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Urban Development eBook Series

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  • What a Waste 2.0

    A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050

    by Silpa Kaza, Lisa Yao, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, Frank Van Woerden ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Solid waste management affects every person in the world. By 2050, the world is expected to increase waste generation by 70 percent, from 2.01 billion tonnes of waste in 2016 to 3.40 billion tonnes of waste annually. Individuals and governments make decisions about consumption and waste management that affect the daily health, productivity, and cleanliness of communities. Poorly managed waste is ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What a Waste 2.0

    A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050

    by Silpa Kaza, Lisa Yao, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, Van Woerden ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Solid waste management affects every person in the world. By 2050, the world is expected to increase waste generation by 70 percent, from 2.01 billion tonnes of waste in 2016 to 3.40 billion tonnes of waste annually. Individuals and governments make decisions about consumption and waste management that affect the daily health, productivity, and cleanliness of communities. Poorly managed waste is ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

    by Maude Barlow ...
    A cautionary account of climate change and the global water supply. "You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book." —Robert RedfordIn a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a "passionate plea for access-to-water activism," Blue Covenant addresses an environmental crisis that—together with global warming—poses one of the gravest threats to our survival.How did the world's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Will Africa Feed China?

    by Deborah Brautigam ...
    Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Strategic Management In Developing Countries

    by James E. Austin ...
    James E. Austin’s case studies are designed to help managers effectively compete in the Third World business environment.Designed for business school courses and in-house company training programs, this companion to Managing in Developing Countries presents 35 case studies organized around Professor Austin's Environmental Analysis Framework, a powerful, field-tested tool designed to help managers ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Bridges Over Water: Understanding Transboundary Water Conflict, Negotiation And Cooperation (Second Edition)

    by Ariel Dinar, Shlomi Dinar, Daene C Mckinney, Stephen C Mccaffrey ...
    Series Book 11 - World Scientific Series On Environmental And Energy Economics And Policy
    Bridges over Water places the study of transboundary water conflicts, negotiation, and cooperation in the context of various disciplines, such as international relations, international law, international negotiations, and economics. It demonstrates their application, using various quantitative approaches, such as river basin modeling, quantitative negotiation theory, and game theory. Case-studies ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • The Great Climate Robbery

    How the Food System Drives Climate Change and What We Can Do About It

    by GRAIN ...
    In The Great Climate Robbery highly respected non-profit Grain connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and links peoples' struggles over food to climate change.The collected articles in this book will help readers to understand the ways in which corporations seek to control the food system, and give information and analysis to challenge this control. This book ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Urban Metabolism of Six Asian Cities

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    The urban metabolism framework maps the activities of cities from their consumption of materials, the different activities associated with those processes, and the wastes produced. Information generated provides a diagnostic tool for identifying high waste generating or inefficient activities and identifying potential points of policy intervention. The streamlined approach surmounts the lack of ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The High Cost of Low Prices

    A Roadmap to Sustainable Prosperity

    by David Steven Jacoby ...
    This book directly addresses controversial issues like climate change, carbon taxes, fracking, offshoring, urban sprawl, globalization, income inequality, regulation, corruption, compliance and enforcement, providing an informed basis for mapping the way forward.Based on his experience consulting on hundreds of industrial mega-projects, Jacoby reveals dark secrets of international supply chains ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Investing in Water for a Green Economy

    Services, Infrastructure, Policies and Management

    Edited by Mike Young, Christine Esau ...
    In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world’s water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it. It focuses on current social and economic costs of water provision, needs and opportunities for investment and for improving its management. It describes the large array of water policy ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor: Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World

    by Judy L. Baker ...
    Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The State of the World’s Forests 2022: Forest Pathways for Green Recovery and Building Inclusive, Resilient and Sustainable Economies

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Against the backdrop of the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use and the pledge of 140 countries to eliminate forest loss by 2030 and to support restoration and sustainable forestry, the 2022 edition of The State of the World's Forests (SOFO) explores the potential of three forest pathways for achieving green recovery and tackling multidimensional planetary crises, including ... Read more

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