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Solar revolution :the economic transformation of the global energy industry
"In Solar Revolution, fund manager and former corporate buyout specialist Travis Bradford argues - on the basis of standard business and economic forecasting models - that over the next two decades solar energy will increasingly become the best and cheapest choice for most electricity and energy applications. Solar Revolution outlines the path by which the transition to solar technology and sus…
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- 026202604X
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages) :illustrations, maps
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True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale
This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases, and one which has significant environmental impacts, is not serving …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781000389968, 9780367506858
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- 288
- Series Title
- Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
- Call Number
- 338.1 TRU t
Programming for Computations - Python: A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Sim…
Numerical simulations; programming; Python
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783319324289
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- 232
- Series Title
- Texts in Computational Science and Engineering, 15
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- 004. LIN p
Media Resistance: Protest, Dislike, Abstention
Media; communication; social media; technology; cultural politics; media law; policy
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- Ed. 1
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- 9783319464992
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- -
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- -
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- 004. SYV m
Cultural tourism in a digital era : first International Conference IACuDiT, A…
This book covers the entire spectrum of cultural and digital tourism and presents the latest findings, examples and cases, highlighting innovations for the tourism industry from both an academic and a practical point of view. The book invites readers to discover ongoing developments and recent trends in fields like heritage and museum management; sports tourism; tourism economics and policy; e-…
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- 1
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- 9783319158594
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- XII, 417
- Series Title
- Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics
- Call Number
- 338
Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Popula…
This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific - to social and environmental problems that are related to the growth of human populations in areas that can least cope with them now. Through progressive adaptation to social and environmental changes projected for the future, including population growth, global warming/climate chan…
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- 1
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- 9781322138077
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- XV, 164
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- SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
- Call Number
- 330
Crafting sustainable wine businesses : concepts and cases
Sustainable wine businesses are being crafted around the world, fulfilling the industry's number one priority - leaving the land in better shape for the next generation. Using four case studies of wineries in both the Old and New Worlds, this book shows students and scholars how to develop and defend metrics for benchmarking wine business sustainability and justify new investments supporting th…
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- 1
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- 9781137553089
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- X, 99
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- -
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- 330
Convergence in Output and Its Sources Among Industrialised Countries A Cross-…
This book investigates the existence of stochastic and deterministic convergence of real output per worker and the sources of output (physical capital per worker, human capital per worker, total factor productivity (TFP) and average annual hours worked) in 21 OECD countries over the period 1970-2011. Towards this end, the authors apply a large battery of panel unit root and stationarity tests, …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319136356
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- ix, 74 pages
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- -
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- 370
Microfinance 3.0
Development Economics; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics; Finance, general; Business Strategy/Leadership; Ethics; Economic Growth; Microfinance; Development Finance; Sustainable Development; Good Corporate Governance; Interest Rates; Sustainability
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- 9783642417047
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- -
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The Economics of the Popular Music Industry
This Palgrave Pivot uses modeling from microeconomic theory and industrial organization to demonstrate how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry. Byun examines the important role of technology in changing its structure, particularly as new methods of creating and accessing music prove to be a double-edged sword for creators and producers. An underlying th…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-46705-8
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- VIII, 128
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- -
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