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Books

  • Sustianable Communities: Toward Energy Independence and Carbon Neutral Communities
    Editor: Woodrow W. Clark II
    Spring Press, 2009

    Written as a case textbook and a professional reference book for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of disciplines, Sustainable Communities contains detailed case studies of communities in U.S.A., Europe, and Asia that have become sustainable. In most cases, these communities are either off the central power grid or will be by 2010, and are examples of what regions, cities, towns, and communities—such as colleges, businesses and shopping malls—can do to become sustainable.

  • Qualitative Economics: Toward A Science of Economics
    • Author: Woodrow Clark II and Michael Fast

    This book is about science - specifically, the science of economics. Or lack thereof is more accurate. All science, let alone economics, is grounded in the understanding of what is beneath the "surface" or the definitions and meanings attached to words, numbers, concepts and written analyses. By focusing on the interactions of people and business activities as case examples, we develop the science of economics. We take in particular the concern with global warming and climate change since these areas present both environmental problems caused by humankind along with solutions that involve people and business activities, expressed and captured in economic terms. Science, and hence economics, must be concerned with understanding real world experiences in order to formulate hypotheses that articulate into theories which produce descriptions of how to understand phenomenon and real world experiences.

  • Agile Energy Systems: Global lessons from the California Energy Crisis
    • Dr. Woodrow W. Clark II and Professor Ted Bradshaw, Ph.D.
    Elsevier Press, 2004

    Due to the recent catastrophic energy system failures in California along with those in the North-Eastern US and Southern Canada, London, and Italy, the time has come to proclaim the failure of deregulation, privatization or liberalization and propose a new energy system. This book shows in the first section, how five precipitating forces led to the deregulation debacle in California: (1) major technological changes and commercialization, (2) regulatory needs mismatched to societal adjustments, (3) inadequate and flawed economic models, (4) lack of vision, goals, and planning leading to energy failures, and (5) failure and lack of economic regional development.

    Forthcoming Books

    Sustainable Development Partnership Mechancisms
  • Author and Editor: Woodrow W. Clark II , Ph.D

    • The Third Industrial Revolution
  • Author and Editor: Woodrow W. Clark II , Ph.D and Grant Cook

    • The Blumer Book on the Social Sciences
  • Author and Editor: Woodrow W. Clark II , Ph.D and Professor Michael Fast, Ph.D.

    • Special Issue Journals