Fossil fuel industries and the green economy

Table of Contents: “…-- Overview: explaining the green economy / Manish Bapna and John Talberth -- Yes: the green economy is financially superior to the fossil fuel economy -- Businesses will profit from the green economy / GlobeScan -- The green economy makes access to electricity possible for all / United Nations Environment Programme -- The rise of the green economy / United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- No: the green economy is not financially superior to the fossil fuel economy -- Constraints of the green economy / Barbara Unmussig, Lili Fuhr, and Thomas Fatheuer -- Expanding green economy is expnsive and detrimental to poor communities / Katie Tahuahua -- The green economy performs poorly in economic models / James Barrett.…”


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Extreme weather events

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Papers presented at the FAO/UNEP Meeting on the Effects of Pollution on Marine Ecosystems, Blanes, Spain, 7-11 October 1985 = Communications présentées à la Reunion FAO/PNUE sur le...

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The war and environment reader by Smith, Gar (Editor emeritus), LaDuke, Winona

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Principles of sustainability

Table of Contents: “…Organic gardening and farming -- Our common future -- Overconsumption -- Overgrazing of livestock -- Pandemics -- Planned obsolescence -- Plastics -- Poaching -- Pollution permit trading -- Population growth and environmental impact -- Positive feedback and tipping points -- Precautionary principle -- Preservation -- Radon as a health hazard -- Rainwater harvesting -- Renewable energy -- Renewable resources -- Resource depletion -- Resource recovery -- Riparian rights -- Seed banks -- Sewage treatment and disposal -- Slash-and-burn agriculture -- Smart grids and renewable energy -- Soil conservation -- Solid waste management policy -- Spaceship Earth metaphor -- Stormwater management -- Strip and surface mining -- Superfund legislation -- Sustainable agriculture -- Sustainable development -- Sustainable forestry -- Tidal energy -- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- Urban ecology -- Urban planning -- Volcanoes and weather -- Waste management -- Water conservation --…”

Environmental management : readings and case studies

Table of Contents: “…Trepte ; air pollution in the world's megacities / United Nations environment Programme and the World health Organization ; on-road vehicle emissions: regulations, costs, and benefits / Stuart P. …”


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World atlas of biodiversity : Earth's living resources in the 21st century by Groombridge, Brian

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Essential concepts of global environmental governance

Table of Contents: “…Lewis -- Thermoeconomics / Kozo Mayumi -- Tragedy of the commons / Thomas Falk, Björn Vollan, and Michael Kirk -- Transboundary air pollution regime / Delphine Misonne -- Transboundary water regime / Shlomi Dinar -- Transgovernmental networks / Harriet Bulkeley -- Transnational crime / Lorraine Elliott -- Transparency / Michael Mason -- Treaty negotiations / Daniel Compagnon -- United Nations Environment Programme / Steffen Bauer -- Wetlands convention / Royal Gardner -- World Bank / Susan Park -- World Environment Organization / Frank Biermann -- World Trade Organization / Fariborz Zelli.…”


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A Survey of sustainable development : social and economic dimensions

Table of Contents: “…Heredia -- Assessing the the impact of NGO advocacy campaigns on World Bank projects and policies / Jonathan Fox and David Brown -- Coping with ecological globalization / Hilary French -- The United Nations environment programme and the United Nations development programme / Alexandre Timoshenko and Mark Berman -- Conflicts of global ecology: environmental activism in period of global reach / Vanadan Shiva.…”


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Sustainable tourism : the tour operators' contribution.

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Managing waterfowl populations : proceedings of an IWRB Symposium, Astrakhan, 2-5 October 1989

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