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  • Under Pressure

    Coal Industry Rhetoric and Neoliberalism

    by Jen Schneider, Steve Schwarze, Peter K. Bsumek, Jennifer Peeples ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite’s trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that these strategies appeal to and reinforce neoliberalism, a discourse and set of practices that privilege ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature

    Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    The Energy Evolution, the final volume in the revolutionary Eco-Technology series, contains radical environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's groundbreaking writings on methods for energy generation that harness the enormous potential of Nature. Nature produces energy by slow, cool, implosive means – by a centripetal inward motion, while our present culture uses explosive centrifugal (outwards) ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fertile Earth – Nature's Energies in Agriculture, Soil Fertilisation and Forestry

    Volume 3 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger's Eco-Technology Series

    by Viktor Schauberger ...
    Translated by Callum Coats ...
    How does nature work? When one looks closely at the enormously complex web of life, it is impossible not to be caught by the wonder of how all living things – including rocks and crystals – are interconnected. Just as there is thought behind action, so there is energy behind matter. The Fertile Earth, the third volume of the Eco-Technology series which presents the original, passionate and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Surviving the 21st Century

    Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

    by Julian Cribb ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers

    Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives

    by Simone Borghesi, Massimiliano Montini, Alessandra Barreca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Given the rapid spread of ETSs in an increasing number of countries and the important role that they are likely to play for the success or failure of the environmental policy in the years to come, this book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the EU ETS from both the legal and economic perspectives comparing it with the other main ETSs existing worldwide, in order to assess whether the EU ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Populations

    by Frederic R. Siegel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation to social and environmental changes projected for the future, including population growth, global warming/climate change, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Energy Return on Investment

    A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability

    by Charles A.S. Hall ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This authoritative but highly accessible book presents the reader with a powerful framework for understanding the critical role of the energy return on investment (EROI) in the survival and well-being of individuals, ecosystems, businesses, economies and nations. Growth and development are fundamental and ubiquitous processes at all scales, from individuals to food crops to national economies. ... Read more

    $71.99 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

    $89.99 USD

  • Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity

    by Debra J. Davidson, Mike Gismondi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Human history has often been described as a progressive relinquishment from environmental constraints. Now, it seems, we have come full circle. The ecological irrationalities associated with industrial societies have a lengthy history, and our purpose in the proposed book is not to catalogue this litany of wrongs. Rather, this book is about political responses to global environmental crisis at a ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Future of CO2 Capture, Transport and Storage Projects

    Analysis using a Systemic Risk Management Approach

    by Jaleh Samadi, Emmanuel Garbolino ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a summary of a three-year research project on risk management for the Capture, Transport and Storage of CO2 (CTSC), offering an in-depth study on complex sociotechnical systems and systemic modeling. Approaching CTSC as a complex sociotechnical system, this book proposes systemic modeling as a decision-making aid. It offers a means of decision-making for the development of CTSC ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Economics and Policy of Solar Photovoltaic Generation

    by Pere Mir-Artigues, Pablo del Río ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book provides an up-to-date, rigorous analysis of the state of the art of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation. It focuses on the economic analysis of solar PV generation technologies as well as the policies that have been devised and implemented around the globe to support it. It provides the main theoretical tools for understanding the cost of these technologies, and discusses them from both ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Legal Issues on Climate Change and International Trade Law

    Edited by Deok-Young Park ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides an excellent overview of the legal issues surrounding climate change mitigation and international trade law. It surveys key observed and potential challenges posed by responses to climate change in terms of international trade law. By examining the controversial issues seen in legal cases in which domestic climate change or renewable energy measures conflicted with international ... Read more

    $89.99 USD