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  • Elements of Ecological Economics

    by Jan Otto Andersson, Ralf Eriksson ...
    Elements of Ecological Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of ecological economics, an interdisciplinary project trying to give answers to the problems related to the overexploitation of the earth’s resources today. These include the problems of global warming (the greenhouse effect) and the overuse of the seas (e.g. overfishing). The book also gives an exposition of the ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Ethics in Electroconvulsive Therapy

    by Jan-Otto Ottosson, Max Fink ...
    Few mental illness treatments are more reviled in the public mind than Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy. However, in reality, ECT is a safe and effective treatment for cases of clinical depression and catatonia that are unresponsive to drug therapy. Also, unlike drugs, ECT has relatively few side effects. The authors argue that it is time for this historically stigmatized procedure to be ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Nuclear Waste Management and Legitimacy

    Nihilism and Responsibility

    by Mats Andrén ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Nuclear technology places special demands on society and both nuclear weapons and nuclear energy for peaceful purposes require a large measure of security and monitoring at the international level.This book focuses on nuclear waste management, which can work in democratic countries only if viewed as legitimate by the population. This book posits the inability of democracies to establish such ... Read more

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  • From Ambition to Execution

    by Stefania Fabrizio, Catherine Pattillo, Adrian Peralta-Alva, Andrea Presbitero, Baoping Shang, Geneviève Verdier, Marie-Thérèse Camilleri, Kazuaki Washimi ...
    The formal launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) sets the global development agenda through 2030, placing significant emphasis on promoting social and environmental sustainability alongside economic growth and poverty reduction. Meeting the SDGs will require actions across a wide range of areas by both national governments and the international community. This paper examines the types ... Read more

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  • Oil in the Environment

    Legacies and Lessons of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    Edited by John A. Wiens ...
    What light does nearly twenty-five years of scientific study of the Exxon Valdez oil spill shed on the fate and effects of a spill? How can the results help in assessing future spills? How can ecological risks be assessed and quantified? In this, the first book on the effects of Exxon Valdez in fifteen years, scientists directly involved in studying the spill provide a comprehensive perspective on ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and Order

    The End of Prosperity and Democracy

    by Beth Edmondson, Stuart Levy ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Beth Edmondson and Stuart Levy examine why it is so difficult for the international community to respond to global climate change. In doing so, they analyse and explain some of the strategies that might ultimately provide the foundations for appropriate responses. ... Read more

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  • Trapped: Part 1 of 3

    by Rosie Lewis ...
    Trapped can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 1 of 3 (Chapters 1-10 of 35).You can read Part 1 two weeks ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.Phoebe, an autistic nine-year-old girl, is taken into police protection after a chance comment to one of her teachers alerts the authorities that all might not be what it seems in her ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Life After Life

    A Guildford Four Memoir

    by Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan ...
    Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath. Life after Life is a ... Read more

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  • Renewable Energy from Forest Resources in the United States

    Edited by Barry Solomon, Valerie A. Luzadis ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    Interest in biomass energy resources from forests, farms and other sources has been rapidly increasing in recent years because of growing concern with reducing carbon dioxide emissions and developing alternatives to increasingly scarce, expensive and insecure oil supplies.The uniqueness of this book is its coverage of biomass energy markets in the US from an economic as well as technical ... Read more

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  • Carbon Trading in China

    Environmental Discourse and Politics

    by Alex Lo ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the political aspects of China's climate change policy, focusing on the newly established carbon markets and carbon trading schemes. Lo makes a case for understanding the policy change in terms of discourse and in relation to narratives of national power and development. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization

    by Robert Ayres ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years on energy inputs from a finite storage of fossil fuels. In this book, you will learn about the three key requirements for wealth ... Read more

    $80.09 USD