Land and Resource Scarcity: Capitalism, Struggle and Well-Being in a World Without Fossil Fuels
ISBN: 9781138900950 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be created. The book combines natural science with emancipatory thinking, focusing on bottom up alternatives and social struggles to change the world by taking action. The volume introduces original contributions to the debates on peak oil, land grabbing and social alternatives, thus creating a... This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce ... |
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262,42 zł |
Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World
ISBN: 9783642428005 / Angielski / Miękka / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I sit on a man s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means except by getting off his back. Leo Tolstoy - Writings on Civil Disobe- ence and Non-Violence (1886). In today s world where sustainable development has become a critical security concept for the well-being of the environment and society, the man Tolstoy depicts might well be interchangeable for either the planet in terms of its carrying-capacity or its bene?ciary, society. While it is arguable that mining is neither...
I sit on a man s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by ...
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582,32 zł |
Reconstruction of China's Low-Carbon City Evaluation Indicator System: A Methodological Guide for Applications
ISBN: 9789814612838 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book, written by acclaimed experts from China, is an output of the Low-Carbon City China (LCCC) Programme.
The book, written by acclaimed experts from China, is an output of the Low-Carbon City China (LCCC) Programme.
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494,64 zł |
Fishing, Foraging and Farming in the Bolivian Amazon: On a Local Society in Transition
ISBN: 9789400790872 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Empirical in character, this book analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane', a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. Following a common methodological framework, the material and energy flow (MEFA) approach, it gives a detailed account of the biophysical exchange relations the community entertains with its natural environment: the socio-economic use of energy, materials, land and time. Equally so, the book provides a deeper insight into the local base of sociometabolic transition processes and their inherent dynamics of change. The local community described in this...
Empirical in character, this book analyses the society-nature interaction of the Tsimane', a rural indigenous community in the Bolivian Amazon. Follow...
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The Coming of Age of the Green Community: My Neighbourhood, My Planet
ISBN: 9781138915152 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives. Governments have serially failed to do the job at the international level. Now, climate change, resource depletion and widening social aspirations threaten to destabilise human society unless sustainable change can be influenced from another direction. The Coming of Age of the Green Community explores the activities of a new generation of... People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 19... |
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45,37 zł |
Communicating Environmental Patriotism: A Rhetorical History of the American Environmental Movement
ISBN: 9781138915565 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country s greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century American environmentalism. This book is the first to explore the history of environmental patriotism in America through the intriguing stories of environmental patriots and the rhetoric of their speeches and propaganda, The See America First movement began in 1906 with the aim of protecting and promoting the landscapes of the American West. In 1908, Gifford Pinchot and President Theodore Roosevelt hosted the White House Conservation Conference to... Environmental patriotism, the belief that the national environment defines a country s greatness, is a significant strand in twentieth century Amer... |
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262,42 zł |
World Development Indicators 2015
ISBN: 9781464804403 / Angielski / Miękka / 161 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. World Development Indicators 2015 World Development Indicators 2015 provides a compilation of relevant, highquality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. It is intended to help policymakers, students, analysts, professors, program managers, and citizens find and use data related to all aspects of development, including those that help monitor progress toward the World Bank Group s two goals of ending poverty and promoting shared prosperity. Six themes are used to organize indicators world view, people, environment, economy, states...
World Development Indicators 2015 World Development Indicators 2015 provides a compilation of relevant, highquality, and internationally comparable st...
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116,62 zł |
The Guide to the Circular Economy: Capturing Value and Managing Material Risk
ISBN: 9781910174357 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The term "Circular Economy" is becoming familiar to an increasing number of businesses. It expresses an aspiration to get more value from resources and waste less, especially as resources come under a variety of pressures - price-driven, political and environmental.
Delivering the circular economy can bring direct costs savings to businesses, reduce risk and offer reputational advantages, and can therefore be a market differentiator - but working out what counts as "circular" activity for an individual business, as against the entire economy or individual products, is not... The term "Circular Economy" is becoming familiar to an increasing number of businesses. It expresses an aspiration to get more value from resources an...
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159,34 zł |
Dangerous Ground: The World of Hazardous Waste Crime
ISBN: 9781412856010 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many years, if businesses were caught dumping waste, it was treated more as a nuisance than as a crime; the common images of the criminal and the dumper were worlds apart. In Dangerous Ground, originally published in 1992, Donald J. Rebovich closes this perceptual gap, providing essential information about and analysis of hazardous waste crime and the hazardous waste criminal. This paperback edition includes new material, noting important changes since the book's original publication. Rebovich finds that the criminal dumper is usually an ordinary businessman. The... For many years, if businesses were caught dumping waste, it was treated more as a nuisance than as a crime; the common images of the criminal and t... |
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60,52 zł |
The Armchair Activist's Handbook: How to Change the World from the Comfort of Your Own Home
ISBN: 9781909269217 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Would you change the world, if only you knew how? Do you dream of doing more than signing online petitions but don't want to camp out on a pavement to prove a point? Are you frustrated because you're not making a difference but don't want to turn your life upside down in the name of action? Then this is the book for you. THE ARMCHAIR ACTIVIST'S HANDBOOK will help you find easy and fun ways to make the world a better place. Funny, honest and above all inspirational, this book will show how even the tiniest changes to your habits can have a positive impact, whether it's to do with what you eat,...
Would you change the world, if only you knew how? Do you dream of doing more than signing online petitions but don't want to camp out on a pavement to...
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71,75 zł |
Implementing Environmental Accounts: Case Studies from Eastern and Southern Africa
ISBN: 9789400796744 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the book should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing indicators for total wealth in the countries covered by the case studies, which include Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique and South Africa. These case studies experiment with implementing the SEAA in sub-Saharan nations known to suffer from the resource curse: their wealth in resources and commodities has allowed inflows of liquidity, yet this cash has not funded crucial developments in infrastructure or education. What s more, resource-driven economies are...
Leaving aside human and social capital for a future volume, the book should be viewed as a crucial first step in developing indicators for total wealt...
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388,20 zł |
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015
ISBN: 9781464805523 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015 is a pocket edition of the Global Financial Inclusion Database published in 2015 in The Global Findex Database 2014: Measuring Financial Inclusion around the World by Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, and Peter Van Oudheusden (World Bank Policy Research Paper 7255). It provides 41 country-level indicators of financial inclusion summarized for all adults and disaggregated by key demographic characteristics gender, age, income, and rural residence. The book also includes summary pages by region and by income group aggregates....
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015 is a pocket edition of the Global Financial Inclusion Database published in 2015 in The Global Findex...
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68,81 zł |
Financing the Green Transformation: How to Make Green Finance Work in Indonesia
ISBN: 9781137486110 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores challenges for developing and emerging economies for enhancing green financing for sustainable, low-carbon investment, looking at Indonesia. Based on surveys in the Indonesian banking and corporate sectors and expert interviews, it devises innovative policy recommendations to develop a framework conducive to fostering green investments.
Explores challenges for developing and emerging economies for enhancing green financing for sustainable, low-carbon investment, looking at Indonesia. ...
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The Carbon Crunch: Revised and Updated
ISBN: 9780300215328 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy.
"An optimistically levelheaded book about actually dealing with global warming."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review " Dieter Helm] has turned his agile mind to one of the great problems of our age: why the world's efforts to curb the carbon dioxide emissions behind global warming have gone so wrong, and how it can do better."--Pilita Clark,... In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global w...
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79,64 zł |
Faires Management und Marketing
ISBN: 9783486588897 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unternehmensethik, Nachhaltigkeit, CSR oder Bio - viele Unternehmen verlieren den Uberblick. Im Buch wird der Konflikt zwischen kurzfristiger Gewinnorientierung einerseits sowie Glaubwurdigkeit und gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung andererseits aufgegriffen und durch das Modell des fairen Managements ersetzt. Der ganzheitliche Managementansatz integriert alle gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen und sichert den Unternehmenserfolg langfristig. Unternehmensethik, Nachhaltigkeit, CSR oder Bio - viele Unternehmen verlieren den Uberblick. Im Buch wird der Konflikt zwischen kurzfristiger Gewin... |
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173,34 zł |
Driven by Demand: How Energy Gets Its Power
ISBN: 9781107104662 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Energy plays a central role in shaping our society and infrastructure, making it increasingly important for today's leaders to understand the impact of energy decisions. Discussions about energy often neglect important historical lessons about previous energy transformations and provide inadequate consideration of context - Driven by Demand takes a fresh approach by exploring the emergence of energy systems, outcomes and priorities. It outlines select historical and current events, challenges, and developing energy trends using a range of case studies. Readers will gain foundational knowledge...
Energy plays a central role in shaping our society and infrastructure, making it increasingly important for today's leaders to understand the impact o...
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413,88 zł |
Driven by Demand: How Energy Gets Its Power
ISBN: 9781107507104 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Energy plays a central role in shaping our society and infrastructure, making it increasingly important for today's leaders to understand the impact of energy decisions. Discussions about energy often neglect important historical lessons about previous energy transformations and provide inadequate consideration of context - Driven by Demand takes a fresh approach by exploring the emergence of energy systems, outcomes and priorities. It outlines select historical and current events, challenges, and developing energy trends using a range of case studies. Readers will gain foundational knowledge...
Energy plays a central role in shaping our society and infrastructure, making it increasingly important for today's leaders to understand the impact o...
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151,37 zł |
Post-2020 Climate Change Regime Formation
ISBN: 9781138926851 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period. Since 1992, the UNFCCC and its Kyoto Protocol has been the primary legal instrument to respond to the climate challenge. However, the intergovernmental process has been riddled with problems that have rendered it ineffective. The changing economic landscape has further made this country grouping problematic as some developing countries now emit more than some of their advanced counterparts. Such problems have crippled the existing regime... The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 p... |
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216,98 zł |
Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future: Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism
ISBN: 9781138928060 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis, particularly the USA, China, India, Japan and EU countries, but also developing countries having to boost their economic growth precisely when more powerful economies will prevent them from using the limited supply of fossil energy. Despite this crisis, current protocols of energy accounting have been developed for dealing with fossil energy exclusively and are therefore not useful for the analysis of alternative energy sources. The first part of the book illustrates the weakness of existing... The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis, particularly the USA, China, India, Japan and EU countrie... |
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262,42 zł |
Nationalism, Law and Statelessness: Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa
ISBN: 9781138928107 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 denationalisations that took place and follows the flight of these stateless Ethiopians out of the Horn into Europe. The core issue examined is the link between sovereignty and... 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 citize... |
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216,98 zł |