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  • Unlocking Commercial Financing for Clean Energy in East Asia

    by Xiaodong Wang, Richard Stern, Dilip Limaye, Wolfgang Mostert, Yabei Zhang ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Energy and Mining
    This report draws lessons to date from recent international experience in applying public financing instruments to unlock commercial financing to scale-up clean energy in East Asia. It addresses the following issues: when to use public financing instruments; which instrument to select; and how to design and implement them most effectively. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Winds of Change

    East Asia's Sustainable Energy Future

    by Xiaodong Wang, Noureddine Berrah, Subodh Mathur, Ferdinand Vinuya ...
    East Asia has experienced the fastest economic growth in the world over the last three decades, accompanied by a 10-fold gross domestic product increase and rapid urbanization. Energy consumption has more than tripled during this period and is expected to double over the next 20 years. This remarkable trend has led to twin energy challenges in the region—environmental sustainability and energy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tools for Design, Implementation and Verification of Emerging Information Technologies

    17th EAI International Conference, TridentCom 2022, Melbourne, Australia, November 23-25, 2022, Proceedings

    Edited by Shui Yu, Bruce Gu, Youyang Qu, Xiaodong Wang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th EAI International Conference on Tools for Design, Implementation and Verification of Emerging Information Technologies, TridentCom 2022, which was held in Melbourne, Australia, in November 23-25,2022.The 11 full papers were selected from 30 submissions and deal the emerging technologies of big data, cyber-physical systems ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • High-Efficiency Solar Cells

    Physics, Materials, and Devices

    Edited by Xiaodong Wang, Zhiming M. Wang ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    As part of the effort to increase the contribution of solar cells (photovoltaics) to our energy mix, this book addresses three main areas: making existing technology cheaper, promoting advanced technologies based on new architectural designs, and developing new materials to serve as light absorbers. Leading scientists throughout the world create a fundamental platform for knowledge sharing that ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Nanoscale Thermoelectrics

    Edited by Xiaodong Wang, Zhiming M. Wang ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    For the efficient utilization of energy resources and the minimization of environmental damage, thermoelectric materials can play an important role by converting waste heat into electricity directly. Nanostructured thermoelectric materials have received much attention recently due to the potential for enhanced properties associated with size effects and quantum confinement. Nanoscale ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Price is Wrong

    Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

    by Brett Christophers ...
    **"Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser."—Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a PipelineWhy the market will never solve the climate crisis**What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Red Alert

    How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life

    by Stephen Leeb ...
    "I would caution readers to dismiss Stephen Leeb's warnings only at their peril." -- Thomas Kaplan, chairman, Tigris Financial GroupThe American Dream is close to being replaced by a living nightmare:Key commodities that are essential to our daily lives and that are widely believed to be abundant are running critically short. Even worse, the Chinese are doing what they can to monopolize the world ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Reinventing Prosperity

    Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality, and Climate Change

    by Graeme Maxton, Jorgen Randers ...
    "An important contribution to the global debate about growth, equality, climate change, and the path to a viable human future." —David Korten, international bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the WorldThe biggest challenges facing human wellbeing today—widening income inequality, continuing global poverty, and environmental degradation—may be simple to solve in theory. But, because we ... Read more

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  • The New World Economy in 5 Trends

    Investing in times of superinflation, hyperinnovation and climate transition

    by Koen De Leus, Philippe Gijsels ...
    The future is uncertain but for one thing: the global economy is in disarray. Investors, companies and governments must rethink their approach in light of raging inflation, the ongoing climate crisis and an ageing population. In addition, they have to deal with the highest mountain of debt ever accrued in peacetime, disruptive innovations and the effects of multiglobalisation.So much is happening ... Read more

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  • The Postcatastrophe Economy

    Rebuilding America and Avoiding the Next Bubble

    by Eric Janszen ...
    How government and business can work together to secure our economic future.The 2008 crisis was just the beginning; according to sought-after analyst Eric Janszen, an even bigger financial catastrophe is imminent. Inclined to disbelieve him? He predicted the last two busts months before they happened.Our problems, according to Janszen, are rooted in the flaws of the debt-driven FIRE economy ... Read more

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  • Solar Revolution

    The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry

    by Travis Bradford ...
    An innovative analysis that shows how the shift to solar energy—in particular, the use of photovoltaic cells—is both economically advantageous and inevitable, and will rival the information and communication technologies revolution in its transformative effects.In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis Bradford argues—on the basis of standard business and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD