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  • Head over Heels - Chapter 1

    Head Over Heels

    by Robert Vale ...
    Series series Head Over Heels
    A young man, blinded by love, is drawn to a captivating brunette. By the time her true, dominant nature reveals itself, he's already in too deep. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Environmental Impact of Cities

    Death by Democracy and Capitalism

    by Fabricio Chicca, Brenda Vale, Robert Vale ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    The Environmental Impact of Cities assesses the environmental impact that comes from cities and their inhabitants, demonstrating that our current political and economic systems are not environmentally sustainable because they are designed for endless growth in a system which is finite.It is already well documented that political, economic and social forces are capable of shaping cities and their ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Collapsing Gracefully: Making a Built Environment that is Fit for the Future

    by Emilio Garcia, Brenda Vale, Robert Vale ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development. This is not a book about the end of the world and hopeless apocalyptic scenarios. It is about understanding change in how and where we live. Collapse is inevitable, but ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Sustainable Building and Built Environments to Mitigate Climate Change in the Tropics

    Conceptual and Practical Approaches

    Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale, Tri Harso Karyono ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015.The book is divided into four main parts. The first part deals with the general issue of climate change, the cause and the ways to mitigate and to adapt the ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Everyday Lifestyles and Sustainability

    The Environmental Impact Of Doing The Same Things Differently

    Edited by Fabricio Chicca, Brenda Vale, Robert Vale ...
    The impact of humanity on the earth overshoots the earth’s bio-capacity to supply humanity’s needs, meaning that people are living off earth’s capital rather than its income. However, not all countries are equal and this book explores why apparently similar patterns of daily living can lead to larger and smaller environmental impacts.The contributors describe daily life in many different places in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

    Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale ...
    According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share ecological footprint.The authors describe numerical methods used to calculate this, concentrating on low ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Sustainable Living: the Role of Whole Life Costs and Values

    by Nalanie Mithraratne, Brenda Vale, Robert Vale ...
    Achieving a sustainable building is not just a matter of design and construction: what happens once the building is occupied is absolutely critical. This book shows how the choices designers, developers and building users make impact on sustainability over the life span of the building. The authors show how a holistic approach considering costs, energy use, environmental impact, global warming ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World)

    by The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series State of the World
    Cities are the world’s future. Today, more than half of the global population—3.7 billion people—are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is over how they will grow. Will we invest in the physical and social infrastructure necessary for livable, equitable, and sustainable cities? In the latest edition of State ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Green Urbanism In Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers

    by Peter Newman, Anne Matan ...
    The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in the rapidity of its change but how is it doing on green urbanism? This book finds emerging innovations ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Optimistic Environmentalist

    Progressing Towards a Greener Future

    by David R. Boyd ...
    A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environmentYes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past 50 years, a remarkable number of environmental problems have been solved, while substantial progress is ongoing on others.The Optimistic Environmentalist ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lithium

    The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution

    by Lukasz Bednarski ...
    A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries. This revolution is happening at breath-taking speed, with the potential to completely transform key industries and the way we live. For the first time in history, we can now ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Volt Rush

    The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

    by Henry Sanderson ...
    'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we’ve come to take for granted.' Bill McKibben, Observer book of the weekWe depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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