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Caching the Carbon
Edited by James Meadowcroft, Oluf Langhelle
Over the past decade carbon capture and storage (CCS) has increasingly come to the fore as a possible option to manage carbon dioxide emissions that are currently contributing to human induced climate change. This book is concerned with ...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Biotechnology Innovation
Edited by David Castle
Intellectual property rights (IPRs), particularly patents, occupy a prominent position in innovation systems, but to what extent they support or hinder innovation is widely disputed. Through the lens of biotechnology, this book delves de...eBook:Find out more$64.76
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Globalisation and Natural Resources Law
Elena Blanco, Jona Razzaque
This book examines the complex relationships between trade, human rights and the environment within natural resources law. It discusses key theories and challenges whilst exploring the concepts and approaches available to manage crucial ...eBook:Find out more$81.56
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Intellectual Property and Biotechnology
Matthew Rimmer
This book documents and evaluates the dramatic expansion of intellectual property law to accommodate various forms of biotechnology from micro-organisms, plants, and animals to human genes and stem cells. It makes a unique theoretical co...eBook:Find out more$64.76
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The Social Embeddedness of Industrial Ecology
Edited by Frank Boons, Jennifer Howard-Grenville
Most work on industrial ecology continues to emphasize its roots in engineering and the technological sciences. This book differs in that it explores the social context of industrial ecology and presents empirical work addressing how cog...eBook:Find out more$51.96
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Creating Ecological Value
Frank Boons
Firms adopt a wide variety of ecological strategies, ranging from the development of innovative products with reduced environmental impact to lobbying against governmental attempts to set standards for the way in which firms deal with th...eBook:Find out more$38.36
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Gene Cartels
Luigi Palombi
Starting with the 13th century, this book explores how patents have been used as an economic protectionist tool, developing and evolving to the point where thousands of patents have been ultimately granted not over inventions, but over i...eBook:Find out more$75.96
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century
Bryan Horrigan
Professor Bryan Horrigan spans subjects as diverse and topical as global corporate responsibility and governance debates, practical guidelines for responsible businesses and their professional advisers, governmental roles in corporate so...eBook:Find out more$66.36
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The Economic Growth Engine
Robert U. Ayres, Benjamin Warr
The historic link between output (GDP) growth and employment has weakened. Since there is no quantitively verifiable economic theory to explain past growth, this unique book explores the fundamental relationship between thermodynamics (p...eBook:Find out more$66.36
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Handbook on Trade and the Environment
Edited by Kevin P. Gallagher
In this comprehensive reference work, Kevin Gallagher has compiled a fresh and broad-ranging collection of expert voices commenting on the interdisciplinary field of trade and the environment. For over two decades policymakers and schola...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Global Threats, Global Futures
Thayer Scudder
Global threats can be expected to cause a global environmental crisis and declining living standards for most people. Threats analyzed include poverty, cultural, economic, political and religious fundamentalism, consumption, population i...eBook:Find out more$49.56
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Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics
Edited by Jonathan M. Harris, Neva R. Goodwin
The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including ...