Search Results - "Climate change"

Capital and the common good : how innovative finance is tackling the world's most urgent problems / by Keohane, Georgia Levenson

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: innovative finance and the visible hand -- Climate change: REDD forests, green bonds, and the price of climate finance -- Health care: medicine for market failure -- Financial inclusion and access to capital -- Redefining risk, response, and resilience towards a new disaster finance -- US community and economic development -- Conclusion: financing the future: innovative finance and the ties that bind -- Epilogue: the road ahead.…”
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Capital and the common good : how innovative finance is tackling the world's most urgent problems / by Keohane, Georgia Levenson

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: innovative finance and the visible hand -- Climate change: REDD forests, green bonds, and the price of climate finance -- Health care: medicine for market failure -- Financial inclusion and access to capital -- Redefining risk, response, and resilience towards a new disaster finance -- US community and economic development -- Conclusion: financing the future: innovative finance and the ties that bind -- Epilogue: the road ahead.…”
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State of the world's cities. 2008/2009 : harmonious cities.

Table of Contents: “…The spatial distribution of the world's cities -- Urban growth patterns -- Which cities are growing and why -- Shrinking cities -- Why urban inequality matters -- Urban inequalities: regional trends -- Education, employment and city size -- Slums: the good, the bad and the ugly -- Slum cities and cities with slums -- Urban environmental risks and burdens -- Cities and climate change -- Cities at risk from rising sea levels -- Energy consumption in cities -- Urban energy consumption at the household level -- Urban mobility -- Inclusive urban planning for harmonious urban development -- Building bridges: social capital and urban harmony -- Unifying the divided city -- Addressing rural-urban disparities for harmonious regional development -- Metropolitan governance: governing in a city of cities.…”

Laboratory manual; Chemistry in context : applying chemistry to society /

Table of Contents: “…Chemistry for a sustainable future -- The air we breathe -- Protecting the ozone layer -- The chemistry of global climate change -- Energy from combustion -- Water for life -- Neutralizing the threat of acid rain -- The fires of nuclear fission -- Energy from electron transfer? …”

Fast forward ethics and politics in the age of global warming / by Antholis, William

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The end of energy the unmaking of America's environment, security, and independence / by Graetz, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…A "new economic policy" -- Losing control over oil -- The environment moves front and center -- No more nuclear -- The changing face of coal -- Natural gas and the ability to price -- The quest for alternatives -- A crisis of confidence -- The end of an era -- Climate change : a game changer -- Shock to trance : the power of price -- The invisible hand : regulation and the rise of cap and trade -- Government for the people : Congress and the road to reform -- Disaster in the Gulf.…”
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Fast forward ethics and politics in the age of global warming / by Antholis, William

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The end of energy the unmaking of America's environment, security, and independence / by Graetz, Michael J.

Table of Contents: “…A "new economic policy" -- Losing control over oil -- The environment moves front and center -- No more nuclear -- The changing face of coal -- Natural gas and the ability to price -- The quest for alternatives -- A crisis of confidence -- The end of an era -- Climate change : a game changer -- Shock to trance : the power of price -- The invisible hand : regulation and the rise of cap and trade -- Government for the people : Congress and the road to reform -- Disaster in the Gulf.…”
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State of the world's cities. 2008/2009 : harmonious cities.

Table of Contents: “…The spatial distribution of the world's cities -- Urban growth patterns -- Which cities are growing and why -- Shrinking cities -- Why urban inequality matters -- Urban inequalities: regional trends -- Education, employment and city size -- Slums: the good, the bad and the ugly -- Slum cities and cities with slums -- Urban environmental risks and burdens -- Cities and climate change -- Cities at risk from rising sea levels -- Energy consumption in cities -- Urban energy consumption at the household level -- Urban mobility -- Inclusive urban planning for harmonious urban development -- Building bridges: social capital and urban harmony -- Unifying the divided city -- Addressing rural-urban disparities for harmonious regional development -- Metropolitan governance: governing in a city of cities.…”

Laboratory manual; Chemistry in context : applying chemistry to society /

Table of Contents: “…Chemistry for a sustainable future -- The air we breathe -- Protecting the ozone layer -- The chemistry of global climate change -- Energy from combustion -- Water for life -- Neutralizing the threat of acid rain -- The fires of nuclear fission -- Energy from electron transfer? …”

Introduction to international political economy / by Balaam, David N., 1950-, Dillman, Bradford L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Laissez-faire : the economic liberal perspective -- Wealth and power : the mercantilist perspective -- Economic determinism and exploitation : the structuralist perspective -- Constructivism -- Structures of international political economy -- The global production structure -- The international trade structure -- The international finance and monetary structure -- The global security structure -- The international knowledge structure : controlling flows of information and technology -- States and markets in the global economy -- The development challenge -- The fragmentation of the European Union : the crossroads redux -- Moving into position : the rising powers -- The Middle East and North Africa : things fall apart -- Transnational problems and dilemmas -- The illicit global economy : the dark side of globalization -- Energy and the environment : navigating climate change and global disaster -- Global health : refugees and caring for the forgotten.…”

Introduction to international political economy / by Balaam, David N., 1950-, Dillman, Bradford L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Laissez-faire : the economic liberal perspective -- Wealth and power : the mercantilist perspective -- Economic determinism and exploitation : the structuralist perspective -- Constructivism -- Structures of international political economy -- The global production structure -- The international trade structure -- The international finance and monetary structure -- The global security structure -- The international knowledge structure : controlling flows of information and technology -- States and markets in the global economy -- The development challenge -- The fragmentation of the European Union : the crossroads redux -- Moving into position : the rising powers -- The Middle East and North Africa : things fall apart -- Transnational problems and dilemmas -- The illicit global economy : the dark side of globalization -- Energy and the environment : navigating climate change and global disaster -- Global health : refugees and caring for the forgotten.…”

Acting in time on energy policy

Table of Contents: “…Acting in time on energy policy / Kelly Sims Gallagher -- Acting in time on climate change / Kelly Sims Gallagher -- Making carbon capture and storage work / Daniel P. …”
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Acting in time on energy policy

Table of Contents: “…Acting in time on energy policy / Kelly Sims Gallagher -- Acting in time on climate change / Kelly Sims Gallagher -- Making carbon capture and storage work / Daniel P. …”
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Environmental and energy law

Table of Contents: “…Sustainable energy and climate change law -- pt. 4. Exploration and exploitation of energy resources -- pt. 5. …”
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Environmental and energy law

Table of Contents: “…Sustainable energy and climate change law -- pt. 4. Exploration and exploitation of energy resources -- pt. 5. …”
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Guardians of power the myth of the liberal media / by Edwards, David, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The mass media : neutral, honest, psychopathic -- Iraq : the sanctions of mass destruction -- Iraq disarmed : burying the 1991-98 weapons inspections -- Iraq : gunning for war and burying the dead -- Afghanistan : let them eat grass -- Kosovo : real bombs, fictional genocide -- East Timor : the practical limits of crusading humanitarianism -- Haiti : the hidden logic of exploitation -- Idolatry ink : Reagan, the 'cheerful conservative' and 'Chubby Bubba' Clinton -- Climate change : the ultimate media betrayal -- Disciplined media : professional conformity to power -- Towards a compassionate media -- Full human dissent.…”
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The women, gender and development reader

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Guardians of power the myth of the liberal media / by Edwards, David, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…The mass media : neutral, honest, psychopathic -- Iraq : the sanctions of mass destruction -- Iraq disarmed : burying the 1991-98 weapons inspections -- Iraq : gunning for war and burying the dead -- Afghanistan : let them eat grass -- Kosovo : real bombs, fictional genocide -- East Timor : the practical limits of crusading humanitarianism -- Haiti : the hidden logic of exploitation -- Idolatry ink : Reagan, the 'cheerful conservative' and 'Chubby Bubba' Clinton -- Climate change : the ultimate media betrayal -- Disciplined media : professional conformity to power -- Towards a compassionate media -- Full human dissent.…”
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The women, gender and development reader

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