    For more than two decades, award-winning science and environmental journalist, Christian Schwägerl has researched how humans, nature, and technology interact. Schwägerl is inspired by the idea of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen who argued that we are living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, a time in which human dominance of Earth’s biological, chemical and geological ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes

    Dehesas of Spain and Ranchlands of California

    Edited by Pablo Campos, Lynn Huntsinger, Jose Luis Oviedo, Paul F Starrs, Mario Diaz, Richard B Standiford, Gregorio Montero ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The oak tree was a boon companion as humans expanded their presence across much of the globe. While oak woodlands (Quercus spp.) come today in stunningly diverse forms, the stately dehesas of Spain and the dramatic oak-dominated ranchlands of California are working landscapes where cultivation and manipulation for a couple of millennia have shaped Mediterranean-type ecosystems into a profoundly ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers

    Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives

    by Simone Borghesi, Massimiliano Montini, Alessandra Barreca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ... Read more

    $49.49 USD