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  • REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE
    Graciela Chichilnisky / GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY & PETER BAL / Peter Bal
    The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created...
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    132,71 €

  • REVERSING CLIMATE CHANGE
    Graciela Chichilnisky / GRACIELA CHICHILNISKY & PETER BAL / Peter Bal
    The Kyoto Protocol capped the emissions of the main emitters, the industrialized countries, one by one. It also created an innovative financial mechanism, the Carbon Market and its Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows developing nations to receive carbon credits when they reduce their emissions below their baselines. The carbon market, an economic system that created...
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    60,30 €

  • TRANSFORMATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, THE
    XIRA RUIZ-CAMPILLO
    The EU has undergone a deep transformation in the last 25 years. The goals adopted by the EU at the international level in climate negotiations have led to the internal adoption of goals by the EU member states. The book examines the changes experienced by the European Union that have gone on in parallel to its leadership in climate negotiations since 1992 and analyses whether ...
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    118,01 €

  • Dialogues in Climate and Environmental Research, Policy and Planning
    Innocent Chirisa
    Climate change is the topic of the century. It is a subject of discussion by sceptics, heretics and those that have immersed in it as a serious debate for engagement. In this volume, the matter is localised to the plateau bordered by the great rivers of Limpopo to the south and Zambezi to the north. Evidence has it that climate change is inducing immense environmental change hi...
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    61,73 €

  • Climate Change Adjustments for Detailed Engineering Design of Roads
    Asian Development Bank
    This knowledge product explains the rationale and procedures for incorporating allowances for climate change in detailed engineering design, with a focus on credible adjustments to extreme rainfall and to mean and high-end sea-level rise.Highlighting worked examples drawn from Viet Nam’s road transport sector and peer-reviewed research literature, it offers a point of departure...
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    28,43 €

  • Manual on Climate Change Adjustments for Detailed Engineering Design of Roads Using Examples from Viet Nam
    Asian Development Bank
    This step-by-step manual describes procedures for climate change adjustments relative to extreme rainfall and local sea level estimates.The principles presented are based on worked examples in Viet Nam that are discussed in the knowledge product supplemented by this manual. While the overall approach on climate change adjustment procedures and calculations are intended to be as...
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    23,28 €

  • Science, Faith and the Climate Crisis
    Inspired by a 2019 conference, Moana Water of Life, and including real-life insights from a diverse range of participants, this book showcases the potential fruits of open dialogue between stakeholders to navigate the critical challenges to planetary health caused by the climate crisis. ...
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    84,78 €

  • The Greening of Socialism
    Sanjeev Ghotge
    The current generation owes a moral and political obligation to the next generation and beyond , in terms of their real inheritance: the three interlinked existential crises represented by climate change, the multiple crises of the global environment and the conventional and nuclear arms race. This book is an attempt to reach out to the next generation to start shaping their ow...
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    108,87 €

  • Rare as Earth
    Gregory Davison Zeigler / Gregory Zeigler
    From a secluded boarding school in Central Pennsylvania, where the action begins, to the Southern Utah Wilderness where it concludes, Rare as Earth is as entertaining as it is educational. Jake Goddard and Susan Brand take us on another thrill ride involving arson, assault, abduction, attempted murder, car chases (well, trucks, really), and a little sex -sprinkled in like addin...
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    15,96 €

  • US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide
    Gideon Polya
    US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide is a monument to free speech in a time of cowardice and widespread censorship. The book delivers a profound message from a top scholar to humanitarians across the globe: 'Silence kills and silence is complicity.' Two decades in the making, the book exposes the truth about the War on Terror as well as the 9/11 false flag at...
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    28,63 €

  • US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide
    Gideon Polya
    US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide is a monument to free speech in a time of cowardice and widespread censorship. The book delivers a profound message from a top scholar to humanitarians across the globe: 'Silence kills and silence is complicity.' Two decades in the making, the book exposes the truth about the War on Terror as well as the 9/11 false flag at...
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    24,53 €

  • Oasis Earth
    Rick Steiner
    Oasis Earth confirms that we are destroying the biosphere of our Home Planet. We know the causes, consequences, and solutions to this existential crisis, yet we’ve failed to correct it. We are out of time: this decade is our last best chance to save a habitable Earth. Rich with insights from those who have viewed our planet from space and evocative images from the U.N. Environm...
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    32,42 €

  • We Live in the Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us
    Patrick Farnsworth
    Gods&Radicals Press is deeply excited to offer this collection of interviews of scientists, feminists, theorists, psychologists, journalists, environmentalists, and other important thinkers, all addressing the most overwhelming crisis of our time: Climate Change and the collapse of industrial civilization.We Live In The Orbit of Beings Greater Than Us collects interviews by aud...
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    16,84 €

  • Menacing Skies
    Dan Henry
    Imagine: you’re blindsided on a dark highway by a half-mile-wide tornado.Or worse: you’re aboard a commercial jetliner brought to the ground by a powerful thunderstorm-the deadliest plane crash in Texas history. In Menacing Skies: Texas Weather and Stories of Survival, Dan Henry shares incredible stories of survival from people who have come face-to-face with nature’s most viol...
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    38,38 €

  • Exiting a Pandemic
    Dave Smith
    This book represents research on a Virus, Climate Change and Exit from the current Covid-19 global pandemic. The book contains links to provide you with current and up to date information on Covid-19. It is a valuable resource to help you gain knowledge into situation that we all find our selves in today. The lack of immediate action towards a global lock-down was the primary r...
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    17,53 €

  • Menacing Skies
    Dan Henry
     Imagine:  you’re blindsided on a dark highway by a half-mile-wide tornado.  Or worse:  you’re aboard a commercial jetliner brought to the ground by a powerful thunderstorm-the deadliest plane crash in Texas history.            In Menacing Skies, Dan Henry shares incredible stories of survival from people who have come face-to-face with nature’s most violent storms.  Dan has co...
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    46,27 €

  • Heaven and Earth, Global Warming
    Ian Plimer
    First Published in 2009, International best-seller.The Earth is an evolving dynamic system. Current changes in climate, sea level and ice are within variability. Atmospheric CO2  is the lowest for 500 million years. Climate has always been driven by the Sun, the Earth’s orbit and plate tectonics and the oceans, atmosphere and life respond. Humans have made their mark on the pla...
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    38,23 €

  • The Changes
    Tim Cadman
    Climate change is here. Charles Peters, a low-level nobody in what’s left of the UN, is sent on an unexplained mission to save humanity. Madé, an Indonesian child refugee, must endure the powerlessness of ’people-processing’ in an era of displacement and disease. Marie-Claude Bertillon must take responsibility for the lives of these, and many millions more, as she seeks to impl...
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    24,49 €

  • The Climate Change Debate
    David Newton
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    81,91 €

  • SDG13 - Climate Action
    Andrea Gasperini / Federica Doni
    SDG13 - Climate Action: Combatting Climate Change and its Impacts will consider empirical and science-based analysis to explore a wide range of practical implementation tools and mechanisms, enabling conditions, and monitoring and reporting tools, to demonstrate the potential innovation in implementing SDG13. ...
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    85,17 €

  • Equilibra
    Paul Oquist
    THE ULTIMATUM IS IMPERATIVE— transform ourselves now or decline and perish as a result of the consequences of our own actions, a species suicide.THE ULTIMATUM IS DUAL— we can produce our own extinction and that of other species through weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear, and/or environmental degradation, especially climate change.The EQUILIBRA series begins with TH...
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    16,12 €

  • Cities, Climate Change, and Public Health
    Ella Jisun Kim
    This book examines how cities can use a public health frame of climate change to boost people’s understanding of and concern about climate change and increase policy support for climate adaptation efforts at the local level. It also presents new tools for cities to enhance awareness of and facilitate prioritization of climate risk management choices. ...
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    180,64 €

  • Hurry Up and Stop
    John H. Barber / John HBarber
    The UK economy and environment are not in a good place. We have contributed to global warming and our sense of wellbeing is being eroded. The book cuts through to the facts regarding each issue, explains the background and looks behind the headlines. It examines the current direction of travel of many related issues and outlines a joined up way forward that improves the outlook...
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    14,46 €

  • The Guide to Being a Good Human for the Earth
    Travis Ramsey
    This is a guide to being a good human for the earth. How can we live on this planet sustainably so we can have a good quality of life for many generations to come? This book provides quick and practical information on how to live sustainably. The first section, “Foundation of Living Sustainably,” gives you an overall understanding of how you can think about living sustainably a...
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    11,06 €

  • Surviving Global Warming
    Dr Peter T Scott
    Surviving Climate Change. Is climate change real? What is Global Warming?  Here is the proof without any hype. What is the science, not pseudo-science behind it? What are normal climate cycles? Each of the cycles is explained, illustrated, and put in a practical context. Global warming, what causes it, changes we can make to reduce or reverse it in full colour heavily illustrat...
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    31,60 €

  • Integrating Sustainable Development into the Curriculum
    This book explores the value of institutions of higher education in leading the way on the topic of sustainability education by ensuring that it is well entrenched in the curriculum as well as everyday practice and lifestyles. ...
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    152,67 €

  • Nuclear Power or a Promise Lost
    Edward T. Burns / Edward TBurns / TBD
    This book captures the status of current electrical energy markets including the principal forces affecting decisions on selecting an energy source. It represents a seminal work that lays out the electrical energy decision tree for selecting an energy source in a world that is on the verge of catastrophic global warming because of the choices that have been made in the name of ...
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    119,37 €

  • Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism
    Tina Landis
    Millions around the world are demanding action and actively seeking solutions to the unfolding climate crisis. The dialogue at the top is confined to solutions that align with the laws of capitalism and unbridled economic growth. But what if we look to solutions beyond how we currently structure our economies?Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism makes the case that socialism pro...
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    5,99 €

  • The Hathaway Equation
    Phillip Hathaway
    Like an X-ray, The Hathaway Equation penetrates taboos and mores that blockade progress. It is a proclamation from a pioneer and pathfinder--a message dreamt of only by a visionary who arrives from nowhere in times of peril to show us the way home.A generous gift to all people of every race and tongue, from the highest to the very lowest stations of life, it is an elegant yet s...
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    25,18 €

  • Like There’s No Tomorrow
    Frances Ward
    Christians often don’t know how to respond to the climate crisis and messages of possible destruction caused by human activity. Frances Ward shows how Christians can live and act with hope and faith in God in the face of eco-anxiety. ...
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    18,25 €


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