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What would a sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means? Legacy answers these and other questions, setting out the key features of the sustainable economy. It explains what it would take to properly maintain different types of capital, why polluters would have to pay, why the current generation would have to fund the necessary maintenance of our natural assets, and why we would have to save to inve...

Legacy answers one of the most important questions faces us today. What would an economy look like if it were to be sustainable and hence leave the next generation with the capabilities to choose how to live their lives, having addressed the great environmental challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss?"--

Hier ist Band 3 der dreiteiligen Reihe zur Biologie der Kakteen. Er umfasst die Kapitel Morphologie, Naturschutz und Kakteen als Nutzpflanzen. Dazu zählen natürlich auch die Pflanzen der Spezial-Gärtnereien und in unseren Sammlungen. Außerdem gibt es die dornenspitzigen "Anmerkungen zur Kultur". Extra-Bonus: Kulinarische Kakteen mit Rezepten zum Nachkochen. Ebenfalls erschienen sind Band 1 (Systematik - Nomenklatur - Bedeutung der Namen), I...

Weltweit erstes Werk zur Biologie der Kakteen, das sich an botanische Laien wendet. Das ideale Geschenk für Kakteenfreunde. Hier findet er alles, was in den anderen Büchern fehlt.

Hier ist Band 2 der dreiteiligen Reihe zur Biologie der Kakteen. Er umfasst die Kapitel Evolution (Entstehung und Verbreitung), Ökophysiologie (wie Kakteen leben) und Blütenbiologie. Band 1 (Systematik - Nomenklatur - Bedeutung der Namen) ist bereits unter der ISBN 978-1-4461-3377-4 erschienen. Der dritte Band behandelt die Themen Morphologie (Bau der Kakteen), Naturschutz und Nutzung der Kakteen. Er wird abgeschlossen mit den Anmerkunge...

Eine kurze, leicht verständliche und einfühlsam geschriebene Einführung in die Biologie zur Vorbereitung auf das Studium für alle interessierten Oberstufenschüler ab ca. 16-18 Jahren, auch geeignet für die ersten Semester. Mit einem Extrakapitel "Berufskunde für Biologen".

Written in light of recent advances in the field, this book is an up-to-date account of economic aspects of the energy markets. The editors fully consider the implications for regulation, privatization, and international competition in each of the major markets--electricity, gas, coal, and oil.

What can we really do about the climate emergency?   The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done.

A broad and lively survey of British energy policy since 1979. The book blends economic analysis with political and historical narrative. The author traces the way in which political pressures from the proponents of both nationalization and privatization, as well as environmentalists, have affected the development of an industry which forms a significant part of the national economy. There is a particular focus on the role of government and th...

This book provides an overview of the current energy policy debate, contextualized by the oil shock from 2000, and considers how the trends in international energy markets impact on security of supply and climate change. It includes a discussion of market design, looks at carbon and oil markets, and considers best practice for effective policy design.

What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done.

Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature.

`One of the most important books of the decade' Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature.

Niedrige Ölpreise erschüttern die Weltwirtschaft. Der renommierte Energieexperte Dieter Helm erklärt, warum diese und besonders technologische Veränderungen unzweifelhaft ankündigen, dass das Zeitalter der fossilen Brennstoffe zu Ende geht. In seinem neuen provokativen Buch weist er nach, dass neue Technologien wie die Nanotechnologie die Nachfrage nach Öl, Gas und Kohle unaufhaltsam reduzieren - und dies schneller und effektiver als das in de...

An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of a coming energy revolution and how the fossil fuel age will come to an end. Surveying recent surges in technological innovations, Helm's provocative new b...

Here, distinguished contributors focus on four principal subjects: value judgments and welfare economics, freedom, distribution, and the welfare state, instrumental efficiency and politics, as well as applications of the state in economics.

A broad and lively survey of British energy policy since 1979. The book blends economic analysis with political and historical narrative. The author traces the way in which political pressures from the proponents of both nationalization and privatization, as well as environmentalists, have affected the development of an industry which forms a significant part of the national economy. There is a particular focus on the role of government and th...

The threat posed by climate change has not yet been matched by international agreements and economic policies that can deliver sharp reductions in green-house gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol has not received support from the USA, and ratification has been delayed by Russia's reluctance to sign up- both in part because of its costs. Few European countries are on course to meet their own national targets. Nonetheless, even if fully implemented...

The threat posed by climate change has not yet been matched by economic policies that can deliver sharp reductions in carbon emissions. The Kyoto Protocol has not received support from the USA, and ratification has been delayed by Russia's reluctance to sign up- both in part because of its costs. Few European countries are on course to meet their own national targets. In consequence, there is a search for a post-Kyoto framework, new institutio...

The volume brings together leading climate change policy experts to set out the economic analysis and the nature of the negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and beyond.