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  • Towards Sustainable Cities

    East Asian, North American and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions

    par Peter J. Marcotullio ...
    Collections series Urban Planning and Environment
    While there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities. Many cities in Asia have deep historical roots, have sustained dense populations through time and have grown prosperous in ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Urban Energy and Climate

    Prospects for a Sustainable Transition

    par Peter J Marcotullio, Josh Sperling, Andrea L Pierce ...
    Collections Livre 8 - World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues
    With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, reliability, efficiency ... En savoir plus

    $120.99 CAD

  • Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges

    From Local to Global and Back

    Modifié par Gordon McGranahan, Peter J Marcotullio ...
    �Think globally, act locally� emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental justice and good governance - whether in the context of the sanitary risks of slum living, the ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

    A Global Assessment

    Modifié par Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson ...
    Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions:Urban areas are expanding ... En savoir plus

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  • Making Climate Policy Work

    par Danny Cullenward, David G. Victor ...
    For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based programs – hasn’t been working and isn’t ready to scale.Danny Cullenward and David Victor show how the politics of creating and ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Restoration Ecology

    The New Frontier

    Modifié par Jelte van Andel, James Aronson ...
    Enlarged, enhanced and internationalized edition of the first restoration ecology textbook to be published, with foreword by Dr. Steven Whisnant of Texas A&M University and Chair of the Society of Ecological Restoration.Since 2006, when the first edition of this book appeared, major advances have taken place in restoration science and in the practice of ecological restoration. Both are now ... En savoir plus

    $95.99 CAD

  • Fixing the Climate

    Strategies for an Uncertain World

    par Charles F. Sabel, David G. Victor ...
    Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp—but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations.Charles ... En savoir plus

    $30.79 CAD

  • Rangeland Systems

    Processes, Management and Challenges

    Modifié par David D. Briske ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the ... En savoir plus

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  • Escape from Overshoot

    Economics for a Planet in Peril

    par Peter A. Victor ...
    An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.—Jason Hickel, author, Less is MoreEarth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and stretching inequality and injustice to the breaking point. But does it really need to be this way? And if not, what are the ... En savoir plus

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  • Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

    Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

    Modifié par Haris Doukas, Alexandros Flamos, Jenny Lieu ...
    Collections series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of ... En savoir plus

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  • Renewable Energy

    A Global Review of Technologies, Policies and Markets

    Modifié par Dirk Assmann ...
    'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries'Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEPFrom technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies. With a clear emphasis on policy and action, ... En savoir plus

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  • Climate Change and Threatened Communities

    Modifié par A. Peter Castro ...
    Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural landscapes, accentuating their existing social and economic marginalization. Planners and researchers of ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD