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  • Divided City, The: Ideological And Policy Contestations In Contemporary Urban India

    de Binti Singh, Mahendra Sethi ...
    The Divided City contributes to the growing body of scholarly work on cities of the global South. Cities in developing countries, particularly emerging economies, are undergoing rapid urbanization and social transition. Empirically grounded to the contemporary urban situation in India, The Divided City is set in an opportune moment to assess how cities fare up to the challenge of inclusive ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Mainstreaming Climate Co-Benefits in Indian Cities

    Post-Habitat III Innovations and Reforms

    Edición de Mahendra Sethi, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume presents a novel framework to understand urban climate co-benefits in India, that is, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development goals in cities. It utilizes methods and tools from several assessment frameworks to scientifically evaluate sector co-benefits for informed decision making. The co-benefits approach can lead to significant improvements in the way societies ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Urban Settlements

    A Spatial Perspective of Carbon Footprint and Beyond

    de Mahendra Sethi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    Climate change and urbanization are two of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and their effects are converging in dangerous ways. Cities contribute significantly to global warming, and as the world further takes a rural-urban population tilt, the next few decades pose a great challenge in addressing global disparities in the access and allocation of carbon.This book ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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    de Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard, Nic Rivers ...
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  • The Climate Fix

    What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

    de Roger Pielke Jr. ...
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  • The Climate Casino

    Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

    de William D. Nordhaus ...
    Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • Smart Solutions to Climate Change

    Comparing Costs and Benefits

    Edición de Bjørn Lomborg ...
    The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policymakers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatures. The expert authors in this specially commissioned collection focus on the likely costs and benefits of a very wide range of policy options, including geo-engineering, mitigation of CO2, methane and ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Climate Change: A Wicked Problem

    Complexity and Uncertainty at the Intersection of Science, Economics, Politics, and Human Behavior

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Climate Matters

    Ethics in a Warming World

    de John Broome ...
    Series series Norton Global Ethics Series
    A vital new moral perspective on the climate change debate.Esteemed philosopher John Broome avoids the familiar ideological stances on climate change policy and examines the issue through an invigorating new lens. As he considers the moral dimensions of climate change, he reasons clearly through what universal standards of goodness and justice require of us, both as citizens and as governments. ... Leer más

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  • Climate Change Justice

    de Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach ...
    Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative ... Leer más

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  • The Global Deal

    Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity

    de Nicholas Stern ...
    In October 2006, Nicholas Stern, one of the greatest economists and public intellectuals of our day, made headlines around the world with his report, which reviewed the costs and benefits of dealing with global warming. The world's community has learned that it must act to mitigate global climate change, but until the Stern Review, no one knew how much it would cost, and how to do it.Now, Stern ... Leer más

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  • Generating Electricity in a Carbon-Constrained World

    Edición de Fereidoon Sioshansi ...
    The electric power sector is what keeps modern economies going, and historically, fossil fuels provided the bulk of the energy need to generate electricity, with coal a dominant player in many parts of the world. Now with growing concerns about global climate change, this historical dependence on fossil-fuels, especially those rich in carbon, are being questioned. Examining the implications of the ... Leer más

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