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Quaderni eBook Series

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  • Energy

    Access to Energy and Sustainable Development

    by Stefano Pareglio, Jacopo Bonan ...
    Series Book 13 - Quaderni
    Energy is a key condition to guarantee access to clean water, sanitation, schooling and business in developing countries and represents a key factor for growth and development. From a general point of view, it is still debatable whether access to affordable, reliable, safe and clean energy should be considered a human right or an instrumental right, as fundamental needs may be guaranteed through ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

    by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster ...
    Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves our full attention.—Publishers WeeklyThere is a ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

    by Wayne Ellwood ...
    This guide explores the idea of economic growth, tracing its history and questioning why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful when unlimited growth in a finite world is ultimately impossible. It illustrates how economics based on degrowth can be turned into a positive and how we can arrive at new levels of environmental sustainability without having turning the clock back to the Dark Ages ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • State of the World 2013

    Is Sustainability Still Possible?

    by The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series State of the World
    Every day, we are presented with a range of “sustainable” products and activities—from “green” cleaning supplies to carbon offsets—but with so much labeled as “sustainable,” the term has become essentially sustainababble, at best indicating a practice or product slightly less damaging than the conventional alternative. Is it time to abandon the concept altogether, or can we find an accurate way to ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Fleeing Vesuvius

    Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse

    Edited by Richard Douthwaite, Gillian Fallon ...
    The financial crisis that has blighted the world's richest countries since 2008 was a turning point in human history because it ushered in an era in which economies will tend to shrink rather than grow. Incomes will decline becausethe natural resources required for growth — particularly oil, the lifeblood of the world economy — can no longer be extracted in growingquantities. Indeed, as this book ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Creating A Sustainable And Desirable Future: Insights From 45 Global Thought Leaders

    by Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski ...
    The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future offers a broad, critical discussion on what such a future should or can be, with global perspectives written by some of the world's leading thinkers, including: Wendell ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Path to a Livable Future

    A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic

    by Stan Cox ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    A Regional Independent Bookstore Bestseller!An urgent call for the political transformation needed to address the common causes of climate change, COVID-19, and racism.“ . . . some big titles will address emergencies that have outlived Trump. The Path to a Livable Future by Stan Cox, explores the connections among the many crises of the past year and a half.”—Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times2020 ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Climate Crisis

    Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements

    by Adam Aron ...
    Why, despite all we know about the causes and harms of global heating, has so little effective action been taken to cut greenhouse gas emissions, and what we can do to change that? This book explains the mechanisms and impacts of the climate crisis, traces the history and reasons behind the lack of serious effort to combat it, describes some people's ongoing scepticism and how to shift it, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security

    Edited by Sergio Gomez y Paloma, Laura Riesgo, Kamel Louhichi ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by analysing the availability, access to and utilization of production factors. Due to the relevance of smallholder farms, enhancing their production capacities and economic and ... Read more

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  • Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth

    Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future

    by Niek Koning ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    Using a political-economic approach supplemented with insights from human ecology, this volume analyzes the long-term dynamics of food security and economic growth. The book begins by discussing the nature of preindustrial food crises and the changes that have occurred since the 19th century with the ascent of technical science and the fossil fuel revolution. It explains how these changes improved ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Is the Planet Full?

    Edited by Ian Goldin ...
    What are the impacts of population growth? Can our planet support the demands of the ten billion people anticipated to be the world's population by the middle of this century? While it is common to hear about the problems of overpopulation, might there be unexplored benefits of increasing numbers of people in the world? How can we both consider and harness the potential benefits brought by a ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Housing Bomb

    Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society

    by M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Peterson, Jianguo Liu ...
    How our thirst for more and larger houses is undermining society and what we can do about it.Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, ... Read more

    $29.49 USD