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  • Perspectives on Energy Poverty in Post-Communist Europe

    Edited by George Jiglau, Anca Sinea, Ute Dubois, Philipp Biermann ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies
    This book explores the issue of energy poverty in post-communist Europe and shows how it is viewed and addressed through public policies.Energy poverty is severely affecting many parts of the European Union, but up until now only a few comparative analyses have been developed to understand the phenomenon and its diversity throughout the region. Filling this gap, this volume focuses specifically on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012

    Architecture, Agency and Adaptation

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Philipp Pattberg, Fariborz Zelli ...
    An assessment of policy options for future global climate governance, written by a team of leading experts from the European Union and developing countries. Global climate governance is at a crossroads. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol was merely a first step, and its core commitments expire in 2012. This book addresses three questions which will be central to any new climate agreement. What is the most ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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

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  • Countdown

    Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

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    A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us.In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add ... Read more

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  • Common Wealth

    Economics for a Crowded Planet

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    “Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review“Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United StatesIn Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The ... Read more

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

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  • Solar Flares

    What You Need to Know: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin

    by Whitley Strieber ...
    There is a force out there that could destroy our world in minutes. . . .Solar flares—brief bursts of radiation from our sun—have always existed and have never been particularly dangerous. Nature hasn’t changed. But we have. By making our world so dependent on electricity delivered by huge, unprotected power grids we have inadvertently placed humanity at terrible risk. As bestselling author ... Read more

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  • How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today

    by John Thackara ...
    A visionary yet practical guide to building a more sustainable future, by one of the most important voices in environmentally aware designAre there practical solutions to the many global challenges—climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare—that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs. In this clear-eyed ... Read more

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  • Digging the City

    An Urban Agriculture Manifesto

    by Rhona McAdam ...
    Series series RMB Manifesto
    At the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada’s population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days. As consumers and citizens, we all need to take a hard look at the deficiencies in Canada’s ability to feed the urban poor; our dependence on imported foods and centralized food ... Read more

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  • Why Women Will Save the Planet

    by Bloomsbury Publishing ...
    Cities across the globe are growing fast. Today many are environmental nightmares with polluted air, excessive energy consumption and an absence of nature. But big cities don't have to mean a dystopian future. They can be turned around to be powerhouses of well-being and environmental stability – if we empower women.This book is a unique collaboration between C40 and Friends of the Earth ... Read more

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  • Green Growth

    Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives

    Edited by Gareth Dale, Manu V. Mathai, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira ...
    The discourse of 'green growth' has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model.But the green growth project is deeply ... Read more

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  • China and the Environment

    The Green Revolution

    Edited by Sam Geall ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. A serious water pollution incident occurs once every two-to-three days. China's breakneck growth causes great concern about its global environmental impacts, as others look to China as a source for possible future solutions to climate change. But how are Chinese people really coming to grips with environmental problems? This book ... Read more

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