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Aspects of the Energy Union
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of some of the most critical issues regarding the EU’s Energy Union policy. Applied European energy policies face a number of challenges ranging from the geopolitics of energy and energy regulation, to climate change, advancing renewable and gas technologies, and consumer empowerment structures. This book takes a multi-dimensional look into some …
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- 978-3-030-55981-6
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- xxx, 346p.:ill
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- 333.7 Asp
A critical approach to the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures
This book provides a critical approach to research on the social acceptance of renewable energy infrastructures and on energy transitions in general by questioning prevalent principles and proposing specific research pathways and lines of inquiry that look beyond depoliticised, business-as-usual discourses and research agendas on green growth and sustainability. It brings together authors from …
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- 978-3-030-73699-6
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- xix, 262p.:ill
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- 333.7 Acr
Developing the Blue Economy
Traditionally, the ocean economy is viewed solely as a mechanism for economic growth. In this business-as-usual approach, large-scale industrial economies have developed the ocean economy through the exploitation of maritime and marine resources, often without consideration of how those activities impact the future health or productivity of those same resources. This has led to aquatic ecosyste…
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- 978-3-030-84216-1
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- x, 337p.:ill
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- 333.7 Bre d
Towards a just climate change resilience
This book provides an accessible overview of how efforts to combat climate change and social inequalities should be tackled simultaneously. In the context of the climate emergency, the impacts of extreme events can already be felt around the world. The book centres on five case studies from the Global South, Latin America, Pacific Islands, Africa, and Asia with each one focused on climate justi…
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- 978-3-030-81622-3
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- xvii, 117p.:ill
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- 333.7 Tow
Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene
This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people’s experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the history of one freshwater crisis – the degradation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Waipā River– to the settler-colonial acts of ecological dispossession resulting in intergenerational injustices for Indi…
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- 978-3-030-61071-5
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- xxi, 494p.:ill
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- 333.7 Par d
The Fossil-Fuelled Climate Crisis
This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels. By utilizing Elizabeth Shove’s social practices approach and Murphy’s own social closure framework, the book examines the accelerating treadmill of carbon-polluting practices. It incorporates externalities theory to investigate how the full cost of fossil fuels is paid by others rather than users, and to demonstrate t…
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- 978-3-030-53325-0
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- xv, 397p.:ill
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- 333.7 Sum j
Just Energy Transitions and Coal Bed Methane
This book discusses how Coal Bed Methane (CBM) could help the acceleration of the energy transition in a ‘just’ way in Indonesia, due to the country's potential CBM reserves (and current dependence on climate damaging coal). Developing countries face multiple challenges in achieving their energy transitions. CBM in Indonesia could potentially be a catalyst for energy transition and subseque…
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- 978-3-030-85490-4
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- xix, 239p.:ill
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- Energy, Climate and the Environment
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- 333.7 Sum j
China's Water Resources Management
This book investigates water resources management and policy in China over the last two decades with a core focus on the role of water for socioeconomic development and sustainability. Recent policies, such as the Three Red Lines and the Water Ten Plan are evaluated for sustainable water supply, use and quality control. The book appraises solutions through demand management, water rights and po…
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- 978-3-030-78779-0
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- xix, 394p.:ill
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- 333.7 Lee c
Renewable Energy Communities and the Low Carbon Energy Transition in Europe
This volume addresses renewable energy communities, and in particular renewable energy cooperatives (REScoops), in the context of the revised EU Renewables Directive. It provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of the renewable energy community movement in over six different countries of continental Europe. It addresses their visions, strategy, organisation, agency, and m…
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- 978-3-030-84440-0
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- xvi, 289p.:ill
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- 337.1 Ren
Geo-societal Narratives
This book provides an accessible overview of the societal relevance of contemporary geosciences. Engaging various disciplines from humanities and social sciences, the book offers philosophical, cultural, economic, and geoscientific insights into how to contextualise geosciences in the node of Culture and Nature. The authors introduce two perspectives of societal geosciences, both informed by…
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- 978-3-030-79028-8
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- xxv, 221p.:ill
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- 333.7 Geo
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