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  • Sustainable Energy for All

    Innovation, technology and pro-poor green transformations

    by David Ockwell, Rob Byrne ...
    Series series Pathways to Sustainability
    Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international policy commitments seek to address this, but scholarship has failed to keep pace with policy ambitions, lacking both the empirical basis and the theoretical perspective to ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Low-carbon Technology Transfer

    From Rhetoric to Reality

    Edited by David G. Ockwell, Alexandra Mallett ...
    Low carbon technology transfer to developing countries has been both a lynchpin of, and a key stumbling block to a global deal on climate change. This book brings together for the first time in one place the work of some of the world's leading contemporary researchers in this field. It provides a practical, empirically grounded guide for policy makers and practitioners, while at the same time ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Global Shift

    Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy

    by Peter Dicken ...
    The definitive text on globalization, this book provides an accessible, jargon-free analysis of how the world economy works and its effects on people and places. Peter Dicken synthesizes the latest ideas and empirical data to blaze a clear path through the thicket of globalization processes and debates. The book highlights the dynamic interactions among transnational corporations, nations, and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Renewable Energy Systems

    The Choice and Modeling of 100% Renewable Solutions

    by Henrik Lund ...
    How can society quickly convert to renewable energy? Can worldwide energy needs ever be met through 100% renewable sources? The answers to these questions rest largely on the perception of choice in the energy arena. It is of pivotal importance that engineers, researchers and policymakers understand what choices are available, and reasonable, when considering the design and deployment of new ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • Turnaround Challenge

    Business and the City of the Future

    by 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 ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Rethinking Private Authority

    Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance

    by Jessica F. Green ...
    Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules ... Read more

    $25.99 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

  • The World After GDP

    Politics, Business and Society in the Post Growth Era

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our economic system which values GDP above all else as a measure of prosperity and growth.In this provocative and inspiring new book, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Gender and Climate Change Financing

    Coming out of the margin

    by Mariama Williams ...
    Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
    This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication.Gender ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • Local Governments and Climate Change

    Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

    Edited by Maryke van Staden, Francesco Musco ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global warming is changing the world as we know it. Climate change can have catastrophic impacts in numerous cities across the world. It is time for us to react – quickly and effectively. The European Community (EC) has been leading the fight against climate change, making it one of its top priorities. We have introduced the most ambitious targets of their kind, known as the “20/20/20 by 2020” ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • The Climate Resilient Organization

    Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes

    by Andrew Griffiths, Martina K. Linnenluecke ...
    Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular focus on building climate-resilient pathways for private sector organizations, the expert authors ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • An Urban Politics of Climate Change

    Experimentation and the Governing of Socio-Technical Transitions

    by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Broto, Gareth Edwards ...
    The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as ‘an urgent agenda’ (World Bank 2010). The contribution of cities to rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions coupled with concerns about the vulnerability of urban places and communities to the impacts of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD