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  • The Goldilocks Policy
    John R Fanchi
    This book makes the case for a grand energy bargain that recognizes the need to protect the environment from the combustion of fossil fuels while protecting the national and global economies during the transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.Our future energy mix depends on choices we make, which depends, in turn, on energy policy. Society is continuing a trend towar...
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    47,55 €

  • ISO 14001 Step by Step
    Asif Hayat Khan / Naeem Sadiq
    Take the first steps to ISO 14001 certification with this practical overview.This book provides practical advice on how to achieve compliance with ISO 14001:2015, the international standard for an EMS (environmental management system). With an EMS certified to ISO 14001, you can improve the efficiency of your business operations and fulfil compliance obligations, while reassuri...
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    20,30 €

  • Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific
    Asian Development Bank
    ADB, in collaboration with UN Environment, prepared this tool compendium to help developing countries address challenges faced upon the successful implementation of the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals.The tools presented here can help policy makers gain a better understanding of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) interlinkages, establish horizontal...
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    38,72 €

  • Hazardous Waste Management, Volume II
    Sukalyan Sengupta
    This second volume focuses on treatment technologies that are commonly applied at hazardous waste sites and site characterization. Environmental engineers are responsible for cradle-to-grave handling and management of a hazardous waste. To fulfil this responsibility, a practicing engineer needs to apply their knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations; environmental aud...
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    57,22 €

  • Environmental Awareness and the Role of Social Media
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    176,75 €

  • Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts
    ’Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues. ...
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    165,42 €

  • Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa
    This book considers the issue of sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa. It assesses the progress that has been made in sustainable development and the challenges that must still be addressed. Most importantly, it focuses on African experiences with sustainable development. Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the framework for the analysis, the manusc...
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    122,40 €

  • Reproduction Revisited
    Toni Ruuska
    Capitalism is ecologically irredeemable. It simply cannot be fixed. This is because capitalism is based on endless capital accumulation, entailing growth in material throughput, whereas the planet Earth is finite. From this conclusion of ecological Marxism, this book continues to theorise how capitalism is reproduced in the 21st century. It is argued that the logic of capital a...
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    22,20 €

  • Unlocking Sustainable Cities
    Paul Chatterton
    This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change.Across the world, city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice - fro...
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    127,33 €

  • Unlocking Sustainable Cities
    Paul Chatterton
    This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change. Across the world, city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice - fr...
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    29,33 €

  • Tax Law and the Environment
    Tax Law and the Environment: A Multidisciplinary and Worldwide Perspective takes a multidisciplinary approach to explore the ways how tax policy can is used solve environmental problems throughout the world, using a multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary approach. Environmental taxation involves using taxes to impose a cost on environmentally harmful activities or tax subsi...
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    156,51 €

  • SDG11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    Maha Al-Zu’bi / Vesela Radovic
    SDG11 will map success stories, policies, and strategies from various regions that include actions to improve natural resources management, reduce GHG emissions, and develop urban adaptation, resilience strategies and disaster risk management to help decision-makers, planners and practitioners in achieving the 2030 SDG agenda. ...
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    104,50 €

  • SDG4 - Quality Education
    Dzintra Iliško / Therese Ferguson
    SDG4 - Quality Education: Inclusivity, Equity and Lifelong Learning For All will explore the multifaceted and complex nature of the concepts of inclusivity and quality education. ...
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    104,50 €

  • The EU’s Green Dynamism
    Henning Deters
    The high voting threshold in the Council together with conflicting national preferences should frustrate effective European problem-solving. This famous prediction of the 'joint-decision trap' (JDT) is at odds with Europe’s dynamic environmental policy. Yet there is scarce research on the limited impact of the JDT in this realm. We know little, therefore, about the conditions o...
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    171,66 €

  • Environmental Political Thought
    Robert Garner
    This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of the most prominent theories, concepts and debates in environmental political thinking. In doing so, Robert Garner - an esteemed scholar in the field - offers a foundation from which readers can better tackle perennially thorny questions such as what environmental cost can we bear for development, what do we mean by terms such as ...
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    193,74 €

  • Silence Would be Treason
    THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death. Reading through the treasure trove of the letters and poems compiled here as The Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa evoked such intense memories of his resolute struggles against an oil behemoth and a deaf autocratic gov...
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    15,44 €

  • Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts
    Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts: Religion and Science as Political Theology is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of religion, science, and politics. Contributors reflect on the role of interdisciplinary scholarship for the health of a society threatened by post-truth and alternative facts. ...
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    122,38 €

  • Pipeline Politics
    Madelon Finkel
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    69,39 €

  • China’s Urban Revolution
    Austin Williams
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    115,15 €

  • Beyond Blood Oil
    Aaron James / Leif Wenar / Michael Blake
    Leif Wenar’s 2016 book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World argues that much of the conflict, suffering, and injustice in the world is driven by an archaic rule in global trade that forces consumers to fund oppression and corruption. This oil curse is a major threat to global peace and stability. Wenar sets out Clean Trade policies to lift the oil curs...
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    107,14 €

  • Beyond Blood Oil
    Aaron James / Leif Wenar / Michael Blake
    Leif Wenar’s 2016 book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World argues that much of the conflict, suffering, and injustice in the world is driven by an archaic rule in global trade that forces consumers to fund oppression and corruption. This oil curse is a major threat to global peace and stability. Wenar sets out Clean Trade policies to lift the oil curs...
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    40,71 €

  • Birdsong After the Storm
    Margi Prideaux
    There is a storm brewing. Humans may survive the turmoil and onslaught of climate change and political upheaval, but the world they leave will be brittle and harsh. In choosing between the market, people, and wildlife, we are casting a future where a tiger’s footprints will not be seen in snowdrifts, and the deep, pungent smell of elephant musth won’t carry on the wind. Drawi...
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    15,41 €

  • Environmental Sustainability and American Public Administration
    J. Michael Martinez / JMichael Martinez
    Protecting the natural environment and promoting environmental sustainability have become important objectives for U.S. policymakers and public administrators at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Institutions of American government, especially at the federal level, and the public administrators who work inside of those institutions, play a crucial role in developing and imp...
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    67,52 €

  • Public Water Policies
    Charles R Jr Porter / Charles R. Jr. Porter / Charles R. Porter / Charles RPorter
    Although water is nature’s most important molecule; its regulation and management are among the most challenging public policy issues for any society. Water is the common denominator of all life on earth. Public water policies then become the fundamental foundations of community formation anywhere. Cities exist in their places based on the local access to adequate amounts of fr...
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    115,41 €

  • Fictions of Sustainability
    Boris Frankel
    This book discusses the growing political contest between conservative and reform-orientated defenders of capitalist societies on the one side, and the policies and imagined futures advanced by green and socialist critics on the other. All are subjected to detailed scrutiny. Is ‘green growth’ innovation able to resolve deep-seated global inequality and other socio-political and...
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    23,74 €

  • Promises of the Political
    Erik Swyngedouw
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    39,07 €

  • Dirty Gold
    Michael John Bloomfield
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    22,47 €

  • Coyotes and Town Dogs
    Susan Zakin
    When Dave Foreman woke up staring down the gun barrels of FBI agents, he had traveled a long and winding road from Washington, D.C. lobbyist to leader of the country's most loved and hated radical environmental group. Susan Zakin tells the story of the radical environmental group Earth First! against the backdrop of the larger history of U.S. conservation, digging deep into...
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    30,40 €

  • The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform
    Harro van Asselt
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    179,95 €

  • Burning Up
    Simon Pirani
    Coal, gas and oil have been capitalism’s main fuels since the industrial revolution. And yet, of all the fossil fuels ever consumed, more than half were burned in the last 50 years. Most alarming of all, fossil fuel consumption has grown fastest in the last three decades, since scientists confirmed that it is the main cause of potentially devastating global warming. In Burning ...
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    31,54 €


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