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“patrick devine wright”

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  • Place Attachment

    Advances in Theory, Methods and Applications

    Edited by Patrick Devine-Wright, Lynne Manzo ...
    Following on from the ground-breaking first edition, which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award, this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment, such as GIS and mapping, climate change, and qualitative approaches.Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Renewable Energy and the Public

    From NIMBY to Participation

    Edited by Patrick Devine-Wright ...
    Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is frequently leading to controversy, as energy and planning policies are revised to support new energy sources or technologies (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, bioenergy or hydrogen energy) and communities face the prospect of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs

    by Eric W. Sanderson ...
    A look at what the American lifestyle has done to the environment—and how to move toward a better future.In the last century, three powerful forces—oil, cars, and suburbs—buoyed the American dream. Yet now, the quality of life in the United States is declining due to these same three forces. Our dependence on oil is a root cause of wars, recessions, and natural disasters. Cars consume an outsize ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our Renewable Future

    Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

    by Richard Heinberg, David Fridley ...
    One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Nature as Teacher – New Principles in the Working of Nature

    Volume 2 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    Today we are standing helpless and perplexed. With no glimmer of improvement anywhere in sight, we feel hopelessly propelled towards a forlorn future. It is understandable therefore than an increasing number of people, sick and tired of this insane activity, are now seeking ways to return to Mother Nature. Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) Nature as Teacher, the second volume of the Eco-Technology ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Energy Democracy

    Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

    by Craig Morris, Arne Jungjohann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry

    Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    How does nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things – including rocks and crystals – are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter. The Fertile Earth, the third volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surviving the 21st Century

    Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

    by Julian Cribb ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Pricing and Forecasting Carbon Markets

    Models and Empirical Analyses

    by Bangzhu Zhu, Julien Chevallier ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book applies the multidisciplinary approaches of econometrics, statistics, finance and artificial intelligence for pricing and forecasting the carbon market in the context of managerial issues. It explores the related issues of pricing and forecasting the carbon market using theoretical models and empirical analyses, demonstrating how the carbon market, as a policy-based artificial market, is ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Climate Finance as an Instrument to Promote the Green Growth in Developing Countries

    by Antonio A. Romano, Giuseppe Scandurra, Alfonso Carfora, Monica Ronghi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book analyses the effectiveness of climate finance as political instrument to reduce the effect of anthropogenic activities on climate change and promote the green growth in developing countries.The book highlights that close attention should also be paid to the analysis of political contexts in a broad sense. Particularly focusing on the international negotiations process that enables the ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing World: a European Perspective

    Edited by Peter Spathelf ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Yet another book on the topic of ‘Sustainable Forest Management’ can only be justified by new information that is of direct relevance. The contents of this volume concentrate on the very latest factors and developments, thus, hopefully, contributing both to the book’s attractiveness and to closing gaps in the discipline’s database. This book is written for researchers in the field of forest ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Renewable Energy in the Middle East

    Enhancing Security through Regional Cooperation

    Edited by Michael Mason, Amit Mor ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Energy insecurity is not normally associated with the Middle East. However, away from the oil-rich Persian Gulf, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean are particularly vulnerable. Their fossil fuel endowments are low, while their fractious relationships with each other have long fostered wider political insecurities. Focusing on the Jordan Basin (Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon ... Read more

    $188.99 USD