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  • Coal

    par Mark C. Thurber ...
    Collections series Resources
    By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age – and it still does. Coal today generates more electricity worldwide than any other energy source, helping to drive economic growth in major emerging markets. And yet, continued reliance on this ancient rock carries a high price in smog and greenhouse gases.We use coal because it is ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Oil and Governance

    State-Owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply

    Modifié par David G. Victor, David R. Hults, Mark C. Thurber ...
    National oil companies (NOCs) play an important role in the world economy. They produce most of the world's oil and bankroll governments across the globe. Although NOCs superficially resemble private-sector companies, they often behave in very different ways. Oil and Governance explains the variation in performance and strategy for NOCs and provides fresh insights into the future of the oil ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Global Coal Market

    Supplying the Major Fuel for Emerging Economies

    Modifié par Mark C. Thurber, Richard K. Morse ...
    Coal has been the world's fastest-growing energy source in absolute terms for over a decade. Coal also emits more CO2 than any other fossil fuel and contributes to serious air pollution problems in many regions of the world. If we hope to satisfy the demand for affordable energy in emerging economies while protecting the environment we need to develop a keen understanding of the market that ... En savoir plus

    $69.99 CAD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

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    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and the greenhouse effect. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate the emergence of a new wave of environmental attention focused on “natural capital,†“ecosystem services†and “biodiversity,†things nature does for us. In What Has Nature ... En savoir plus

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  • Drawdown

    The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming

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    **• New York Times bestseller •The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world“At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Humane Economy

    How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming the Lives of Animals

    par Wayne Pacelle ...
    A major new exploration of the economics of animal exploitation and a practical roadmap for how we can use the marketplace to promote the welfare of all living creatures, from the renowned animal-rights advocate Wayne Pacelle, President/CEO of the Humane Society of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of The Bond.In the mid-nineteenth century, New Bedford, Massachusetts was the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Market Madness

    A Century of Oil Panics, Crises, and Crashes

    par Blake C. Clayton ...
    Stock market booms are cause for celebration. But when oil prices soar because supplies are failing to keep up with demand, the response is nearly always apocalyptic. Predictions of the end of oil can create anxiety on Wall Street and in Washington, stoking fears that production has hit a ceiling and prices will rise in perpetuity. Yet these dire visions have always proven wrong. Market Madness is ... En savoir plus

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  • Turnaround Challenge

    Business and the City of the Future

    par Michael Blowfield, Leo Johnson ...
    Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus of social, economic, environmental and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding ... En savoir plus

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  • Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Goods and Services

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  • Green Economics

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    This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity provides balanced analysis of environmental problems and their potential solutions. ... En savoir plus

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    US Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure is an analytic history of American energy policy. For the past forty years, the US government has tried to develop comprehensive policies on energy, yet these efforts have failed repeatedly. These failures have not resulted from a lack of will or funds but rather from an inability to differentiate between what could be undertaken and what could actually ... En savoir plus

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