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  • Land!
    John Crowe Ransom
    The accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom made profound contributions to twentieth-century American literature. As a teacher at Vanderbilt University he was also a leading member of the Southern Agrarian movement and a contributor to the movement’s manifesto I’ll Take My Stand. Ransom’s Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites Ransom’s poetic sensibilities w...
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    30,73 €

  • SAVING OURSELVES
    YACINE BELHAJ-BOUABDALLAH
    Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institutions at all levels, public and private, national and international, are teaming up to combat climate change and to promote more sustainable societies. In this book, Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah interviews heads of states, politicians, religious leaders, leading academi...
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    33,05 €

  • SAVING OURSELVES
    YACINE BELHAJ-BOUABDALLAH
    Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institutions at all levels, public and private, national and international, are teaming up to combat climate change and to promote more sustainable societies. In this book, Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah interviews heads of states, politicians, religious leaders, leading academi...
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    105,48 €

  • INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION & DOMESTIC PERFORMANCE
    MARY E LOVELY
     International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays of Mary E Lovely focused on the relationship between international economic integration and domestic performance. It is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers that have been published in various scholarly journals over the last two decades. The first section considers the welfa...
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    126,43 €

  • Urban Land and Sustainable Development
    Yehua Dennis Wei
    According to the 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects by UN DESA, urbanization could add another 2.5 billion people to urban population by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa. This unprecedented increase in urban population not only poses challenges to providing jobs, housing, and infrastructure, but also exerts an increas...
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    90,97 €

  • A Course in Environmental Economics
    Daniel J. Phaneuf / Daniel JPhaneuf / Till Requate
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    89,42 €

  • CLIMATE FINANCE
    IBON GALARRAGA & DIRK RU ANIL MARKANDYA
     How is the struggle against climate change financed? Climate Finance: Theory and Practice gives an overview of the key debates that have emerged in the field of climate finance, including those concerned with efficiency, equity, justice, and contribution to the public good between developed and developing countries. With the collaboration of internationally renowned experts in...
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    178,92 €

  • HOW I SAW IT
    RICHARD L SANDOR
    From 1999 to 2005, Richard L Sandor wrote a monthly column for Environmental Finance magazine. The column was called "How I See It", and with this latest publication, Sandor has compiled all of his articles into one comprehensive historical analysis and commentary on the field of Environmental Finance.How I Saw It offers a historical account of the development of the Chicago Cl...
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    142,42 €

  • Our Earth, Our Species, Our Selves
    Ellen Moyer
    Our current environmental crises -- most notably, climate change -- call on us to upgrade to a new way of life that will sustain us and our world far into the future. When you read this timely, accessible, and thought-provoking book, you will discover:*  We already have the capacities and tools to create a health and environmental revolution.*  Specific actions you and I can ta...
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    14,81 €

  • Rationing Earth
    Herb Bentz
    Our economy has spiralled out of control with too much focus on the quantity of production. The way to reduce this wasteful overproduction of goods and services is to increase their quality. In this groundbreaking book, industrial designer Herb Bentz explains how to fix the economy and break the environment versus economy deadlock. Bentz tells us how the use of good design can ...
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    38,82 €

  • Rationing Earth
    Herb Bentz
    Our economy has spiralled out of control with too much focus on the quantity of production. The way to reduce this wasteful overproduction of goods and services is to increase their quality. In this groundbreaking book, industrial designer Herb Bentz explains how to fix the economy and break the environment versus economy deadlock. Bentz tells us how the use of good design can ...
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    29,31 €

  • Climate-Proof Your Personal Finances
    David W. Stookey
    Climate-Proof examines how global warming is threatening your personal finances, your future lifestyle and your family’s dreams. It's less about drought, more about rising prices, threats to your job, and the endangered value of your home. Less about sea-level rise, more about your taxes, fees and insurance costs.  Filled with ways to protect your wallet and your life plan...
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    11,29 €

  • The Law and Economics of a Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement
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    177,14 €

  • Water Capitalism
    Peter L. Nelson / Peter LNelson / RODRIGUEZ / Walter E. Block / Walter EBlock
    Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral. ...
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    45,83 €

  • China and Europe’s Partnership for a More Sustainable World
    This book gathers the main scientific outputs of POREEN, a four-year project on partnering opportunities between Europe and China in the renewable energy and environmental industries. It investigates the main challenges and opportunities related to Sino-European dialogue and cooperation in the green sector with a focus on sustainable growth. ...
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    132,71 €

  • Poverty As My Teacher
    Robert E Miller
    Poverty As My Teacher describes the birth of the initiative: Leading the Way Out of Global Poverty® with Sustainable Family Communities® which are designed with the economic and social/cultural factors necessary to be repeatable, sustainable and scalable. This is an initiative that can truly eradicate poverty, one Community at a time, as opposed to what most projects do – prov...
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    32,44 €

  • Gary The Go-Cart
    B B Denson
    'Wind Blows' is a humorous conservative 'Children’s Book' that tackles Wind Energy and Fake News in a manner that is so simple, even a child can understand it on some level. (Adults will read it on a different level.) 'Wind Blows' details Gary’s adventures as he explores Wind Energy and compares it to Oil and Gas.  You might be surprised by what he learns. Ms. Denson simplifies...
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    7,56 €

  • Gary The Go-Cart
    B B Denson
    'Wind Blows' is a humorous conservative 'Children’s Book' that tackles Wind Energy and Fake News in a manner that is so simple, even a child can understand it on some level. (Hopefully, the parent will get it as well!) 'Wind Blows' details Gary’s adventures as he explores Wind Energy and compares it to Oil and Gas.  You might be surprised by what he learns. Ms. Denson simplifie...
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    17,77 €

  • Water and the California Dream
    David Carle
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    15,81 €

  • GREEN GONE WRONG
    Rogers
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    30,22 €

  • The ABCs of Environmental Regulation
    Albert I. Telsey / Albert ITelsey
    This popular handbook uses a practical and easy-to-read approach to explaining the scope of environmental regulations and providing concise yet comprehensive discussions of federal environmental acts. ...
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    143,01 €

  • Disrupted Landscapes
    Stefan Dorondel
    The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and development but to dramatic changes in the natural world itself. This painstakingly researched volume focuses on the emblematic case of postsocialist Romania, in which the transition from collectivization to privatiza...
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    205,00 €

  • Green Growth
    The discourse of ‘green growth’ has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model.But the green growth pro...
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    46,74 €

  • Managing Extreme Climate Change Risks through Insurance
    W. J. Wouter Botzen / WJWouter Botzen
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    34,78 €

  • The Age of Consequences
    Courtney White
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    15,88 €

  • Ecofundamentalism
    RHannesson / Rögnvaldur Hannesson
    Ecofundamentalism: A Critique of Extreme Environmentalism is one of few books that focuses on ecofundamentalism, from its philosophical foundations to its policy prescriptions, instead of environmentalism as a whole. Ecofundamentalism places nature above man and is a possible threat to civilization. Rögnvaldur Hannesson critically examines central tenets of environmentalism su...
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    63,06 €

  • The Economic Welfare and Trade Relations Implications of the 2014 Farm Bill
    Currently there is no comprehensive, accessible account of the economic effects of the 2014 Farm Bill. This edited collection consists of 10 essays, each on the major areas of US farm programs that describes and assesses the economic welfare impacts of the programs in those areas by distinguished scholars who are internationally recognized experts. ...
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    132,13 €

  • The Secure and the Dispossessed
    While the world’s scientists and many of its inhabitants despair at the impact of climate change, corporate and military leaders see nothing but opportunities. For them, melting ice caps mean newly accessible fossil fuels, borders to be secured from ’climate refugees’, social conflicts to be managed and more failed states in which to intervene. They are ’securing’ their assets ...
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    37,98 €

  • Water Capitalism
    Block / Peter L. Nelson / Peter LNelson / Walter E. Block / Walter EBlock
    Water Capitalism proposes the privatization of all bodies of water, because those who own resources husband their assets far more carefully than do bureaucrats who have no real stake in the environment. The idea that an all-powerful state should, or could, care for the physical liquid environs of the world is shown to be incorrect and immoral. ...
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    156,54 €

  • Havoc, Thy Name Is Twenty-First Century!
    Peter Pogany
    Just to maintain our standard of living, we need to grow the worldwide economy at an unsustainable rate.As we seek to hit such lofty targets, we’re bound to deplete our resources and cause environmental crises on a scale that we have never seen before. Revolutions, terrorism, and wars will follow.Peter Pogany examines the problems we face and argues that human culture is govern...
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    17,46 €