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  • Climate Finance in the Net-Zero Transition

    From Conception to Implementation

    by Peng Zhou, Dong Guo ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive and structured exploration of how financial systems are being reshaped to support the net-zero transition. It guides readers through the evolving architecture of standards, instruments, and market mechanisms that underpin climate-aligned capital flows. Using an accessible but conceptually rigorous approach, it distinguishes climate finance from green and ... Read more

    $140.89 CAD

  • Sustainability Metrics and Management

    The Path from Innovation to Routine

    by Steven Cohen, William B. Eimicke, Dong Guo ...
    In recent years, increasingly sophisticated metrics have been created to measure sustainability. First devised to address environmental concerns such as greenhouse gas emissions, they now also assess organizational governance, community benefits, and hiring practices, among others. The field of sustainability management uses these metrics to track and advance progress on environmental, social, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Beating Financial Swords into Developmental Plowshares

    From Weapon to Wagon

    by Dong Guo, Peng Zhou ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Finance can destroy, defend, or develop. This book shows how monetary systems and financial markets can be turned from “swords” into “ploughshares”. Drawing on rare disasters, sanction wars, climate challenges, and disruptive technologies, we chart finance’s global footprint across crisis management, geopolitical conflict, and environmental repair. The two-part framework—diagnosing challenges, ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Advanced Design of Pile Foundations Under Lateral Loading

    by Wei Dong Guo ...
    This book presents models that capture the nonlinear response of piles subjected to lateral forces. Utilising a consistent approach encompassing new mathematical models, it offers solutions presented as closed-form expressions and underpinned by the same set of 3-5 measurable soil-input parameters. These focus on nonlinear response of mono piles, anchored piles, pile groups, and torsional piles, ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Sustainable City

    by Steven Cohen, Dong Guo ...
    Living sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. Economic, technological, and cultural forces are moving people out of rural areas and into urban areas. If we are to avert climate catastrophe, we will need our cities to coexist with nature without destroying it. Urbanization holds the key to long-term ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Sustainable City

    by Steven Cohen, Dong Guo ...
    Living sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. Economic, technological, and cultural forces are moving people out of rural areas and into urban areas. If we are to avert climate catastrophe, we will need our cities to coexist with nature without destroying it. Urbanization holds the key to long-term ... Read more

    $29.59 CAD

  • The Financial Ecosystem

    The Role of Finance in Achieving Sustainability

    by Satyajit Bose, Guo Dong, Anne Simpson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Long term asset owners and managers, while seeking high risk-adjusted returns and efficiently allocating scarce financial capital to the highest value economic activities, have the essential and formidable role of ensuring the sustainability of return. But generally accepted financial accounting methods are ill-equipped to provide clear signals of the risks and opportunities created by scarce ... Read more

    $140.99 CAD

  • Theory and Practice of Pile Foundations

    by Wei Dong Guo ...
    Pile Foundations are an essential basis for many structures. It is vital that they be designed with the utmost reliability, because the cost of failure is potentially huge. Covering a whole range of design issues relating to pile design, this book presents economical and efficient design solutions and demonstrates them using real world examples. Co ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

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    Why GDP Doesn't Add Up

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, Jean-Paul Fitoussi ...
    In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize-winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—the most widely used measure of economic activity—is a reliable ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blockchain Alternative

    Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

    by Kariappa Bheemaiah ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Examine what would happen if we were to deploy blockchain technology at the sovereign level and use it to create a decentralized cashless economy. This book explains how finance and economics work today, and how the convergence of various technologies related to the financial sector can help us find solutions to problems, such as excessive debt creation, banks getting too big to fail, and shadow ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Economics for the Common Good

    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    by Jean Tirole ...
    From Nobel Prize–winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in societyWhen Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual ... Read more

    $39.59 CAD

  • Multiple Account Benefit-Cost Analysis

    A Practical Guide for the Systematic Evaluation of Project and Policy Alternatives

    by Marvin Shaffer ...
    Most commonly used in economic and public policy decisions, benefit-cost analysis traditionally attempts to calculate a bottom line by assigning monetary values to all factors associated with a proposed project or action. By contrast, multiple account benefit-cost analysis recognizes that all values are complex and that not all consequences can be expressed in monetary terms or incorporated into ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD