Open Access Books - Technology - 2018

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    The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and their Reform
    ( 2018)
    Edited by Jakob Skovgaard, Harro van Asselt
    ossil fuel subsidies strain public budgets, and contribute to climate change and local air pollution. Despite widespread agreement among experts about the benefits of reforming fossil fuel subsidies, repeated international commitments to eliminate them, and valiant efforts by some countries to reform them, they continue to persist. This book helps explain this conundrum, by exploring the politics of fossil fuel subsidies and their reform. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, the book offers new case studies both from countries that have undertaken subsidy reform, and those that have yet to do so. It explores the roles of various intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions in promoting fossil fuel subsidy reform at the international level, as well as conceptual aspects of fossil fuel subsidies. This is essential reading for researchers and practitioners, and students of political science, international relations, law, public policy and environmental studies.
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    Governing Climate Change: Polycentricity in Action?
    ( 2018)
    Edited by Andrew Jordan, Dave Huitema, Harro van Asselt, Johanna Forster
    Climate change governance is in a state of enormous flux. New and more dynamic forms of governing are appearing around the international climate regime centred on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They appear to be emerging spontaneously from the bottom up, producing a more dispersed pattern of governing, which Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom famously described as 'polycentric'. This book brings together contributions from some of the world's foremost experts to provide the first systematic test of the ability of polycentric thinking to explain and enhance societal attempts to govern climate change. It is ideal for researchers in public policy, international relations, environmental science, environmental management, politics, law and public administration. It will also be useful on advanced courses in climate policy and governance, and for practitioners seeking incisive summaries of developments in particular sub-areas and sectors.
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    Leading your Research Team in Science
    ( 2018)
    Ritsert C. Jansen
    This book is for researchers who lead, or want to lead, their own team to carry out their research plans. It is also for staff who provide support to researchers to help make these plans come true: specialists in human resources, communication, information technologies, finance, knowledge transfer, legal affairs and contracts, learning and teaching, and any other issues important to the day-to-day and longer-term business of research. So what’s in it for you? I will outline what you can expect to find in this book here.
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    Urban Planet: Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities
    ( 2018)
    Edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie Griffith, David Maddox, David Maddox, Susan Parnell, Susan Parnell, David Simon, David Simon
    The Urban Planet is the result of a collaborative project within Future Earth (www.futureearth.org). It emphasizes the need for a new knowledge genera tion agenda, given the urgency of understanding the sustainability challenges and options for a rapidly urbanizing planet. Our urban future will determine the viability and vitality of the human endeavor towards global sustainability. This centrality of cities to the sustainability of people, planet, and prosperity points to the need for continuous investments in an expanded and flexible urban science and practical knowledge generation that is forged out of innova tive interdisciplinary and multisectoral understandings of the complex systems that both drive and derive from the prevalence of urban ways of being. Greater understanding of urbanization processes and the multiscale interactions and feedbacks with the earth system is required for addressing the complex issues related to urbanization and sustainability, and for aiding in the solutions. This book aims, therefore, not only to provide a synthesis of existing knowledge across the different disciplines, but also to showcase new ways of producing and integrating knowledge, extending the frontier of urban research, and pro viding new directions in research and practice that will help us achieve the cities we want now and in the future.
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    Infrastructure Development and Ape Conservation
    ( 2018)
    Edited by Arcus Foundation
    Infrastructure development in Africa and Asia is expanding at breakneck speed, largely in biodiversity-rich developing nations. The trend reflects governments' efforts to promote economic growth in response to increasing populations, rising consumption rates and persistent inequalities. Large-scale infrastructure development is regularly touted as a way to meet the growing demand for energy, transport and food - and as a key to poverty alleviation. In practice, however, road networks, hydropower dams and 'development corridors' tend to have adverse effects on local populations, natural habitats and biodiversity. Such projects typically weaken the capacity of ecosystems to maintain ecological functions on which wildlife and human communities depend, particularly in the face of climate change. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Core