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  • Solving Climate Change

    A guide for learners and leaders

    by Jonathan Koomey, Ian Monroe ...
    Series series IOP ebooks
    This book frames the climate problem in a comprehensive way and cuts through common conceptual confusions that impede rapid action.The first chapter describes the history, nature, and scope of the climate problem. The second chapter describes how to stabilize the climate by ending fossil fuels, minimizing non-fossil emissions, and creating a climate-positive biosphere.The authors identify five ... Read more

    $104.49 CAD

  • Cold Cash, Cool Climate

    Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs

    by Jonathan Garo Koomey ...
    Written for entrepreneurs and investors, this book describes how to profit from tackling climate change, one of this century's greatest challenges. Industry expert Dr. Jonathan Koomey acts as your company's scientific advisor, summarizing the business implications of the climate problem for both new and existing ventures. Koomey helps you effectively allocate scarce time and resources to the most ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turning Numbers into Knowledge

    Mastering the Art of Problem Solving

    by Jonathan Garo Koomey ...
    This book (intended for beginning analysts, students, and the people training them) bridges general business problem solving and mathematics for improved effectiveness in work and life. Full of tools for solving real-world problems, this new edition is an ideal training manual for those who are intimidated by quantitative analysis and an excellent refresher for those looking to improve the quality ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • False Alarm

    How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet

    by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    An “essential” (Times UK) and “meticulously researched” (Forbes) book by “the skeptical environmentalist” argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than goodHurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Arctic. Politicians, activists, and the media espouse a common message: climate change is destroying the planet, and we must take ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Climate Fix

    What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

    by Roger Pielke Jr. ...
    Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fault of those who reject the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support it, and the magical thinking that the agreement represents. In The Climate Fix, Pielke offers a way to repair climate policy, shifting the debate away from meaningless targets and toward a revolution in how the world ... Read more

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  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    Rethinking Our Response

    by Judith Curry ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Climate Shock

    The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

    by Gernot Wagner, Gernot Wagner, Martin L. Weitzman, Martin L. Weitzman ...
    How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain futureIf you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Smart Solutions to Climate Change

    Comparing Costs and Benefits

    Edited by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policymakers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits of a very wide range of policy options, including geo-engineering, mitigation of CO2, methane and ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Energy at the Crossroads

    Global Perspectives and Uncertainties

    by Vaclav Smil ...
    An objective, comprehensive, and accessible examination of today's most crucial problem: preserving the environment in the face of society's insatiable demand for energy.In Energy at the Crossroads, Vaclav Smil considers the twenty-first century's crucial question: how to reconcile the modern world's unceasing demand for energy with the absolute necessity to preserve the integrity of the biosphere ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Climate Change: A Wicked Problem

    Complexity and Uncertainty at the Intersection of Science, Economics, Politics, and Human Behavior

    by Frank P. Incropera ...
    Under one cover, Frank P. Incropera provides a comprehensive, objective and critical assessment of all issues germane to the climate change debate: science, technology options, economic ramifications, cultural and behavioural issues, the influence of special interests and public policy, geopolitics and ethical dimensions. The underlying science is treated in depth, but in an approachable and ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Confronting Climate Gridlock

    How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future

    by Daniel S Cohan ...
    An atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy“Daniel Cohan makes a compelling case that the problem of climate change is solvable. Fixing the gridlock on global action requires fixing the gridlock here in the United States of America. Cohan shows how that can be done.”—David Victor, UC San ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • Entrepreneurship in the Raw Materials Sector

    Proceedings of the LIMBRA International Scientific Conference

    Edited by Zoltán Bartha, Tekla Szép, Katalin Lipták, Dóra Szendi ...
    The Entrepreneurship in the Raw Materials Sector proceeding is a collection of papers focusing on the macroeconomic aspects of green growth, the business opportunities in the raw materials sector, and the challenges in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship training. These papers were presented during the closing conference of LIMBRA (‘Decreasing the negative outcomes of brain drain in the raw ... Read more

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