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  • Global Green Shift

    When Ceres Meets Gaia

    by John A. Mathews ...
    Series series Anthem Other Canon Economics
    Western industrialism has achieved miracles, promoting unprecedented levels of prosperity and raising millions around the world out of poverty. Industrial capitalism is now diffusing throughout the East. Japan, the four Tigers (Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) and China are all incorporating themselves into the global industrial world. India, Brazil and many others are expected to follow ... Read more

    $15.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Developmental Environmentalism

    State Ambition and Creative Destruction in East Asia’s Green Energy Transition

    by Elizabeth Thurbon, Sung-Young Kim, Hao Tan, John A Mathews ...
    Why has East Asia emerged as the global leader in green energy industries but - until recently - lagged on carbon emission reduction? What is new and distinctive about East Asia's approach to the green energy transition? And what does this approach mean for the world? Developmental Environmentalism provides the first comprehensive account of East Asia's green energy shift. It highlights the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Global Green Shift

    When Ceres Meets Gaia

    by John A. Mathews ...
    Series series Anthem Other Canon Economics
    The world that created modern industry, pioneered in the West, is in decline. It is being transformed by a global green shift, creating new industries based on clean energy, clean water and clean food – all produced in a safe, clean and sustainable way, in abundance, at low (and diminishing) cost and without making further inroads into nature. This twenty-first century world is being driven by ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • China’s Renewable Energy Revolution

    by John A. Mathews, Hao Tan ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The authors suggest that China's renewable energy system, the largest in the world, will quickly supersede the black energy system that has powered the country's rapid rise as workshop of the world and for reasons that have more to do with fixing environmental pollution and enhancing energy security than with curbing carbon emissions. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Greening of Capitalism

    How Asia Is Driving the Next Great Transformation

    by John A. Mathews ...
    As China, India, and other industrializing giants grow, they are confronted with an inconvenient truth: They cannot rely on the conventions of capitalism as we know them today. Western industrialism has achieved miracles, promoting unprecedented levels of prosperity and raising hundreds of millions out of poverty. Yet, if allowed to proceed unencumbered, this paradigm will do irreversible harm to ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Global Green Shift

    When Ceres Meets Gaia

    by John A. Mathews ...
    Series series Anthem Other Canon Economics
    Western industrialism has achieved miracles, promoting unprecedented levels of prosperity and raising millions around the world out of poverty. Industrial capitalism is now diffusing throughout the East. Japan, the four Tigers (Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong) and China are all incorporating themselves into the global industrial world. India, Brazil and many others are expected to follow ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Energy Transition and Energy Democracy in East Asia

    Edited by Jusen Asuka, Dan Jin ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This is an open access book.The subject of this book is to provide down-to-earth information on what kind of actions are being taken by the Government, Local community, Businesses, Researchers, NGOs on the energy transition in this region. It gives an updated picture of the energy transition in the East Asian countries, where the economic growth, as well as CO2 emission growth, is significant.This ... Read more

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  • Renewable Energy

    From Europe to Africa

    by David Elliott, Terence Cook ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Significant progress has been made by industrial countries to reduce emissions from the use of fossil fuels, but as the economies of the less-developed regions of the world begin to expand, they too will face similar challenges. This book looks at energy transitions being made in developing countries, focusing on the adoption of renewable energy systems in Africa, for example under the UN ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Survival Governance

    Energy and Climate in the Chinese Century

    by Peter Drahos ...
    To deal with the climate crisis we need a new paradigm of technological and social development aimed at the restoration of ecological systems--the bio-digital energy paradigm--and China is the world power best positioned to lead this change. The climate and energy crisis requires a strong state to change the direction, speed, and scale of innovation in world capitalism. There are only a few ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Green Japan

    Environmental Technologies, Innovation Policy, and the Pursuit of Green Growth

    by Carin Holroyd ...
    Series series Japan and Global Society
    As climate change continues to threaten both our economic and ecological well-being, countries around the world are trying to implement green strategies that will simultaneously curb emissions and spur economic growth.Green Japan critically examines the Japanese effort to combine economic growth with commitments to environmental sustainability. Carin Holroyd explores green growth strategies in ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia

    Edited by Fumikazu Yoshida, Akihisa Mori ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    The concept of green growth, coupled with one of green economy and low carbon development, is a global concern especially in the face of the multiple crises that the world has faced in recent years - climate, oil, food, and financial crises. In East Asia, this concept is regarded as the key in transforming cheap-labour dependent, export-oriented industries towards a more sustainable development*. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Net Zero

    How We Stop Causing Climate Change

    by Dieter Helm ...
    What can we really do about the climate emergency?The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done.In Net Zero the economist Professor Dieter Helm addresses the action we would all need to take, whether personal, local, national or global, if we really wanted ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

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