This book analyses energy transitions and the opportunities and challenges for building sustainable energy systems to improve human capabilities while protecting the environment. Sufficient and secure energy supply is critical to human thriving and socioeconomic development. Yet energy systems are also implicated in the most pressing socio-environmental challenges of our time - climate change, air pollution, and water and land use. This book examines what is arguably the most ambitious vision for a renewable energy based system worldwide. This vision, often called Desertec, is for a regional electricity system supplying North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East with sustainable and affordable power. The behemoth plan would entail building dozens of large-scale solar and wind power plants mostly in North Africa, interconnecting the fragmented transmission infrastructure of 38 Mediterranean countries, and linking North Africa to the European Union (EU) through undersea transmission cables. Within the Mediterranean, the book focuses on Morocco, which is one of the most advanced developing countries in renewable energy scale-up, to understand its motivations for building renewable energy and the effects on sustainable development. The book therefore takes a unique multi-scalar approach to understanding the social and political aspects of energy transitions, weaving together the views of villagers living near Morocco’s first solar energy zone with the perspectives of national decision-makers in Morocco with the views of European policymakers and major transnational energy companies in the Mediterranean region. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers interested in energy transitions, sustainable and renewable energy, Mediterranean politics, sustainable development and environment and sustainability more generally.

Are you getting results the results you deserve at the bargaining table? You deserve a great deal but you will have to negotiate for it. Big deal negotiators know the rules to winning great deals without sacrificing their bottom-line. They know how to: Uncover hidden agendasEffectively negotiate price Demand and define tradeoffs Use influence to their advantage Manage power imbalances You can too. Negotiation Rules! is packed with dozens of relevant and practical techniques that will help you successfully negotiate your next big deal. You can't play the game if you don't know the rules!" - Professor G. Richard Shell, author of Bargaining for Advantage and The Art of Woo I know from experience that the concepts and techniques in Negotiation Rules! work. - MaryPat Theiler Cheng, Vice President, Netstar Communications, Inc. Grab this book before your competitors do! - Lee B. Salz, CEO of Business Expert Webinars and author of the award-winning book Soar despite Your Dodo Sales Manager Negotiation Rules! should be on every Sales Professional's reading list. By following the approach in this book you will close BIGGER deals, create happier customers, and ultimately bring home a bigger paycheck. - Jeb Blount, author of Power Principles and Sales Guy's 7 Rules for Outselling the Recession

BRAND NEW FOR 2019: A fully revised and updated edition of the quintessential guide to learning to negotiate effectively in every part of your life "A must read for everyone seeking to master negotiation. This newly updated classic just got even better."—Robert Cialdini, bestselling author of Influence and Pre-Suasion As director of the world-renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G. Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, lawyers, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negotiation. In the third edition of this internationally acclaimed book, he brings to life his systematic, step-by-step approach, built around negotiating effectively as who you are, not who you think you need to be. Shell combines lively stories about world-class negotiators from J. P. Morgan to Mahatma Gandhi with proven bargaining advice based on the latest research into negotiation and neuroscience. This updated edition includes: This updated edition includes: · An easy-to-take "Negotiation I.Q." test that reveals your unique strengths as a negotiator · A brand new chapter on reliable moves to use when you are short on bargaining power or stuck at an impasse · Insights on how to succeed when you negotiate online · Research on how gender and cultural differences can derail negotiations, and advice for putting relationships back on track

"A Practical Guide to Negotiating in the Military, 3rd edition outlines and provides frameworks for assessing and using five essential negotiating strategies tailored to the military environment. It includes applications to enhance the readers' understanding of these five strategies, properly evaluate situations, and select the most appropriate strategy"--Provided by publisher.

This dictionary is an aid to anyone involved in seeking to finance a feature film project, especially independents. It covers terms used in film production and distribution, marketing, accounting, insurance, securities, corporate structures and general financial arenas. All of the principal forms of feature film finance are covered, including studio/distributors, production companies, lending institutions, co-financing, pre-sales, grants, foreign and passive investor financing involving the sale of a security.