Entwicklungspolitik

Creating Low Carbon Cities

<p>This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally. Contributions by experts from around the world focus on the key fa...

The Human Face of Water Security

<p>This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central ...

Technology, Society and Sustainability

<div>This collection is a multidisciplinary and multicultural contribution to the current sustainability discourse. It is focused on two main dimensions of our world: complexity and diversit...

Cartografías de la universidad en lo local, lo regional y lo global

Jorge Eliécer Martínez Posada

Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education

<p>This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject. It offers a unique overview of w...

Sustainable Management of Luxury

As this book is the first book worldwide in the "sustainable" management of luxury area, it highlights key aspects in the sustainable management of luxury based on presentations using diff...

Environmental Sustainability from the Himalayas to the Oceans

<p>The book is written in the backdrop of the environmental impacts of and future requirements from the natural environment for rapid economic growth that has characterized recent economi...

Critical Capacity Development

Farhad Analoui / Joseph Kwadwo Danquah

This book contributes to our understanding of a neglected and poorly-understood concept within the development field: ‘capacity development’ in the context of human and organisational sustaina...

Sustainable Landscape Planning in Selected Urban Regions

<p>This book provides a unique contribution to the science of sustainable societies by challenging the traditional concept of rural-urban dichotomy. It combines environmental engineering and...

Is Multiculturalism Dead?

Christian Joppke

<p>Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name. This authoritative book revie...

Northern Sustainabilities: Understanding and Addressing Change in the Circumpolar World

This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st centur...

Imagining India in Discourse

Mohan Jyoti Dutta

The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elit...

Sustainable Development Research at Universities in the United Kingdom

<p>This book gathers inputs from a variety of researchers in the field of sustainable development in the widest sense across the UK, from business and economics, to arts and fashion, adminis...

Understanding Built Environment

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus woul...

From Poverty, Inequality to Smart City

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus woul...

Development Management of Transforming Economies

Fabiana Sciarelli / Azzurra Rinaldi

<p>This insightful book offers a new and innovative tool in the study of development. The authors propose ‘The Overall Development Model’ which provides a strategy for long-term, sustain...

Mathematical Advances Towards Sustainable Environmental Systems

<div><p>This edited volume focuses on how we can protect our environment and enhance environmental sustainability when faced with changes and pressures imposed by our expansive need...

Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education

<p>This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject. It offers a unique overview of w...

Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education

<p>This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject. It offers a unique overview of w...

Measuring Progress Towards Sustainability

Subhas K. Sikdar / Debalina Sengupta / Rajib Mukherjee

<div>This book is a state of the art treatise on what has been done so far on measuring sustainability for decision making. Contributions will appeal to engineers and scientists engaged in t...