Entwicklungspolitik

Assessing Urban Transportation with Big Data Analysis

Dongyuan Yang / Zhengyu Duan

<p>This book chiefly focuses on urban traffic, an area supported by massive amounts of data. The application of big data to urban traffic provides strategic and technical methods for the mul...

Territorial Development and Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Global South

<div><p>This volume collects the results from the Politecnico di Milan’s award-winning “Boa_Ma_Nhã, Maputo!” research-by-design project, which studied various transdisciplinary ...

The United States Lacks Comprehensive Plan to Destroy the Terrorist Threat

The U.S. Government Accountability Office

This is a letter report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Released in 2008, it stated that "the U.S. had not met its national security goals to destroy terrorist threats and...

Rainwater Harvesting

Anil Lalwani

<p>Our dependency on groundwater resources and overuse thereof has led to a decline in water table so that in the last couple of decades the focus has shifted back to the traditional practic...

Moving Times

Julian Weber

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;Will we really soon no longer be sitting behind the wheel of our own car, but will only be taken to our destination by driverless electric taxis? Sh...

Partnerships and the Sustainable Development Goals

<p>This volume&nbsp;fills a significant gap in the scientific and policy literature on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and on SDG 17&nbsp;which focuses on partnership as a m...

Fostering Sustainable Business Models through Financial Markets

<div><p>The aim of this volume is to foster more sustainable business models through financial markets. To that end, it is necessary to know the main global challenges facing financial...

(Re)Discovering Proximity

Marika Fior / Paolo Galuzzi / Gabriele Pasqui / Piergiorgio Vitillo

<p>This book explores the topic of proximity and its relations in the design of contemporary urban fabrics and public spaces. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and reflections on the futu...

Das Lächeln des Diktators

Bachtyar Ali

Parallel zu seinen bahnbrechenden Romanen hat Bachtyar Ali seit Jahrzehnten zahlreiche Essays und Untersuchungen veröffentlicht. Mit diesem Sammelband ist er als scharf beobachtender, radikaler u...

Human Sustainable Cities

Voula Mega

This&nbsp;book argues that accelerating action&nbsp;toward sustainability&nbsp;for and by cities&nbsp;and their inhabitants&nbsp;can make a huge difference to humanity’s&...

Engagement with Sustainable Development in Higher Education

<p>This&nbsp;edited&nbsp;volume analyzes cases of higher education programs engaging with sustainable development.&nbsp;Offering cases from across the globe that focus&nbsp;o...

Educational Response, Inclusion and Empowerment for SDGs in Emerging Economies

<p>This volume analyzes&nbsp;cases from emerging economies in relation to the global endeavor to promote the vision of sustainable development in all forms of education. It aims to discu...

Traditional Urbanism Response to Climate Change

Anjali Krishan Sharma

The book focuses on the key contemporary issue of Climate change, constructing the narrative from traditions’ of Urbanism through its Axiology and Epistemology. The book is a rich collection of ...

Fostering Institutional Development and Vital Change in Africa and Asia

Fred M. Hayward

<p>This book looks at the question of what makes for successful change in developing countries. It focuses on people at every level in six developing countries in Africa and Asia who have he...

Sustainable Mountain Development

Jack D. Ives

This&nbsp;second edition of “Sustainable Mountain Development” is a history of the development of mountain environmental awareness from its origins during the Stockholm Conference on the E...

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

<p>This book describes initiatives and concrete examples on sustainable food production worldwide. In the current world scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to accomplis...

Localizing the SDGs in African Cities

<p>This volume brings&nbsp;together a unique set of interventions from a variety of contributors to bridge the gap between research and policy with a distinct focus on Africa, drawing&am...

ICT, Cities, and Reaching Positive Peace

Ali Cheshmehzangi

<div>This book is the first attempt to explore the use and application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related smart technologies in cities and for the sole purpose of ...

Handbook of Best Practices in Sustainable Development at University Level

This book gives a special emphasis to state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives, and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations, and civil society across the w...

Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals: The WEF Nexus

<p>This contributed volume offers a state-of-the-art, holistic overview of the employment of a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus approach to implement the seventeen United Nations Sustainable De...