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"Financing the Race to Space is a masterful work that challenges and inspires. Armen V. Papazian's book is a must-read for policymakers, investors, and anyone with a keen interest in the future of space exploration. It is a testament to the power of visionary thinking and a significant contribution to the discourse on sustainable space development."-Alderman Professor Michael Mainelli, The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of London, City of London Corporation "Financing the Race to Space is an inspiring and ground-breaking blueprint for the future of space exploration. Blending visionary thinking with practical financial innovation, it offers transformative insights into funding sustainable space ventures and provides the tools and guidance needed to propel humanity's most ambitious space endeavors. Papazian redefines the financial paradigm necessary for our leap into the cosmos. Essential and enlightening, a must-read for C-suite executives, investors, and policymakers."- Karlton D. Johnson, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Governors, National Space Society "Investors, wisely advised by our members who understand the precepts that Dr Papazian covers so well in his work, stand to reap the responsible rewards."- Tracy Vegro OBE, CEO, The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment "An extraordinary book that serves us and future generations with realism and optimism."- Adrian Webb, Founder and Director, Space Value Foundation "A thought provoking and fresh way to look at finance and economics with a set of ideas that deserve wider debate."-Dr. Gillian Tett OBE, Provost, King's College Cambridge University, Editorial Board Member, Financial Times This seminal book examines the monetary and financial foundations necessary for outer space exploration, development, and settlement. It addresses the shortcomings of our financial value framework, financial mathematics, and monetary architecture, and introduces the transformations required to unlock the massive investment programs needed to invent, manufacture, deploy, and maintain the new habitats of the future.Armen V. Papazian is a financial economist (PhD, University of Cambridge) and the author of Hardwiring Sustainability into Financial Mathematics and The Space Value of Money.

"Effective Climate Communication provides a fresh perspective on communicating climate change in a climate of public disengagement and anxiety. Using these realities as starting points, Denisova explores key issues around greenwashing, news narratives, and the need for de-colonising practices. By asking 'what slows down citizen action?' Denisova's thoroughly researched and clearly written text calls for persistence, care and creativity. Combining compassion and practicality, the lessons in Effective Climate Communication will be useful for researchers, policy-makers, activists and storytellers in their fights for climate justice." Anna Feigenbaum, Professor in Digital Storytelling, Bournemouth University, UKThis book explores the urgent challenges of communicating climate change in the media. While many books have been written about climate change, this book goes to the very heart of what makes humans care about stories enough to act. In a direct and sympathetic approach, Denisova tackles problems of greenwashing, news narratives, colonial framings and more. Taking climate anxiety as a starting point, the author positions herself with empathy and asks the question: 'what slows down citizen action?' This fresh perspective acknowledges the pressing challenge of public disengagement and the anxiety people feel when faced with increasingly bleak headlines as the climate crisis intensifies. There is a surprising challenge to apocalyptic storytelling and a hero's narrative, which Denisova argues are counter-productive, while solutions are provided for media storytellers. This book is essential reading for anyone seeking to ease climate-related anxiety and foster a deeper sense of empowerment in their audience.Anastasia Denisova is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at the Communication and Media Research Institute, University of Westminster, UK. She specialises in viral cultures, internet memes, and climate change communication and is the author of the book Internet Memes and Society (2019) and the policy brief Fashion Media and Sustainability (2021). She has published widely in top academic journals, including Social Media + Society; Media, Culture and Society; and Journalism. Dr Denisova is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a board member of Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture.

This book combines hard science, technology, and progressive planning to reverse climate change, and offers a bold yet practical vision for sustainable living.

The Costa Rican cloud forest, a mysterious amphibian killer, and the vanished species of the golden toad—Twin documentarians and environmental writers, who have collaborated with Leonardo DiCaprio’s RE:WILD campaign, carry on their father’s mission at the heart of the modern extinction crisis.

The volume provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between education, sustainable development, and nation-building from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book encompasses various approaches to electrochemical water treatment, with an emphasis on a well-structured framework within the nexus of electrochemistry, water, and energy. It addresses the urgent challenges of water pollution and offers practical insights and operational guidance through applications and real-life case studies.

It is divided in four parts - supply chain management, production planning and inventory management, signal processing and social sciences in such a way that researchers can follow up to date progress in the field while observing various applications with large datasets.

This seminal volume responds to the pressing need to prepare all children and young people for a sustainable future in light of the climate crisis, providing clear and accessible information and strategies on how to fully embed sustainability into pedagogy, supporting current and future educators.

This seminal volume responds to the pressing need to prepare all children and young people for a sustainable future in light of the climate crisis, providing clear and accessible information and strategies on how to fully embed sustainability into pedagogy, supporting current and future educators.

This book discusses linkages between the natural and disturbed chemical composition of the earth's surface and ecological and human health. It reviews the environmental geochemical cycles of natural elements and persistent toxic substances (PTS) in the environment.

This edited collection explores how architects, planners and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities. Chapters investigate how to move from an extractivist system towards a territorialist project, working for the reappropriation of territorial resources.

This edited collection explores how architects, planners and landscape architects can engage with former mining sites and communities. Chapters investigate how to move from an extractivist system towards a territorialist project, working for the reappropriation of territorial resources.

This book presents the principles of animal biodiversity, including its significance, sustainable use, and conservation. It explores biodiversity's origins, measurement methods, and the consequences of neglecting its preservation, making it an essential resource for students and professionals in biology, ecology, and conservation.

Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies.

Crops suffer from biotic and abiotic stress during their growing period. The biotic stress in crops is caused by living organisms, specifically viruses, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, insects, arachnids, phanerogamic plant and weeds.

This book is a thorough compilation of recent studies on the effects of water stress on the morphology and anatomy of plants, photosynthesis, transpiration and nitrogen metabolism.

This book provides a far-reaching overview of the development of radical ecology and heterodox economics on the issues of sustainability, and arguing that greater engagement between these schools of thought is required to help formulate viable alternatives to the prevailing neoliberal ideology.

The book examines biological processes vital for organism survival through a chemical lens. Integrating core organic chemistry concepts, such as structural analysis and synthesis, explores how plants and animals produce and utilize toxic organic molecules for growth, survival, and reproduction.

Multi-disciplinary in scope, this book offers original readings of green political theory, exploring the thought of contemporary non-anthropocentric critical theorists and considering the manner in which their work promises to contribute to the further development of ecological democracy.

Adopting a decolonial and intersectional perspective, this book examines the post-migration condition, offering a new means of understanding the ways in which discourses of migration and citizenship intersect with experiences of loss, impacting upon feelings of belonging with respect to host communities and newcomers.