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(Paperback)

By: Randall Curren

ISBN: 9780262535137
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A philosopher and a scientist propose that sustainability can be understood as living well together without diminishing opportunity to live well in the future.


(Paperback)

By: Kate Brown

ISBN: 9780141988542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, updated edition)

By: Kerry Emanuel

ISBN: 9780262535915
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 9th October 2018
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An updated edition of a guide to the basic science of climate change, and a call to action.


(Hardback)

By: Howard Ball

ISBN: 9780313275661
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Studies the political, legal, social, medical, engineering and ethical problems that emerged when American leaders developed a nuclear arsenal to contain the USSR without considering the potential cost in innocent lives; intended for medical and public health personnel, policy-makers and others.


(Hardback)

By: Paul W. MacAvoy

ISBN: 9780691119946
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Northeast Utilities Company adopted a new competitive strategy in the mid-1980s. Curtailing outlays on nuclear operations meant high risk that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would close the plants because of prolonged outages. This is just what happened in 1996. This book describes ten years of corporate performance preceding the shutdown.


(Paperback)

By: W. Seth Carus

ISBN: 9780275945206
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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With technology that is accessible, affordable, and relatively simple to produce, Third World countries could acquire highly accurate, long-range cruise missile forces to escalate local conflicts and threaten the forces and even the territories of the industrial powers.

This book is a warning to policymakers.


(Hardback)

By: W. Seth Carus

ISBN: 9780275945190
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1992
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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With technology that is accessible, affordable, and relatively simple to produce, Third World countries could acquire highly accurate, long-range cruise missile forces to escalate local conflicts and threaten the forces and even the territories of the industrial powers.

This book is a warning to policymakers.


(Paperback)

By: Peder Anker

ISBN: 9781839993169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Anthem Press
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(Paperback)

By: Hillary Brown

ISBN: 9780262533867
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing countries.


(Paperback)

By: Helen Caldicott

ISBN: 9780522877014
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Eric B. Herzik

ISBN: 9780313290589
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The development and use of nuclear power in the United States has become stalemated. This volume, therefore, examines the dynamics of nuclear waste disposal policy. The volume provides a comprehensive view of the complex environment in which nuclear waste disposal policy develops.


(Paperback)

By: Scott Douglas Sagan

ISBN: 9780691021010
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The apparently excellent safety record with nuclear weapons has led scholars, policy-makers, and the public alike to believe that nuclear arsenals can serve as a secure deterrent for the foreseeable future. This book challenges such optimism.


(Paperback)

By: Thomas A. Bass

ISBN: 9781682195109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th July 2025
Publisher: OR Books
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(Paperback)

By: Fred Pearce

ISBN: 9781846276262
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2019
Publisher: Granta Books
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An eye-opening journey through the disasters and triumphs of the nuclear age - and a critical assessment of the nuclear future.


(Paperback)

By: Vaclav Smil

ISBN: 9780262528276
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production.


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By: David Demortain

ISBN: 9780262537940
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades.


(Hardback)

By: Casey Bukro

ISBN: 9781572843233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
Publisher: Surrey Books,U.S.
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An in-depth, timely examination of a religious cult that founded a city, the nuclear power plant that moved in, and the reporter, Chicago Tribunes Casey Bukro, who was allowed inside.


(Paperback)

By: William Chaloupka

ISBN: 9780816620760
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1992
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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An analysis of anti-nuclear politics through the lens of postmodern theories of language and society.