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  • Climate Action Leaders

    Solutions and Opportunities

    by Thomas L. Brewer ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book is a unique compendium and handbook that identifies and describes many specific, tangible climate change actions taken by leaders in various sectors. It is partly a casebook of constructive, innovative examples, designed to inspire and inform further actions.There are three principal categories of cases in the book: technologies, government policies, and business practices. The chapters ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The United States in a Warming World

    The Political Economy of Government, Business, and Public Responses to Climate Change

    by Thomas L. Brewer ...
    Addressing the widespread desire to better understand how climate change issues are addressed in the United States, this book provides an unparalleled analysis of features of the US economic and political system that are essential to understanding its responses to climate change. The introductory chapter presents a firm historical context, with the remainder of the book offering balanced and ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Transforming U.S. Climate Change Policies

    2021 and Beyond

    by Thomas L. Brewer ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book presents an integrated, multi-disciplinary analysis that combines climate science, economics, technology and political analysis of US climate policy changes undertaken during 2021.The book begins with an up-to-date discussion of the climate crisis as of 2021, with key concepts, problems and data all represented in straight-forward graphs and tables. This introduction to climate science ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • A History of North American Birds: Land Birds (Complete)

    by Spencer Fullerton Baird & Thomas Mayo Brewer & Robert Ridgway ...
    The class of Birds (Aves), as represented in the present age of the world, is composed of very many species, closely related among themselves and distinguished by numerous characters common to all. For the purposes of the present work it is hardly necessary to attempt the definition of what constitutes a bird, the veriest tyro being able to decide as to the fact in regard to any North American ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Change

    An Interdisciplinary Introduction

    by Thomas Brewer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This textbook introduces and explains the issues around climate change and its mitigation. It includes topics across disciplines and can be used as a single-volume text by students studying a range of subjects. Among the topics included are:·How to adopt significant mitigation measures now to avoid the most catastrophic long-term consequences of climate change.·Reducing the rates of highly potent, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Transnational Identities

    Becoming European in the EU

    by Glynis M. Breakwell, Michael Brute, Emanuele Castano, Jack Citrin, Brigid Laffan, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Jean Monnet, Amélie Mummendey, Sven Waldzus, Ruth Wodak, Eugenia Siapera, John Sides ...
    Series series Governance in Europe Series
    This original work explores the increasingly important phenomenon of the formation of transnational identity. Considering the ongoing relevance of the European Union, the contributors ask a series of intriguing questions: Is a European identity possible? How are the various types of European identity formed and maintained? How are these identities linked to the process of European integration? ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Renewable Energy

    Sustainable Energy Concepts for the Energy Change

    Edited by Roland Wengenmayr, Thomas Bührke ...
    In the years since the publication of the first edition of this book, the world has undergone drastic changes in terms of energy sources. This is reflected in the expansion of this second edition from 20 to 26 chapters. The most dramatic occurrence was the Tsunami which struck Japan in March of 2011 and set off a reactor catastrophe at the nuclear power plants in Fukushima. On the other hand ... Read more

    $32.50 USD

  • Transportation Air Pollutants

    Black Carbon and Other Emissions

    Edited by Thomas Brewer ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book begins by discussing the problems caused by transportation emissions, the various types of emissions, and the impacts they have on public health, agricultural production, and climate change. The next several chapters then present technologies and policies from around the world, which can be used to solve some of these problems. Finally, the book discusses implications for the future, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Confronting Climate Gridlock

    How Diplomacy, Technology, and Policy Can Unlock a Clean Energy Future

    by Daniel S Cohan ...
    An atmospheric scientist explains why global climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization demand American diplomacy, technology, and policy“Daniel Cohan makes a compelling case that the problem of climate change is solvable. Fixing the gridlock on global action requires fixing the gridlock here in the United States of America. Cohan shows how that can be done.”—David Victor, UC San ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Let Them Eat Carbon

    The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and How Governments and Big Business Profit From Them

    by Matthew Sinclair ...
    Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies are making billions out of the schemes governments have put in place saying they will curb global warming and protect us from the threat of climate change. There is little evidence that those policies are an ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy

    Fifteen Contentious Questions

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown, Scott V. Valentine ...
    A balanced examination of global energy issues.Energy sustainability and climate change are two of the greatest challenges facing humankind. Unraveling these complex and interconnected issues demands careful and objective assessment. Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy aims to change the prevailing discourse by examining fifteen core energy questions from a variety of perspectives, ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition

    Edited by Manfred Hafner, Simone Tagliapietra ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is disrupting the global energy system, impacting whole economies, and changing the political dynamics within and between countries.This open access book, written by leading energy ... Read more

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