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  • Water, Politics and Money

    A Reality Check on Privatization

    by Manuel Schiffler ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book reveals all that can potentially happen when a private company takes over a local water supply system, both the good and the bad. Backed by real life stories of water privatization in action, author Manuel Schiffler presents a nuanced picture free of spin or fear mongering.Inside, readers will find a detailed analysis of the multiple forms of water privatization, from the outright sale ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD

  • The Economics of Groundwater Management in Arid Countries

    Theory, International Experience and a Case Study of Jordan

    by Manuel Schiffler ...
    Groundwater is being depleted on a large scale in many arid and semi-arid parts of the world. The author asks whether it should be avoided at any price? or if it is desirable in certain circumstances, by undertaking an economic analysis and considering the political and hydrological aspects of water management. ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD

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  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economics has failed us ... but there is life after growth!Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The End of Growth

    Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to drop, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable, natural limits. Richard ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Price of Oil

    by Roberto F. Aguilera, Marian Radetzki ...
    Drawing on their extensive knowledge of the oil industry, Roberto F. Aguilera and Marian Radetzki provide an in-depth examination of the price of the world's most important commodity. They argue that although oil has experienced an extraordinary price increase over the past few decades, we have now reached a turning point where scarcity, uncertain supply and high prices will be replaced by ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Oil

    by Gavin Bridge, Philippe Le Billon ...
    Series series Resources
    Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining conventional oil reserves, volatile prices, climate change, and enduring poverty in many oil-rich countries. The politics of oil are now ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Market Threads

    How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity

    by Koray Çalişkan ...
    What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, Market Threads presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel and groundbreaking understanding of global markets. The book examines the arrangements, institutions, and power relations on which cotton trading and production ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Energy in Africa

    Challenges and Opportunities

    by Manfred Hafner, Simone Tagliapietra, Lucia de Strasser ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This open access book presents a picture of the current energy challenges on the African continent (and the Sub-Saharan region in particular) and proposes pathways to an accelerated energy transition. Starting with an analysis of the status quo and the outlook for Africa’s energy demand and energy access, it provides an account of the available resources, including hydrocarbons and renewable ... Read more

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  • Water Finance

    Public Responsibilities and Private Opportunities

    by Neil S. Grigg ...
    Series Book 677 - Wiley Finance
    A detailed look at the water industry and the trends that can lead to investment opportunitiesWater has quickly grown into a big global business, with annual revenues in the United States alone reaching over $200 billion. In the years ahead, companies as well as governments must find innovative ways to address important issues within this field without sacrificing basic needs, such as safety of ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • The Global Economics of Forestry

    by William F. Hyde ...
    This book traces the economic and biological pattern of forest development from initial settlement and harvest activity at the natural forest frontier to modern industrial forest plantations. It builds from diagrams describing three discrete stages of forest development, and then discusses the management and policy implications associated with each, supporting its observations with examples and ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Investing in Water for a Green Economy

    Services, Infrastructure, Policies and Management

    Edited by Mike Young, Christine Esau ...
    In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world’s water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it. It focuses on current social and economic costs of water provision, needs and opportunities for investment and for improving its management. It describes the large array of water policy ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • Why Things Are Going to Get Worse - And Why We Should Be Glad

    by Michael Roscoe ...
    The free-market capitalist system is in the process of collapse and we must now adjust to the reality of declining prosperity in the West. We should forget about growth and concentrate instead on the creation of jobs and reducing fossil fuel use—and it isn't impossible to achieve these two apparently conflicting aims.This is the thrust of the author's arguments and through the use of clear ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD