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  • From Dependency to Sustainability

    A Case Study on the Economic Capacity Development of the Ok Tedi Mine-area Community

    par Paulina Siop ...
    Collections series Capacity Development
    The Star Mountain Investment Holding Limited (SMIHL) is a Papua New Guinean (PNG) landowner holding company operating in Western Province, in the shadows of the huge Ok Tedi mine. The initiative drew on a Future Generation Fund and was, for the community, a response to years of frustration with wasted opportunities for economic development which were attributed to a lack of organizational and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Power Surge

    Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future

    par Michael Levi ...
    The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail. In The Power Surge, Michael Levi takes readers inside these revolutions. He shows how oil and gas production, after decades in decline, are being propelled upward by new ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • Three Cities

    Seeking Hope in the Anthropocene

    par Rod Oram ...
    Collections series BWB Texts
    Orthodox is obsolete; conventional is kaput. We thought we knew how we make economics, politics, technology and nature work for us. But increasingly, they are failing to run by the rules and systems we’ve honed over recent decades. Boom-bust economies, fractured and destructive politics and a deeply degraded ecosystem are just some of the symptoms.Pioneers around the world are seeking new values, ... En savoir plus

    $4.10 CAD

  • Environmental Debt

    The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy

    par Amy Larkin ...
    An award-winning environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crisesFor decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could be left to future generations. Now in the wake of billions of dollars in costs associated with coastal ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • The New Economics

    A Bigger Picture

    par Andrew Simms, David Boyle ...
    Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental and individual well-being. But it doesn't have to be like this. A new approach to economics - deriving as much from Ruskin and Schumacher as from Keynes or Smith - has begun to emerge. Skeptical about money as a measure of success, this new economics turns our assumptions about wealth and poverty upside down. It shows us that ... En savoir plus

    $47.49 CAD

  • Are We Running Out?

    The Sustainability of the World's Resources

    par Ingrid Bryan ...
    Do we have the resources to produce enough food for an expected world population of over 9 billion in 2050? Are modern agricultural practices sustainable? Do we have enough fresh water? What do we understand about climate change? Can we decarbonize the world economy? Can we save the oceans? Are genetically modified crops bad for the environment? Are we entering a new era of resource wars? These ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Energy Security for the EU in the 21st Century

    Markets, Geopolitics and Corridors

    Modifié par José María Marín Quemada, Javier García-Verdugo, Gonzalo Escribano ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Recent developments like the rising trend in crude oil price, the international economic crisis, the civil revolts in Northern Africa and the Middle East, the nuclear threat in Japan after the tsunami, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the economic growth of emerging countries like China and India have a direct relation to the security of energy supply anywhere in the world. This book ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • Energy in Australia

    Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth

    par Graham Palmer ...
    Collections series Energy (R0)
    With rapidly declining costs and seemingly unlimited sunshine, the choice of solar in Australia seems obvious. Yet despite its many advantages, homes with solar remain completely dependent on the electricity grid for reliable supply, which in Australia implies mostly coal-fired generation. Indeed, even countries that have invested heavily in solar, such as Spain and Germany, have been unable to ... En savoir plus

    $64.49 CAD

  • The Price of Fish

    A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions

    par Michael Mainelli, Ian Harris ...
    Gold Medal Winner - Economics, Independent Publisher Book AwardsIn The Price of Fish, Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris examine in a unique way the world's most abiding and wicked problems sustainability, global warming, over-fishing, overpopulation, the pensions crisis; all of which are characterized by a set of messy, circular, aggressive and peculiarly long-term problems and go on to suggest that ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Common Pools of Genetic Resources

    Equity and Innovation in International Biodiversity Law

    Modifié par Evanson Chege Kamau, Gerd Winter ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in International Environmental Law
    The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) strives for the sustainable and equitable utilization of genetic resources, with the ultimate goal of conserving biodiversity. The CBD and the Nagoya Protocol which has since been elaborated suggest a bilateral model for access to genetic resources and the sharing of benefits from their utilization. There is concern that the bilateral exchange "genetic ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • Nationalism, Law and Statelessness

    Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa

    par John R. Campbell ...
    Collections series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    In 1998 a bloody war erupted in The Horn of Africa between Ethiopia and Eritrea. During the war Ethiopia arrested and expelled 70,000 of its citizens, and stripped another 50,000-plus of their citzenship on the basis of their presumed ethnicity. Nationalism, Law and Statelessness: Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa examines the events which led up to the war, documents the expulsions and ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • Climate Capitalism

    Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy

    par Peter Newell, Matthew Paterson ...
    Confronting climate change is now understood as a problem of 'decarbonising' the global economy: ending our dependence on carbon-based fossil fuels. This book explores whether such a transformation is underway, how it might be accelerated, and the complex politics of this process. Given the dominance of global capitalism and free-market ideologies, decarbonisation is dependent on creating carbon ... En savoir plus

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