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  • Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication outlines the rationale for and benefits of piloting activities for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.It emphasizes the need for testing alternate approaches and sharing of experiences. Article 6 provides for voluntary international cooperation that may facilitate the use of market-based approaches to help countries achieve their nationally determined contributio...
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    24,55 €

  • The Korea Emissions Trading Scheme
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication presents a factual overview of the design and implementation of the Korean Emissions Trading Scheme, focusing on lessons from its implementation and opportunities under the Paris Agreement.It provides information to assist other countries that are designing or considering an emissions trading system. The contents are relevant as Asia and the Pacific embraces th...
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    24,80 €

  • Greater Mekong Subregion Environmental Performance Assessment 2006-2016
    Asian Development Bank
    This report examines the environmental situation in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) based on a 10-year environmental performance assessment.The assessment was conducted by the GMS Environment Operations Center, using the driver–pressure–state–impact–response model to examine the consequences of rapid economic development in the subregion, identify the major natural resource ...
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    24,54 €

  • Worst-Case Economics
    Frank Ackerman
    In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ’Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks. ...
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    42,92 €

  • How Militaries Learn
    Nathan Toronto / Nathan W. Toronto / Nathan WToronto
    How Militaries Learn examines the intellectual foundations of military power. The key to success on the modern battlefield lies in the mind, not in weaponry, manpower, or resources, so it is essential to know how militaries learn. ...
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    122,51 €

  • Growing a New Economy
    Caroline Hargreaves / Roar Bjonnes
     “Growing a New Economy is a great primer if you want to get up to speed on the dangers lurking in the global economy. The book offers an incisive survey of how financial debt, inequality, resource scarcity and ecological damage have brought the world to the brink of disaster. The authors provide a long-term agenda for green, systemic change. A most elucidating and educating re...
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    19,58 €

  • Scaling Up Resilience-Building Measures through Community-Driven Development Projects
    Asian Development Bank
    This guidance note underscores the importance of scaling up climate change resilience-building measures through community-driven projects.The poor and vulnerable populations suffer disproportionately from the adverse impacts of climate change and disasters, which result in loss of life, damage to household and community assets, disruption of livelihoods, and loss of income. Sol...
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    24,48 €

  • Fictions of Sustainability
    Boris Frankel
    This book discusses the growing political contest between conservative and reform-orientated defenders of capitalist societies on the one side, and the policies and imagined futures advanced by green and socialist critics on the other. All are subjected to detailed scrutiny. Is ‘green growth’ innovation able to resolve deep-seated global inequality and other socio-political and...
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    23,74 €

  • Sustainable Entrepreneurship
    Alan S. Gutterman / Alan SGutterman
    This book traces the foundations for sustainable entrepreneurship, beginning with sustainability, ecopreneurship, and social entrepreneurship. Sustainability has become a multidimensional concept that extends beyond environmental protection to economic development and social equity-in other words, entrepreneurship guided and measured by the three pillars of the triple bottom li...
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    18,31 €

  • Burning Up
    Simon Pirani
    Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism’s main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the last three decades, since scientists confirmed that it is the main cause of potentially devastating global warming. In Burning ...
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    31,54 €

  • Pesticides and agriculture
    Dave Watson / Dr Dave Watson
    Pesticides have played a critical but sometimes controversial role in the development of agriculture. This book provides an authoritative account of the development of the modern pesticides industry in the context of broader developments in global agriculture. ...
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    318,26 €

  • The Gold Beyond Green & Eco
    Cognose Solvere
    The Gold beyond Green & Eco'Gold' serves everyone, from leaders, planners, architects, engineers to even those living without clean water. 'Gold' provides direction, technologies to improve everything around us. From small projects that can be implemented immediately to big ones that initiate new industries to create jobs, drive world economy!With deeper understanding of laws o...
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    41,89 €

  • Return on Investment in Corporate Responsibility
    Cesar Saenz
    In today’s climate, companies must be economically successful and at the same time take social responsibility. Author Cesar Sandro Saenz Acosta introduces a new SROIM (Social Return on Investment Management) model, to design and measure the social value created by companies. ...
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    98,76 €

  • POLLUTION ACROSS BORDERS
    EUSTON QUAH & TSIAT SIONG TAN
    This book is a collection of insights from experts of various fields, and will entail discussions of the recurring haze problem in Southeast Asia.It discusses multiple aspects of the haze problem. What is the cause of the haze? Who are the perpetrators and victims? What are the impacts and costs of the haze? Why has the haze problem persisted for decades? Are there prospects of...
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    154,36 €

  • Sustainability Accounting
    Advances in Environmental Accounting Management aims to advance knowledge of the management of corporate environmental impacts. It aims to increase the awareness of management accounting practitioners, investors, and other stakeholders of the financial and social consequences of corporate environmental impacts. ...
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    184,53 €

  • The Value of a Teacher
    Kennedy Onyango-Adongo
    The Value of a Teacher is not just a book but a library joining together dozens of writings on history, stories, songs, poetry, and speeches on illegal trade in wildlife, air quality, environmental rule of law, the green economy, chemicals and waste, and marine debris. Almost the only common factor is that they all speak to us of teachers, revealing their nature, their ecosyste...
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    15,66 €

  • Sustainable in Stilettos
    Tracey Martin
    Sustainable in Stilettos is the beginning of a conscious conversation about fashion, beauty, art, food and life. Within its pages are real solutions from real people that are changing the face of the industry. Will you be one of them? In today’s world where massive corporations drive fashion, beauty products and food, the primary goal is always to maximize profits. In doing so,...
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    15,12 €

  • Saving Planet Earth
    Andrew S. Ball / David F. Smith / Duncan A. Rouch
    Planet Earth is a minuscule part of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the only place where we humans can practically live. We all know this, but why are we so slow to fix the major environmental issues which are degrading the quality of life on this one planet? Here Dr Duncan Rouch, Dr David Smith and Professor Andrew Ball answer this question, with an exciting novel response that...
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    28,80 €

  • Revolution Sustainable
    Eric R Miller
        Revolution Sustainable is an internal look at society and culture and how we develop a rational approach to living, land development and lifestyle that encourages sustainability and environmental conservation. It will help engage governments, companies and individuals to follow the sustainable revolution through the use of available and developing technologies that are capa...
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    17,69 €

  • Our World is Burning
    Ian Prattis
    This book examines our fragile future and offers an alternative way of living based on Mindful Engagement. In sixteen essays Ian Prattis offers examples of how to respond to the most serious social, economic, environmental and personal challenges of the Twenty-First century. He advocates mindfulness practice to cultivate awareness as an ethical framework to guide actions, to cr...
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    16,00 €

  • Environmental Health and Safety Audits
    Lawrence B Cahill / Lawrence B. Cahill / Lawrence BCahill
    In an updated companion title to the 9th edition of Environmental Health and Safety Audits, Lawrence Cahill draws from nearly forty years of experience in over twenty-five countries to address important EHS audit issues that audit program managers and auditors must deal with routinely and when special circumstances arise. ...
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    66,46 €

  • Our World Is Burning
    Ian Prattis
    This book examines our fragile future and offers an alternative way of living based on Mindful Engagement. In sixteen essays Ian Prattis offers examples of how to respond to the most serious social, economic, environmental and personal challenges of the Twenty-First century. He advocates mindfulness practice to cultivate awareness as an ethical framework to guide actions, to cr...
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    34,63 €

  • Green Economy in the Western Balkans
    This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to the Western Balkans, addressing topics from the green image of a country, sustainable waste management, the way in which SMEs develop green entrepreneurship, sustainability in tourism and trade, green consumerism, energy efficiency, and conservation projects. ...
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    168,06 €

  • Worst-Case Economics
    Frank Ackerman
    In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ’Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks. ...
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    54,33 €

  • Introducing a New Economics
    Jack Reardon / Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi / Molly Scott Cato
    Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds a revolution in the teaching of economics. Students and lecturers alike are rejecting the narrow curricula and lack of intellectual diversity that characterise the mainstream. They demand that the real world should be brought back into the classroom, insisting that this is the only way to confront the current...
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    70,34 €

  • The Economics of Airport Operations
    This volume examines the role that airports play in economic development and land values, the regulation and economic efficiency of airports, airport pricing and competition, and the role played by airports in influencing airline operations and networks. ...
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    277,34 €

  • The Revolution Will Be Improvised
    Mike Freedman
    Filmmaker and writer Mike Freedman speaks with a range of experts from a variety of backgrounds about what the future has in store for humanity.Post-growth economics, sustainability, water privatisation, rejuvenation biotechnology, cyber-security and the war on drugs are some of the topics covered, featuring new insights from diverse thinkers including Richard Heinberg, Derrick...
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    11,36 €

  • A Course in Environmental Economics
    Daniel J. Phaneuf / Daniel JPhaneuf / Till Requate
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    190,80 €

  • Greening Auto Jobs
    Caleb Goods
    Greening Auto Jobs: A Critical Analysis of the Green Job Solution provides a major contribution to the growing and important field of environmental sociology and labor studies by providing a theoretical and practical understanding of how the broader political-economic relations of society affect the relationship between labor and the environment. ...
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    66,74 €

  • MANAGEMENT OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATER RESOURCES UNDER SCARCITY
    ARIEL DINAR & YACOV TSUR
    Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world. Water scarcity is especially critical in regions where water is shared by several riparian states and used for competing purposes (irrigation, domestic, industry, environment, and hydropower). There is evidence that water sca...
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    203,40 €


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