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  • SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS STRATEGY IN ASIA
    KATSUHIKO KOKUBU & YOSHIYUKI NAGASAKA
    Sustainability is a concept that unifies the environment, economy, and society, and has spread as a key concept in enterprise management. The United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, which require worldwide efforts to reach a sustainable society, and also applies to private enterprises.Sustainability should be developed in connection with managem...
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    118,00 €

  • WTO & ENVIRONMENT-RELATED INTERNATIONAL TRADE DISPUTES, THE
    David C Cook / DAVID COOK & JANET HADDOC ROBERT FRASER / Janet Haddock-Fraser / Robert W Fraser
    We live in a world that is increasingly dependent on international trade in a context of substantial regional/national political tensions. Adding to this is an emerging understanding and concern about the social impact of biosecurity and ecosystem services risks associated with such trade. As the key international trade 'arbiter', the World Trade Organization (WTO) has ...
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    118,22 €

  • Economics for People and the Planet
    James Boyce
    ’Economics for People and the Planet’ challenges the myth that economic growth must come at the expense of the natural environment and advances our understanding of how a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power can help to safeguard the environment and address climate change. The audiobook version of Economics for People and the Planet features new chapters on the Gre...
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    57,75 €

  • Advanced Integrated Approaches to Environmental Economics and Policy
    Sustainable development remains a significant issue in a globalized world requiring new economic standards and practices for the betterment of the environment as well as the world economy. However, sustainable economics must manage environmental solutions to issues on multiple levels and within various disciplines. There is a need for studies that seek to understand how environ...
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    281,66 €

  • ACHIEVING ENERGY SECURITY IN ASIA
    NAOYUKI YOSHIN FARHAD TAGHIZADEH-HESARY
    This book presents a critical review of the status of energy security in Asia and suggests how a country or a region collectively can achieve energy security in two broad aspects. First, it analyzes how regional cooperation and energy trade can enhance energy security in the region. Second, it reviews how energy security can be ensured in national and regional general contexts....
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    154,44 €

  • Moving to a Finite Earth Economy - Crew Manual
    Bob Leonard`` / David Houle
    “Moving to a Finite Earth Economy – Crew Manual” is a book that, in an all-inclusive way, outlines what humanity needs to do to successfully address the root cause of our climate emergency.When it comes to climate change, the past doesn't equal the future. What is happening now has never occurred during humanity’s time on Earth. Who better than a futurist to address this? F...
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    15,40 €

  • American Buyout
    Robert C Whitehair
    Here’s a shocking truth: We’re on the brink of global catastrophe because of a simple mistake that has gone unnoticed for almost a century.How is this possible? Because every economy in the world is based on this mistake.This is not an abstract threat in a faraway future. Every US citizen will soon face the consequences when: · Automation eliminates half of US jobs.· Few remain...
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    15,58 €

  • The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors
    Jed Emerson
    A critical handbook for those interested and engaged in investing capital to generate financial returns with social and environmental impacts, 'The ImpactAssets Handbook for Investors' offers a review of total portfolio management strategy and practice for investing capital and understanding its impact on creating a better world for both investors and community members. ...
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    35,15 €

  • Biological Extinction
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    129,40 €

  • California Greenin’
    David Vogel
    A political history of environmental policy and regulation in California, from the Gold Rush to the presentOver the course of its 150-year history, California has successfully protected its scenic wilderness areas, restricted coastal oil drilling, regulated automobile emissions, preserved coastal access, improved energy efficiency, and, most recently, addressed global climate ...
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    30,59 €

  • Advanced Integrated Approaches to Environmental Economics and Policy
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    215,81 €

  • SOLAR POWER FINANCE WITHOUT THE JARGON
    JENNY CHASE
    Solar power has become big business, with $131 billion invested in 2018, up from just $11.2 billion in 2004 but down from $171 billion in 2017 as unit costs fell. New installed capacity grew from 1.1GW in 2004 to about 107GW in 2018, a steady rise as solar begins to compete with fossil fuels on cost and to be built in nearly every country.This is a book for the solar workers of...
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    95,31 €

  • SOLAR POWER FINANCE WITHOUT THE JARGON
    JENNY CHASE
    Solar power has become big business, with $131 billion invested in 2018, up from just $11.2 billion in 2004 but down from $171 billion in 2017 as unit costs fell. New installed capacity grew from 1.1GW in 2004 to about 107GW in 2018, a steady rise as solar begins to compete with fossil fuels on cost and to be built in nearly every country.This is a book for the solar workers of...
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    47,48 €

  • Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
    Alf Hornborg
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    132,52 €

  • ECONOMICS, GAME THEORY & INTL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS
    HENRY TULKENS
    The science and management of environmental problems is a vast area, comprising both the natural and social sciences, and the multidisciplinary links often make these issues challenging to comprehend. Economics, Game Theory and International Environmental Agreements: The Ca' Foscari Lectures aims to introduce students to the multidimensional character of international envir...
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    141,63 €

  • ECONOMICS, GAME THEORY & INTL ENVIRONMENTAL AGREEMENTS
    HENRY TULKENS
    The science and management of environmental problems is a vast area, comprising both the natural and social sciences, and the multidisciplinary links often make these issues challenging to comprehend. Economics, Game Theory and International Environmental Agreements: The Ca' Foscari Lectures aims to introduce students to the multidimensional character of international envir...
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    69,20 €

  • This Civilisation is Finished
    Rupert Read / Samuel Alexander
    Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth’s climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological c...
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    14,70 €

  • Economics of Electricity
    Anna Cretì / Fulvio Fontini
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    126,07 €

  • Economics of Electricity
    Anna Cretì / Fulvio Fontini
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    47,47 €

  • Pro-ecological Restructuring of Companies
    Aleksandra Gąsior
    This book presents a practical approach to pro-environmental challenges faced by companies in the process of restructuring.It contains a broad variety of case studies from different economic sectors, and small and large businesses, in four European countries: Ukraine, Romania, Germany and Poland. The studies are the results of surveys of companies that had either already restru...
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    23,85 €

  • Disaster Risk Management in Agriculture
    Huong Ha / R. Lalitha S. Fernando / RLalitha SFernando / Sanjeev Kumar Mahajan
    The challenges related to disaster risk management (DRM) in the agricultural sector are now widely linked to sustainable environment. The fact remains that almost every day a disaster strikes in some part of the world. The regular occurrence of natural and man-made disasters has forced the worldwide communities to look for novel solutions to prevent and mitigate such disasters....
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    22,77 €

  • Tools to Change the World
    Dada Maheshvarananda / Mirra Price
    The activist tools in this manual are proven techniques that unlock our capacity to educate, to build collective power, and to make change. The tool box includes: telling your story, journaling, meditation, public speaking for activists, one-on-one intyerviews, consciousness-raising groups, choosing winning words and slogans, starting succesful coops, capturing media attention,...
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    3,59 €

  • Tools to Change the World
    Dada Maheshvarananda / Mirra Price
    Those who learn about the suffering and destruction in the world soon discover that these problems do not exist in a vacuum –  they are interconnected and caused by a broken political system and global economy that makes a few individuals very rich at the expense of both people and the environment.The activist tools in this manual are proven techniques that unlock our capacity ...
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    12,53 €

  • Disaster Risk Management
    Huong Ha / R. Lalitha S. Fernando / RLalitha SFernando / Sanjeev Kumar Mahajan
    This book provides a framework for making administration effective and improving mitigation and rehabilitation measures with a view to ensuring a safer life for citizens.It is an outcome of research studies carried out by eminent scholars and practitioners in South Asian countries in the field of disaster risk management. The authors discuss how different South Asian countries ...
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    22,63 €

  • Economics for People and the Planet
    James Boyce
    ’Economics for People and the Planet’ challenges the myth that economic growth must come at the expense of the natural environment and advances our understanding of how a more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power can help to safeguard the environment and address climate change. The audiobook version of Economics for People and the Planet features new chapters on the Gre...
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    165,92 €

  • Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    This report presents the results of a survey of 15 developing countries in Asia and the Pacific regarding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 12, 14, and 15.It also looks at selected environment-related targets that have a direct relationship with responsible consumption and production, and sustainable marine and terrestrial ecosystems management. The report was completed unde...
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    29,83 €

  • GREEN DEVELOPMENT OF ASIA-PACIFIC CITIES
    ZHENG ZHAO
    The book evaluates and analyses the level of green development in over 100 major cities in Asia Pacific. A quantitative analysis of the relationship with economic growth, income distribution, innovation capabilities, service sector, governance levels, and city clusters are accumulated and presented in the form of a new index; the Urban Green Development Index (UGDI). Amongst th...
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    182,41 €

  • ECONOMICS OF NATURAL DISASTERS
    SUMAN KUMAR SHARMA & EUSTON QUAH
    Unlike existing books on the topic that cover more on non-economic aspects of natural disasters, this book covers economic aspects of natural disasters viz damage assessment, risk management and resilience. The book contains several case studies and covers some of the major natural disasters in different countries, most notably the recent Nepal earthquake, tsunami in Fukushima,...
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    142,39 €

  • Environmental Impacts of Transnational Corporations in the Global South
    This volume explores the impact of Transnational Corporations (TNCs) on the environment of the Global South during this period of neoliberal globalization. It develops themes around transnational extractive activity; the impact of transnational capital on indigenous populations, and the role played by international institutions, ...
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    184,30 €

  • Energy Economics
    Hua Liao / Yi-Ming Wei
    Energy Economics: Understanding and Interpreting Energy Poverty in China presents a succinct overview of research on China’s Energy Poverty as studied by the Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). ...
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    192,14 €