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  • 2021 Energy Policy of the Asian Development Bank
    Asian Development Bank
    The new Asian Development Bank (ADB) Energy Policy, approved in October 2021, guides ADB’s energy sector operations to support energy access improvement and low-carbon transition in Asia and the Pacific.It is consistent with ADB’s Strategy 2030, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Agreement on climate change and anchored on five principles: (i) securing energy for ...
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    28,10 €

  • NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE
    VINCENT PETIT
    In The Next Industrial Revolution, Vincent Petit builds on his earlier work, The Age of Fire Is Over (2021), where he explored how key transformations in consumption patterns impact our energy system in ways that have been seldom envisioned. He further develops this work here, and traces how these transformations apply to our modern industrial system, the bedrock of our global ...
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    167,23 €

  • India’s Transition from Fossil Fuels to New Age Energy
    Kedar Nath Sharma
    For centuries fossil fuels have been king of the realm of energy. They have generated most of the energy to run our transport system, power our businesses and light our homes, but we are paying the price. The combustion of fossil fuels has extracted an enormous toll on humanity and the environment-from air and water pollution to global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Cl...
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    24,19 €

  • Disaster Recovery Planning
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication outlines why post-disaster needs assessments (PDNA) should provide comprehensive details of the economic and social impacts of disasters on countries to swiftly mobilize resources and support resilient recovery.Using a theoretical case study highlighting the aftermath of an earthquake and subsequent flooding, the publication shows how the cost to property, infr...
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    28,01 €

  • SDG9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
    Luis Velazquez
    As one of the few of the 17 SDGs applicable in industrial settings, SDG9 seeks to find new steps towards achieving sustainable industrialization. This book explores the fascinating and cross-cutting aspects that jeopardize achieving SDG9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. ...
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    81,05 €

  • CAREC 2030
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents a comprehensive overview of the potential impact of climate change on Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) member countries. It assesses and recommends how CAREC member countries can collaborate to address climate change issues through regional cooperation.The report’s overarching conclusion is that CAREC has a unique and urgent opportuni...
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    50,16 €

  • Environmental Safeguard Monitoring Field Kit
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication is designed as a field kit to help Nepal’s Kathmandu Upatayaka Khanepani Ltd. (KUKL) follow standard environmental planning, monitoring, and reporting in its work to supply water and sanitation to the Kathmandu Valley.Practical and detailed, the kit will support the Project Implementation Directorate of KUKL as it works to prepare the environmental safeguard do...
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    50,23 €

  • Asia in the Global Transition to Net Zero
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explores what a global transition to net zero could mean for Asia and the Pacific under a range of climate policy scenarios and provides recommendations. Developing Asia faces a climate policy crossroads. The region is highly vulnerable to climate change, even as it is an increasing contributor to the global climate crisis. This report models emission pathways based...
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    37,48 €

  • Renewable Energy Investments for Sustainable Business Projects
    From tax advantages to hydrogen sourcing, Renewable Energy Investments for Sustainable Business Projects explores a variety of the latest practices and technological developments surrounding renewable energy, offering practical insight and tangible advice to academics and researchers in environmental management. ...
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    149,81 €

  • Social Finance
    Garon Agrawal / Melvin Joesph / Shiva Dave
    Social Finance: An Introduction to the Future of Finance provides an engaging, accessible overview of the relatively new field of social finance, blending insights from finance, corporate social responsibility, and social entrepreneurship. It highlights the key challenges facing social finance, while also laying out its basics and showcasing its vast opportunities.In addition t...
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    6,16 €

  • Installation and Operations Manual for Maldives’ Grid-Connected Rooftop Photovoltaic Systems
    Asian Development Bank
    This manual aims to support the implementation of grid-connected rooftop photovoltaic (PV) projects in Maldives.The manual provides information to assist utility engineers and rooftop solar service providers with the installation, operation, and maintenance of grid-connected solar PV systems, and reflects the latest industry best practices. It highlights the importance of obser...
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    28,02 €

  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
    Antonio Yúnez-Naude / Jorge Mora-Rivera / JORGE MORA-RIVERA ANTONIO YUNEZ-NAUDE
    Climate change (CC) is currently an unquestionable phenomenon. If not stopped, it will be catastrophic for life on earth. Scientific evidence shows that human activities are the primary driver of CC tendencies since the industrial times. In this book, we present the relationship between development and CC, with special reference to agriculture, the rural sector, and policies ai...
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    129,93 €

  • CLIMATE-SMART INNOVATION
    NATALIA G VOVCHENKO & O ELENA G POPKOVA
    This book studies smart green innovation through the prism of social entrepreneurship as a driver for sustainable development and the development of an environmental economy. It systematizes and analyzes the modern challenges of the environmental economy: climate change and environmental pollution. The tendencies and scenarios for the environmental economy are considered in the...
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    178,68 €

  • ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AGRICULTURE AND CLIMATE CHANGE
    Antonio Yúnez-Naude / Jorge Mora-Rivera / JORGE MORA-RIVERA ANTONIO YUNEZ-NAUDE
    Climate change (CC) is currently an unquestionable phenomenon. If not stopped, it will be catastrophic for life on earth. Scientific evidence shows that human activities are the primary driver of CC tendencies since the industrial times. In this book, we present the relationship between development and CC, with special reference to agriculture, the rural sector, and policies ai...
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    82,10 €

  • One Health
    Piero Formica
    Bringing together a diverse collection of authors to examine the concept of One Health - the interlinking of the economy and the health of humans, other living beings, and nature - Piero Formica investigates how transformative enterprises and advanced technologies can improve the health of the planet and its people. ...
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    143,20 €

  • Laundromat Operations & Maintenance Manual
    D. Rod Lloyd
    Owning a Laundromat is a great business and can be very profitable. It is an all-cash business and recession-proof.  A self-service laundromat runs all by itself.  All you need to do is collect the cash and wipe down the machines. This book will tell you how to run a laundromat with no prior experience. The skills needed to run and maintain a laundromat are not rocket science a...
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    18,31 €

  • Making the Connection - ESG Roadmaps
    Peter Sammons
    This Manual provides three ’roadmaps’ and associated detailed step-by-step notes for the separate disciplines of ’Environmental’, ’Social’ and ’Governance’ management. The material sets out key practical ESG tasks for business organisations. It should be read with the associated management book 'ESG - Making the Connection' which is freely available in downloadable format from ...
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    122,51 €

  • Implications of Industry 5.0 on Environmental Sustainability
    Most businesses are still grappling with the definition and implementation of Industry 4.0, but there is already discussion of the next industrial revolution. The coexistence of two industrial revolutions raises problems, necessitating debate and clarification. In particular, the implications of Industry 5.0 on environmental sustainability need to be studied. Implications of In...
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    339,96 €

  • Implications of Industry 5.0 on Environmental Sustainability
    Most businesses are still grappling with the definition and implementation of Industry 4.0, but there is already discussion of the next industrial revolution. The coexistence of two industrial revolutions raises problems, necessitating debate and clarification. In particular, the implications of Industry 5.0 on environmental sustainability need to be studied. Implications of In...
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    261,04 €

  • Unlocking the Economic and Social Value of Indonesia’s State-Owned Enterprises
    Asian Development Bank
    This report provides an analysis of Indonesia’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs), explores their prominent economic and social role, and explains how further reforms can unlock their commercial and developmental potential. Acting as a diagnostic to help inform the government’s SOE reform agenda, the report emphasizes the need to strengthen governance and refine incentives. Explai...
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    32,38 €

  • Green Finance
    John Miller
    The goal of this book is to shine a light through the perpetual haze of uncertainty that surrounds the economy and the environment. A portion of finance makes the argument that it will support ecological and energy transition, even save the world. Can this green financing, however, possibly be anything more than a mirage? Like those companies that have gone superficially 'green...
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    18,63 €

  • Socioeconomic Surveys for Urban Development and Water Projects
    Asian Development Bank
    This guidebook provides practical tips and resources for conducting quality socioeconomic surveys to enhance the effectiveness of urban development and water projects. It explains the importance of high-quality socioeconomic surveys to strengthen project design, ensure robust due diligence, and inform evidence-based policies. Focusing on urban development and water projects, th...
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    26,85 €

  • Quantitative Analysis of Social and Financial Market Development
    Quantitative Analysis of Social and Financial Market Development is a crucial resource of current, cutting-edge research exploring the latest social and financial developments across Asia. ...
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    158,32 €

  • ADVANCED MATHEMATIC METHODS ENVIRONMENT & RESOURCE ECONOMICS
    ANASTASIOS XEPAPADEAS
    The most interesting issues in environmental and resource economics have an explicit temporal dimension, since variables of interest such as pollutants, greenhouse gases, biomass of biological resources, or the stocks of fossil fuels accumulate in the ambient environment or are depleted through human actions and natural processes.The purpose of these lectures is to present the ...
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    57,80 €

  • ADVANCED MATHEMATIC METHODS ENVIRONMENT & RESOURCE ECONOMICS
    ANASTASIOS XEPAPADEAS
    The most interesting issues in environmental and resource economics have an explicit temporal dimension, since variables of interest such as pollutants, greenhouse gases, biomass of biological resources, or the stocks of fossil fuels accumulate in the ambient environment or are depleted through human actions and natural processes.The purpose of these lectures is to present the ...
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    105,63 €

  • Someone Had to Say It
    Judith A. Kovacs
    Someone Had to Say It:A New Approach to Confronting Our Environmental Crises Excerpts from the work:             "Right now at this crossroads, with human beings confronting the destructive consequences of their unrelenting use and consumption of the Earth’s resources in the form of the environmental crises that are threatening to destroy them, the Earth is holding all the card...
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    8,52 €

  • DYNAMIC DECISIONS
    Ricardo G Barcelona / RICARDO G BARCELONA & FRANZ HEUKAMP
    Dynamic Decisions highlights how some managers and policymakers sleepwalk into decision paralysis. Strategically, they partly recognise their world is changing radically as energy systems transition. In deciding what to invest in, they default to rewarding the predictable and proven, often misdiagnosing the ignored risks of innately ambiguous markets. To remedy this, the author...
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    121,72 €

  • Accounting for Carbon
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    52,70 €

  • Waste Management and Environmental Impact XI
    Resulting from a merger of two successful events, this book contains papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Waste Management and Environmental and Economic Impact on Sustainable Development. To prevent emerging threats to environmental and ecological systems we must learn from past failures to avoid repeating similar mistakes.Waste management is one of the key...
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    180,86 €

  • Pacific Economic Monitor - August 2022
    Asian Development Bank
    The Pacific region is expected to grow by 4.7% in 2022 and 5.4% in 2023 as most economies emerge from the worst of the pandemic-induced downturn.This issue of the Pacific Economic Monitor focuses on building and financing resilience to climate change and disasters. It also explores the impacts on the region of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, such as higher commodity prices. ...
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    28,01 €