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Sustainable Automobile Transport
Lisa Ryan, Hal Turton
Transport, and in particular road transport, represents a significant global threat to long-term sustainable development, and is one of the fastest-growing consumers of final energy and sources of greenhouse gas emissions. In this book, ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Corporate Governance of Sustainability
Edited by Raimund Bleischwitz
This book considers corporate governance of sustainability from a co-evolutionary perspective. It explores the linkages between pro-active approaches at the corporate level, market-based incentives and environmental networks involving va...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Climate and Trade Policy
Edited by Carlo Carraro, Christian Egenhofer
The difficulty of achieving and implementing a global climate change agreement has stimulated a wide range of policy proposals designed to favour the participation of a large number of countries in a global cooperative effort to control ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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China and the Global Energy Crisis
Tatsu Kambara, Christopher Howe
This book examines China’s record of oil and gas development, its refining capacity, and energy prospects. The authors conclude that there are no fundamental reasons for anxiety about China’s demands on the world energy economy, but they...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Governance of Biodiversity Conservation in China and Taiwan
Gerald A. McBeath, Tse-Kang Leng
China and Taiwan have roughly one-eighth of the world’s known species. Their approaches to biodiversity issues thus have global as well as national repercussions. Gerald McBeath and Tse-Kang Leng explore the ongoing conflicts between eco...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Environmental Policy in Japan
Edited by Hidefumi Imura, Miranda A. Schreurs
The book introduces Japan’s environmental history, its key environmental regulations and the forces that have driven Japan to introduce these environmental regulations and programs. It also examines the various formal and informal instit...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Welfare, Environment and Changing US–Chinese Relations
Edited by Maria Weber
By adopting a wide-ranging perspective, this book addresses the key issues relevant to contemporary China, providing a valuable tool with which to understand the challenges and opportunities facing political and economic actors, both dom...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Achieving a Sustainable Global Energy System
Leo Schrattenholzer, Asami Miketa, Keywan Riahi, Richard Alexander Roehrl
Sustainable development and global climate change have figured prominently in scientific analysis and international policymaking since the early 1990s. This book formulates technology strategies that will lead to environmentally sustaina...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Eco-Efficiency, Regulation and Sustainable Business
Edited by Raimund Bleischwitz, Peter Hennicke
This book presents important new research on applied eco-efficiency concepts throughout Europe. The aim of eco-efficiency is to achieve market-based measures of environmental protection, in order to enhance the prospects for sustainable ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Shrimp Farming and Mangrove Loss in Thailand
Edited by Edward B. Barbier, Suthawan Sathirathai
Through in-depth case studies of local communities in four distinct coastal areas in Southern Thailand, the authors are able to assess objectively the underlying economic causes, and consequences, of mangrove deforestation due to the exp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Instruments of Pollution Control in an Imperfect World
Tingsong Jiang
In this book, Tingsong Jiang extensively discusses the wider issues of economic instruments of pollution control as well as paying specific attention to the control of carbon dioxide emissions in China. -
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Global Warming and the Asian Pacific
Edited by Ching-Cheng Chang, Robert Mendelsohn, Daigee Shaw
This unique book examines the problem of global warming from the perspective of Asian Pacific countries. The unprecedented economic and demographic growth over the past two decades has increased the importance of the Asian Pacific region...eBook:Find out more$40.00