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Why your world is about to get a whole lot smaller
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Jeff Rubin |
An internationally renowned energy expert has written a book essential for every American--a galvanizing account of how the rising price and diminishing availability of oil are going to radically cha… |
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Capitalism and conservation
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Rosaleen Duffy,Daniel Brockington |
"Through a series of case studies from around the world, Capitalism and Conservation presents a critique of conservation's role as a central driver of global capitalism. Features innovative new rese… |
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Ecofeminism revisited
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Chāyā Dātāra |
Partly with reference to India. |
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Environmental economics
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Stephen Smith |
"In this Very Short Introduction, Stephen Smith shows how the field of environmental economics looks at how economic activity and policy can affect the environment in which we live. The book discusse… |
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Earth's growing population
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Chris Reiter |
"Provides comprehensive information on population growth and its effects on the environment"--Provided by publisher. |
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Environment and economy
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Molly Scott Cato |
As environmental issues move to the centre of the political debate, more attention is being focused on the role our economy has played in creating the ecological crisis, and what a sustainable econom… |
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Cold Cash Cool Climate Sciencebased Advice For Ecological Entrepreneurs
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Jon Koomey |
Written for entrepreneurs and investors, this book describes how to profit from tackling climate change, one of this century's greatest challenges. Industry expert Dr. Jonathan Koomey acts as your co… |
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Industrial evolution
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Lyle Estill |
For many people, the word "industry" brings to mind images of sprawling factories belching toxic emissions in a blighted natural landscape. "Industrial" has become synonymous with pollution, human ri… |
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Finance & sustainable development
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Pierre-André Chiappori,J. M. Lasry |
"Economic and financial considerations are often perceived as being antithetical to environmental concerns. Is it possible to reconcile economic development and growth with preservation of the planet… |
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Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
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Colin J. Campbell |
<p><b><i>Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion, Second Edition,</i></b> is the product of a half-century of critical analysis and updating of data on the status of oil and gas depletion by count… |
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Energy Efficiency in Household Appliances and Lighting
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Paolo Bertoldi |
This book covers the state of the art of energy efficiency in household appliances and lighting which can be used now and in the near future to achieve significant and cost-effective energy savings. … |
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Expert Systems in Environmental Planning
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J. R. Wright |
This book introduces expert systems for problem solving in environmental planning and describes the way in which heuristic knowledge and rules of thumb of expert planners can be represented through c… |
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The Next Economics
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Woodrow W. Clark II |
<p>The Next Economics focuses on how the field of economics must change and incorporate environment, energy, health and new technologies that are called externalities for stopping and reversing clima… |
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Social Costs and Sustainability
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Olav Hohmeyer |
Important progress has been made in recent years in the valuation of social costs of energy and transport. This progress has encouraged the insight that systems of "Green Accounting" considering soci… |
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Life rules
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Ellen LaConte |
Examines global crises and offers solutions to those challenges. |
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The Handbook of Salutogenesis
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Jürgen M. Pelikan,Bengt Lindström,Geir Arild Espnes,Georg F. Bauer,Maurice B. Mittelmark,Shifra Sagy,Monica Eriksson |
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Medical Sociology; Health Psychology |
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A Time for Metabolism and Hormones
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Paolo Sassone-Corsi,Yves Christen |
Human Physiology, Endocrinology, Cell Biology, Neurosciences |
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Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley
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Jeroen Kool |
development economics; water policy; water governance; water management; sustainable development; conservation |
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Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age
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Thierry Declerck,Georg Rehm |
semantics; artificial intelligence; natural language processing systems; natural language processing; NLP; machine learning; social networking; named entities; support vector machines; SVM |
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A blueprint for a safer planet
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N. H. Stern |
A book about the action required of this generation to ensure the continued existence of the human race - by the world's leading authority on climate change.Further substantial global warming is unav… |
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