Böcker av Dieter Helm

What can we really do about the climate emergency? The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing - or even just slowing - it will affect all of us. But it can be done.

Hier ist Band 3 der dreiteiligen Reihe zur Biologie der Kakteen. Er umfasst die Kapitel Morphologie, Naturschutz und Kakteen als Nutzpflanzen. Dazu zählen natürlich auch die Pflanzen der Spezial-Gärtnereien und in unseren Sammlungen. Außerdem gibt es die dornenspitzigen "Anmerkungen zur Kultur". Extra-Bonus: Kulinarische Kakteen mit Rezepten zum Nachkochen. Ebenfalls erschienen sind Band 1 (Systematik - Nomenklatur - Bedeutung der Namen), ISBN 978-1-4461-3377-4 und Band 2 (Evolution, Ökophysiologie und Blütenbiologie), ISBN 978-1-4461-3935-6. Der Autor ist promovierter Biologe und beschäftigt sich seit 1969 mit Kakteen.

Hier ist Band 2 der dreiteiligen Reihe zur Biologie der Kakteen. Er umfasst die Kapitel Evolution (Entstehung und Verbreitung), Ökophysiologie (wie Kakteen leben) und Blütenbiologie. Band 1 (Systematik - Nomenklatur - Bedeutung der Namen) ist bereits unter der ISBN 978-1-4461-3377-4 erschienen. Der dritte Band behandelt die Themen Morphologie (Bau der Kakteen), Naturschutz und Nutzung der Kakteen. Er wird abgeschlossen mit den Anmerkungen zur Kultur. Der Autor ist promovierter Biologe und beschäftigt sich seit 1969 mit Kakteen.

'One of the most important books of the decade' Country Life Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature.

An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this and other shifts are the harbingers of a coming energy revolution and how the fossil fuel age will come to an end. Surveying recent surges in technological innovations, Helm's provocative new book documents how the global move toward the internet-of-things will inexorably reduce the demand for oil, gas, and renewables-and prove more effective than current efforts to avert climate change. Oil companies and energy utilities must begin to adapt their existing business models or face future irrelevancy. Oil-exporting nations, particularly in the Middle East, will be negatively impacted, whereas the United States and European countries that are investing in new technologies may find themselves leaders in the geopolitical game. Timely and controversial, this book concludes by offering advice on what governments and businesses can and should do now to prepare for a radically different energy future.

Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables-like species-keep on coming, provided we do not drive them towards extinction. Non-renewables-like oil and gas-can only be used once. Together, they are the foundation that ensures our survival and well-being, and the basis of all economic activity. In the face of the global, local, and national destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems, economist Dieter Helm here offers a crucial set of strategies for establishing natural capital policy that is balanced, economically sustainable, and politically viable. Helm shows why the commonly held view that environmental protection poses obstacles to economic progress is false, and he explains why the environment must be at the very core of economic planning. He presents the first real attempt to calibrate, measure, and value natural capital from an economic perspective and goes on to outline a stable new framework for sustainable growth. Bristling with ideas of immediate global relevance, Helm's book shifts the parameters of current environmental debate. As inspiring as his trailblazing The Carbon Crunch, this volume will be essential reading for anyone concerned with reversing the headlong destruction of our environment.

In a new edition of his hard-hitting book on climate change, economist Dieter Helm looks at how and why we have failed to tackle the issue of global warming and argues for a new, pragmatic rethinking of energy policy.   “An optimistically levelheaded book about actually dealing with global warming.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “[Dieter Helm] has turned his agile mind to one of the great problems of our age: why the world’s efforts to curb the carbon dioxide emissions behind global warming have gone so wrong, and how it can do better.”—Pilita Clark, Financial Times