Sustainability at the Cutting Edge, Second Edition: Emerging Technologies for low energy buildings Publisher: Architectural Press | pages: 196 | 2007 | ISBN: 0750683007 | PDF | 5,6 mb Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology.

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Agri-food Chain Relationships CABI | 2010-01-09 | ISBN: 1845936426 1845936426 1845936434 | 304 pages | PDF | 2.7 MB The integration into global and local agri-food value chains requires farmers, food processors and grocery retailers to develop and maintain close and sustainable business relationships with buyers and suppliers.

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Paul Ekins, Tancrede Voituriez – Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment: A Critical Look at Methods and Outcomes Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd. | 2009-06 | ISBN: 184407661X | PDF | 256 pages | 5.23 MB

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Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Power Sources, Models, Sustainability, Infrastructure and the Market Publisher: Elsevier | 2010 | PDF | 670 pages| ISBN: 0444535659 | 18.4Mb This multi-author, 670-page handbook provides information on alternative vehicular power systems, encompassing advances in the rapidly evolving battery, hybrid and fuel cell technology domains. Vehicles based on these technologies are described in terms of performance, fuel economy, environmental impact, energy sources and costs, and are extensively compared and contrasted to conventional vehicles.For the most advanced concepts in development (fuel cell and long-range electric vehicles), the issue of recharging infrastructure is addressed, as are case studies of alternative vehicles proposed by major automakers. Fitting a manifest market need, this volume will be an invaluable resource for electrochemists skilled in battery and fuel cells, mechanical and transport engineers, energy and environment experts, in research institutions, universities and industries worldwide.

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“Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Power Sources, Models, Sustainability, Infrastructure and the Market” by Gianfranco Pistoia Elsevier | 2010 | ISBN: 0444535659 | 645 pages | PDF | 18 Mb This multi-author, 670-page handbook provides information on alternative vehicular power systems, encompassing advances in the rapidly evolving battery, hybrid and fuel cell technology domains.

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Guidance on Sustainability Impact Assessment OECD | 05 July 2010 | ISBN: 9264086913 | 35 pages | PDF | 4 Mb This publication offers a general introduction to sustainability impact assessment, which is an approach for exploring the combined economic, environmental and social impacts of a range of proposed policies, programmes, strategies and action plans. This publication is a valuable source of information for policy makers on sustainability impact assessments.

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“Environmental Justice and Sustainability in the Former Soviet Union” The MIT Press | 320 pages | English | 2009 | ISBN: 0262012669 | PDF | 1,6 MB The legacy of environmental catastrophe in the states of the former Soviet Union includes desertification, pollution, and the toxic aftermath of industrial accidents, the most notorious of which was the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. This book examines the development of environmental activism in Russia and the former Soviet republics in response to these problems and its effect on policy and planning.

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Earth in Our Care: Ecology, Economy, and Sustainability Rutgers University Press | 2009-07-15 | ISBN: 0813545595 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB Earth in Our Care is a compelling study of three interactive spheres of the ecosystem: atmosphere (air), litho-hydrosphere (rock that comprises the restless continents and the water that surrounds them), and biosphere (all life sandwiched in between).

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