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  • Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Management

    Edited by George M. Hidy, Jeffrey R. Brook, Kenneth L. Demerjian, Luisa T. Molina, William T. Pennell, Richard D. Scheffe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Recent critiques of air quality management approaches currently employed in developed and many developing countries have suggested that efficiencies could be achieved if air quality management practices shifted from pollutant-by-pollutant approaches to a comprehensive multipollutant approach in which emission reduction decisions are based on relative risk and evaluated on their effectiveness in ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World

    Choosing Between Progress and Planet

    by Andrew Charlton ...
    Series Book 44 - Quarterly Essay
    Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised the truth of a colleague's words: 'The world is split between those who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves.'In this groundbreaking essay, Charlton discusses the rift that will shape our future- progress versus planet- rich versus poor. In ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Client Earth

    by James Thornton, Martin Goodman ...
    Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope.Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activists? Corporations? Engineers? Scientists? Whoever, ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi

    by Mark Boyle ...
    More than ever, people are longing for deep and meaningful change. Another world is not only possible; it is essential. Yet despite our creative and determined efforts to attain social justice and ecological sustainability, our global crises continue to deepen.In Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi, best-selling author Mark Boyle argues that our political and economic system has brought us to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Energy Democracy

    Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

    by Craig Morris, Arne Jungjohann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Paris Agreement on Climate Change

    Analysis and Commentary

    Edited by Daniel Klein, Meinhard Doelle, Jane Bulmer, Andrew Higham, María Pía Carazo ...
    The most important climate agreement in history, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change represents the commitment of the nations of the world to address and curb climate change. Signed in December 2015, it entered into force on 4th November 2016. Countries are moving into implementation, and efforts at all levels will be needed to fulfill its ambitious goals. The Paris Climate Agreement: Commentary ... Read more

    $55.79 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

  • Climate Change, Security Risks and Conflict Reduction in Africa

    A Case Study of Farmer-Herder Conflicts over Natural Resources in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Burkina Faso 1960–2000

    by Charlène Cabot ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Millions of people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in West Africa and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats. In the wake of climate change, rising temperatures, increasingly irregular rainfall and more frequent natural hazards will endanger the ways of life of vulnerable population groups in this region and destabilize their human security. A surge in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change

    Edited by E. Carina H. Keskitalo ...
    Mitigation will not be sufficient for us to avoid climate change and we will need to adapt to its consequences. This book targets the development of adaptation policy in European countries with different relations between central and regional/local government. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Water Governance in the Face of Global Change

    From Understanding to Transformation

    by Claudia Pahl-Wostl ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of multi-level water governance, developing a conceptual and analytical framework that captures the complexity of real water governance systems while also introducing different approaches to comparative analysis. Applications illustrate how the ostensibly conflicting goals of deriving general principles and of taking context-specific factors into ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Proceedings of the 2007 National Conference on Environmental Science and Technology

    Edited by Godfrey Uzochukwu, Keith Schimmel, Shoou-Yuh Chang, Vinayak Kabadi, Stephanie Luster-Teasley, Gudigopuram Reddy, Emmanuel Nzewi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Godfrey A. Uzochukwu teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental sciences. Research areas include: soil and mineral properties for better land use, uses of natural resources data, assessment and evaluation of environmental technologies, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary environmental processes and ecology.Keith Schimmel's research interests include bioremediation, membrane separations ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Efficiency, Sustainability, and Justice to Future Generations

    Edited by Klaus Mathis ...
    Series Book 98 - Law and Philosophy Library
    Fifty years after the famous essay “The Problem of Social Cost” (1960) by the Nobel laureate Ronald Coase, Law and Economics seems to have become the lingua franca of American jurisprudence, and although its influence on European jurisprudence is only moderate by comparison, it has also gained popularity in Europe. A highly influential publication of a different nature was the Brundtland Report ... Read more

    $143.09 USD