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  • Energy Policy in China

    by Chi-Jen Yang ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Energy Policy
    Energy policy has always been an important part of China’s national policy agenda. Although the overall Chinese economy has become largely market-driven, its energy sectors are still subject to varying degrees of government control. Authoritarian governance allows China to move very quickly in some areas, such as hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, and solar energy. However, conflicting ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • The Vanishing Face of Gaia

    A Final Warning

    by James Lovelock ...
    The global temperature is rising, the ice caps are melting, and levels of pollution across the world have reached unprecedented heights. According to eminent scientist James Lovelock, in order to survive an assault from her dependents, the Earth is lurching ever closer to a permanent "hot state." Within the next century, we will almost certainly be forced to give up many of the comforts of western ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Climate Justice

    Vulnerability and Protection

    by Henry Shue ...
    The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    The Men Who Are Destroying Life on Earth—And What It Means for Our Children

    by Dick Russell ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author Dick Russell, edited and introduced by New York Times bestselling author Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.!”A must read for anyone concerned with climate and energy issues.”—Leonardo DiCaprio, Academy Award winning actor and environmental activistThe science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Climate-Challenged Society

    by John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg ...
    This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is written "with attitude", ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Climate Majority

    by Leo Barasi ...
    The Climate Majority is the first book to investigate climate apathy, to describe how it prevents action to stop climate change and to show how it can be beaten with an approach developed for political campaigns.Leo Barasi argues that dangerous climate change will only be prevented if the majority of people—including those who aren’t environmentalists—are persuaded of the need to limit emissions. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Short Sensible Book about the World, Us and Global Warming

    by Mord Bogie ...
    This sensible book, written with readers lacking a scientific or technical background in mind, explores the history of global warming — actually, global overheating — that is changing the world's climate and will, if it continues, destabilize human civilization. The book then describes an achievable plan to reverse global overheating, some innovative but little-known technologies to do the heavy ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kyoto2

    How to Manage the Global Greenhouse

    by Oliver Tickell ...
    The Kyoto Protocol, the world's first tentative step towards avoiding the threat of climate change, has failed. We urgently need a new course of action.In Kyoto2 the author presents us with a strikingly original new solution. Using a system of finite production rights for greenhouse gases, which would be traded by organisations on a global auction, Kyoto2 seeks to succeed where the original ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Agriculture, Environment and Development

    International Perspectives on Water, Land and Politics

    Edited by Antonio A.R Ioris ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book deals with past legacies and emerging challenges associated with agriculture production, water and environmental management, and local and national development. It offers a critical interpretation of the tensions associated with the failures of mainstream regulatory regimes and the impacts of global agri-food chains. The various chapters include conceptual and empirical material from ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The European Commission's Energy and Climate Policy

    A Climate for Expertise?

    by J. Dreger ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book offers a deep insight into the genesis and development of the European Commission's energy and climate legislation, focusing on the interplay of politics and science. How does the Commission react when confronted with knowledge? According to the author, the Commission functions as catalyst transforming knowledge into politics. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Planning for Rural Resilience

    Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures

    by Wayne Caldwell, Erica Ferguson, Emanuel Lapierre-Fortin, Jennifer Ball, Suzanne Reid, Paul Kraehling, Eric Marr, John Devlin, Chris White, Tony McQuail, Margaret Graves, Bill Deen, Ralph Martin, Christopher Bryant ...
    Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important and evolving threats.Planning for Rural Resilience: Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures makes clear that communities and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD