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  • Tourism in the Mediterranean Sea
    Tourism in the Mediterranean Sea: An Italian Perspective is the product of a collaborative group of experts in the field of tourism. Academics, whose research focuses on regional tourism system governance, alongside several experts from the tourism sector, contributed to the volume with distinct issues related to the tourism industry. ...
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    164,40 €

  • Gary The Go-Cart
    B B Denson
    Author is the winner of the Literary Titan Award and the International Impact Book award.This book is a compilation of two children’s books that teach kids on one level and teenagers and adults read it on a different level.The Gary the Go-Cart books give a different perspective on energy and the environment from the one that is normally heard. Wind Energy is actually horrible f...
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    22,82 €

  • Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing
    Alan S. Gutterman / Alan SGutterman
    This book provides readers with a basic understanding of sustainable finance and impact investing including history, definitions of impact, current trends and drivers, future challenges, and an overview of the key players in the global impact ecosystem.The term impact investing first appeared in 2008. Today the most commonly used definition is investing made with the intention ...
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    29,64 €

  • The Russian Urban Sustainability Puzzle
    Polina Ermolaeva / Yulia Ermolaeva
    This book provides comprehensive analysis of the social-environmental situation and sustainability issues in Russian megacities based on a large-scale mixed method original empirical research conducted in 2015-2019. ...
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    87,88 €

  • Examining the Intersection of Circular Economy, Forestry, and International Trade
    Sustainable development has always been a contested concept and has been extensively debated over the last 30 years with new classifications arising since then. There was a previous push for the radical transformations of the market economy to downscale production and consumption that would increase human well-being and enhance ecological conditions. Because of this conflict, t...
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    281,86 €

  • Community Engagement and Investment
    Alan S. Gutterman / Alan SGutterman
    This book is a comprehensive guide to community engagement and investment, beginning with a survey of community-related voluntary standards and then turning to strategy and management, community engagement, community investment and reporting and communications on community-related activities.Sustainability is about the long-term wellbeing of society, an issue that encompasses a...
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    22,59 €

  • Sustainability Standards and Instruments
    Alan S. Gutterman / Alan SGutterman
    This book serves as an introduction to sustainability standards and instruments and includes chapters on initiatives of governmental and intergovernmental bodies, sectoral CSR commitments, CSR-related reporting and management standards, and securities exchanges and regulators.It is becoming increasingly clear that firms can contribute to their own wealth and to overall societal...
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    22,73 €

  • Financing Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication aims to guide policy makers and other stakeholders on how to scale up disaster risk reduction financing in developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.Disaster events impact Asia and the Pacific more than any other region in the world. In light of current and future climate and disaster risks, there is an urgent need to address the region’s underi...
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    31,15 €

  • Growing Trees in Urban Kinshasa
    Gutu Kia Zimi PhD
    The study allowed us to understand that the urban vegetation of Kinshasa has been declining over the years, especially in the neighborhoods of the old municipalities and a slow progression in the new neighborhoods of the peripheral municipalities. This general downward trend should bring us awareness so that we can maintain and protect the existing urban vegetation. This downwa...
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    23,87 €

  • Asian Water Development Outlook 2020
    Asian Development Bank
    The Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) assesses national water security across the Asia and the Pacific, with a focus on five key dimensions: rural, economic, urban, environmental, and water-related disaster.Despite considerable achievements in the region since the AWDO 2013 edition, 1.5 billion people in rural areas and 0.6 billion in urban areas still lack adequate water ...
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    40,45 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography
    This prestigious work offers students, researchers and practitioners a survey of the state of financial geography including emerging and cutting edge areas and produce a comprehensive, up to date and definitive work of reference that can be cited as an authoritative source on the burgeoning subject of financial geography. ...
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    373,93 €

  • Environmental Valuation with Discrete Choice Experiments
    David Hoyos / Jürgen Meyerhoff / Petr Mariel
    This open access book offers up-to-date advice and practical guidance on how to undertake a discrete choice experiment as a tool for environmental valuation. It discusses crucial issues in designing, implementing and analysing choice experiments. Compiled by leading experts in the field, the book promotes discrete choice analysis in environmental valuation through a more solid ...
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    48,55 €

  • Challenges On the Path Toward Sustainability in Europe
    Challenges On the Path Toward Sustainability in Europe offers a theoretical and empirical approach to addressing sustainable development, providing rich data analysis at cross-country level, as well as practical examples from the European context. ...
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    152,03 €

  • The Capitalist Commodification of Animals
    This volume offers analysis regarding the historical transformations in the material conditions and ideological conceptions of nonhuman animals, alienated speciesism, the ecological crisis that is undermining the conditions of life for all species, and the capitalist commodification of animals that results in suffering, death, and profits. ...
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    159,43 €

  • The Science and Management of Uncertainty
    Bruce G. Marcot
    This book provides a rigorous scientific framework for dealing with uncertainty in real-world situations, and provides a comprehensive study of concepts, measurements, and applications of uncertainty in ecological modeling and natural resource management. ...
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    470,75 €

  • The Science and Management of Uncertainty
    Bruce G. Marcot
    This book provides a rigorous scientific framework for dealing with uncertainty in real-world situations, and provides a comprehensive study of concepts, measurements, and applications of uncertainty in ecological modeling and natural resource management. ...
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    188,05 €

  • Transdisciplinarity For Sustainability
    The book will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students in a variety of disciplines such as architecture, design, economics, social sciences, engineering and sustainability studies. It will also be of significant value to professionals who are engaged in transdisciplinary collaboration that supports sustainable development. ...
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    214,01 €

  • Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage
    This book investigates the overlap of memory and the impacts of industrialization within today’s communities and the senses of place and heritage which grew alongside and in reaction to the growth of mines, mills, and factories. Using global examples, the authors provide a uniquely geographic understanding to industrial heritage. ...
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    241,13 €

  • Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II
    Circular economy principles are driving to overcome the challenges of today’s linear take-make-dispose production and consumption patterns through keeping the value of products, materials, and resources circulating in the economy as long as possible.Sustainable Consumption and Production, Volume II: Circular Economy and Beyond aims to explore the sustainable consumption and pro...
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    47,52 €

  • Environmental Policy and Air Pollution in China
    Yuan Xu
    This book analyses China’s approach to tackling air pollution over the past two decades. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese environmental policy and governance, air pollution, climate change and sustainable development, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in these fields. ...
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    241,16 €

  • Water Management in China’s Power Sector
    Jim W. Hall / Xiawei Liao
    This book examines water resource management in China’s electric power sector and the implications for energy provision in the face of an emerging national water crisis and global climate change. ...
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    84,61 €

  • A Guide to Planning and Managing Open Innovative Ecosystems
    Digital technology in the form of big data and data analytics is transforming the global economy. This book is the first to take an open innovation perspective to the study and practice of ecosystems, providing a novel way of understanding the impact data has on the way entrepreneurial firms develop. ...
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    152,67 €

  • Climate Change, The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Public Pedagogies
    Mike Cole
    In the context of ongoing debates about climate change, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), and ecosocialism, this book makes links between these existential issues, focusing on the ways in which they are addressed in the public sphere via public pedagogy. ...
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    88,74 €

  • Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy
    Alexandros Flamos / Haris Doukas / Jenny Lieu
    This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the cos...
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    67,35 €

  • Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy
    Alexandros Flamos / Haris Doukas / Jenny Lieu
    This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the cos...
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    82,87 €

  • Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth
    Dain Bolwell
    Governing Technology in the Quest for Sustainability on Earth explores how technological advances can be managed to ensure the long-term sustainability of our species and of other life forms with which we share this world. It analyses human impact, the discourses of environmentalism and issues of economics, his ...
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    72,94 €

  • Feminist Political Ecology and the Economics of Care
    The conceptual frameworks of economic alternatives which combine green and non-capitalist approaches have so far failed to deal explicitly with gender issues around care. This book remedies this gap by providing an overview of feminist political ecology from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. ...
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    72,91 €

  • Anarchism and Ecological Economics
    Ove Daniel Jakobsen
    This book explores the idea that anarchism - aimed at creating a society where there is as much freedom as possible - may provide an ideal political basis for the goals of ecological economics.  ...
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    82,86 €

  • Water Resources and Economic Processes
    Tiziano Distefano
    This is a key text for those studying water governance and management. Taking on a multi- and inter-disciplinary viewpoint, Water Resources and Economic Processes offers an up-to-date collection of contributions from leading scholars and gathers research on important aspects of relevant fields. ...
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    240,64 €

  • Environmental Justice as Decolonization
    Julia Miller Cantzler
    This book situates Indigenous peoples as central activists in struggles to achieve environmental justice, drawing from archival and interview data from the United States, Australia and New Zealand to compare the historical and contemporary processes through which Indigenous fishing rights have been negotiated. ...
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    200,53 €