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  • The Shale Renaissance

    How Fracking Has Changed Pennsylvania in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jonathan M. Fisk, Soren Jordan, David Allen Good Jr. ...
    Series series Regional
    Although a technique for hydraulic fracturing—more commonly known as fracking—was developed and implemented in the 1970s in Texas, fracking of the Marcellus Shale formation that stretches from West Virginia through Pennsylvania to New York did not begin in earnest until the twenty-first century. Unconventional natural gas production via fracking has ignited debate, challenged regulators, and added ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

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  • Logistics in Lagging Regions: Overcoming Local Barriers to Global Connectivity

    by Kunaka Charles ...
    Small scale producers in developing countries lack easy access to efficient logistics services. They are faced with long distances from both domestic and international markets. Unless they consolidate their trade volumes they face high costs which diminish their ability to trade. However the process of consolidation is not without cost nor does it occur on its own accord. As a result the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Agriculture Investment Sourcebook

    by World Bank ...
    Investing to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction is a central pillar of the World Bank's current rural strategy, Reaching the Rural Poor (2003). One major thrust of the strategy outlines the priorities and the approaches that the public sector, private sector, and civil society can employ to enhance productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural sector in ways that reduce the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Planning for Community Resilience

    A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters

    by Jaimie Hicks Masterson, Walter Gillis Peacock, Shannon S. Van Zandt, Himanshu Grover, Lori Feild Schwarz, John T. Cooper, Jr. ...
    How can we plan and design stronger communities? From New Orleans to Galveston to the Jersey Shore, communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left. Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980. These catastrophes are increasing in number as well as in magnitude, causing greater damage as we ... Read more

    $46.19 CAD

  • Community Planning

    How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems

    by Stephanie B. Kelly ...
    Community Planning: How to Solve Urban and Environmental Problems covers the basic theoretical principles of community planning and how planning has evolved in the United States. The book defines the interdisciplinary nature of the field, identifies the forces that shape the planning process, and explains the sub-specialized areas of community planning.Throughout the text, the author draws ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • Everything You need to Know About Central Bank Digital Currency

    by Nickoy Mills ...
    The old world is ending and the new world order is taking shape. You may have heard that central banks around the world are slowly introducing their own digital currencies called CBDCs or Central Bank Digital Currencies.For the most part, they will tell you that these currencies are the same as paper money, except they exist only in a digital form. However, there is far more that you need to know ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Risks

    An Investor's Field Guide to Identification and Assessment

    by Bob Buhr ...
    Series series The Wiley Finance Series
    Assess the likelihood, timing and scope of climate risksIn Climate Risks: An Investor’s Field Guide to Identification and Assessment, financial analyst Bob Buhr delivers a risk-based framework for classifying and measuring potential climate risks at the firm level, and their potential financial impacts. The author presents a “climate risk taxonomy” that encompasses a broad range of physical, ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Water Accounting for Water Governance and Sustainable Development: White Paper

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Interest in water accounting is based on the premise that 'We cannot plan and manage what we do not measure' – a statement that few would disagree with.Society needs more accurate information and answers to the key questions about water supply and demand. More data are needed but simply doing water measurements and assessments is not enough. Water accounting per se is of little use. But as a tool ... Read more

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  • Developing Bankable Business Plans: A Learning Guide for Forest Producers and Their Organizations

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    This guide was developed to improve the capacity of small producers, their organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises to access private investment and finance for sustainable forest-based businesses. It offers a framework to think through, organize and develop a convincing investment proposal. The guide introduces ten key elements, presented as modules, which should be included in any ... Read more

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  • Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy

    by World Bank ...
    The World Bank's Forests Strategy, adopted in October 2002, charts a path for the Bank's proactive engagement in the sector to help attain the goal of poverty reduction without jeopardizing the environmental values intrinsic to sustainability. This strategy replaces the Bank's 1991 Forestry Strategy, and was developed on the basis of the findings of an independent review of the 1991 strategy and a ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Cotton

    by Adam Sneyd ...
    Series series Resources
    Whether we are out on the streets or between the sheets, cotton is our constant companion. But behind this ubiquitous fibre prized for its softness lies a darker story of exploitation and hardship. In this penetrating analysis, Adam Sneyd explores the power politics that envelop cotton as major corporate players and countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas compete to control it.In the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Infrastructure Planning and Finance

    A Smart and Sustainable Guide

    by Vicki Elmer, Adam Leigland ...
    Infrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both step-by-step guidance, and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure in the 21st Century.Infrastructure Planning and Finance is designed for the local practitioner ... Read more

    $309.18 CAD