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The Efficiency Trap
Prometheus Books 2013; US$ 11.99This realistic appraisal of current environmental thinking will challenge environmentalists and industrialists alike. One of the key tenets of the environmental movement is the need for greater efficiency in our use of dwindling natural resources, especially coal, natural gas, and oil. If our products are designed to be more energy efficient, so the... more...
U.S. Energy Policy and the Pursuit of Failure
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 30.00Presents an analytic history of American energy policy, examining policy failures and how the policy process itself leads to failure. more...
How Gamification Can Help Your Business Engage in Sustainability
DoSustainability 2013; US$ 45.00How Gamification Can Help Your Business Engage in Sustainability' investigates the current thinking and practice around gamification, drawing together the emerging facts and best practice to help businesses decide whether the theories of gamification can be fruitfully applied in engaging customers, staff and other stakeholders in sustainability. more...
Economic Growth and the Environment
OUP Oxford 2013; US$ 74.99Economic Growth and the Environment explores the debate on how to reconcile economic growth with protection of the natural environment, and the closely related discussion on whether an increasing scarcity of natural resources will eventually force economic growth to cease. The debate focusses on whether environmental policies will benefit the economy... more...
To Be of Use
New World Library 2011; US$ 22.95Smith & Hawken co-founder Dave Smith explores how we can solve basic human problems for the good of all by bringing positive values and meaning into our daily work. He reminds us to put meaning before profit and find meaningful work. more...
Flourishing
Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 17.95Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R. Ehrenfeld, and his former student now professor, Andrew J. Hoffman, as they discuss how to create a sustainable world. Unlike virtually all other books about sustainability, this one goes beyond the typical stories that we tell ourselves... more...
Waste Management in Spatial Environments
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00The increasing scarcity of land and the ever-rising amount of waste produced worldwide, coupled with the consequent change of focus by policy makers from waste disposal and recovery to waste prevention is boosting research in the 'economics of waste'. This volume addresses waste-management and waste-disposal issues, embedding them in spatial, systemic... more...
A Vineyard Odyssey
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2013; US$ 33.99A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the journey from vine to bottle. John Kiger tracks the nefarious denizens of the vineyard world?the host of animals, insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses that are capable of sabotaging a promising vintage right under the nose... more...
Resource Economics
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 26.00The book covers basic concepts, shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve dynamic allocation problems, and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources, stock pollutants, option value, and sustainable development. more...









