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  • America’s Energy Gamble
    Shanti Gamper-Rabindran
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    87,58 €

  • Climate Change Economics
    Robert Mendelsohn
    Professor William Nordhaus was honored with a Nobel Prize in Economics for his lifetime contributions to research and policy on climate change and macroeconomics. This book contains a collection of essays written by eleven leading climate change economists describing precisely how Professor Nordhaus changed climate change economics. The essays highlight the major contributions ...
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    82,77 €

  • Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication examines the alignment of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) with the requirements under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement on the framework, national, and project levels.The JCM is a project-based offset crediting mechanism implemented between Japan and 17 partner countries. It is considered a forerunner for voluntary cooperation using market-based mechanisms...
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    41,42 €

  • Foundations for a Low-Carbon Energy System in China
    Daniel P. Schrag / Daniel PSchrag / Henry Lee / Matthew Bunn
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    161,13 €

  • Nature-Based Solutions for More Sustainable Cities
    Nature-Based Solutions for More Sustainable Cities makes a clear case of performances, impacts, and benefits generated by NBS in cities providing a comprehensive framework approach to understand the real and full potential of NBS at the urban level. ...
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    150,33 €

  • Carbon Pricing for Green Recovery and Growth
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication discusses how carbon pricing instruments can be designed to help achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets while enabling economic recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.Carbon pricing is a key element of the broader climate policy architecture that can help countries reduce GHG emissions cost-effectively, while mobilizing fiscal...
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    28,10 €

  • From Kyoto to Paris-Transitioning the Clean Development Mechanism
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication provides insights on deliberations regarding the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) transition and implications for Asia and the Pacific, in preparation for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26).This publication aims to increase knowledge and understanding of the CDM transition along with its relevance to economies in the Asia and the Pacific. It is intended to...
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    31,06 €

  • Digital Technologies for Climate Action, Disaster Resilience, and Environmental Sustainability
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication aims to inform and influence the strategic deployment of digital technologies in developing Asia to help tackle climate change, build climate and disaster resilience, and enhance environmental sustainability.It provides an overview of the available technology types and their applications and assesses opportunities and barriers for their uptake. The publication ...
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    36,90 €

  • Forest Governance
    Bas Arts
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    25,44 €

  • Greening Development in the People’s Republic of China
    Asian Development Bank
    This report underscores the dynamic partnership of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and ADB in environmental protection and ecological conservation, rural economy, green livable cities, and climate change mitigation and adaptation.The green development partnership between the PRC and ADB has evolved over the years. In the report, best practices, innovations, and lessons lea...
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    30,99 €

  • Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index
    Asian Development Bank
    This report discusses the enhanced framework of the Asia-Pacific Regional Cooperation and Integration Index (ARCII) that now includes digital connectivity and environmental cooperation among other innovations for monitoring progress.The ARCII has been used for monitoring progress in various dimensions of regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia and the Pacific since 2...
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    46,29 €

  • The Swamp of East Naples. Environmental History of an Unruly Suburb
    Valerio Caruso / Sara Ferraioli
    East Naples’ contemporary history is not special, or unique: its processes shaped a mostly grey suburb nestled in the immediate vicinity of the great southern city, sharing its limits and feeding its needs. A case study with worldwide resonance, the book offers East Naples as emblematic of the deep environmental changes wrought on peripheral areas by processes of energy transit...
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    95,77 €

  • The environmental turn in postwar Sweden
    David Larsson Heidenblad
    This book tells the story of how modern environmentalism emerged at a remarkably early stage in postwar Sweden. It sheds new light on why Sweden took an early lead in global environmental politics and how the country came to host the first UN Conference on the Human Environment in 1972. ...
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    42,93 €

  • Politics and Development in the North American Arctic
    Magdalena Tomala / Roman S. Czarny
    The monograph analyzes international relations in the Arctic from two perspectives: cooperation and competition. The following question was asked: does rivalry outweigh cooperation in the Arctic or is it the other way round; do the entities manage to gain the benefits of cooperation? ...
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    87,88 €

  • Brownfields Redevelopment
    Joaquin Jay Gonzalez
    In urban planning, a brownfield is a former industrial or commercial site where environmental contamination hinders development. They exist in almost every community--there is probably one in your neighborhood--and state or federal resources can be used to facilitate assessment, cleanup and reuse. Drawing on a range of local and international experiences, this collection of ess...
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    59,05 €

  • Meander
    Margaret Wooster
    Draws on the author’s own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. ...
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    17,63 €

  • Meander
    Margaret Wooster
    Draws on the author’s own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region’s experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. ...
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    121,99 €

  • Plastics and Microplastics
    David Newton
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    82,27 €

  • The Coming Storm
    Bob Reiss
    The prescient book that first linked specific weather disasters with man-made global warming . . . now in its second edition.'The most readable and intelligent summary of global warming science and politics I have read... a valiant effort to make people actually care about global warming.'    - Bill McKibben, New York Observer  'What Bob Reiss did to elevate our awareness of th...
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    31,15 €

  • Climate Emergency
    Mark Harvey
    This book analyses the socio-economic and political forces driving the climate emergency, developing the concept of ’sociogenic climate change’ to show how societies create the crisis and are challenged by it; the development of inequalities within and between countries are at the heart of generating the emergency and in obstructing its resolution. ...
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    34,80 €

  • Water Management and Sustainability in Asia
    Water Management and Sustainability in Asia covers topics related to water resources management, including multi- and interdisciplinary research on flood, soil infiltration, contaminants, sediment, water quality, hydrological modelling, and water resources systems. ...
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    178,85 €

  • Best Practices in Urban Solid Waste Management
    Claudio Marciano / Giulia Romano
    The book provides an overview of best practices in urban waste management in the zero waste framework, assuming a multidisciplinary perspective. By analysing exemplary cases of firms and local governments, significant ownership, governance, and performance issues are discussed, along with key drivers of sustainable urban waste management. ...
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    87,78 €

  • Beyond Sustainability
    Tim Madigan / Tim W Delaney
    This book approaches environmentalism via two academic disciplines, sociology and philosophy. Both have concerns about the environment’s ability not only to sustain itself but to thrive. The authors argue that rather than simple sustainability, we must promote thrivability for the sake of protecting the environment and all living things. In this greatly expanded second edition,...
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    58,83 €

  • Racing Toward Zero
    Felix Leach / Kelly Seneca / Kelly Senecal
    In Racing Toward Zero, the authors explore the issues inherent in developing sustainable transportation. They review the types of propulsion systems and vehicle options, discuss low-carbon fuels and alternative energy sources, and examine the role of regulation in curbing emissions.All technologies have an impact on the environment, from internal combustion engine vehicles to b...
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    51,60 €

  • Conversations About The Environment
    Howard Burton
    Conversations About The Environment includes the following 5 in-depth Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring leading experts. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is broken into chapters with a detailed introduction and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:1.Solar Impact: Climate and the S...
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    24,82 €

  • Declaring Disaster
    Timothy W. Kneeland W. Kneeland
    On Friday, January 28, 1977, it began to snow in Buffalo. The second largest city in New York State, located directly in line with the Great Lakes’ snowbelt, was no stranger to this kind of winter weather. With their city averaging ninety-four inches of snow per year, the citizens of Buffalo knew how to survive a snowstorm. But the blizzard that engulfed the city for the next f...
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    35,50 €

  • Addressing Urban Shrinkage in Small and Medium Sized Towns
    Hans Schlappa / Tatsuya Nishino
    The analytical tools and practical examples provided by Schlappa and Nishino are relevant for political and administrative decisionmakers, leaders of civil society and business organisations in developing locally appropriate, creative and robust strategies to shrink smart and re-grow smaller. ...
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    87,99 €

  • Pacific Urban Development, Water, and Sanitation Sector Road Map 2021-2025
    Asian Development Bank
    This document lays out the vision and strategy of ADB for sustainable urban development programs, projects, and technical assistance in its Pacific developing member countries from 2021 to 2025.Urban development plays a key role in contributing to stronger, healthier, and more inclusive economies in the Pacific. This document provides an overview of the key constraints to susta...
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    24,61 €

  • From Human to Post Human Security in Latin America
    From Human to Post Human Security in Latin America provides a fresh look to some acute problems regarding human security in Latin America: human rights and dignity, water, food and health insecurities. This is essential reading for professionals, practitioners, and those interested in human security in Latin America. ...
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    136,33 €

  • Democratic Norms of Earth System Governance
    Robert V. Bartlett / Robert VBartlett / Walter F. Baber / Walter FBaber
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    57,80 €


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