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Sustainable Development Goals
Edited by Duncan French, Louis J. Kotzé
Building on the previously established Millennium Development Goals, which ran from 2000-2015, the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide the UN with a roadmap for development until 2030. This topical book explores the associa...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Cities and Sustainable Technology Transitions
Edited by Marina van Geenhuizen, J. Adam Holbrook, Mozhdeh Taheri
This enlightening book elucidates the leadership challenges of various cities in emerging transitions towards higher levels of sustainability. It examines elements of three socio-technical systems, energy, transport and healthcare, while...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Evaluation of Complex Infrastructure Projects
Lasse Gerrits, Stefan Verweij
Infrastructure projects are notoriously hard to manage so it is important that society learns from the successes and mistakes made over time. However, most evaluation methods run into a conundrum: either they cover a large number of proj...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Handbook of Energy Politics
Edited by Jennifer I. Considine, Keun-Wook Paik
Starting with the fundamentals of the global energy industry, Handbook of Energy Politics goes on to cover the evolution of capital and financial markets in the energy industry, the effects of technology, environmental issues and global ...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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Advanced Introduction to Ecological Economics
Matthias Ruth
Any human endeavor is shaped by, and shapes, changes in the physical and biological environment. In this Advanced Introduction, Matthias Ruth draws on a diverse set of theories, methods and applications to critically assess key concepts ...eBook:Find out more£15.96
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Handbook of Behavioral and Cognitive Geography
Edited by Daniel R. Montello
This comprehensive Handbook summarizes existing work and presents new concepts and empirical results from leading scholars in the multidisciplinary field of behavioral and cognitive geography, the study of the human mind, and activity in...eBook:Find out more£48.00
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The Economics of Nonrenewable Resources
Edited by Robert Halvorsen
The economics of nonrenewable resources addresses some of the most problematic issues concerning the sustainability of the world economy. This comprehensive one volume collection contains forty-six of the most important and influential j... -
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Climate Change and the UN Security Council
Edited by Shirley V. Scott, Charlotte Ku
In this forward-looking book, the authors consider how the United Nations Security Council could assist in addressing the global security challenges brought about by climate change. Contributing authors contemplate how the UNSC could pre...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Sustainable Development and International Environmental Law
Edited by David Freestone
At the time of the 1972 Stockholm UN Conference on the Human Environment, the concept of sustainable development and the subject of international environmental law were virtually unknown. Since then, the importance of the subject has bur... -
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Negotiating Climate Change
Aynsley Kellow
This book examines how an error in global meta-policy set climate change negotiations on an unproductive course. The decision to base negotiations on the Montreal Protocol and overlook the importance of interests, it argues, institutiona...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Firms, Finance and Sustainable Transitions
Edgardo Sica
This thought-provoking book introduces a financial economics perspective to the topic of eco-innovations and, more generally, sociotechnical transitions. It develops a model that illustrates how financial constraints can prevent the deve...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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How Great Cities Happen
John Stanley, Janet Stanley, Roslynne Hansen
Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the traditional focus has been on the shape of ...eBook:Find out more£28.76