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Tapping the Oceans
Edited by Joe Williams, Erik Swyngedouw
Increasingly, water-stressed cities are looking to the oceans to fix unreliable, contested and over-burdened water supply systems. Desalination technologies are, however, also becoming the focus of intense political disagreements about t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Water Supply in a Mega-City
Michael Webber, Jon Barnett, Brian Finlayson, Mark Wang
With the increasing threat of depleted and contaminated water supplies around the world, this book provides a timely and much needed analysis of how cities should manage this precious resource. Integrating the environmental, economic, po...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Varieties of Green Business
Geoffrey Jones
This book provides rich new empirical evidence on green business as it examines its variation between industries and nations, and over time. It demonstrates the deep historical origins of endeavors to create for-profit businesses that we...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovation Addressing Climate Change Challenges
Edited by Mona Hymel, Larry Kreiser, Janet E. Milne, Hope Ashiabor
Although the world faces many environmental challenges, climate change continues to demand attention. This timely book explores ways in which market-based instruments and complementary policies can help countries meet their climate chang...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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CSR and Climate Change Implications for Multinational Enterprises
Edited by John R. McIntyre, Silvester Ivanaj, Vera Ivanaj
Multinational economic actors, particularly corporations, play a defining role in the response to the climate change or warming debate and the emerging scientific consensus. This book describes, explains, and predicts how multinational f...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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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$40.00
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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$40.00
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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$40.00
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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$40.00
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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$40.00
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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$40.00
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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$42.36
