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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael g pollitt”
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  • Reforming the Chinese Electricity Supply Sector

    Lessons from Global Experience

    by Michael G. Pollitt ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The Chinese electricity sector is the largest in the world, covering well over 20% of the world's electricity supply. While many other countries liberalized their electricity systems in the 1990s, thereby creating competitive wholesale and retail electricity markets,China’s move towards liberalization has advanced at a slower pace – until now.Following the China State Council's publication of the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Future of Electricity Demand

    Customers, Citizens and Loads

    Edited by Tooraj Jamasb, Michael G. Pollitt ...
    Series series Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers
    What will electricity and heat demand look like in a low-carbon world? Ambitious environmental targets will modify the shape of the electricity sector in the twenty-first century. 'Smart' technologies and demand-side management will be some of the key features of the future of electricity systems in a low-carbon world. Meanwhile, the social and behavioural dimensions will complement and interact ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

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    What Happens to Us When It Bursts

    by Jeff Rubin ...
    As the price of oil falls, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin takes us to the epicentre of the bursting global carbon bubble, and dares us to imagine a new engine for growth that does not run on oil.For a decade, the vision of Canada's future as an energy superpower has driven the country's political agenda, as well as the fast-paced development of Alberta's oil sands and the push for ... Read more

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  • The Better World Handbook

    Small Changes That Make A Big Difference

    by Ellis Jones, Brett Johnson, Ross Haenfler ...
    The definitive guide for people wanting to make a positive difference in the world.Specifically designed to reach people who normally would not consider themselves activists, The Better World Handbook is directed toward those who care about creating a more just, sustainable, and socially responsible world but don’t know where to begin. Substantially updated, this revised bestseller now contains ... Read more

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  • Blackout

    Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Coal fuels about 50 percent of US electricity production and provides a quarter of the country's total energy. China and India's ferocious economic growth is based almost entirely on coal-generated electricity.Coal currently looks like a solution to many of our fast-growing energy problems. However, while coal advocates are urging full steam ahead, increasing reliance on the dirtiest of all fossil ... Read more

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  • Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise

    Lessons from Frontrunner Companies

    by Rob van Tulder, Mara Francken, Rob Tilburg, Andrea Rosa ...
    In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the ‘business case’ for sustainability. Drawing on examples from 20 frontrunner companies located in the Netherlands, it builds upon a unique research project in which CEOs and middle-managers gave access not only to their decision-making process, but also revealed how their perceptions shaped the transition ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism

    West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders

    by Hannah Cross ...
    Series series Routledge Research on the Global Politics of Migration
    People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain labour migration. It shows how global capitalism regulates different stages of the process within an ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Resource Economics

    by Jon M. Conrad ...
    Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1), shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve simple dynamic allocation problems (Chapter 2), and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources, and stock pollutants ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Climate Change Adaptation in Latin America

    Managing Vulnerability, Fostering Resilience

    Edited by Leonardo Esteves de Freitas, Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book showcases experiences from research, field projects and best practice in climate change adaptation in countries in the Latin American region, focusing on managing vulnerability and fostering resilience. It includes a selection of papers presented at a specialist symposium on climate change adaptation held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in November 2016.Consistent with the need for more cross ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Governance of Energy in China

    Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy

    by P. Andrews-Speed ...
    Series series Energy, Climate and the Environment
    The way in which energy is governed in China is driving its rising level of carbon dioxide emissions. This book analyses the nature of energy governance in China by combining ideas relating to transition management with institutionalist theories, which helps to identify factors which assist or constrain the country's path to a low-carbon economy. ... Read more

    $49.49 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

  • Climate Change Adaptation in North America

    Fostering Resilience and the Regional Capacity to Adapt

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Jesse M. Keenan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This edited book responds to the need for a better understanding of how climate change affects North America and for the identification of processes, methods and tools that may help countries and communities to develop a more robust adaptive capacity. It showcases successful examples of how to manage the social, economic and environmental complexities posed by climate change. The book attempts to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD