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As the world accelerates towards a renewable energy transition, the demand for critical raw materials (CRMs) for energy generation, conversion, and storage technologies is seeing a drastic increase. Such materials are not only subject to limited supply and extreme price...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-11
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This book examines the politics of renewable electricity policy in democratic Spain. It provides the first comprehensive political analysis of how and why successive Spanish governments have increased or reduced support for renewable power, especially wind and solar. In...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-07-01
Collection :
Environmental Politics and Theory
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Japan was ahead of the rest of the world when it introduced intermediate processing of municipal waste by such means as incineration in the 1960s. Owing to the small land area of the country and the difficulty in securing landfill sites, the incineration ratio of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-06-19
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Geographic Information Science for Land Resource Management is a comprehensive book focusing on managing land resources using innovative techniques of spatial information sciences and satellite remote sensing. The enormous stress on the land resources over the years due...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2021-06-15
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Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted. The evidence is clear: we have been unable to manage many long-term issues including climate change, nuclear waste disposal, natural disaster preparedness,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-06-11
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‘Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-06-09
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Inaction by governments in the face of climate change is often attributed to a lack of political will or a denial of the seriousness of the situation, but as Mark Alizart argues in this provocative book, we shouldn’t exclude the possibility that part of the reluctance...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-05-20
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The book relates three years of history of social movements from Asia and Europe who work on social justice, as a rough overview.The work for the book is mainly done on the ground, day after day, working in villages and cities, with people and their organisations,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-04-24
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This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold vision of what it will take, politically and economically, to face the existential threat of global warming head-on.In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most)...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2021-04-20
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This book addresses the underexposed political dimensions of bioeconomy promotion. Who wins and who loses? How are institutions being shaped, and by whom? Drawing from experiences since the earlier days of biofuels promotion, it explores in unprecedented detail the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-04-15
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This book comprehensively describes the history of Gatineau Park, from the first proposals for a “national park” in the early 1900s to the governance issues in the present period, and it highlights the issues concerning the planning and governance of this unique...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-03-22
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Winner of the 2022 Eric Zencey Prize in Ecological Economics Capitalism is broken. The relentless pursuit of more has delivered climate catastrophe, social inequality and financial instability – and left us ill-prepared for life in a global pandemic. Tim Jackson’s...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-03-09
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This book covers critical debates on policies, markets and emerging issues that shape renewable energy transition in the Asian region, which is fast becoming an epicenter of the global energy consumption. The chapters focus on domestic policies, geopolitics, technology...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-02-12
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This book shows the growing phenomenon and the broad impact of socio-environmental conflicts in the grassroots communities—farmers, fishermen and urban poor—in Indonesia, as the effects of government’s development strategies based on neoliberal and New Public Management...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-29
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Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year awardA renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2021-01-12
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This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses. TEC has become one of the greatest threats to environmental and human security today, as well as a lucrative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-01
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The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it. As individuals,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-11-18
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This book explores local content policies and their role in natural resource management within the realm of energy justice. Based on several country case studies it discusses the role of regional integration for such policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Energy justice has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-02
Collection :
Energy, Climate and the Environment
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Sustainability is one of the buzzwords of our times and a key imperative for economic growth, technological development, social equity, and environmental quality. But what does it really mean and how is it being implemented around the world? In this clear-eyed book,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-10-22
Collection :
Short Introductions
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The book considers the challenge of poverty and deterioration of the ecological environment in China, particularly in rural areas. Examining key factors such as the overuse of natural resources and the loss of biodiversity in the face of an expanding population...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-19
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