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  • Local Content Policies in Resource-rich Countries

    by Christian A. Nygaard, Abdizhapar Saparbayev, Yerengaip Omarov, Yelena Kalyuzhnova ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyses the role of local content (LC) policy in the economic development of five resource-rich countries: Brazil, Kazakhstan, Norway, Russia and the UK. The authors situate LC policy within a framework of sustainability in the form of industrial diversification and innovation-led growth, and examine how effective LC policies are in facilitating sectoral and economy-wide catching up. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Disaster Profiteers

    How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer

    by John C. Mutter ...
    Natural disasters don't matter for the reasons we think they do. They generally don't kill a huge number of people. Most years more people kill themselves than are killed by Nature's tantrums. And using standard measures like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) it is difficult to show that disasters significantly interrupt the economy.It's what happens after the disasters that really matters-when the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Energy and the Wealth of Nations

    Understanding the Biophysical Economy

    by Charles A. S. Hall, Kent A. Klitgaard ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion” of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume, little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials from the environment and back again. In the standard economic model, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Driven by Demand

    How Energy Gets its Power

    by Jimmy Y. Jia, Jason Crabtree ...
    Energy plays a central role in shaping our society and infrastructure, making it increasingly important for today's leaders to understand the impact of energy decisions. Discussions about energy often neglect important historical lessons about previous energy transformations and provide inadequate consideration of context - Driven by Demand takes a fresh approach by exploring the emergence of ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • The Social Metabolism

    A Socio-Ecological Theory of Historical Change

    by Víctor M. Toledo, Manuel González de Molina ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Over this last decade, the concept of Social Metabolism has gained prestige as a theoretical instrument for the required analysis, to such an extent that there are now dozens of researchers, hundreds of articles and several books that have adopted and use this concept. However, there is a great deal of variety in terms of definitions and interpretations, as well as different methodologies around ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • A Field Guide to Community Based Adaptation

    by Tim Magee ...
    The world's poor will be the most critically affected by a changing climate—and yet their current plight isn't improving rapidly enough to fulfill the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. If experienced development organizations are finding it difficult to solve decades-old development problems, how will they additionally solve new challenges driven by climate change? This book illustrates how ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Managing a Material World

    Edited by Pier Vellinga, J. Gupta, Frans Berkhout ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    As we reach the end of the 20th century, the question of how to meet human needs and preferences while safeguarding the global environment is a major concern facing humanity. This book reflects the state of the art of thinking on the necessary concepts, tools and instruments that are likely to help producers, consumers and governments to adjust their policies and practices. It covers theories and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Political Economy of Renewable Energy and Energy Security

    Common Challenges and National Responses in Japan, China and Northern Europe

    Edited by E. Moe, P. Midford ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Bringing together renewable energy and energy security, this book covers both the politics and political economy of renewables and energy security and analyzes renewable technologies in diverse and highly topical countries: Japan, China and Northern Europe. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Innovating Climate Governance

    Moving Beyond Experiments

    Edited by Bruno Turnheim, Paula Kivimaa, Frans Berkhout ...
    After the perceived failure of global approaches to tackling climate change, enthusiasm for local climate initiatives has blossomed world-wide, suggesting a more experimental approach to climate governance. Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments looks critically at climate governance experimentation, focusing on how experimental outcomes become embedded in practices, rules and ... Read more

    $130.39 USD

  • New Perspectives on Agri-environmental Policies

    A multidisciplinary and transatlantic approach

    Edited by Stephan J Goetz, Floor Brouwer ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    Significant advances have occurred in recent years in Europe and in North America in addressing agri-environmental policies. Land use issues tend to be more pressing in Europe than in the US as a whole because of different spatial exigencies.Because these advances have taken place within individual academic disciplines, there has been something of a loss of synergy and often efforts are duplicated ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Adapting to Climate Change

    An Assessment of Vulnerability and Risks to Human Security in the Western Mediterranean Basin

    by Dania Abdul Malak, Katriona McGlade, Diana Pascual, Eduard Pla ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines the water-related impacts of climate change in the UNESCO Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean (IBRM) straddling Spain and Morocco. This is the first in-depth publication on a fascinating transboundary case study; while climate change effects are rather homogenous across the IBRM, differing socio-economic contexts, land-use patterns and policy frameworks in ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Social and Ecological System Dynamics

    Characteristics, Trends, and Integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia

    Edited by Krystyna Stave, Goraw Goshu, Shimelis Aynalem ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is a social—ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River. This basin is an important local, national, and international resource, and concern about its sustainable development is growing at many levels. Lake Tana Basin outflows of water, sediments, nutrients, and contaminants affect water that flows ... Read more

    $107.09 USD