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  • Navigating East Asian Maritime Conflicts: Technological Change, Environmental Challenges, Global and Regional Responses

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    As technological development and diffusion have greatly increased the resources states can recover from maritime space, the stakes of these conflicts have grown. Nowhere is this clearer than in East Asia. This book examines how technological change and diffusion impact East Asian maritime conflicts, and approaches for conflict management and resolution. ... Leer más

    $125.09 USD

  • New Challenges and Solutions for Renewable Energy

    Japan, East Asia and Northern Europe

    Edición de Paul Midford, Espen Moe ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book identifies second stage challenges and opportunities for expanding renewable energy into a mainstay of electricity generation that can replace fossil fuels and nuclear power, comparing Japan with several countries in East Asia and Northern Europe. Environmentally sustainable renewable energy technologies have now overtaken fossil fuel and nuclear technologies in terms of total global ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Governance, Growth and Global Leadership

    The Role of the State in Technological Progress, 1750–2000

    de Espen Moe ...
    Series series Modern Economic and Social History
    This book focuses on the role of the state in promoting a country's long-term technological progress and industrial leadership. Throughout history, a nation's rise to dominance has invariably been followed by its fall; the dominant powers of today are not the same ones that controlled the world three hundred years ago. In the same manner, economic dominance has usually been fleeting, as leading ... Leer más

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  • Renewable Energy Transformation or Fossil Fuel Backlash

    Vested Interests in the Political Economy

    de Espen Moe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Renewable energy is rising within an energy system dominated by powerful vested energy interests in fossil fuels, nuclear and electric utilities. Analyzing renewables in six very different countries, the author argues that it is the extent to which states have controlled these vested interests that determines the success or failure of renewables. ... Leer más

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    America & China in Southeast Asia

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  • A Bright Future

    How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow

    The inspiration for Nuclear Now, the new Oliver Stone film, co-written by Joshua GoldsteinAs climate change quickly approaches a series of turning points that guarantee disastrous outcomes, a solution is hiding in plain sight. Several countries have already replaced fossil fuels with low-carbon energy sources, and done so rapidly, in one to two decades. By following their methods, we could ... Leer más

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  • A Good War

    Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency

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    “This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for.” — Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock DoctrineOne of Canada’s top policy analysts provides the first full-scale blueprint for meeting our climate change commitmentsContains the results of a national poll on Canadians’ attitudes to the climate crisis< ... Leer más

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  • The End of the Asian Century

    War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

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  • Made in the USA

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  • The Fourth Revolution

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