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  • 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 €

  • 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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    134,13 €

  • Economics of Electricity
    Anna Cretì / Fulvio Fontini
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    50,54 €

  • Economics, Game Theory and International 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 and International 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • Economics of Natural Disasters
    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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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
    Most people measure military power with weapons, manpower, or resources, but How Militaries Learn shows that the key to success on the modern battlefield lies in the mind. Modern weapons and plentiful resources matter little if militaries cannot organize efficiently, exercise initiative, and take advantage of opportunities as they arise. How Militaries Learn examines 200 years ...
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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 €


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