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  • Climate Governance in the Developing World

    by Charles Roger, Eva-Maria Nag, David Held ...
    Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, offering new, unexpected signs of climate leadership. Some scholars have gone so far as to argue that these targets are now even more ambitious than those put forward by their wealthier counterparts. But what really ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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    Whistle-Blowing in the Age of Snowden

    by Mark Hertsgaard ...
    Whistleblowers pay with their lives to save ours. When insiders like former NSA analyst Edward Snowden or ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley or Big Tobacco truth-teller Jeffrey Wigand blow the whistle on high-level lying, lawbreaking or other wrongdoing-whether it's government spying, corporate murder or scientific scandal-the public benefits enormously. Wars are ended, deadly products are taken off the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized power station is presently able to produce. Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) Water – all life depends on it. Yet how often do we stop to consider its true significance, its essential nature? The Water Wizard, the first volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and convincing ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fast-Changing Arctic

    Rethinking Arctic Security for a Warmer World

    by Lawson W. Brigham ...
    Series Book 15 - Northern Lights
    In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading. Rather than a single national perspective, The Fast-Changing Arctic brings together ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Vital Signs Volume 22

    The Trends That Are Shaping Our Future

    by The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series Vital Signs
    What we make and buy is a major indicator of society’s collective priorities. Among twenty-four key trends, Vital Signs Volume 22 explores significant global patterns in production and consumption. The result is a fascinating snapshot of how we invest our resources and the implications for the world’s well-being.The book examines developments in six main areas: energy, environment and climate, ... Read more

    $22.39 USD

  • The Haze Problem in Southeast Asia

    Palm Oil and Patronage

    by Helena Varkkey ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    Despite the efforts of Southeast Asian governments and of ASEAN, transboundary haze continues to be a major environmental problem in Southeast Asia. This book demonstrates that the issue is complex, and explains why efforts to solve the problem in purely political terms are ineffective, and likely to continue to be ineffective. The book shows how state-led, state-incentivised agribusiness ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ecocide

    A Short History of the Mass Extinction of Species

    by Franz Broswimmer ...
    We live in an age of ecocide. Changes of enormous ecological significance are occurring on our planet - the ozone layer is beginning to disintegrate. Since 1970 the world's forests have almost halved. A quarter of the world's fish have been depleted.70% of biologists believe the world is now in the midst of the fastest mass extinction of species in the planet's 4.5 billion-year history. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Perspectives in Bioethics, Science, and Public Policy

    Edited by Jonathan Beever, Nicolae Morar ...
    Series series Purdue Studies in Public Policy
    In this book, nine thought-leaders engage with some of the hottest moral issues in science and ethics. Based on talks originally given at the annual "Purdue Lectures in Ethics, Policy, and Science," the chapters explore interconnections between the three areas in an engaging and accessible way. Addressing a mixed public audience, the authors go beyond dry theory to explore some of the difficult ... Read more

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  • Back to the Future

    Advanced Nuclear Energy and the Battle Against Climate Change

    by Josh Freed ...
    The Golden Age of nuclear energy in the United States has passed, and the accidents, if not disasters, at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima have damaged nuclear power’s rise in some parts of the world. And yet today, as Third Way’s Josh Freed illuminates in the latest Brookings Essay, a flood of young engineers are exploring safer and cleaner nuclear energy technologies as the best ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Internal Energy Market

    Towards a Third Wave of Liberalisation

    by Fabrizio Lala ...
    The energy strategy of European Union is an item of utmost political concern, since it tightly intertwined with controversial commercial relationship with Russia and the US.In spite of the fact that energy had always played a leading role in the European Union, it was not included or since the beginning of the European Community within the common policies in the same.Things began to change in the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Energy Dilemmas

    by Mike Bradshaw ...
    Today’s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally harmless energy supply. In this rigorous and illuminating book, Michael Bradshaw explores the key aspects of the current global energy dilemma and examines how it is playing out across the major regions and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Green Gentrification

    Urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice

    by Kenneth Gould, Tammy Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "greening" from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development ... Read more

    $70.99 USD