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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Circular Economy in Emergency Housing: Eco-Efficient Prototype Design for Subaşi Refugee Camp in Turkey and Maicao Refugee Camp in Colombia

    A Research Strategy of Climate Change

    by Pilar Mercader-Moyano, Paula Porras-Pereira ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    In recent years, there has been an upsurge in the number of forced displacements due to natural disasters, armed conflicts, and pandemics, which has favoured an increase in the number of temporary accommodations. Although the provision of shelter after an emergency situation is one of the priorities of humanitarian aid, the reality is that the conditions in which people live in a situation of ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • How To Save Our Planet

    The Facts

    by Mark A. Maslin ...
    'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order to move forward' Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary UN Climate Change Convention'Amazing book' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show'Everyone should have this book' Rick Edwards, BBC Radio 5 Live'A timely and important book, not only ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Lithium

    The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution

    by Lukasz Bednarski ...
    A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all reliant on lithium-ion batteries. This revolution is happening at breath-taking speed, with the potential to completely transform key industries and the way we live. For the first time in history, we can now ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Fixing the Climate

    Strategies for an Uncertain World

    by Charles F. Sabel, David G. Victor ...
    Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp—but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations.Charles ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Greening the Media

    by Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller ...
    You will never look at your cell phone, TV, or computer the same way after reading this book. Greening the Media not only reveals the dirty secrets that hide inside our favorite electronic devices; it also takes apart the myths that have pushed these gadgets to the center of our lives. Marshaling an astounding array of economic, environmental, and historical facts, Maxwell and Miller debunk the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Clean Water for Developing Countries

    by John A Dracup ...
    The main purpose of this book is to assist the reader in choosing the best method for providing clean and safe water in a developing country. Most of the book’s content comes from the knowledge gained from:-Fifty-plus years of research and teaching in water resource engineering, hydrology and clean water for developing countries at both the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Drip Irrigation for Agriculture

    Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Venot, Marcel Kuper, Margreet Zwarteveen ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion faced in the global South. It explores and explains under which conditions it works, for whom and ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • “Clean” Energy Exploitations

    Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses That Support “Clean” Energy

    by Ronald Stein, Todd Royal ...
    The global focus on reducing emissions must be ethical instead of supporting environmental degradation.The book Clean Energy Exploitations – Helping citizens understand the environmental and humanity abuses that support ‘clean’ energy” is a Nominee for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize competition in the General Nonfiction category. Pulitzer Prize Winners and Finalists will be announced in April 2022.They ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium 2018 (RERIS 2018)

    23–26 January 2018, National University of Lesotho On occasion of NULISTICE 2018

    Edited by Moeketsi Mpholo, Dirk Steuerwald, Tonny Kukeera ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents the proceedings of the 2nd Africa-EU Renewable Energy Research and Innovation Symposium (RERIS 18), held in Maseru, Lesotho in January 2018. The symposium aimed to foster research cooperation on renewable energy between Africa and Europe – in academia, as well as the private and public sectors.Addressing thematic areas such as• Grid-connected renewable energy;• ... Read more

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  • Non-Wood Forest Products for People, Nature and the Green Economy. Recommendations for Policy Priorities in Europe: A White Paper Based on Lessons Learned from around the Mediterranean

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Based on the analysis of risks and limitations, this white paper stresses the urgent need for action and identifies promising policy options to:.secure the conservation and sustainable supply of non-wood forest products (NWFP);.build competitive, equitable, and sustainable value chains;.improve transparency, data, and information flow on NWFP and;.establish enabling conditions in the policy, ... Read more

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  • The Self-Sufficient City

    Internet has changed our lives but it hasn't changed our cities, yet.

    by Vicente Guallart ...
    Internet has changed our lives but it has not yet changed our cities. Any technological revolution takes paired radical transformations in the life styles. If the age of the car and the oil shaped the cities of the 20th century, the society of the information will form those of the 21st century. It is an unstoppable evolution that, nevertheless, it is necessary to be able to lead with criterion. ... Read more

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  • EU China Energy Magazine 2022 April Issue

    2022, #3

    by EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform Project ...
    Series Book 3 - 2022
    EU-China Energy Cooperation Platform was launched on 15 May 2019, to support the implementation of activities announced in the 'Joint Statement on the Implementation of EU-China Energy Cooperation'.The Joint Statement was signed during the 8th EU-China Energy Dialogue that was held in Brussels on 9th April between Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Cañete and the ... Read more

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