Entwicklungspolitik

Ethical Engineering for International Development and Environmental Sustainability

<p>Ensuring that their work has a positive influence on society is a responsibility and a privilege for engineers, but also a considerable challenge. This book addresses the ways in which en...

Cultural DNA

Gurnek Bains

<p><b>Develop deeper cultural intelligence to thrive in a globalized world.</b></p> <p><i>Cultural DNA</i> is a thought provoking book for successful enga...

Cultural DNA

Gurnek Bains

Producing Cultural Diversity

Ulrike Niedner-Kalthoff

In ihrer Ethnografie der UNESCO-Verhandlungen zum Schutz der kulturellen Vielfalt beleuchtet Ulrike Niedner-Kalthoff die vielfältigen Prozeduren der Entscheidungsfindung im postnationalen Zeitalt...

Responsible Living

<p>Focusing on the challenges of the transition to responsible, sustainable lifestyles, this book examines developments over the last decade in relation to:</p><p>- the creation ...

Chinesische und westliche Entwicklungshilfe in Afrika im Vergleich: Cui bono?

Stefan Lorenz

Chinas Afrikapolitik wird von vielen westlichen Politikern und Medien äußerst skeptisch betrachtet. Dabei werden häufig verschiedene Vorwürfe laut, die letztlich darauf hinauslaufen, dass die ...

Sicherheitspolitische Entwicklungspolitik - Entwicklungspolitische Sicherheitspolitik? Eine postmoderne Untersuchung deutscher 'Entwicklungszusammenarbeit' in Subsahara-Afrika

Jean A. Charar

Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist es der Frage nachzugehen, ob und inwiefern sicherheitspolitische Elemente Einfluss auf die klassische - an Armutsbekämpfung und Bildung orientierte - Entwicklungs...

Applied Geoinformatics for Sustainable Integrated Land and Water Resources Management (ILWRM) in the Brahmaputra River basin

<p>The central theme of this book is focused on the analyses and the results which emerged from the international research project BRAHMATWINN sponsored by European Commission (EC) and condu...

Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives

<p>Firmly rooted in the theory and practice of sustainable development, this book offers a comprehensive resource on sustainability, focusing on both industrialized and developing nations. I...

Kultur als Menschenrecht?

Janne Mende

In Menschenrechtsdebatten entzündet sich regelmäßig die Frage, ob es ein kollektives Menschenrecht auf Kultur und Identität gibt. Anhand einer Analyse der Forderungen von indigenen Gruppen in ...

Emerging Bioresources with Nutraceutical and Pharmaceutical Prospects

Seema Patel

​This book introduces some emerging functional foods that are natural resources with tremendous promise as nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals. The author considers biodiversity and bioprospectin...

Transition and Justice

Gerhard Anders / Olaf Zenker

<i>Transition and Justice</i> examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ were declared after periods of violence and where transit...

Transition and Justice

Gerhard Anders / Olaf Zenker

<i>Transition and Justice</i> examines a series of cases from across the African continent where peaceful ‘new beginnings’ were declared after periods of violence and where transit...

The Growth of Biofuels in the 21st Century

R. Ackrill / A. Kay

This book provides a timely and insightful analysis of the expansion of biofuels production and use in recent years. Drawing on interviews with key policy insiders, Ackrill and Kay show how biofue...

Cultural Politics and the Transatlantic Divide over GMOs

H. Stephan

Alongside other factors, cultural values and identities help to explain different regulatory frameworks for genetically modified organisms. This book uses insights from environmental history and s...

The Spiritual Dimension of Business Ethics and Sustainability Management

This book discloses the spiritual dimension in business ethics and sustainability management. Spirituality is understood as a multiform search for meaning which connects people with all living bei...

Transitions to Sustainability

This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural res...

Governing the Nexus

Global trends such as urbanization, demographic and climate change that are currently underway pose serious challenges to sustainable development and integrated resources management. The complex r...

Environmental Sustainability

Covers different categories of green technologies (e.g. biofuels, renewable energy sources, phytoremediation etc.,) in a nutshell -Focuses on next generation technologies which will help to attain...

Integrative Approaches to Sustainable Development at University Level

<p>This book documents and compares the experiences of a wide range of universities across the five continents with regard to sustainable development, making it of special interest to sustai...