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  • Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals

    An A-Z Guide

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Yi hyun Kang, Carole-Anne Sénit, Yixian Sun ...
    Series series A-Z Guides for Environment and Sustainability
    This book provides a highly accessible and user-friendly overview of the essential concepts and terms related to the current global endeavour to implement the Sustainable Development Goals.With the first decade of the 15-year timespan of the 2030 Agenda now past, the SDGs show limited progress and several goals are even regressing. It is imperative that SDG implementation is accelerated until 2030 ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Slavery in Early Medieval Northern Europe

    The Invisible Commodity

    Edited by Felix Biermann, Marek Jankowiak ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume is the first comprehensive study of the material imprint of slavery in early medieval Europe. While written sources attest to the ubiquity of slavery and slave trade in early medieval British Isles, Scandinavia and Slavic lands, it is still difficult to find material traces of this reality, other than the hundreds of thousands of Islamic coins paid in exchange for the northern European ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Perspectives on Energy Poverty in Post-Communist Europe

    Edited by George Jiglau, Anca Sinea, Ute Dubois, Philipp Biermann ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Energy Studies
    This book explores the issue of energy poverty in post-communist Europe and shows how it is viewed and addressed through public policies.Energy poverty is severely affecting many parts of the European Union, but up until now only a few comparative analyses have been developed to understand the phenomenon and its diversity throughout the region. Filling this gap, this volume focuses specifically on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • A Case for Character

    Towards a Lutheran Virtue Ethics

    Edited by Joel D. Biermann ...
    Over the last several decades, perceptive observers of Western civilization have documented what virtually everyone has perceived: as the old foundations of society have toppled, morality and personal character have been set adrift and often vanished altogether. How can character be cultivated when it seems no one is willing or able to provide a definitive description of character to which humans ... Read more

    $28.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Political Impact of the Sustainable Development Goals

    Transforming Governance Through Global Goals?

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Carole-Anne Sénit ...
    Written by an international team of over sixty experts and drawing on over three thousand scientific studies, this is the first comprehensive global assessment of the political impact of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were launched by the United Nations in 2015. It explores in detail the political steering effects of the Sustainable Development Goals on the UN system and the policies of ... Read more

    $114.79 USD

  • Biomedical and Environmental Sensing

    Edited by J. I. Agbinya, E. Biermann, Y. Hamam ...
    At a time when the applications of sensors are in high demand and environmental issues are international priorities, this book on biomedical and environmental sensing provides the technical basis for researchers and students to understand the requirements for biomedical computing and also environmental sensing and to develop solutions in their areas of interests. The book deals with key techniques ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Biomedical and Environmental Sensing

    Edited by J. I. Agbinya, E. Biermann, Y. Hamam ...
    At a time when the applications of sensors are in high demand and environmental issues are international priorities, this book on biomedical and environmental sensing provides the technical basis for researchers and students to understand the requirements for biomedical computing and also environmental sensing and to develop solutions in their areas of interests. The book deals with key techniques ... Read more

    $108.99 USD

  • Architectures of Earth System Governance

    Institutional Complexity and Structural Transformation

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Rakhyun E. Kim ...
    International institutions are prevalent in world politics. More than a thousand multilateral treaties are in place just to protect the environment alone, and there are many more. And yet, it is also clear that these institutions do not operate in a void but are enmeshed in larger, highly complex webs of governance arrangements. This compelling book conceptualises these broader structures as the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Game Theory

    How Luck and Analytics Shape Football

    by Christoph Biermann ...
    'A rare and refreshing book about the role of chance in football.'Ian Graham, author of How to Win the Premier League***What if what we know about football isn't true?What if we praise and criticise the wrong teams?What if Real Madrid have won the Champions League too many times and Pep Guardiola too few?And what if the wrong teams end up winn... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Physical Geography

    Edited by Rebecca Lave, Christine Biermann, Stuart N. Lane ...
    This handbook is recognition of the need to better integrate physical and human geography. It combines a collection of work and research within the new field of Critical Physical Geography, which gives critical attention to relations of social power with deep knowledge of a particular field of biophysical science. Critical Physical Geography research accords careful attention to biophysical ... Read more

    $287.99 USD

  • Anthropocene Encounters: New Directions in Green Political Thinking

    Edited by Frank Biermann, Eva Lövbrand ...
    Coined barely two decades ago, the Anthropocene has become one of the most influential and controversial terms in environmental policy. Yet it remains an ambivalent and contested formulation, giving rise to a multitude of unexpected, and often uncomfortable, conversations. This book traces in detail a broad variety of such 'Anthropocene encounters': in science, philosophy and literary fiction. It ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Edited by Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... Read more

    $25.99 USD