Entwicklungspolitik

Treatise on Sustainability Science and Engineering

This book is aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of recent developments in sustainability science and engineering. The book focuses on principles and practices and presents 18 interwoven c...

Sustainable Bioenergy Production - An Integrated Approach

This book focuses primarily on the advantages and implications of sustainable bioenergy production in terms of ensuring a more sustainable world despite its growing energy demands. It addresses a ...

Enabling Responsible Living

The book focuses on responsible living as the individual’s contribution to sustainable development. We believe that sustainable development can only be achieved if individual freedom and respons...

Global Change, Energy Issues and Regulation Policies

<p>This book<b> </b>analyses the deep interaction between the world’s environmental crises, energy production, conversion and use, and global regulation policies. </p><...

Sustainable Transport Studies in Asia

This book aims to provide a good understanding of and perspective on sustainable transport in Asia by focusing on economic, environmental, and social sustainability. It is widely acknowledged that...

The Paradox that is Diplomatic Recognition: Unpacking the Somaliland Situation

John Rabuogi Ahere

Somaliland is an example of a territory that has fulfilled the conditions that are pre-requisite for state recognition in the international system. Somaliland is however, not recognised as a state...

Quintessential Cities, Accountable to the Future

Voula Mega

​ ​This book can be seen as the third part of an unofficial trilogy on Sustainable Cities of the Future with the author's previous books 'Sustainable Development, Energy and the City&...

An Ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Agriculture

Carl F. Jordan

<p>Modern industrial agriculture is not sustainable because of its heavy reliance on petroleum, a non-renewable source of the energy used in farming, and because of pollution caused by petro...

This is not a Diary

Zygmunt Bauman

This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal reflection but an attempt to capture signs of our...

Improving International Capacity Development

J. Armstrong

Nothing is more important to a new, fragile or developing nation than developing the capacity of its government to support national well-being. Every society is complex; every government is comple...

This is not a Diary

Zygmunt Bauman

This is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn 2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a personal reflection but an attempt to capture signs of our...

The Turbulence of Migration

Nikos Papastergiadis

This important book traces the impact of the movement of people, ideas and capital across the globe.

Beyond the Two-State Solution

Yehouda Shenhav

For over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, with wide international support, to implement the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line...

Beyond the Two-State Solution

Yehouda Shenhav

For over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, with wide international support, to implement the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line...

Disasters Without Borders

John Hannigan

Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rare...

Disasters Without Borders

John Hannigan

Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rare...

Sustainable Development in the USA

Jean-Marc Zaninetti

After WWII, the United States of America proposed their way of life, based on an unlimited consumption of land, goods, and energy, as a model for the entire world. Nowadays, this expansionist mode...

Phosphorus

Mikhail Butusov / Arne Jernelöv

​This book starts with depiction of the phosphorus role in life creation and evolution. Then it outlines in which vital processes different phosphates participate in life of all flora and fauna,...

Mechanism Design for Sustainability

<p>This book provides advanced analytics and decision management techniques and tools for developing sustainable competitive advantages in the studied target context. In order to achieve sus...

Kampf gegen die Armut

Esther Duflo

<P><STRONG>Wirtschaftsnobelpreis 2019 für Esther Duflo</STRONG></P><P>Esther Duflo gehört zu den Shooting Stars der internationalen Wissenschaft. Ihr Forschungsgebi...