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Emissions trading as a policy instrument :evaluation and prospects
Empirical and theoretical perspectives on the first two phases of the European Emissions Trading Scheme, the largest cap-and-trade market established so far.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330435
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Fracking the neighborhood :reluctant activists and natural gas drilling
When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessi…
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- 9780262329798
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages).
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Quantified :biosensing technologies in everyday life
Today anyone can purchase technology that can track, quantify, and measure the body and its environment. Wearable or portable sensors detect heart rates, glucose levels, steps taken, water quality, genomes, and microbiomes, and turn them into electronic data. Is this phenomenon empowering, or a new form of social control? Who volunteers to enumerate bodily experiences, and who is forced to do s…
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- 9780262334549
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- 1 online resource (xxxi, 243 pages) :illustrations
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Oblivious network routing :algorithms and applications
"Our increasingly integrated world relies on networks both physical and virtual to transfer goods and information. The Internet is a network of networks that connects people around the world in a real-time manner, but it can be disrupted by massive data flows, diverse traffic patterns, inadequate infrastructure, and even natural disasters and political conflict. Similar challenges exist for tra…
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- 9780262328968
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 160 pages) :illustrations
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Political economy and instruments of environmental politics
Economists have long argued that market-based instruments such as, environmental taxes, and emission trading systems, are the superior way to offset the negative externalities of any kind of economic activities. Yet, whether the effects of using these instruments are sufficient, whether they are actually used efficiently, and especially which factors influence their effectiveness is subject to …
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Conceptual innovation in environmental policy
"Concepts are thought categories through which we apprehend the world; they enable, but also constrain, reasoning and debate and serve as building blocks for more elaborate arguments. This book traces the links between conceptual innovation in the environmental sphere and the evolution of environmental policy and discourse. It offers both a broad framework for examining the emergence, evolution…
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- 9780262341585
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 367 pages) :illustrations.
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Profiling Machines; Mapping the Personal Information Economy
Perspektif studi budaya dan media tentang teknologi pembuatan profil konsumen elektronik. Dalam buku ini Greg Elmer membawa perspektif studi budaya dan media ke subjek pembuatan profil konsumen dan teknologi umpan balik dalam ekonomi digital. Ia meneliti banyaknya proses yang memantau konsumen dan secara otomatis mengumpulkan, menyimpan, dan merujuk silang informasi pribadi. Ketika kita membeli…
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- 9780262272308
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- 1 online resource (x, 179 pages)
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- 658.8343 ELM p
Sharing cities :a case for truly smart and sustainable cities
The work makes a case for understanding cities as shared spaces and venues for collaboration; and proposes policies and practices to share cities fairly. It argues that with modern technologies the intersection of urban space and cyberspace provides an unrivalled platform for more just, inclusive and environmentally efficient economies and societies rooted in a sharing culture.OCLC-licensed ven…
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- 9780262329705
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- 1 online resource (x, 445 pages) :illustrations.
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Pathways to peace :the transformative power of children and families
"Can more peaceful childhoods promote a culture of peace? Increasing evidence from a broad range of disciplines shows that how we raise our children affects the propensity for conflict and the potential for peace within a given community. In this book, experts from a range of disciplines examine the biological and social underpinnings of child development and the importance of strengthening fam…
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- 9780262321181
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- 1 online resource (xx, 453 pages).
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The rediscovery of the mind
Dalam karya barunya yang hebat ini, John Searle meluncurkan serangan hebat terhadap ortodoksi terkini dalam filsafat pikiran. Lebih dari apa pun, menurutnya, pengabaian kesadaranlah yang mengakibatkan begitu banyak kemandulan dan kemandulan dalam psikologi, filsafat pikiran, dan ilmu kognitif: tidak ada studi tentang pikiran yang mengabaikan kesadaran. Apa yang terjadi di otak adalah proses neu…
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- 9780262315982
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- Representation and Mind series
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- 128.2 SEA r
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