Entwicklungspolitik

Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit an deutschen Hochschulen

<p>Nachhaltigkeitsforschung hat in Deutschland eine lange Tradition und einen hohen Stellenwert. Dieses Buch diskutiert die Theorie und Praxis der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, wobei die interdi...

Environmental Change, Adaptation and Migration

Felicitas Hillmann / Marie Pahl / Birte Rafflenbeul / Harald Sterly

The contributors present empirical and theoretical insights on current debates on environmental change, adaptation and migration. While focusing on countries subject to environmental degradation, ...

Frictionless Markets

Jack Buffington

<p>This volume models a 21st century supply chain: one that uses technology that leads to the power of the individual, not larger organizations. Author Jack Buffington explains how in the ne...

Handbook of Sustainable Luxury Textiles and Fashion

<p>The second volume of handbook explores different dimensions of the sustainable luxury textiles and fashion, broadly based on the following topics: </p><p>Sustainable luxury &...

Electrokinetics Across Disciplines and Continents

The socio-economic activities due to world development are promoting increasing pressures on land, creating competition and conflicts, resulting in suboptimal use of resources. Integrated planning...

Reframing Sustainable Tourism

<p><p>This book examines the need for a new way of describing sustainable tourism and also looks at the frameworks needed to rethink how to apply this to communities, private operators...

Sustainability and Energy Politics

Giorel Curran

The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change. She does so through an ecological modernisation and corporate social responsibility lens which she conte...

China's Renewable Energy Revolution

John A. Mathews / Hao Tan / Kenneth A. Loparo

The authors suggest that China's renewable energy system, the largest in the world, will quickly supersede the black energy system that has powered the country's rapid rise as workshop of ...

Handbook of Sustainable Luxury Textiles and Fashion

<p>The first volume of this handbook explores different aspects of sustainable luxury textiles and fashion, broadly based on the following topics: Sustainability and business management, Va...

Technologie-Mediation

Friederike Wagner

Technische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit wird angesichts zunehmender Krisenregionen weltweit verstärkt diskutiert. In der Vergangenheit wurde nach Abschluss einer Maßnahme jedoch oft nicht weiter v...

Technologie-Mediation

Friederike Wagner

Technische Entwicklungszusammenarbeit wird angesichts zunehmender Krisenregionen weltweit verstärkt diskutiert. In der Vergangenheit wurde nach Abschluss einer Maßnahme jedoch oft nicht weiter v...

Transnationale Nachhaltigkeitsforschung

Marie Mualem Sultan

Obwohl die Fachwelt transnationale Nachhaltigkeitsforschung sehr ernst nimmt, um die lösungsorientierte Auseinandersetzung mit globalen Umweltproblemen zu unterstützen, erschöpft sich die wisse...

Agricultural Finance for Smallholder Farmers

Daniela Röttger

Even though traditional microfinance has successfully paved the way for offering financial services to low-income populations without traditional collateral, many microfinance institutions (MFIs) ...

Der große Landraub

Thomas Kruchem

The New Arctic

<p>In the late 18th century explorers and scientists started venturing into the Arctic in a heroic and sometimes deadly effort to understand and unveil the secrets of the unforgiving and mys...

Exploring Sustainable Behavior Structure in Higher Education

Margarita Juárez-Nájera

This book presents a social-psychology model delineating the factors that may influence in an altruistic manner sustainable behaviour (SB) of students, faculty and administrators in four higher ed...

Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries

<p>Drawing on more than 30 case studies from around the world, this book offers a multitude of examples for improving the governance of small-scale fisheries. Contributors from some 36 count...

The Foreign Aid Regime

A. Furia

The author develops an original interpretation of foreign aid by analysing it as a particular domain of international government. She demonstrates how foreign aid practices are contemporary forms ...

Sustainable Development, Knowledge Society and Smart Future Manufacturing Technologies

The book contributes to a better understanding of the role of knowledge societies in achieving sustainability. It is based on the conference with the same title held in Riga, which brought togethe...

Systemische Bionik

E. W. Udo Küppers

Dieses Essential vermittelt einen grundlegenden Einblick in die Systemische Bionik als Grenzen überwindende Disziplin. Der Autor erläutert auf leicht verständliche Weise, welchen Wert die Bioni...