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  • Quantum Entanglement and Information Processing

    Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School 2003

    by Daniel Esteve, Jean-Michel Raimond, Jean Dalibard ...
    Series Book 79 - Les Houches
    It has been recognised recently that the strange features of the quantum world could be used for new information transmission or processing functions such as quantum cryptography or, more ambitiously, quantum computing. These fascinating perspectives renewed the interest in fundamental quantum properties and lead to important theoretical advances, such as quantum algorithms and quantum error ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Legal Challenges at the End of the Fossil Fuel Era

    Shaping a Just and Clean Energy Transition

    Edited by Daniel Iglesias Márquez, Clara Esteve-Jordà, Beatriz Felipe Pérez ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This edited collection proposes a wide range of approaches to address the legal issues pertaining to the end of the fossil fuel era. While the fossil fuel era is coming to an end both because of the inherent limits of its resources and because of the need to prevent to further pump out CO2 in an already saturated atmosphere, the legal dispositions to ensure an ordered and rational shift toward ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

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  • The Case for Degrowth

    by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria ...
    The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies. Yet it benefits few and demands monstrous social and ecological sacrifice. Is there a viable alternative? How can we halt the endless quest to grow global production and consumption and instead secure socio-ecological conditions that support lives worth living for all?In this compelling book, ... Read more

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  • The Growth Story of the 21st Century

    The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe - or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth. The Growth Story of the 21st Century challenges the outdated idea that we must choose between climate action and development. Instead, it presents a compelling case for a transformation that delivers ... Read more

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  • Fixing the Climate

    Strategies for an Uncertain World

    by 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 ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities

    Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production

    Edited by Maria Backhouse, Rosa Lehmann, Kristina Lorenzen, Malte Lühmann, Janina Puder, Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on the meanings, agendas, as well as the local and global implications of bioeconomy and bioenergy policies in and across South America, Asia and Europe. It explores how a transition away from a fossil and towards a bio-based economic order alters, reinforces and challenges socio-ecological inequalities. The volume presents a historically informed and empirically rich ... Read more

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  • Our Extractive Age

    Expressions of Violence and Resistance

    Edited by Judith Shapiro, John-Andrew McNeish ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Our Extractive Age: Expressions of Violence and Resistance emphasizes how the spectrum of violence associated with natural resource extraction permeates contemporary collective life.Chronicling the increasing rates of brutal suppression of local environmental and labor activists in rural and urban sites of extraction, this volume also foregrounds related violence in areas we might not expect, such ... Read more

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  • Towards an Emissions Trading System in Mexico: Rationale, Design and Connections with the Global Climate Agenda

    Outlook on the first ETS in Latin-America and Exploration of the Way Forward

    Edited by Simone Lucatello ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Open Access book provides detailed information about the incoming Mexican Emissions Trading System, including an analysis on why the system was implemented, how the system was designed, how it operates, how it could work, and how it could be strengthened by 2023 when it will be formally launched. This document is aimed at those who want to understand how an ETS can operate in an emerging ... Read more

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  • The History of Global Climate Governance

    by Joyeeta Gupta ...
    What has happened globally on the climate change issue? How have countries' positions differed over time, and why? How are problems and politics developing on an increasingly globalised planet, and can we find a solution? This book explores these questions and more, explaining the key underlying issues of the conflicts between international blocs. The negotiation history is systematically ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Power Shift

    The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions

    by Peter Newell ...
    Energy transitions are fundamental to achieving a zero-carbon economy. This book explains the urgently needed transition in energy systems from the perspective of the global political economy. It develops an historical, global, political and ecological account of key features of energy transitions: from their production and financing, to how they are governed and mobilised. Informed by direct ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Labour Law and Ecology

    by Consuelo Chacartegui Jávega ...
    Series series The Global Law Collection
    Labour law is a necessary discipline for achieving sustainable environmental companies, both to make the regulation of labor rights more effective and to realize a vigorous contribution to the mitigation of climate change. Labour and the environment are not strictly separable. The integration of the ILO's Decent Work Agenda in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a remarkable event ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Green Growth

    Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives

    Edited by Gareth Dale, Manu V. Mathai, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira ...
    The discourse of 'green growth' has recently gained ground in environmental governance deliberations and policy proposals. It is presented as a fresh and innovative agenda centred on the deployment of engineering sophistication, managerial acumen and market mechanisms to redress the environmental and social derelictions of the existing development model.But the green growth project is deeply ... Read more

    $32.39 USD