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  • Grey and White Hulls

    An International Analysis of the Navy-Coastguard Nexus

    Edited by Ian Bowers, Swee Lean Collin Koh ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book undertakes an in-depth examination of the diversity in international approaches to the navy-coastguard nexus. It considers the evolving global maritime security landscape and the emergence and proliferation of maritime law enforcement agencies—collectively referred to here as “coastguards”—performing peacetime constabulary duties alongside navies. Through a cross-regional study of ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Nuclear Power and Energy Security in Asia

    Edited by Rajesh Basrur, Koh Swee Lean Collin ...
    Series series Routledge Security in Asia Pacific Series
    The rising demand for energy, the higher costs of oil and gas, and the association of fossil fuels with adverse climate change have all brought a renewed interest in nuclear energy. Nuclear power, however, is itself controversial, because of its costs, its environmental effects and the security risks it poses. This book discusses these critical issues surrounding nuclear power in relation to Asia. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Naval Modernisation in Southeast Asia, Part Two

    Submarine Issues for Small and Medium Navies

    Edited by Geoffrey Till, Collin Koh Swee Lean ...
    Series Book 2 - Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited volume starts with an account of the submarine in naval warfare and moves on to review the nature and consequences of naval modernisation in Southeast Asia by considering their acquisition by the small and medium navies of the region. It explores the reasons for these navies taking on this very substantial and demanding challenge, the problems they are facing and the consequences of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge

    by Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard, Nic Rivers ...
    Here’s a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation — and it offers a solution.It’s a brilliant mix. To “Canada’s best mind on the environment,” Mark Jaccard, who won the 2006 Donner Prize for an academic book in this area, you add Nic Rivers, a researcher who works with him at Simon Fraser University. Then you add Jeffrey Simpson, the highly respected Globe and Mail ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 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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  • Nuclear Energy

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Charles D. Ferguson ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time, and plant construction in the United States virtually died after the early 1980s. The 1986 disaster at Chernobyl only reinforced nuclear power's ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Nuclear 2.0

    Why a green future needs nuclear power

    by Mark Lynas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming.While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

  • 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

    $36.09 USD

  • The Hydrogen Economy

    Opportunities and Challenges

    Edited by Michael Ball, Martin Wietschel ...
    Responding to the sustained interest in and controversial discussion of the prospects of hydrogen, this book strives to reflect on the perspectives of a hydrogen economy in light of the global energy challenge, in particular the question of how to meet the growing demand for transport energy in the long term and how to secure sustainable energy for transportation. This book stands out from other ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • The Energy Imperative

    100 Percent Renewable Now

    by Hermann Scheer ...
    For decades, Hermann Scheer was one of the world's leading proponents of renewable energy. In this, his last book before his death in 2010, he lays out his vision for a planet 100% powered by renewables and examines the fundamental ethical and economic imperatives for such a shift. And most importantly, he demonstrates why the time for this transition is now. In Scheer's view, talk of bridging ... Read more

    $223.99 USD

  • What Will Work

    Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power

    by Kristin Shrader-Frechette ...
    Series series Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series
    What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the most effective, cheapest, and equitable solutions to the pressing problem of climate change. ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century

    by Scott L. Montgomery, Thomas Graham, Jr ...
    Nuclear power is not an option for the future but an absolute necessity. Global threats of climate change and lethal air pollution, killing millions each year, make it clear that nuclear and renewable energy must work together, as non-carbon sources of energy. Fortunately, a new era of growth in this energy source is underway in developing nations, though not yet in the West. Seeing the Light is ... Read more

    $31.99 USD