Entwicklungspolitik

Sustainable Fibres for Fashion Industry

This book covers all sustainable fibres applicable in the fashion sector. It addresses the importance of these fibres in the fashion sector with the context of sustainability. This book, the first...

Corrosion Control and Surface Finishing

This book deals with the surface finishing for corrosion prevention fromthe viewpoint of environmental friendliness. Surface finishing for metallic materialsor by metallic materials has excellent ...

Local Governance, Economic Development and Institutions

<p>'Development' is what most people see as progress in the places where they live and in the ways they live. It has to do with public services, the ways to complain when these are n...

Ethnic Fashion

This is the first book to introduce readers to the crux of ethnic fashion. Covering all aspects, it addresses the significance of sustainability (including culture) and ethnic fashion in the appar...

Sustainable Fibres for Fashion Industry

This book covers all sustainable fibres applicable in the fashion sector and discusses their importance in the context of sustainability. It is the first of its kind to address all the minute deta...

"Arabischer Frühling": Konsolidierungsprobleme und deren Erklärungen in der MENA-Region

Tatjana Fabricius

Vietnam und sein Transformationsweg: Die Entwicklung seit der Reformpolitik 1986 und aktuelle Herausforderungen

Tam T.T. Nguyen

Learner-Centered Teaching Activities for Environmental and Sustainability Studies

<p>Learner-centered teaching is apedagogical approach that emphasizes the roles of students as participants inand drivers of their own learning. Learner-centered teaching activities gobeyond...

Colombia

Virginia Bouvier

Handbook of Sustainability in Additive Manufacturing

This book highlights the sustainability aspects of additive manufacturing (AM) in two separate volumes. It describes the details of this technology and its implications on the entire product life ...

Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

<p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cit...

Lehrer/innenbildung im Fluss

Intention dieser Ausgabe der Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung ist es, die vielfältigen und im Fluss befindlichen Entwicklungen der Lehrer/innenbildung im deutschsprachigen Raum einzufangen u...

Interwoven Cities

Liam Magee

Proposing a renovation of the metaphor of the urban fabric, Interwoven Cities develops an analysis of how cities might be woven into alternative patterns, to better sustain social and ecological life.

Development for Sustainable Agriculture

Since the mid-1970s, the tropical savanna, known as Cerrado, has been transformed into one of the world's largest grain-growing regions. This book explores how and by what Brazil achieved incl...

Green Fashion

<div>This book details the crux of green fashion, addressing various environmental aspects and discussing the importance of sustainable fashion in the apparel industry. It addresses various ...

The Psychopolitics of Liberation

L. Alschuler

Explaining changes in the political consciousness of the oppressed using the ideas of Paulo Freire, Albert Memmi, and Jungian psychology, this original book explores how psychological bonds of opp...

Humanitarian Response Index 2008

DARA (Development Assistance Research Associates)

The purpose of this annual report is to develop an index of good humanitarian donorship that will measure donors' effectiveness against their commitment to the Principles and Good Practise of ...

Global Civil Society 2011

H. Seckinelgin / Billy Wong

Global Civil Society 2011 combines activist and academic accounts of contemporary struggles to promote, negotiate and deliver justice in a global frame without a central authority. In their engage...

Engaging Stakeholders in Education for Sustainable Development at University Level

This book discusses the role of ESD stakeholders at university level, involving civil society and the private sector and public sectors (including local, national and intergovernmental bodies). In...

The Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) 2009

DARA (Development Assistance Research Associates)

Over 350 million people are affected each year by disaster and conflict. The international community is often unable to respond effectively to these crises. This report provides an independent ...