"This book explains how environmental projects and improvements are achieved through the imposition of regulations, on the one hand, and financial incentives on the other. It discusses how those incentives can be organized to achieve the greatest environmental benefits at the lo…
This book explains how environmental projects and improvements are achieved through the imposition of regulations, on the one hand, and financial incentives on the other. It discusses how those incentives can be organized to achieve the greatest environmental benefits at the low…
Environmental finance is about creating the greatest environmental benefit for the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost. That is the first and most important principle listed in Finance Policy for Renewable Energy and a Sustainable Environment. Focusing on what t…
"This book explains how environmental projects and improvements are achieved through the imposition of regulations, on the one hand, and financial incentives on the other. It discusses how those incentives can be organized to achieve the greatest environmental benefits at the lo…
Environmental finance is about creating the greatest environmental benefit for the largest number of people at the lowest possible cost. That is the first and most important principle listed in Finance Policy for Renewable Energy and a Sustainable Environment. Focusing on what t…
Offering solutions to our current energy crisis, this volume addresses the latest genetic and metabolic engineering approaches towards the development of recombinant microorganisms for the production of commodity byproducts.
"Presents an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between climate change and peak oil using a scenario planning model. This title also introduces permaculture as a design system specifically evolved over the years to creatively respond to futures that i…
"Presents an integrated approach to understanding the potential interaction between climate change and peak oil using a scenario planning model. This title also introduces permaculture as a design system specifically evolved over the years to creatively respond to futures that i…
Limits to growth: the 30-year update
by Randers, Jorgen, Meadows, Dennis, Meadows, Donella
Presents future overshoot scenarios and makes an even more urgent case for a rapid readjustment of the global economy towards a sustainable path.
This book will focus on lignocellulosic fibres as a raw material for several applications. It will start with wood chemistry and morphology. Then, some fibre isolation processes will be given, before moving to composites, panel and paper manufacturing, characterization and aging.
