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This important and timely book assembles expert scientists from both sides of the debate to discuss Earth-based and space-based climate intervention technologies including the scale, deployment, risk management, and moral philosophy behind these technologies. The role...
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Wiley-Scrivener
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2025-01-07
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Astrobiology Perspectives on Life in the Universe
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Introducing a framework for obtaining and maintaining renewable energy security at the local community level Local energy communities are a framework for assembling and coordinating major stakeholders, individual, corporate, and institutional, in the pursuit of...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2024-08-20
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Understanding climate obstruction is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-07-16
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Sustainable Hybrid Energy Systems Discovering comprehensive approaches to build sustainable hybrid energy systems Hybridization is the eternal theme of human energy utilization. However, it has never been more important than it is now because of the urgency of...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2024-02-05
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The greatest challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the fact that we are now living in a new epoch: the Anthropocene.The human footprint on the planet can no longer be denied. One of the greatest and most essential human innovations, agriculture, is being...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2024-02-01
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There is ample evidence that engaging developing countries on climate change mitigation would have significant, positive impacts on global climate efforts.There is much debate, however, on the most effective strategy for unlocking these low-cost mitigation...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-01-01
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Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of food production, distribution, and consumption, where each step of the process is built on some form of exploitation. While highlighting the broken...
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Polity
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2023-12-07
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Build and manage the sustainable cities of the future with this comprehensive guide Climate change is among the biggest challenges facing today's cities, which are in turn a major factor in driving or mitigating climate change. It is no surprise then that urban planning...
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Wiley
Parution :
2023-12-04
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Cultural heritage is increasingly recognized for its contributions to the transition to climate action, and heritage education can play an important role in developing climate adaptation competencies. These can foster positive dialogs surrounding climate change, shift...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2023-11-17
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Covering the many important changes in food markets and food politics that have shaped both global and local farming and eating over the past decade, this compact and authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-08-04
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A transdisciplinary approach to investigating relationships between biomass burning and human health outcomes Environmental degradation is causing severe impacts on the various Earth ecosystems. Unsustainable development and anthropogenic pressure have altered the...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2023-07-04
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Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. We’re converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects – houses,...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-05-25
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Covering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-11-14
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Winner of the 2023 E.B. Burwell, Jr. Award for outstanding contributions in engineering and environmental geologyIntroduction to Waste Management An introductory textbook offering comprehensive coverage of the management of municipal, hazardous, medical, electronic, and...
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Wiley
Parution :
2022-07-29
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Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, plastics are set to be the biggest driver of oil demand. Single-use plastics – deemed essential in the fight against COVID-19...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-04-21
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ORGANIC REACTIONS Thought-provoking discussions of the challenges posed by—and potential solutions to—plastic and microplastic pollution In Plastic and Microplastic in the Environment: Management and Health Risks, a team of distinguished environmental researchers...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-03-18
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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
Parution :
2022-01-10
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A look at how public relations has dominated public understanding of the natural environment for over one hundred years.
InA Strategic Nature, Melissa Aronczyk and Maria I. Espinoza examine public relations as a social and political force that shapes both our...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-24
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CLIMATE IMPACTS ON SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Climate change has emerged as one of the predominant global concerns of the 21st century. Statistics show that the average surface temperature of the Earth has increased by about 1.18°C since the late 19th...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-11-15
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