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Windfall : the booming business of global warming / McKenzie Funk.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : The Penguin Press, 2014Description: 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781594204012 (hbk.)
  • 1594204012 (hbk.)
Other title:
  • Wind fall
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/736373874 23
LOC classification:
  • HB615 .F86 2014
Other classification:
  • BUS094000
Contents:
Part 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.
Summary: "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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Book Karen H. Huntsman Library Main Book Collection - Second Level HB615 .F86 2014 1 Available 38060007438138
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 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.

"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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