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Energy Policies for Sustainable Development Strategies the Case of Nigeria
In this book, a number of long-term energy scenarios are developed for Nigeria considering the impact of vital factors that may influence energy policies in the country’s future energy system. The energy scenarios were developed through the Long-Range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) model. The model identified the future energy demand and supply pattern using a least-cost combinati…
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- 978-981-10-0974-7
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The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management
This book discloses the spiritual dimension in business ethics and sustainability management. Spirituality is understood as a multiform search for meaning which connects people with all living beings and God or Ultimate Reality. In this sense, spirituality is a vital source in social and economic life. The volume examines the spiritual orientations to nature and business in different cultural t…
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- 978-3-319-11677-8
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The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services from Regulation to Inno…
This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind Payments for Envi…
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- 978-3-319-19345-8
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Design for resilience :making the future we leave behind
"Designing for resilience is a critical issue of the 21st century. This is the first book-length work that shows us how to design for a future that lasts, and why we should want to"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Recycling class :the contradictions of inclusion in urban sustainability
"An ethnographic and community-engaged study of the contradictions of cross-class environmental mobilizations around Bengaluru's discards"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262376976
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Invention and innovation :a brief history of hype and failure
"Smil presents the long history and modern infatuation with invention and innovation. Meticulous as always, these vast realms of human ingenuity are organized into sensible categories: inventions that went from welcome to undesirable, inventions that dominate and missed the mark, inventions we still dream about, and lastly, the exaggerations, myths, and wise expectations for innovations we need…
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- 9780262374262
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Fulfilling the pledge :securing industrial democracy for American workers in …
"A review of labor law exploring the decline of union power and demonstrating how collective bargaining can continue to support worker power and improve economic outcomes for workers and communities despite macro shifts in the US economy over the past 40 years"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262377348
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Ecological by design :a history from Scandinavia
"First study to showcase the roots of ecological design in Scandinavia, arguing for the inherently connected and global nature of the environmental crisis and modern design culture, its confrontations with consumption-capitalism and the activism driving its reform"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262370743
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The anthropocene cookbook :recipes and opportunities for future catastrophes
"The Anthropocene Cookbook is by far the most comprehensive collection of ideas about future food from the perspective of art, design, and science. The book is unique in the way it connects food, art, thinking, and science. It talks to the new generation of aesthetically aware environmentalists. It promotes ecological thinking from a radically different perspective: what happens if we embrace t…
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A world in a shell :snail stories for a time of extinctions
"While snails rarely get a mention in most discussions of our sixth mass extinction event, the sad reality is that they are disappearing more rapidly than any other species, and Hawai'i's snails are amongst the hardest hit. Following snail trails through the islands' forests, laboratories, museums, and even a military training facility, this book explores processes of ecological and cultural lo…
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