Tag: Environmentalists

Free Download Susan Park, "World Bank Group interactions with environmentalists: Changing international organisation identities"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0719079470 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 0.4 mb
This book shows how environmentalists have shaped the world’s largest multilateral development lender, investment financier and political risk insurer to take up sustainable development. The book challenges an emerging consensus over international organisational change to argue that international organisations (IOs) are influenced by their social structure and may change their practices to reflect previously antithetical norms such as sustainable development.

Free Download Liu Jianqiang, "Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi "
English | ISBN: 0739199730 | 2015 | 350 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book weaves together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved in environmental protection (as well as a host of secondary characters): Tashi Dorje, a well-known and celebrated environmentalist; Karma Samdrup, a philanthropist, businessman, and environmentalist; Rinchen Samdrup, Karma’s brother, another extraordinary environmentalist; Gendun, a painter, historian, and researcher from Amdo; and Musuo, a Tibetan from the Dechin area of northwest Yunnan who founded the Khawakarpo Culture Society.

Free Download Material and Energy Balances for Engineers and Environmentalists (435 Pages)
by Colin Oloman
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1800613105 | 436 pages | True PDF | 74.46 MB
Material and energy (M&E) balances are fundamental to biological, chemical, electrochemical, photochemical and environmental engineering disciplines and important in many fields related to sustainable development.This comprehensive compendium presents the basic M&E balance concepts and calculations in a format easily digested by students, engineering professionals and those concerned with related environmental issues.The useful reference text includes worked examples for each chapter and demonstrates process balances in the framework of M&E concerns of the 21st century. The additional problems and solutions in the Appendix embrace a wide range of subjects, from fossil fuels to fuel cells, solar energy, space stations, carbon dioxide capture and sodium-ion batteries.