A Better Planet

A Better Planet
Author: Ingrid C. Burke
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0300246242

A practical, bipartisan call to action from the world's leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address critical challenges such as the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water shortages, and air pollution. But in the United States, partisan divides, regional disputes, and deep disagreements over core principles have made it nearly impossible to chart a course toward a sustainable future. This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book's forty essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. The book focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.

INCREaSE

INCREaSE
Author: António Mortal
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2018-01-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319702726

This book presents the proceedings of the INternational CongRess on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXI cEntury – INCREaSE 2017, which was held in Faro, Portugal, from October 11 to 13, 2017. The book promotes a multidisciplinary approach to sustainable development, exploring a number of transversal challenges. It discusses natural and anthropogenic risks; tourism and sustainability; healthy food; water and society; sustainable mobility; renewable energy; and energy efficiency, offering perspectives from civil, electronics, mechanical and food engineering.

Electric Power For Rural Growth

Electric Power For Rural Growth
Author: Douglas F. Barnes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2019-03-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429713304

This book offers important historical information on the state of rural electrification in the 1980s. It also summarizes the development of benefit evaluation methods, along with findings from recent research on the impact of rural electrification for development.

Household Energy Access for Cooking and Heating

Household Energy Access for Cooking and Heating
Author: Koffi EkouevI
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-07-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821396056

This paper is a review of the World Bank s financed operations and selected interventions by other institutions on household energy access in an attempt to examine success and failure factors to inform the new generation of upcoming interventions

Opportunities and Obligations

Opportunities and Obligations
Author: Terence P. Stewart
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9041131469

teach aspects of the WTO system or advise clients in the private sector." "The essays are grouped into three sections: (1) looking at the ongoing Doha negotiations and/or describing changes to the WTO system or negotiation approach that are needed/viewed as desirable; (2) examining the direction US trade policy should take moving forward; and (3) critically examining the world food crisis and what role the trading system and individual WTO members can take in helping to resolve the crisis." --Book Jacket.

Cleaner Hearths, Better Homes

Cleaner Hearths, Better Homes
Author: Douglas F. Barnes
Publisher: OUP India
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198078364

This book draws on case studies from Maharashtra, Haryana, Karnataka, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal, and other global programmes, to examine the viability of biomass stove programmes in India. It recommends ways in which the international community can promote the use of more energy-efficient and affordable technology as against use of traditional cookstoves.

A River Runs Again

A River Runs Again
Author: Meera Subramanian
Publisher: Public Affairs
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2015-08-25
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1610395301

"India has endured a century of clouds heavy with acid rain, and rivers so thick with industrial effluent that they catch fire. Pollutants from toxic pesticides seep through the rich soils of rural Punjab, where a "Cancer Train" shuttles droves of farmers sick with chemical poisoning to oncology centers in foreign states. Sixty percent of the population lives without access to potable water. India's ecosystem is on a precipice. In A River Runs Again, Meera Subramanian explores this environmental catastrophe through the five elements that make the building blocks of life--earth, water, fire, air, and ether"--

Cookstove Chronicles

Cookstove Chronicles
Author: Meena Khandelwal
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0816552959

Cookstove Chronicles examines India's handcrafted, wood-burning cooking stoves, the rural women who use them, and outsiders who try to improve them by engineering a range of "clean" cooking devices. Khandelwal adopts a transnational feminist, anthropological, and STS perspective to reimagine the humble mud stove as both villain and hero of this story and to suggest pathways for collaboration across radical disciplinary divides.