To make renewables bankable, investors need assurances against default due to various country-level risks. This brief examines sovereign guarantees and other risk mitigation options.
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著者:Gene Logsdon
出版社: Chelsea Green Publishing
発売日: 2010年10月29日
In his insightful book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure ー our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource.
He beg……続きを見る
A long-time chief data scientist at Amazon shows how open data can make everyone, not just corporations, richer
Every time we Google something, Facebook someone, Uber somewhere, or even just turn on……続きを見る
This outlook highlights climate-safe investment options until 2050, policies for transition and specific regional challenges. It also explores options to eventually cut emissions to zero.
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The Handbook of Ellipsometry is a critical foundation text on an increasingly critical subject. Ellipsometry, a measurement technique based on phase and amplitude changes in polarized light, is beco……続きを見る
IRENA’s latest global cost study shows solar and wind power reaching new price lows. The report highlights cost trends for all major renewable electricity sources.
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This is an open access book.
The double-carbon target has been one of the main motivations and goals for China's social and economic development. The building sector is one of the most important sec……続きを見る
In 'Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States' by Thomas G. Gentry, readers are invited into a comprehensive exploration of the avian world, focusing on the unique nesting habits and egg characte……続きを見る
This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of ……続きを見る
"A Girl of the Limberlost" – Elnora Comstock, is an impoverished young woman who lives with her widowed mother, Katharine Comstock, on the edge of the Limberlost. Elnora faces cold neglect by her mo……続きを見る
著者:Peter Gentsch
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2018年10月24日
AI and Algorithmics have already optimized and automated production and logistics processes. Now it is time to unleash AI on the administrative, planning and even creative procedures in marketing, s……続きを見る
Shift Happens is a collection of essays that chronicle the introduction and spread of technologies that have shifted and reshaped our lives during the past century.
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This book presents computer programming as a key method for solving mathematical problems. There are two versions of the book, one for MATLAB and one for Python. The book was inspired by the Springe……続きを見る
The report, prepared in collaboration with UN Refugee Agency, proposes renewable energy solutions to provide clean and reliable power to refugees and the humanitarian organisations.
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This report explores the prospects for renewables to diversify national economies and the combined GCC energy mix, while helping the region meet climate goals and contribute to the 2030 Agenda for S……続きを見る
This open access book addresses the issue of diffusing sustainable energy access in
low- and middle-income contexts.
Access to energy is one of the greatest challenges for many people living in low-……続きを見る
Möbius bagels, Euclid's flourless chocolate cake and apple pi - this is maths, but not as you know it.
In How to Bake Pi, mathematical crusader and star baker Eugenia Cheng has rustled up a batch of……続きを見る
Natürlich gab es vor 3.500 Jahren noch keinen Rundfunk, der ja bekanntlich die Übertragung mit elektromagnetischen Wellen nutzt.Um den Rundfunk aber überhaupt möglich zu machen, bedurfte es vieler E……続きを見る
Comprehensive manual embracing essentially all the classical and modern areas of chemical kinetics. Provides details of modern applications in chemistry, technology and biochemistry.
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Life in Europe will indeed go on as the climate changes, but not in the same way as before. The air will be warmer, winds will change, patterns of rainfall and snowfall will alter, and sea level is ……続きを見る
Advanced alien civilizations are now present in our galaxy. That's the message that the author sends out to readers in this interesting little book. The reasons why there has to be life elsewhere in……続きを見る
著者:Gene Shinn
出版社: University Press of Florida
発売日: 2013年03月08日
In Bootstrap Geologist Shinn enthusiastically shares the highs and lows of his remarkable life. Taking readers around the globe as well as below the ocean, he recounts the painstaking process of dat……続きを見る
The purpose of this book is neither to duplicate overviews of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) nor to recapitulate narrative treatments of the European integration process. The aim is to comprehend……続きを見る
Chemoinformatics strategies to improve drug discovery results
With contributions from leading researchers in academia and the pharmaceutical industry as well as experts from the software industry, t……続きを見る
This is the story of wunderkind physicist Jan Hendrik Schön who faked the discovery of a new superconductor made from plastic. A star researcher at the world-renowned Bell Laboratories in New Jersey……続きを見る