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  • Energy and Household Expenditure Patterns

    by Thomas J. Lareau, Joel Darmstadter ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1983, Energy and Household Expenditure Patterns claimed that two-thirds of energy consumption in the United States came from households. This study aimed to estimate the expected changes in household activities and how this would affect energy consumption in the country as a whole. Also discussed are implications of direct energy purchases and spending on energy goods in ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Greenhouse Warming

    Abatement and Adaptation

    Edited by Norman J. Rosenberg, William E. Easterling III, Pierre R. Crosson, Joel Darmstadter ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1989, Greenhouse Warming combines papers presented at a workshop held in 1987 to discuss climate change. This study identifies ways that climate impacts upon agriculture, forestry and water resources in order to advise on safeguarding against drought, flood and extreme cold as well as what policies can be implemented to adapt to the probable physical and socioeconomic ... Read more

    $39.84 CAD

  • Global Development and the Environment

    Perspectives on Sustainability

    Edited by Joel Darmstadter ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In preparation for the United Nation’s Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, this study aimed to detail enduring environmental issues that might or might not have been considered at the conference. Originally published earlier that year, Global Development and the Environment questions the compatibility of goals for environmental protection, natural resource ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • Assessing Surprises and Nonlinearities in Greenhouse Warming

    Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop

    Edited by Joel Darmstadter, Michael A. Toman ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In 1992, Resources for the Future conducted a workshop concerning the issues of global climate change. This title, originally published in 1993, is a collection of the revised versions of the papers commissioned for the workshop with an added introduction and overview. Each paper emphasises the potential nonlinearities or surprises in physical effects caused by humans loading the atmosphere with ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Energy in America's Future

    The Choices Before Us

    by Sam H. Schurr, Joel Darmstadter, Harry Perry, William C. Ramsay, Milton Russell ...
    Series series RFF Energy Policy Set
    Results of a comprehensive two-year study analyzing the facts and policy alternatives. Originally published in 1979. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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  • Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-First Century

    The Hierarchy of Energy

    by Howard Odum ...
    Howard T. Odum possessed one of the most innovative minds of the twentieth century. He pioneered the fields of ecological engineering, ecological economics, and environmental accounting, working throughout his life to better understand the interrelationships of energy, environment, and society and their importance to the well-being of humanity and the planet.This volume is a major modernization of ... Read more

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    Earth System Science and Global Sustainability

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    Climate Change in the Places We Live

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