Entwicklungspolitik

Aportes a la sustentabilidad

Mara Alejandra Cortés Lara / Alejandro Mendo Gutiérrez / Pablo Vázquez Piombo / Francisco Álvarez Partida / Rodrigo Flores Elizondo / Daniel Enrique Sardo / Nayar Cuitláhuac Gutiérrez Astudillo / Mónica Solórzano Gil / María Jania Orozco Bojórquez / David Vargas del Río / José de Anda Sánchez / Emely Malacón HilL / Francisco Antonio Espinosa Guzmán / Leopoldo Torres Barahona

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...

100 Betriebe für Ressourceneffizienz - Band 1

Mario Schmidt / Hannes Spieth / Joa Bauer / Christian Haubach

<p>Das Buch stellt ca. 50 aktuelle Beispiele vor, wie in produzierenden Betrieben Energie und Materialien eingespart werden können. Sie dienen zur Anschauung, mit welchen Maßnahmen man in ...

A Modern Nordic Saga : Politics, Economy and Society

Ryszard M. Czarny

This book focuses on the Nordic countries through a European perspective and wishes to draw attention to their place in the new world order. The volume emphasizes the specificity of their cooperat...

Cities in Global Transition

Raymond Charles Rauscher / Salim Momtaz

This book examines the planning of cities in global transition, looking at Australia’s Greater Sydney as a case example. The focus is on metropolitan districts (groups of municipalities) within ...

Sustainable Economic Development

<p>This book introduces the influence and impacts of green economy and green growth on sustainable economic development. Combining empirical and theoretical information, it provides detailed...

Green Economy Reader

<p>State of the art in sustainability thinking, inspired by interdisciplinary ideas of ecological economics. This book is focusing on sustainability pathways, new economic theory, democracy ...

Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?

David Hulme

In the past decade, the developed world has spent almost US$ 2 trillion on foreign aid for poorer countries. Yet 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty and around 2.9 billion cannot meet...

Desarrollo humano y libertades

Biohydrogen Production: Sustainability of Current Technology and Future Perspective

<p>Increase in green, renewable and sustainable energy demand due to higher environmental impacts (e.g. Greenhouse gases emissions, climate change, etc.) on consumption of fossil fuel resour...

Political Legitimacy beyond Weber

Benno Netelenbos

<p>Legitimacy is an essential conceptin politics. But what is it? This book seeks to answer this question throughadopting Weber’s sociological approach to legitimacy. Weber argues that wes...

Aswan High Dam Resettlement of Egyptian Nubians

Thayer Scudder

This book highlights the long-term resettlement process of the Egyptian Nubian people along the Aswan High Dam. Assessing the resettlement of 48,000 Egyptian Nubians in connection with the High Da...

Land Use Competition

<p>This book contributes to broadening the interdisciplinary knowledge basis for the description, analysis and assessment of land use practices. It presents conceptual advances grounded in e...

Sustainability Science: Field Methods and Exercises

This book builds up on the experience and lessons learnt by academics at the Graduate Program in Sustainability Science, Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI) at the University of Tokyo. A numbe...

Special Types of Life Cycle Assessment

<p>This book presents specialised methods and tools built on classical LCA. In the first book-length overview, their importance for the further growth and application of LCA is demonstrated ...

Climate Change, Energy Use, and Sustainability

This book is an outcome of the symposium “Towards Earth Friendly Use of Resources and Energy,” organized by the Nagoya University Center of Excellence Program “From Earth System Science to...

Monokulturen für Europas Biosprit

Linda Bausch

Seit 2003 setzt die EU bei ihrer Politik hin zu erneuerbaren Energien auf Biosprit im europäischen Kraftstoffmix. Aktuell zeigt sich, dass die frühen Befürchtungen von Kritikern berechtigt sche...

Mapping Sustainability Transitions

Gerardo Marletto / Simone Franceschini / Chiara Ortolani / Cécile Sillig

<p>This book was written for anyone wishing to understand how sustainable scenarios emerge from current innovations. It complements current sustainability transition research by providing a ...

Social Ecology

<div>This book presents the current state of the art in Social Ecology as practiced by the Vienna School of Social Ecology, globally one of the main research groups in this field. As a signi...

New Developments in Engineering Education for Sustainable Development

<p>This book discusses essential approaches and methods in connection with engineering education for sustainable development. Prepared as a follow-up to the 2015 Engineering Education in Sus...