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  • Cultivating Change
    Caro Feely
    What will it take to change? Can we revive our relationship with the earth? And with each other?’There are two perfect shady spots where I stop to talk about biodiversity on our organic farm visits. The oak trees there seem to know me. When I touch their leaves, it feels different to how it feels with other oaks.’But along with the joy and magic of working with nature come the ...
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    12,36 €

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk
    Judith Curry
    In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond. ...
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    49,76 €

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk
    Judith Curry
    In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond. ...
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    157,93 €

  • The Great Lakes
    Dave Dempsey
    Everybody who looks at the Great Lakes knows they’re big, but why are they Great? From sea serpents to sunken ships, from lonely lighthouses to fish on Prozac, this book engages the reader in a quest to find what’s beneath the surface.FLOW’s mission is to ensure the waters of the Great Lakes Basin are healthy, public, and protected for all. The public trust doctrine holds tha...
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    16,21 €

  • Journey to Hopeful Futures
    Helena Kettleborough
    With Journey to Hopeful Futures, Helena Kettleborough offers a transformative new approach to reimagining a world which respects and restores the natural systems on which life depends. At a time when the imminent destruction of our planet can feel overwhelming, Helena invites the reader to re-energise, re-think and embark with her on a unique journey of hopeful discovery.This j...
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    30,71 €

  • Disaster Recovery Planning
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication outlines why post-disaster needs assessments (PDNA) should provide comprehensive details of the economic and social impacts of disasters on countries to swiftly mobilize resources and support resilient recovery.Using a theoretical case study highlighting the aftermath of an earthquake and subsequent flooding, the publication shows how the cost to property, infr...
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    28,01 €

  • The Ergodic Investor and Entrepreneur
    Graham Boyd / Jack Reardon
    Ergodicity is the little-known secret underpinning the success of companies as diverse as Apple, Unilever, Mitsubishi, and Mondragon. We can use this today to enable businesses, from startups to mature businesses, thrive when their fundamentals are good; to enable investors get the RoI they deserve; and to enable businesses to deliver net positive outcomes across all SDGs, incl...
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    16,19 €

  • Opportunities and Challenges in Climate-Friendly Clean Water and Energy Technologies
    Demand for energy and water is increasing as a result of rapid economic, population, and industrial growth. By 2050, it is expected that global energy consumption will nearly double in tandem with world water demand. Because of competing demands for finite resources, existing water and energy systems are limited in their ability to satisfy these expanding needs. Furthermore, ra...
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    248,92 €

  • One Finch Singing
    Emily Ransdell
    Winner of the 2022 Concrete Wolf Louis Award’'Sometimes you have to tell a story / your entire life to get it right,'’ Emily Ransdell says in this exquisite debut volume of poems. Though richly different, the stories-about family, about our fragile planet, about the ways loss takes its inevitable toll-together relate a single human story. When I read good poems, I may learn abo...
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    13,60 €

  • Reclaiming the Sacred
    Jeff Golden
    Reclaiming the Sacred draws on the work of thousands of psychologists and economists, cosmologists and activists, saints and poets, to ground us in our inherent joy, purpose, and belonging-both for our own sakes and the sake of the world.The journey begins with a look at what science reveals about the things that most nourish human well-being-and some that do not, most notably ...
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    14,31 €

  • Charged
    James Morton Turner
    Winner of the 24th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book PrizeFinalist for the 2023 Cundill History PrizeGold Medal Recipient, Nautilus Book Awards, SustainabilityThe dirty work essential to a clean energy transitionTo achieve fossil fuel independence, few technologies are more important than batteries. Used for powering zero-emission vehicles, storing electricity from so...
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    27,77 €

  • The Carbon Creed
    Walter L. McLeod
    'The ultimate guide to decarbonize your life - personally and professionally.''The Carbon Creed is a powerful and thought-provoking work. Change happens when your heart and mind believes in a cause....for me that’s enabling access to clean energy and digital as a basic human right. This book will help you discover your carbon truth.'- Elizabeth Hackenson, Chief Information Offi...
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    15,10 €

  • Asia in the Global Transition to Net Zero
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explores what a global transition to net zero could mean for Asia and the Pacific under a range of climate policy scenarios and provides recommendations. Developing Asia faces a climate policy crossroads. The region is highly vulnerable to climate change, even as it is an increasing contributor to the global climate crisis. This report models emission pathways based...
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    37,48 €

  • Fatal Fails
    Earl J. Seeley
    Why This Book? Why Now?The control of the earth’s climate, including the temperature of the earth’s surface and near earth atmosphere, is a complex, intricate, and beautiful system of interactions between a number of forces. These controlling factors, their interactions, and the rate and extent of those interactions, are all variables which contribute to the control of the eart...
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    29,89 €

  • A Climate Vocabulary of the Future
    Herb Simmens
    'This book is a Sciencepoem. It is An Act of Cognitive Mapping, a Great Clarification, an Inspiration, a Prophecy, a Utopian Science Fiction Novel, and a Spur in the Butt. We can create a Good Anthropocene, and this book helps us to understand how. Also: hilarious. Dive in and see.' - Kim Stanley Robinson, Author of The Ministry for the Future This second edition of A Climate V...
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    26,86 €

  • The Ukraine-Russia Conflict
    Christoffer Smestad
    The Ukraine-Russia Conflict - is an in-depth analysis of one of the most significant conflicts of our time. From its origins in the political upheaval of the Euromaidan protests to the ongoing military tensions in the Donbass region, this book explores the many facets of the Ukraine-Russia conflict.With chapters examining the geopolitical, historical, and cultural context of th...
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    8,20 €

  • Transcending the Climate Change Deception Toward Real Sustainability
    mark-gerard House of Keenan
    The author is a former scientist at the UK Government Dept. of Energy and Climate Change, and at the United Nations Environment Division. Thousands of experienced and distinguished climate scientists dispute the UN climate narrative. The climate changes slowly and naturally in its own cycle and the dominant factor is solar activity and 1500 scientists have signed a declaration ...
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    15,34 €

  • 16 Topics On How You Can Help The Planet In Your Everyday Life
    Teya France
    I’m offering this simple handbook to you, full of exceptional ways to make many differences to improve various things on the planet, including Climate Change situations for anyone in the world who wants a reference book of suggestions for anything that can be done to help, regarding all kinds of efforts that many people are trying to make in many places everywhere.After two yea...
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    14,61 €

  • Finding Balance 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication reviews the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in nine Pacific island economies and looks at how policy makers can help state-owned power utilities address climate risk. It identifies climate-related risks and assesses policy mechanisms that could improve the utilities’ resiliency and sustainability. The publication shows how commercializin...
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    35,59 €

  • An Uncharted Progression
    Robert Lee Howard
    I gave very little thought to the direction my early life was taking, yet some people considered me to be successful because I avoided the pitfalls of poverty, drugs, crime, and imprisonment. However, a one-sided junior high school crush motivated me to study. That determination to study strenuously over a three-and-a-half-year period allowed me to build an educational foundat...
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    19,93 €

  • Climate Change and the Economic Importance and Damages of Insects
    Ahmed Karmaoui
    Insects are considered the largest group of animals on earth, as they represent more than one million documented species and about half of all species on a global scale. This makes this group of animals essential for global functioning and survival. Climate change is disrupting the distribution and abundance of insects and will have serious repercussions for human well-being. C...
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    226,55 €

  • Asian Economic Integration Report 2023
    Asian Development Bank
    This report shows how smart trade and investment policies, and regulatory cooperation in the Asia and Pacific region can help economies tackle climate change, recover from the pandemic, and support resilient and sustainable development. Analyzing topics including global value chains, investment, the movement of people, and regional cooperation initiatives, it outlines the econo...
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    71,88 €

  • Mundo de água
    Simone Malacrida
    O livro insere-se na tendência de ir delineando as características do "planeta água", mas assumindo uma visão diferente do todo. Ao invés de aprofundar apenas um aspecto particular (o científico-tecnológico ou o social, por exemplo), preferiu-se considerar todos os vínculos que a água tem com o homem e a sociedade, passando a delinear uma série de "viagens", cada uma correspond...
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    10,83 €

  • Wasserwelt
    Simone Malacrida
    Das Buch folgt dem Trend, die Eigenschaften des 'Wasserplaneten' zu skizzieren, aber eine andere Vision des Ganzen anzunehmen. Anstatt nur einen bestimmten Aspekt zu vertiefen (z. B. den wissenschaftlich-technischen oder den sozialen), betrachtete man lieber alle Bindungen, die das Wasser an Mensch und Gesellschaft hat, und skizzierte dann eine Reihe von 'Reisen', die jeweils e...
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    10,76 €

  • Politics of Climate Change
    The year 2020 was a watershed event in the history of climate change politics. It marked the end of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol and the beginning of the ambitious Paris Agreement. It was also the year of the pandemic, where the disruption caused severe implications on a global scale. The pandemic also brought before the world the severity and scale of the...
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    117,88 €

  • Mundo del agua
    Simone Malacrida
    El libro va en la línea de ir esbozando las características del "planeta agua" pero teniendo una visión diferente del conjunto. En lugar de profundizar en un solo aspecto particular (el científico-tecnológico o el social, por ejemplo), se prefirió considerar todos los vínculos que el agua tiene con el hombre y la sociedad, pasando a esbozar una serie de "viajes", cada uno corre...
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    10,81 €

  • Monde de l’eau
    Simone Malacrida
    L’ouvrage est dans la veine d’aller esquisser les caractéristiques de la "planète eau" tout en portant un regard différent sur l’ensemble. Au lieu de n’aborder qu’un seul aspect particulier (scientifique-technologique ou social par exemple), on a préféré considérer tous les liens que l’eau entretient avec l’homme et la société, en esquissant ensuite une série de "voyages", chac...
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    10,81 €

  • Asia’s Progress Toward Greater Sustainable Finance Market Efficiency and Integrity
    Asian Development Bank
    This report summarizes insights on transparency and integrity in sustainable finance markets shared at a series of webinars hosted by the Asian Development Bank and State Street Global Advisors. The report provides an overview of policy and market practice to enhance transparency, integrity, and efficiency in sustainable finance and to foster the market’s development. It discus...
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    30,90 €

  • ALLEGORY
    Michael Solomon
    Finalist--Best Cover Design--Next Generation Indie Book AwardsNominated for a Pulitzer PrizeAllegory is the story of how one man has created a narrative that has gaslighted the world into believing, unless drastic measures are taken, the world will be destroyed within ten years by greedy industrialists. However, his solution will put planet Earth on a path to suicide. His narr...
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    25,12 €

  • Intelligent Solutions for Optimizing Agriculture and Tackling Climate Change
    Ahmed Karmaoui
    The interactions between climate change, agriculture, and technology are of increasing concern to academicians, educators, and planners. After the publication of the first report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), studies of the impact of climate change on productive systems such as agriculture have multiplied. The best solution can be found in new technol...
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    226,25 €


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