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Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind.Climate change has enormous environmental and economic implications, and finding a solution is a daunting task. The purpose of this book is to look at the global problem of climate change...
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Springer
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2022-03-15
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Das Ziel dieses Buches ist es, einen theoriebezogenen Beitrag dazu zu leisten, kommunale Stadtwerke und finanzielle Bürgerbeteiligung als Bestandteil der NPG-Entwicklung zu erforschen. In diesem Zusammenhang wurde analysiert, welche Formen von finanzieller...
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Springer VS
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2022-03-02
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The European Union, as a regulatory polity based on integration through law, arguably relies more on legal compliance with its policies than any other political system. Proceeding from this point of departure, this book puts the spotlight on the subnational tier and...
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Springer
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2022-02-21
Collection :
The Future of Europe
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The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the...
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Springer
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2022-02-19
Collection :
Natural Resource Management and Policy
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This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-10
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This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-01-10
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This is an Open Access book. In accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it showcases 17 projects under the framework of Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). These projects cover ninefields, namely, biodiversity and ecosystem, clean energy, clean water,...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-12-15
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Ein junges Mädchen aus Schweden schafft, was viele über Jahrzehnte versucht haben. Greta Thunberg und die Fridays for Future-Bewegung schlagen Alarm und die Politik hört nicht nur zu, sondern ist angesichts der Kraft der sozialen Bewegung dazu gezwungen, aktiv zu...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-12-03
Collection :
essentials
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In the merciless arena of life, we are all subject to the law of the jungle, to ruthless competition and the survival of the fittest – such is the myth that has given rise to a society that has become toxic for our planet and for our and future generations. But today...
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Polity
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2021-11-11
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In No Standard Oil, environmental policy expert Deborah Gordon examines the widely varying climate impacts of global oils and gases, and proposes solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in this sector while making sustainable progress in transitioning to a carbon-free...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-22
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This book explores the involvement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the issue area of environmental and disaster displacement. In considering both agencies’ historical involvement,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This book focuses mainly on strategic decision making at a global level, which is rarely considered in approaches to sustainability.This book makes a unique contribution as the work looks at global consequences of mineral exhaustion and steps that can be taken to...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-01
Collection :
Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance
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A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of...
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PublicAffairs
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2021-09-21
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This book examines why authoritarian governments are willing to address environmental problems that have an international impact, such as CO2 emissions, but are reluctant to address problems that have only a domestic impact. In a case study of Azerbaijani oil...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-09-14
Collection :
Societies and Political Orders in Transition
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Das essential bietet eine Gesamtschau der deutschen Nachhaltigkeitspolitik. Die Handlungsfelder Agrar, Energie, Verkehr und Wald werden kompakt analysiert und einer Bewertung unterzogen. Im Kern wird die Governance der Nachhaltigkeitstransformation...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-08-26
Collection :
essentials
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Given the escalating and existential nature of our current environmental crises, environmental sociology has never mattered more. We now face global environmental threats, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as local threats, such as pollution and...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-08-09
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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COVID-19 exposed the world's failure to prepare for the worst -- can we learn to build back better?
TheCOVID-19 pandemic has hit our world on a scale beyond living memory, taking millions of lives and leading to a lockdown of communities worldwide. A pandemic, much...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-04
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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...
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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
Collection :
Environmental Science and Engineering
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