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  • Intellectual Property and Clean Energy

    The Paris Agreement and Climate Justice

    Edited by Matthew Rimmer ...
    This collection considers the future of climate innovation after the Paris Agreement. It analyses the debate over intellectual property and climate change in a range of forums – including the climate talks, the World Trade Organization, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, as well as multilateral institutions dealing with food, health, and biodiversity. The book investigates the ... Read more

    $434.19 CAD

  • Incentives for Global Public Health

    Patent Law and Access to Essential Medicines

    Edited by Thomas Pogge, Matthew Rimmer, Kim Rubenstein ...
    Series series Connecting International Law with Public Law
    This portrait of the global debate over patent law and access to essential medicines focuses on public health concerns about HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, the SARS virus, influenza, and diseases of poverty. The essays explore the diplomatic negotiations and disputes in key international fora, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and the World Intellectual Property ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • Climate Technology and Law in the Anthropocene

    by Jonathan Verschuuren, Gareth Davies, Kaisa Huhta, Kateryna Holzer, Yulia Yamineva, Hao Zhang, Ruven Fleming, Kelsey Pailman, Mirta Alessandrini, Josephine van Zeben, Daria Shapovalova, Seita Vesa, Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, Bettina Lange, Matthew Rimmer, Felicity Deane, Justine Bell-James, Laura Kaschny, Manon Simon, Jan McDonald, Jeff McGee, Kerryn Brent, Alberto Quintavalla, Floor Fleurke, Phillip Paiement, Gunnar S. Eskeland, Morag Goodwin ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. As climate change accelerates, our window for action is closing. To stay within the "Anthropocene" - an epoch in which humankind as the dominant force shaping the planet retains a degree of control over the destructive processes it has unleashed - global warming must be kept below 2° Celsius.This book explores the unprecedented ... Read more

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  • Future Generations Policy, Governance and Leadership

    Ending ‘Policrastination’

    by Taylor Dee Hawkins, Susan Harris Rimmer, Elise Stephenson, Matthew Day, Amie Furlong ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explains how considering the impact on future generations drives good governance and better policy outcomes and why it is time for Australia to embrace intergenerational fairness. We explore proposals to support intergenerational equity through policymaking, including emulating The Wellbeing of Future Generations Act adopted in Wales in 2015. A Welsh-style Act would embed the protection ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

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    by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong ...
    Series Book 1 - About Canada
    Health care is Canada’s best-loved social program — and for good reason. For over forty years, Canadians have enjoyed high quality health services based on need rather than on ability to pay. Yet we hear almost daily accounts of problems with the system. We are bombarded with warnings that public health care is unsustainable, especially in light of the baby boomer generation reaching retirement ... Read more

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  • The Language of Climate Politics

    Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It

    by Genevieve Guenther ...
    A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change. "If you want to understand the climate crisis and you only have time to read one book, this should be it." - Kieran Setiya, author of Life is Hard "A revelatory study.. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Five Times Faster

    Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change

    by Simon Sharpe ...
    We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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  • No Such Thing as a Free Gift

    The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

    by Linsey McGoey ...
    Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big businessThe charitable sector is one of the fastest-growing industries in the global economy. Nearly half of the more than 85,000 private foundations in the United States have come into being since the year 2000. Just under 5,000 more were established in 2011 alone. This deluge of philanthropy has helped create a world where billionaires wield more ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Growth Story of the 21st Century

    The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe - or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth. The Growth Story of the 21st Century challenges the outdated idea that we must choose between climate action and development. Instead, it presents a compelling case for a transformation that delivers ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • EU Climate Diplomacy

    Politics, Law and Negotiations

    Edited by Stephen Minas, Vassilis Ntousas ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    The European Union has long played a leadership role in the global response to climate change, including the development and dissemination of climate-friendly technologies such as renewable energy. EU diplomacy has been a vital contributor to the development of international cooperation on climate change through the agreement of the United Nations Climate Convention, its Kyoto Protocol and, most ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World

    A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

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  • From Poverty to Power

    by Duncan Green ...
    This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. ... Read more

    $18.29 CAD