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Legacy: How to Build the Sustainable Economy by Dieter Helm 9781009449182
RRP: €20.22€16.78What 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... -
Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, Seventh Edition by Robert N. Stavins
RRP: €61.82€59.07Economics of the Environment, Seventh Edition is a compendium of the best, most timely articles by a dream team of environmental economists, together with an original introductory chapter by the editor.Now in its seventh edition, Economics of the... -
A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth by Chris Smaje
RRP: €22.60€14.71Perfect for readers of James Rebanks, Wendell Berry and Thomas Piketty, A Small Farm Future is a refreshingly new outlook on the way forward for society. A vital resource for activists, students, policy makers and anyone looking to enact change. In a... -
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
RRP: €29.75€21.10*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year*We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task:... -
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet by Brett Christophers 9781804292303
RRP: €26.18€17.83What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning to renewables is too expensive, but that saving the planet is not sufficiently profitable?This is Brett Christophers' claim. The global... -
The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism by Adrienne Buller
RRP: €15.46€11.00Public understanding of, and outcry over, the dire state of the climate and environment is greater than ever before. Parties across the political spectrum claim to be climate leaders, and overt denial is on the way out. Yet when it comes to slowing the... -
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities by Michael Shellenberger
RRP: €23.80€16.35The author of the national bestseller Apocalypse Never examines the problems plaguing America's most liberal cities. San Francisco was once widely viewed as the prettiest city in America. Today it is best known as the epicenter of the homeless... -
Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance by C Shmatov
RRP: €45.21€30.21A quantitative analyst's introduction to the theory and practice of ESG finance In Quantitative Methods for ESG Finance, accomplished risk and ESG experts Dr. Cyril Shmatov and Cino Robin Castelli deliver an incisive and essential introduction to the... -
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg
RRP: €19.03€11.77The New York Times-bestselling "skeptical environmentalist" argues that panic over climate change is causing more harm than goodHurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists,... -
Elinor Ostrom's Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives beyond Markets and States by Derek Wall
RRP: €22.60€18.22Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Her theorising of the commons has been celebrated as groundbreaking and opening the way for non-capitalist economic alternatives, yet, many radicals know little about her. This book... -
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take by Paul Polman
RRP: €26.18€20.27A Financial Times Best Business Book of the YearNamed one of 10 Best New Management Books for 2022 by Thinkers50"An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done" - The Economist"Polman's new book with the sustainable business expert Andrew... -
The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress by Mark Jaccard
RRP: €95.20€53.99Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help. This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows us how to recognize the absolutely essential... -
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
RRP: €15.46€10.82A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF 2022 'A landmark book... The Blue Commons is at once a brilliant synthesis, a searing analysis, and an inspiring call to action.' - David Bollier'With remarkable erudition, passion and lyricism, Guy Standing... -
The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet by Michael E. Mann 9781914484551
RRP: €13.08€8.71Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and one of The Observer's 'Thirty books to help us understand the world'. Are we really to blame for the climate crisis? Over 70 per cent of global emissions come from the... -
The B Corp Handbook: How You Can Use Business as a Force for Good by Ryan Honeyman
RRP: €32.13€20.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523097531Author Ryan HoneymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Climate Justice by Mary Robinson
RRP: €11.89€8.46_______________ 'As an advocate for the hungry and the hunted, the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world' BARACK OBAMA SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK... -
The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg 9780141999043
RRP: €26.18€18.59*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year*'Spectacular ... this work is planetary in scale' Independent'It offers real, rich hope' Observer, Books of the YearWe still have time to change the world. From the world's leading climate... -
The Joyful Environmentalist: How to Practise without Preaching by Isabel Losada 9781786784704
RRP: €15.46€10.13"This is the joy we need in our lives." - George Monbiot. "This book, practical and realistic as well as visionary, will keep that positive message before the reader's eyes. Joy is after all one of the best motivations we can have for change." -... -
Crude Britannia: How Big Oil Shaped a Country's Past and Future by James Marriott
RRP: €15.46€13.30'Dripping with delicious detail' - Aditya Chakrabortty Taking the reader on a journey through North East Scotland, Merseyside, South Wales, the Thames Estuary and London, this is the story of Britain's oil-soaked past, present and future. Travelling... -
The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet by Michael E. Mann
RRP: €20.22€17.98One of The Observer's 'Thirty books to help us understand the world' Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that we've been told we can save the... -
Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets by Paula DiPerna 9781119913801
RRP: €27.36€18.89An exciting exploration of the new frontier of finance, to value the planet and protect what has too long been treated as free and taken for granted--the natural assets we need and love most In Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to... -
Investing To Save The Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference by Alice Ross
RRP: €17.84€13.03'This book presents a salient truth: every investor - no matter how large or small - has the power to help address our climate crisis and build a more sustainable world. Together, we can and must act now' Al Gore, former Vice President of the United... -
The Carbon Almanac by Seth Godin
RRP: €17.84€13.51When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action.The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone... -
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg
RRP: €45.21€38.46The Skeptical Environmentalist challenges widely held beliefs that the environmental situation is getting worse and worse. The author, himself a former member of Greenpeace, is critical of the way in which many environmental organisations make selective... -
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans by Laura Trethewey 9780063099951
RRP: €29.75€19.55The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth-the world's seafloor-and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the... -
Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis 9781911116806
RRP: €23.79€22.37The term "degrowth" has emerged within ecological and other heterodox schools of economics as a critique of the idea (and ideology) of economic growth. Degrowth argues that economic growth is no longer desirable - its costs exceed its benefits - and... -
2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years by Jorgen Randers
RRP: €23.80€15.89With clarity, conscience, and courage, global-systems pioneer Jorgen Randers and his distinguished contributors map the forces that will shape the next four decades. Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth study addressed the grand question of how... -
Regeneration by Paul Hawken
RRP: €23.80€18.20The NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist and creator of Drawdown, Paul Hawken The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty... -
Terra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements by Vandana Shiva
RRP: €22.60€14.71'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.' The Guardian 'Vandana Shiva is an expert [on the dangers of gobalization] whose analysis has helped us understand this situation much more deeply.' Russell Brand A powerful new memoir... -
The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World by William D. Nordhaus
RRP: €29.75€23.30From a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in environmental economics, an innovative account of how and why "green thinking" could cure many of the world's most serious problems-from global warming to pandemicsSolving the world's biggest problems-from climate... -
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire: Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2020 by Rebecca Henderson
RRP: €13.08€9.25***SHORTLISTED FOR FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*** FT Best books of 2020: Business 'In a world on fire, status quo is not a great option. Henderson rightfully argues for the refoundation of capitalism and offers thought-provoking ideas on... -
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin 9781250766113
RRP: €16.65€11.54A new vision for America's future is quickly gaining momentum. Facing a global emergency, a younger generation is spearheading a national conversation around a Green New Deal and setting the agenda for a bold political movement with the potential to... -
Economics for a Fragile Planet: Rethinking Markets, Institutions and Governance by Edward Barbier
RRP: €36.88€22.66In a world of growing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, ensuring a safe Anthropocene for humankind is essential. Managing an increasingly "fragile" planet requires new thinking on markets, institutions and governance built on five... -
Speed and Scale: An Action Plan for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now by John Doerr 9780241537770
RRP: €20.22€14.61#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity's greatest challenge: climate change.In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage... -
The Unsustainable Truth: How Investing for the Future is Destroying the Planet and What to Do About It by Dr David Ko
RRP: €22.60€16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Business Book Awards: Change & Sustainability Category 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781784529598Author Dr David KoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint... -
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm
RRP: €23.80€20.60The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels we burn. How did we end up in this mess?In this masterful new history, Andreas Malm claims it all began in Britain with the rise of steam power. But why did... -
The Future-Proof Farm: Changing Mindsets in a Changing World by Steve Groff 9781642251869
RRP: €24.98€21.34PERCEPTIVE SOLUTIONS for those who want to know how NUTRITIOUS FOOD can be grown. Practical SURVIVAL guide for FARMERS to show them how to meet the needs that CONSUMERS are requesting! WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE EARTH IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS AND IS GOOD FOR THE... -
Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources by Geoff Hiscock 9781118152881
RRP: €32.12€29.24A fascinating insight into the global battle for our energy future The global competition for scarce natural resources that pits the West against the super-hot economies of China and India, plus a clutch of other contenders including Russia, Brazil,... -
The Great Food Gamble by John Humphrys
RRP: €13.08€8.39John Humphrys is passionate about the state of British food, farming, fishing and agriculture. Here, he looks back to the days of organic farming in England when people shared and swapped food and considered the wildlife as well as the farmed animals,... -
Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon by Jenny Chase 9781786347459
RRP: €41.65€36.83Second Edition: Solar Power Finance Without the JargonSolar power has become big business, with $131 billion invested in 2018, up from just $11.2 billion in 2004 but down from $171 billion in 2017 as unit costs fell. New installed capacity grew from 1...