Title:
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Windfall : the booming business of global warming /
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Authors:
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McKenzie Funk, Author
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Material Type:
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book
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Publisher:
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New York : Penguin Press, 2014
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ISBN / ISSN / EAN :
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978-1-59420-401-2
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Size:
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310 p., 16 p. of unnumbered plates / col. ill. / 24 cm
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Bibliography note:
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-298) and index
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Languages:
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English
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Class number:
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HB615
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Subjects:
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Clean energy investment
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Entrepreneurship
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Global warming--Economic aspects
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Description:
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"An investigation into how entrepreneurial people and institutions around the globe are cashing in on the new world being created by global warming--and who will pay the price for it"--
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Contents note:
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art 1. The melt : Cold rush: Canada defends the Northwest Passage -- Shell games: when an oil company believes in climate change -- Greenland rising: an independence movement heats up -- Father of invention: Israel saves the melting Alps -- Part 2. The drought : Too big to burn: public fires, private firefighters -- Uphill to money: where water runs when it runs out -- Farmland grab: Wall Street goes to South Sudan -- Green wall, black wall: Africa tries to keep the Sahara at bay, Europe tries to keep Africa at bay -- Part 3. The deluge : Great wall of India: what to do about the Bangladesh problem -- Seawalls for sale: why the Netherlands loves sea-level rise -- Better things for better living: climate genetics -- Problem solved: our geoengineered future -- Epilogue : Magical thinking
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