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  • A Journey into the Deaf-World

    by Harlan Lane, Robert Hoffmeister, Ben Bahan ...
    A new language minority has come to the fore in America and around the world. It is the tight-knit society – some million strong in the United States – that calls itself, in American Sign Language, the DEAF-WORLD.In this comprehensive and engrossing study, three distinguished scholars of Deaf culture— one hearing, one deaf, and one coda (child of deaf adults)— offer clear, penetrating insights ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building

    by Mizan R Khan, J. Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq, Victoria Hoffmeister ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    The Paris Framework for Climate Change Capacity Building pioneers a new era of climate change governance, performing the foundational job of clarifying what is meant by the often ad-hoc, one-off, uncoordinated, ineffective and unsustainable practices of the past decade described as 'capacity building' to address climate change. As an alternative, this book presents a framework on how to build ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    by Sonja Van Dam ...
    Smart Energy Management for Households infers design-related insights and guidelines to improve the use and effectiveness of home energy management systems (HEMS) through an empirical evaluation of the longitudinal effectiveness of these devices and an exploration of factors that influence their use and effectiveness.Three case studies executed with three different HEMS in households, a life cycle ... Read more

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  • International Environmental Law

    by Professor Dr Ulrich Beyerlin, Prof. Dr. Thilo Marauhn ...
    International Environmental Law is a new textbook written for students, practitioners, and anyone interested in the subject. The overall aim of the book is to provide a fresh understanding of international environmental law as a whole, seen in the light of climate change, biodiversity loss, and the other serious environmental challenges facing the world. The book has also been kept deliberately ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Essential Hempcrete Construction

    The Complete Step-by-Step Guide

    by Chris Magwood ...
    Series Book 1 - Sustainable Building Essentials Series
    The Complete Guide to High-Performance Hempcrete BuildingPart of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Hempcrete Construction is the definitive step-by-step guide to designing and building with hempcrete—an energy-efficient, breathable, low-carbon insulation material for walls, roofs, and floors.What You'll LearnFire-safe, Healthy, Breathable Walls: Hempcrete offers exceptional ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Water Markets for the 21st Century

    What Have We Learned?

    Edited by K. William Easter, Qiuqiong Huang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book evaluates the history, the present and the future of water markets on 5 continents, beginning with the institutional underpinnings of water markets and factors influencing transaction costs. The book examines markets in seven countries and three different U.S. states, ranging from village-level water markets in Oman to basin wide formal water markets in Australia's Murray-Darling River ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Precedents in Zero-Energy Design

    Architecture and Passive Design in the 2007 Solar Decathlon

    by Michael Zaretsky ...
    ‘Michael Zaretsky’s Precedents in Zero-Energy Design is such an important book … it will help readers recognize that design comes before technology – and renewable energy systems alone can’t solve the problems we face’ – John D. Quale, Assistant Professor of Architecture and ecoMOD Project Director, University of VirginiaThe world is currently facing an environmental crisis and as anyone ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Towards Principled Oceans Governance

    Australian and Canadian Approaches and Challenges

    Edited by Donald R. Rothwell, David L. VanderZwaag ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Maritime Research
    Australia and Canada have been at the forefront of efforts to operationalize integrated oceans and coastal management. Throughout the 1990s both countries devoted considerable effort to developing strategies to give effect to international ocean management obligations.This key book focuses on principles of marine environmental conservation and management, maritime regulation and enforcement, and ... Read more

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  • European Environmental Law

    by Veerle Heyvaert, Aleksandra Čavoški, Suzanne Kingston ...
    EU Environmental Law is a critical, comprehensive and engaging account of the essential and emerging issues in European environmental law and regulation today. Suitable for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, the book delivers a thematic and contextual treatment of the subject for those taking courses in environmental law, environmental studies, regulation and public policy, and ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • EU Chemicals Regulation

    New Governance, Hybridity and REACH

    by Steven Vaughan ...
    This perceptive book provides an exploratory, explanatory and normative account of the EU Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), and its regulator, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).With more than one million words of official ECHA guidance to accompany and underpin the 516 pages of REACH, comprehension of these cooperative regimes is ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Thermal Comfort in Hot Dry Climates

    Traditional Dwellings in Iran

    by Ahmadreza Foruzanmehr ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    With increases in global temperatures, the risk of overheating is expected to rise around the world. This results in a much higher dependency upon energy-intensive cooling systems and air-conditioners to provide thermal comfort, but how sustainable is this in a world where problems with the production of electricity are predicted?Vernacular houses in hot and dry central Iran have been adapted to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Chadwick F. Alger

    Pioneer in the Study of the Political Process and on NGO Participation in the United Nations

    by Chadwick F Alger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume honors the lifetime achievements of distinguished scholar Chadwick F. Alger on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Carolyn Stephenson presents Prof. Alger as a Pioneer in the Study of the Political Process and on NGO Participation in the United Nations. Part 1 offers an autobiographical note and a comprehensive bibliography of his academic publications. Part II includes three texts on ... Read more

    $49.99 USD