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  • Unintended Consequences

    Unintended Consequences, #1

    par Patrick Novak ...
    Collections Livre 1 - Unintended Consequences
    Kudzu was planted to hold the soil together. Cane toads were shipped to Australia to eat beetles. A surgery that won a Nobel Prize was meant to cure despair.Seventy-three true, carefully reconstructed stories of policies, inventions and plans that achieved the exact opposite of what their designers intended, each traced from the good intention, through the mechanism that turned it inside out, to ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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    How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them

    par Steven Milloy ...
    Everywhere you look, all you see is green. People are "living green," businesses are "going green," and consumers are "buying green." But soon, this trendy "green" lifestyle won't be voluntary-it will be mandatory. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015. How Are the World's Forests Changing? Second Edition

    par FAOoftheUN ...
    This publication is the latest in a series of reports by FAO, the first of which was published in 1948. It is a synthesis of key results from the 2015 Global Forest Resources Assessment which is conducted every five years. It summarizes findings and data sources and links to more detailed publications and online resources. ... En savoir plus

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  • Logistics in Lagging Regions: Overcoming Local Barriers to Global Connectivity

    par Kunaka Charles ...
    Small scale producers in developing countries lack easy access to efficient logistics services. They are faced with long distances from both domestic and international markets. Unless they consolidate their trade volumes they face high costs which diminish their ability to trade. However the process of consolidation is not without cost nor does it occur on its own accord. As a result the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Climate Change and Disaster Management

    par Ross Prizzia ...
    This book makes the case that many climate related scientists have provided data that confirm that burning fossil fuels has increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, which has had a major impact on climate change. Each of the six chapters provides many references and questions for review.The first chapter emphasizes worldwide awareness of the relationship between climate change and disasters ... En savoir plus

    $13.16 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Averting Risks to the Food Chain: A Compendium of Proven Emergency Prevention Methods and Tools

    par FAOoftheUN ...
    Preventing animal disease and plant pest outbreaks and food safety incidents before they occur is essential toprotecting the food chain. Most food chain crises are preventable with timely actions and the right investments. TheFood Chain Crisis - Emergency Prevention System, known as FCC-EMPRES, is FAO's approach to pursuing just that. This publication, based on 23 FCC-EMPRES information sheets ... En savoir plus

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  • Success in Social Marketing

    100 Case Studies From Around the Globe

    par Nancy R. Lee, Philip Kotler ...
    Social marketing, a field first introduced by Philip Kotler and Gerald Zaltman in a pioneering article in the Journal of Marketing in 1971, uses marketing concepts to influence the behaviors of individuals and communities for the greater social good. Now, as the discipline celebrates its 50th anniversary, Success in Social Marketing provides an accessible and comprehensive guide to the field, ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Mainstreaming Building Energy Efficiency Codes In Developing Countries: Global Experiences And Lessons From Early Adopters

    par Liu Feng; Meyer Anke S.; Hogan John F. ...
    Urbanization and growing wealth in developing countries portend a large increase of demand for modern energy services in residential, commercial and public-service buildings in the coming decades. Pursuing energy efficiency in buildings is vital to energy security in developing countries and is identified by the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change as having the greatest potential for cost ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Journey through the Construction Industry

    par Hema Kanta Barua ...
    The book explores various aspects of the construction industry with reference to the current state of standardized knowledge in construction technology, techniques, and management. The key topics covered in the book are outlined in the contents pages. The role of engineers engaged in different facets of the construction industry is discussed with particular emphasis on knowledge, skills, and ... En savoir plus

    $4.23 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Can Legal Weed Win?

    The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics

    par Dr. Robin Goldstein, Prof. Daniel Sumner ...
    Two economists take readers on a tour of the economics of legal and illegal weed, showing where cannabis regulation has gone wrong and how it could do better.Cannabis "legalization" hasn't lived up to the hype. Across North America, investors are reeling, tax collections are below projections, and people are pointing fingers. On the business side, companies have shut down, farms have failed, ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century

    par Abhas K. Jha, Robin Bloch, Jessica Lamond ...
    Urban flooding is a significant challenge which today increasingly confronts the residents of the expanding cities and towns of developing countries, as well as policymakers and national, regional and local government officials. The Global Handbook presents the state-of-the art in urban flood risk management in a thorough and user-friendly way. It serves as a primer in integrated urban flood risk ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • The High Cost of Low Prices

    A Roadmap to Sustainable Prosperity

    par David Steven Jacoby ...
    This book directly addresses controversial issues like climate change, carbon taxes, fracking, offshoring, urban sprawl, globalization, income inequality, regulation, corruption, compliance and enforcement, providing an informed basis for mapping the way forward.Based on his experience consulting on hundreds of industrial mega-projects, Jacoby reveals dark secrets of international supply chains ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD