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“ben mcneil”

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  • Clean Industrial Revolution

    Growing Australian prosperity in a greenhouse age

    by Ben McNeil ...
    'A passionate and informative demonstration of how mitigating climate change can be compatible with economic growth' - Professor Ross Garnaut, the Garnaut Climate Change Review'Humanity's greatest challenge is to minimise the consequences of climate change. With challenge comes opportunity. This book is about opportunity.' - Professor Peter Doherty, Nobel prize winner'A fascinating and provocative ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Fools Rule

    Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change

    by William Marsden ...
    This eloquent, rage-inciting polemic about the global failure to deal with climate change will appeal to readers of Tim Flannery, George Monbiot and Bill McKibben - and anyone concerned with the economic and environmental future of our planet.Kyoto, 1997. Montreal, 2005. Copenhagen, 2009. Cancun, 2010. In Fools Rule, Marsden illustrates how inefficient and short-sighted political negotiations have ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Attacking Ocean

    The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels

    by Brian Fagan ...
    The past fifteen thousand years-the entire span of human civilization-have witnessed dramatic sea level changes, which began with rapid global warming at the end of the Ice Age, when coastlines were more than seven hundred feet below modern levels. Over the next ten millennia, the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These rapid changes had little effect on those humans who experienced them, partly ... Read more

    $16.09 USD

  • Climate Wars

    What People Will Be Killed For in the 21st Century

    by Harald Welzer ...
    Translated by Patrick Camiller ...
    Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century. They no longer hinge on ideological rivalries between great powers but rather on issues of class, religion and resources. The genocides of the last century have taught ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • A Short Introduction to Climate Change

    by Tony Eggleton ...
    A Short Introduction to Climate Change provides a clear, balanced and well documented account of one of the most important issues of our time. It covers developments in climate science over the past 250 years and shows that recent climate change is more than the result of natural variability. It explains the difference between weather and climate by examining changes in temperature, rainfall, ... Read more

    $42.69 USD

  • Energy Democracy

    Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

    by Craig Morris, Arne Jungjohann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Carbon Code

    How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero

    by Brett Favaro ...
    How citizens can make realistic, climate-friendly lifestyle changes in a carbon-based economy: "Readable, passionate, and rational." ? Quarterly Review of BiologyOur world is getting hotter, and it's our fault—our addiction to fossil fuels is destroying our fragile ecosystems and increasingly wreaking havoc. How can we respond to climate change deniers who mock the fact that environmental ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hurricanes vs. Tornadoes vs Typhoons: Wind Systems of the World

    Natural Disaster Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Weather Books
    Allow your child to discover the similarities and differences of weather disturbances like hurricanes, typhoons and tornadoes. This highly informative book is not just about texts but it’s more on pictures and colors. This lean towards images calls the attention and ensures understanding of concepts presented. Your child needs this copy so buy one today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Towards Sustainable Aviation

    Edited by Paul Upham, Janet Maughan, David Raper, Callum Thomas ...
    Aviation is integral to the global economy but it is also one of the main obstacles to environmentally sustainable development. It is one of the world's fastest growing - and most polluting - industries. What can be done to retain the economic and other benefits it brings, without the associated pollution, noise, congestion and loss of countryside? In this volume, industry, policy and research ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Transitions to Sustainability

    Edited by François Mancebo, Ignacy Sachs ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, global urbanization, migrations and mobility, while bearing in mind short-term or local place-based issues, such as social justice or quality of life? ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Hazards

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Haruna Musa, Gina Cavan, Paul O'Hare, Julia Seixas ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book analyses the links between climate change adaptation, resilience and the impacts of hazards. The contributors cover topics such as climate change adaptation in coastal zones, the evaluation of community land models, climate change considerations in public health and water resource management, as well as conceptual frameworks for understanding vulnerabilities to extreme climate events. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Next Economics

    Global Cases in Energy, Environment, and Climate Change

    Edited by Woodrow W. Clark II ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Next Economics focuses on how the field of economics must change and incorporate environment, energy, health and new technologies that are called externalities for stopping and reversing climate change. The field of economics needs to become a science. Economics in this book for the Green Industrial Revolution which goes beyond the third industrial revolution since it covers cases, examples ... Read more

    $89.09 USD