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  • Humanity's Footprint

    Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment

    by Walter Dodds ...
    For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries.Walter K. Dodds depicts in clear, nontechnical terms the root causes and global environmental effects of human ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The World's Worst Problems

    by Walter Dodds ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book addresses the worst problems currently facing humanity and those that may pose future threats. The problems are explained and approached through a scientific lens, and categorized based on data involving global mortality, vulnerability, and threat level. The book presents indices of problem severity to compare relative intensity of current and potential crises. The approach avoids ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    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

    $9.99 USD

  • Blackout

    Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity.Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging full steam ahead, increasing reliance on the dirtiest of all fossil ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Science and Public Reason

    by Sheila Jasanoff ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of deploying principled arguments that respect the norms of democratic deliberation. Jasanoff investigates what states do in practice ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • White Paper on sustainable energy projects in Africa

    Best practices and lessons learnt

    by Jeremy Debreu, Claire Guibert ...
    With almost 600 million people having no access to energy in Sub-Saharan Africa, rural electrification is a major challenge for the development of the continent.This White Paper highlights 25 energy projects currently being developed in Africa. Its aims is to analyse their best practices and understand the key success factors.This eBook is offered by the Fondation Schneider Electric. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Economic Value of Landscapes

    Edited by C. Martijn van der Heide, Wim Heijman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense, thereby covering a variety of topics including stakeholder involvement in landscape design, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Global Warming

    The Terminal Crisis

    by Del Weston ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Resource Economics

    by Jon M. Conrad ...
    Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1), shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve simple dynamic allocation problems (Chapter 2), and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources, and stock pollutants ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Smart Markets for Water Resources

    A Manual for Implementation

    by Mark W. Milke, John F. Raffensperger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book proposes a trading mechanism called a smart market. A smart market is an auction cleared with ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Blueprint 3

    Measuring Sustainable Development

    by David Pearce ...
    Series series Blueprint Series
    Blueprint 3 is the direct sequel to the ground-breaking Blueprint for a Green Economy. Taking the argument much further, David Pearce and his colleagues show how progress towards sustainability in the UK can be measured. They set out the conditions for sustainable development and the measures of economic progress these imply, before looking in detail at all the main areas of economic activity to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Economic Dynamics and Sustainable Development – Resources, Factors, Structures and Policies

    Proceedings ESPERA 2015 – Part 1 and Part 2

    Edited by Luminita Chivu, Constantin Ciutacu, Valeriu Ioan-Franc, Jean-Vasile Andrei ...
    Um die Hardcover-Version dieses Buches zu bestellen, kontaktieren Sie bitte [email protected]. (Ladenpreis D: 165,90€, Ladenpreis AT: 168,60€, UVP: 190,00CHF).For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact [email protected]. (Retail Price: £126.00, $185.90).The book is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Romanian Academy. It contains the most valuable 100 papers ... Read more

    $204.99 USD