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  • Sustainable Investing And Environmental Markets: Opportunities In A New Asset Class

    by Murali Kanakasabai, Richard L Sandor, Nathan Clark, Rafael L Marques ...
    Environmental asset classes are not a hope for tomorrow but a reality today. This new asset category promises to grow dramatically in the 21st Century as financial analysts, investors, and corporations around the world try to find ways to profit or reduce costs while promoting environmental social benefits. Sustainable Investing and Environmental Markets: Opportunities in a New Asset Class ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

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  • Garbology

    Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

    by Edward Humes ...
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage.Take a journey inside the secret world of our biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash. It’s the biggest thing we make: The average American is on track to produce a whopping 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, $50 billion in squandered riches rolled to the curb ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Green Book

    New directions for Liberals in government

    Edited by Duncan Brack ...
    Leading Liberal Democrats and policy experts re-examine their political approach and propose a radical new direction for the party, setting the agenda for the next election and beyond. The Green Book cogently argues that a low-carbon economy and environmental investments are the best way to escape from sluggish growth, create new jobs and share prosperity. It is a clarion call for Liberal ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hungry for Profit

    The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment

    Edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, Frederick H. Buttel ...
    Millions go hungry every year in both poor and rich nations, yet hundreds of thousands of peasants and farmers continue to be pushed off the land. Applied in increasing volumes, chemical pesticides and synthetic fertilizers deplete the soil, pollute our food and water, and leave crops more vulnerable to pest outbreaks. The new and expanding use of genetically engineered seeds threatens species ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Good Life Beyond Growth

    New Perspectives

    Edited by Hartmut Rosa, Christoph Henning ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Many countries have experienced a decline of economic growth for decades, an effect that was only aggravated by the recent global financial crisis. What if in the 21st century this is no longer an exception, but the general rule? Does an economy without growth necessarily bring hardship and crises, as is often assumed? Or could it be a chance for a better life? Authors have long argued that money ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Demography and Infrastructure

    National and Regional Aspects of Demographic Change

    Edited by Tobias Kronenberg, Wilhelm Kuckshinrichs ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon. The population of Germany, as in many other countries, has passed a plateau and is currently shrinking. Demographic change is a challenge for infrastructure planning due to the longevity of infrastructure capital and the need to match supply and demand in order to ensure cost-efficiency. This ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Models of the Oil Market

    by J. Crémer, D. Salehi-Isfahani ...
    Economists have proposed a large variety of models of the oil market and this survey integrates them in a coherent framework. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Environmental Economics: A Simple Introduction

    Simple Introductions, #18

    by K.H. Erickson ...
    Series Book 18 - Simple Introductions
    Environmental Economics: A Simple Introduction offers an accessible guide to the central theories and methods of environmental economics, with examples, equations, and diagrams to support the analysis.Understand the problem of environmental degradation, and why environmental externalities and market failure cause pollution to spiral out of control.Examine the effectiveness of the polluters pay ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Change Governance

    Edited by Jörg Knieling, Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Climate change is a cause for concern both globally and locally. In order for it to be tackled holistically, its governance is an important topic needing scientific and practical consideration. Climate change governance is an emerging area, and one which is closely related to state and public administrative systems and the behaviour of private actors, including the business sector, as well as the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • 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

    $4.99 USD

  • The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change

    Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making

    by S. Niggol Seo ...
    The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies. Through quantitative analyses, case studies and policy examples, this bottom-up approach to ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Thinking through Landscape

    by Augustin Berque ...
    Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment, informed by the history of the concept of landscape and the role played by the concept of nature in the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD