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“jorge padilla”

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  • The Law and Economics of Article 102 TFEU

    by Dr Jorge Padilla, Robert O'Donoghue KC ...
    “A reference book in this area of EU competition law and a must-have companion for academics, enforcers and practitioners alike, as well as EU and national judges.”Judge Nils Wahl, Court of Justice of the European UnionThis seminal text offers an authoritative and integrated treatment of the legal and economic principles that underpin the application of Article 102 TFEU to the behaviour of ... Read more

    $332.09 USD

  • Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems

    Theory, Practice, Policy

    by Boaz Moselle, Jorge Padilla, Richard Schmalensee ...
    Reflecting its reliance on fossil fuels, the electric power industry produces the majority of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. The need for a revolution in the industry becomes further apparent given that 'decarbonization' means an increasing electrification of other sectors of the economy in particular, through a switch from gasoline to electric vehicles. Of the options for producing ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Getting Green Done

    Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution

    by Auden Schendler ...
    "Going green is easy and profitable." That's the common refrain from sustainability gurus. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are fiddling with the small stuff while the planet burns. Why? Because implementing sustainability is brutally difficult.If we're going to cut CO2 emissions 80 percent by midcentury, it will take more than a recycling program and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pricing the Planet's Future

    The Economics of Discounting in an Uncertain World

    by Christian Gollier ...
    Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of determining what we should and should not do for future generations. It is also central to other ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China's Air Pollution Problems

    by Claudio O. Delang ...
    China’s rapid industrialisation has led to "an air pollution catastrophe". Concerted efforts to achieve economic growth have led to veiled skies of toxic air and created health and morbidity problems as well as tremendous environmental degradation.China’s Air Pollution Problems provides an overview of air pollution in China describing how and why China has ended up in such a dire situation, what ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mediterranean Oak Woodland Working Landscapes

    Dehesas of Spain and Ranchlands of California

    Edited by Pablo Campos, Lynn Huntsinger, Jose Luis Oviedo, Paul F Starrs, Mario Diaz, Richard B Standiford, Gregorio Montero ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The oak tree was a boon companion as humans expanded their presence across much of the globe. While oak woodlands (Quercus spp.) come today in stunningly diverse forms, the stately dehesas of Spain and the dramatic oak-dominated ranchlands of California are working landscapes where cultivation and manipulation for a couple of millennia have shaped Mediterranean-type ecosystems into a profoundly ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • The Wealth of Nature

    How Mainstream Economics Has Failed the Environment

    by Robert Nadeau ...
    Virtually all large-scale damage to the global environment is caused by economic activities, and the vast majority of economic planners in both business and government coordinate these activities on the basis of guidelines and prescriptions from neoclassical economic theory. In this hard-hitting book, Robert Nadeau demonstrates that the claim that neoclassical economics is a science comparable to ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2016

    Edited by Harald Ginzky, Irene L. Heuser, Tianbao Qin, Oliver C. Ruppel, Patrick Wegerdt ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a “land degradation-neutral world.” It also provides a comprehensive and highly ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • New Media and International Development

    Representation and affect in microfinance

    by Anke Schwittay ...
    Series series Rethinking Development
    New Media and International Development is the first in-depth examination of microfinance’s enduring popularity with Northern publics. Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world’s first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international development efforts have an affective dimension. This is fostered through narrative and visual ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Climate Change and European Leadership

    A Sustainable Role for Europe?

    Edited by M.J. Grubb, J. Gupta ...
    Series Book 27 - Environment & Policy
    The issue of climate change is now widely recognised as one of the major challenges for mankind in the 21st century, not only because it may ultimately affect many areas of our environment, nature and human activity but also because its mitigation may have far reaching consequences for almost all sectors of the economy where energy conversion takes place. Although climate change is firmly ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change

    Values, Poverty, and Policy

    by Darrel Moellendorf ...
    This book examines the threat that climate change poses to projects of poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity preservation. It discusses the values that support these projects and evaluates the normative bases of climate change policy. It regards climate change policy as a public problem that normative philosophy can shed light on and assumes that the development of policy ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • International Bioenergy Trade

    History, status & outlook on securing sustainable bioenergy supply, demand and markets

    Edited by André Faaij, Martin Junginger, Chun Sheng Goh ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The trade of global bioenergy commodities, such as ethanol, biodiesel and wood pellets has been growing exponentially in the past decade, and have by 2013 reached true “commodity” volumes, i.e. tens of millions of tonnes traded each year, and billions (both in US$/€) of annual turnover.IEA Bioenergy Task 40 was founded in 2004 and is now in its 4th triennium. For the past 9 years, task 40 has ... Read more

    $89.09 USD