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Texans on the Brink

Threatened and Endangered Animals

by David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter, Timothy H. Bonner, Chad W Hargrave, David S. Ruppel, Nicky M. Hahn, Robert J. Edwards, Paige Najvar, William Godwin, Mary Jones, David J. Berg, Ned E. Strenth, Jerry L. Cook, Benjamin T. Hutchins, Anthony A. Echelle, Alice F. Echelle, J. Curtis Creighton, D. Craig Rudolph, Josh Pierce, Loren K. Ammerman, Christopher E. Comer, Michael E. Tewes, Julia Buck, Mary Kay Skoruppa, Kim Withers, Andrew C. Kasner, John Karges, Timothy Brush, Clifford E. Shackelford, Heather A. Mathewson, David Cimprich, James M Mueller, Robert Allen, Karl Berg, Philip Matich, Donna J. Shaver, Mary M Streitch, Bernd Würsig, Dr. Neil B. Ford ...

Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. ... Read more

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What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R.
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Shoes of the Shoah

The Tomorrow of Yesterday

by Dorothy Pierce ...

Narrated by Emily Lawrence, Josh Bloomberg ...

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3 hours 21 min

Henny had just graduated from high school when the Germans invaded Lithuania. Her care-free life rapidly changed from a life of privilege to a living hell. Simply because she was Jewish.The horrors inflicted upon the Jews of Kovno, taken place in the old forts built during Czarist Russia, are not as well known as what happened in the German Nazi camps during World War II.Henny recounts her ... Read more

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Henny had just graduated from high school when the Germans invaded Lithuania. Her care-free life rapidly changed from a life of privilege to a living hell. Simply because she was Jewish.The horrors inflicted upon the Jews of Kovno, taken place in the old forts built during Czarist Russia, are not as well known as what happened in the German Nazi camps during World War II.Henny recounts her
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Urban Energy and Climate

Prospects for a Sustainable Transition

by Peter J Marcotullio, Josh Sperling, Andrea L Pierce ...

Series Book 8 - World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues
With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, reliability, efficiency ... Read more

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With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, reliability, efficiency
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Making Climate Policy Work

by Danny Cullenward, David G. Victor ...

For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based programs – hasn’t been working and isn’t ready to scale.Danny Cullenward and David Victor show how the politics of creating and ... Read more

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For decades, the world’s governments have struggled to move from talk to action on climate. Many now hope that growing public concern will lead to greater policy ambition, but the most widely promoted strategy to address the climate crisis – the use of market-based programs – hasn’t been working and isn’t ready to scale.Danny Cullenward and David Victor show how the politics of creating and
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Fixing the Climate

Strategies for an Uncertain World

by Charles F. Sabel, David G. Victor ...

Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp—but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations.Charles ... Read more

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Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp—but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations.Charles
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Escape from Overshoot

Economics for a Planet in Peril

by Peter A. Victor ...

An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.—Jason Hickel, author, Less is MoreEarth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and stretching inequality and injustice to the breaking point. But does it really need to be this way? And if not, what are the ... Read more

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An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.—Jason Hickel, author, Less is MoreEarth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and stretching inequality and injustice to the breaking point. But does it really need to be this way? And if not, what are the
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Understanding Risks and Uncertainties in Energy and Climate Policy

Multidisciplinary Methods and Tools for a Low Carbon Society

Edited by Haris Doukas, Alexandros Flamos, Jenny Lieu ...

Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of ... Read more

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This open access book analyzes and seeks to consolidate the use of robust quantitative tools and qualitative methods for the design and assessment of energy and climate policies. In particular, it examines energy and climate policy performance and associated risks, as well as public acceptance and portfolio analysis in climate policy, and presents methods for evaluating the costs and benefits of
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Renewable Energy

A Global Review of Technologies, Policies and Markets

Edited by Dirk Assmann ...

'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries'Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEPFrom technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies. With a clear emphasis on policy and action, ... Read more

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'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries'Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEPFrom technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy offers a comprehensive and authoritative review of the determining factors that drive worldwide dissemination of renewable energy technologies. With a clear emphasis on policy and action,
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Gender and Climate Change Financing

Coming out of the margin

by Mariama Williams ...

Series series Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication.Gender ... Read more

$120.99 USD

This book discusses the state of global climate change policy and the financing of climate resilient public infrastructure. It explains the sources of tensions and conflict between developing and developed countries with regard to global climate protection policies, and highlights the biases and asymmetries that may work against gender equality, women’s empowerment and poverty eradication.Gender
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The Economics of Climate Change

The Stern Review

by Nicholas Stern ...

There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this challenge. The Stern Review is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic ... Read more

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There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this challenge. The Stern Review is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic
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Towards an Emissions Trading System in Mexico: Rationale, Design and Connections with the Global Climate Agenda

Outlook on the first ETS in Latin-America and Exploration of the Way Forward

Edited by Simone Lucatello ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This Open Access book provides detailed information about the incoming Mexican Emissions Trading System, including an analysis on why the system was implemented, how the system was designed, how it operates, how it could work, and how it could be strengthened by 2023 when it will be formally launched. This document is aimed at those who want to understand how an ETS can operate in an emerging ... Read more

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This Open Access book provides detailed information about the incoming Mexican Emissions Trading System, including an analysis on why the system was implemented, how the system was designed, how it operates, how it could work, and how it could be strengthened by 2023 when it will be formally launched. This document is aimed at those who want to understand how an ETS can operate in an emerging
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The Geopolitics of the Global Energy Transition

Edited by Manfred Hafner, Simone Tagliapietra ...

Series series Energy (R0)
The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is disrupting the global energy system, impacting whole economies, and changing the political dynamics within and between countries.This open access book, written by leading energy ... Read more

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The world is currently undergoing an historic energy transition, driven by increasingly stringent decarbonisation policies and rapid advances in low-carbon technologies. The large-scale shift to low-carbon energy is disrupting the global energy system, impacting whole economies, and changing the political dynamics within and between countries.This open access book, written by leading energy
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