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  • Practicing Sustainability

    Edición de Guru Madhavan, Barbara Oakley, David Green, David Koon, Penny Low ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices that can each make society only more or less sustainable. In Practicing Sustainability, chefs, poets, ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain

    A history

    de Simon Taylor ...
    The story of the rise, fall and second ascendancy of nuclear power in the United Kingdom.Britain was a pioneer in civil nuclear power and there were once high hopes in the 1950s that this could be a source of cheap electricity and a valuable export opportunity. In The Fall and Rise of Nuclear Power in Britain, Simon Taylor examines why these hopes were never realised, and how we have come to see a ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • When Trucks Stop Running

    Energy and the Future of Transportation

    de A.J. Friedemann ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    In lively and engaging language, this book describes our dependence on freight transport and its vulnerability to diminishing supplies and high prices of oil. Ships, trucks, and trains are the backbone of civilization, hauling the goods that fulfill our every need and desire. Their powerful, highly-efficient diesel combustion engines are exquisitely fine-tuned to burn petroleum-based diesel fuel. ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Surviving the 21st Century

    Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

    de Julian Cribb ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Complex Systems and Social Practices in Energy Transitions

    Framing Energy Sustainability in the Time of Renewables

    Edición de Nicola Labanca ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists and policy analysts. Adopting a combined approach, these are analysed taking both complex systems and social practice theories into ... Leer más

    $152.99 USD

  • Technologies for Sustainable Development

    A Way to Reduce Poverty?

    Edición de Jean-Claude Bolay, Silvia Hostettler, Eileen Hazboun ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Whilst scientific research can be crucial in guiding innovation and development throughout the world, it can be too detached from real world applications, particularly in developing and emerging countries. Technologies for Sustainable Development brings together the best 20 papers from the 2012 Conference of the EPFL-UNESCO Chair in Technologies for Development with the aim to explore and discuss ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Monetary Policy and the Oil Market

    Edición de Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Naoyuki Yoshino ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. It is a key factor often neglected in much of the earlier literature on the determinants of asset prices, including oil prices. However, this book presents a framework for modeling oil prices while incorporating ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Governing Sustainable Energies in China

    de Geoffrey Chun-fung Chen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines sustainable energy development in China, a non-liberal state, as a counterexample to conventional wisdom that effective policy outcomes are premised on the basis of decentralized governance. The use of sustainable energies as part of the solution for stabilising global warming has been promoted in industrialised countries for the past three decades. In the last ten years, China ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Exploring the Security Landscape: Non-Traditional Security Challenges

    Edición de Anthony J. Masys ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book provides international perspective for those studying or working in the security domain, from enforcement to policy. It focuses on non-traditional threats in a landscape that has been described as transnational in nature and incorporates natural disasters, gang violence, extremism and terrorism, amongst other issues. Chapters provide innovative thinking on themes including cyber security ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Emerging Economies

    Food and Energy Security, and Technology and Innovation

    Edición de Parthasarathi Shome, Pooja Sharma ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This volume brings together research on development in three major areas of contemporary global relevance: agriculture and food security, energy, and the institutions of national innovation. Covering six of the largest emerging and developing economies (EDEs) in the world, three Asian (China, India and Malaysia), two Latin American (Brazil and Mexico), and one African (South Africa), the book ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil

    From State Intervention to a Free Market

    de Márcia Azanha Ferraz Dias de Moraes, David Zilberman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The success of Brazil in the large-scale production and use of fuel ethanol has been widely discussed and analyzed by other countries interested in adopting policies designed to encourage the use of biofuels. Within this context, certain questions arise: Could the Brazilian experience be replicated in other countries? What were the conditions that enabled the creation of the Brazilian Proálcool ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Renewable Gas

    The Transition to Low Carbon Energy Fuels

    de Jo Abbess ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The author looks at the prospects for a transition from natural gas to low carbon gas, which could take several decades, and at how this will depend on the evolution of the fossil fuel industry. She investigates the technologies and energy systems for making the best use of renewable gas resources. ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD