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How to Live a Low-Carbon Life: The Individuals Guide to Stopping Climate Change מאת Chris Goodall Individual action is now recognized as one of the keys to tackling climate change - the greatest challenge facing humanity * Shows how consumers can conduct a personal and household `carbon audit,' take decisive action for lowering their carbon footprint and save money * User-friendly a...

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Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World מאת Alastair Fuad-Luke Design activists, a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyze positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilize the power of the design process....

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Energy Security מאת Sascha Müller-Kraenner Humanity stands at a threshold: will its shared energy future be peaceful, or will it be threatened by resource wars? How can rapidly depleting resources be managed to the advantage of all, and therefore conflicts averted? How can we avoid irreparable damage to the last areas of untouched natural be...

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The United Nations World Water Development Report 3: Water in a Changing World מאת United Nations World Water Assessment Program * The WWDR is the one and only joint UN publication on freshwater resources and, consequently, is the most comprehensive and the most authoritative.* Provides an authoritative assessment of the world’s progress towards water-related development goals set out by the Millennium Declaration and the I...

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The Ethical Travel Guide: Your Passport to Exciting Alternative Holidays מאת Polly Pattullo Do you want a vacation that bypasses too familiar haunts and gives you a greater depth of experience? Do you want a vacation that is enriching for you - and for the locals at your destination?If you do, and believe that your trip should give local communities a fair deal (so often denied them) as we...

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Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? (Tourism, Environment and Development) מאת Richard Sharpley Tourism Development and the Environment:Beyond Sustainability? is the first in the new Earthscan series Tourism, Environment and Development .This volume challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to touri...

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Whole System Design: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering מאת Peter Stasinopoulos Published with The Natural Edge Project and the World Federation of Engineering Organizations Whole system approaches to sustainable design can help to achieve 75 percent (Factor 4) or greater eco-efficiency savings in new designs. This is because "by the time the design for most human artefacts is ...

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The Economical Environmentalist: My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What it Costs מאת Prashant Vaze The economy is imploding: it's impossible for first time buyers to break into the housing market, jobs are vanishing faster than high street banks and the price of home heating and organic muesli has shot up. These are some of the challenges facing people struggling to reduce their carbon emissions ...

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Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys מאת Kate Fletcher This inspirational design handbook presents a new vision of sustainability in the fashion and textile sector based on design thinking and practice. It brings together for the first time information about lifecycle environmental impacts, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation, ...

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Strategic Environmental Assessment in International and European Law: A Practitioners Guide מאת Simon Marsden Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is a regulatory requirement for development across Europe, North America, Australasia and elsewhere, yet understanding the legal aspects is challenging. This comprehensive guide provides that understanding in a clear and straightforward way. The introduction ...

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Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice מאת Molly Scott Cato The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change, financial crisis and out-of-control globalization–all the major problems facing the world have their root in the dominant economic system.Green economics offers an alternative to mainstream economics, which views society and the ecosys...

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The Community Planning Event Manual: How to Use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve Your Environment (Tools for Community Planning) מאת Nick Wates Want to improve your town? Your city? Frustrated with conventional planning processes? A Community Planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing special collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concer...

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The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place In It מאת Jules Pretty * Readable, moving essays on our relationship to the earth and the other creatures in it* A reminder of just how much we consume and what effect this has on our worldFor most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with the land. Yet now, for the first time, more peop...

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Ideas For Development מאת Robert Chambers * From one of the 'gurus' of development and author of the best selling Participatory Workshops* Chock-full of provocative and actionable ideas drawn from four decades of development work and written in Robert Chambers' infectious and highly readable style Our world seems entangled in systems in...

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Step-by-Step Guide to Sustainability Planning: How to Create and Implement Sustainability Plans in Any Business or Organization מאת Darcy Hitchcock Sustainability is now the greatest business imperative, yet how do you actually develop and implement a sustainability plan if you aren't an expert? From the authors of the award-winning handbook The Business Guide to Sustainability, comes this highly practical guide to designing and implemen...

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The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental Responsibility מאת William R. Blackburn The Sustainability Handbook covers all the challenges, complexities and benefits of sustainability for businesses, governments and organizations. It provides a blueprint for how organizations can reach or exceed economic, social and environmental excellence. It offers a host of practical approaches ...

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Climate Change: Financing Global Forests: The Eliasch Review מאת Johan Eliasch Climate Change: Financing Global Forests is an independent report commissioned by the UK Prime Minister that assesses the impact of global forest loss on climate change and explores the future role of forests in the international climate change framework, with particular emphasis on the role ...

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The Indoor Environment Handbook: How to Make Buildings Healthy and Comfortable מאת Philomena M. Bluyssen Ensuring that buildings are healthy and comfortable for their occupants is a primary concern of all architects and building engineers. This highly practical handbook will help make that process more efficient and effective.It begins with a guide to how the body (and mind) react to different indoor e...

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The Handbook of Sustainable Refurbishment: Volume 1: Non-Domestic Buildings מאת Nick V. Baker The refurbishment of existing buildings is a neglected subject within sustainable architecture; attention is usually focused on new buildings. Old buildings can use large amounts of energy and provide poor internal conditions for occupants. They may have high heating demand, poor lighting, poor vent...

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Photovoltaics for Professionals: Solar Electric Systems Marketing, Design and Installation מאת Falk Antony * Provides essential guidance for electricians, technicians, builders, architects and building engineers who want to get involved in this expanding industry.* Describes the practicalities of marketing, designing and installing photovoltaic systems* Contains over 100 full-color illustrations, numerou...

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Wind Energy Pocket Reference (Energy Pocket Reference Series) Niels I Meyer

Wind Energy Pocket Reference (Energy Pocket Reference Series) מאת Niels I Meyer Prepared and peer-reviewed by some of the foremost experts in the field, this easy-to-use pocket reference offers a wealth of information relating to wind energy and wind energy technologies. Topics covered range from wind resources to wind turbines, covering offshore and onshore power, both stand-a...

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Planning Sustainable Cities: Global Report on Human Settlements 2009 מאת UN-HABITAT Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the 21st century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality...

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Building for a Changing Climate: The Challenge for Construction, Planning and Energy מאת Peter F. Smith There is now a practically universal consensus that our climate is changing rapidly, and as a direct result of human activities. While there is extensive debate about what we can do to mitigate the damage we are causing, it is becoming increasingly clear that a large part of our resources will have ...

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Calculating Political Risk (The Earthscan Risk in Society Series) מאת Catherine Althaus This powerful new book is the first ever examination of how political risk–something faced by every political actor innumerable times per day–is calculated and used in decision making. It opens with an outline of the historical and linguistic origins of risk, a section on the various disciplinar...

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The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place In It מאת Jules Pretty * Readable, moving essays on our relationship to the earth and the other creatures in it* A reminder of just how much we consume and what effect this has on our worldFor most of human history, we have lived our daily lives in a close relationship with the land. Yet now, for the first time, more peop...

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Tourism Development and the Environment: Beyond Sustainability? (Tourism, Environment and Development) מאת Richard Sharpley Tourism Development and the Environment:Beyond Sustainability? is the first in the new Earthscan series Tourism, Environment and Development .This volume challenges the sustainable tourism development paradigm that has come to dominate both theoretical and practical approaches to touri...

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Energy, Environment and Development מאת Jose Goldemberg The relationship between energy and the environment has been the basis of many studies over the years, as has the relationship between energy and development, yet both of these approaches may produce distortions. In the first edition of this book, Professor Goldemberg pioneered the study of all thre...

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Managing Water Resources: Methods and Tools for a Systems Approach מאת Slobodan P. Simonovic Water resources management is increasingly interdisciplinary and must take into account complex socioeconomic factors and environmental variables. This book describes the “systems approach” and its application to contemporary water resources management, focusing on three main sets of tools: simu...

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Urban Wind Energy מאת Sinisa Stankovic Responding to growing international interest in wind energy and decentralized energy production, this book focuses on the potential for exploiting wind power in urban areas. With radical implications for the generation of renewable energy in the city and hence our environment as a whole, this landma...

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The Business Guide to Sustainability: Practical Strategies and Tools for Organizations מאת Darcy Hitchcock Sustainability promises both reduced environmental impacts and real cash savings for any organization — be it a business, non-profit/NGO or government department.This easy-to-use manual — clear, concise and logically laid out — has been written by top business consultants.The authors desmystif...

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Feed-in Tariffs: Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy מאת Miguel Mendonça A feed-in tariff is where the price per unit that a utility or supplier has to pay for renewable electricity is kept at a premium, which allows electricity generators to sell renewable energy sources at a fixed tariff for a determined period of time. Supporters argue that the feed-in model is one th...

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Beyond Developmentality: Constructing Inclusive Freedom and Sustainability מאת Debal Deb Beyond Developmentality traces the origin and evolution of the concept of development in the economic context, and suggests a way to achieve post-industrial development with zero industrial growth. The book argues that sustainable development is possible only when concerns for biodiversity an...

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Climate Change: The Science, Impacts and Solutions מאת A. Barrie Pittock It is widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change is a reality, and is happening now rapidly. In this second edition, leading climate researcher Barrie Pittock revisits the effects that global warming is having on our planet, in light of new scientific research. Pittock presents ...

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Selling Solar: The Diffusion of Renewable Energy in Emerging Markets מאת Damian Miller To solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies. For the industrialized world, it is essential. But with surging growth in emerging markets, this transformation takes on even greater urgency. The challenges - and opportunities - are immense.

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Environmental Justice and the Rights of Ecological Refugees מאת Laura Westra Climate change and other environmental problems are increasingly leading to the displacement of populations from their homelands, whether this be through drought, flooding, famine or other causes. Worse, there is currently no protection in international law for people made refugees by such means.Fol...