This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitized to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analyzing, and teaching poetry.
This book combines the fundamentals of economics, technology, and policy in deriving feasible solutions to facilitate the large-scale development of renewables in the ASEAN.
Providing high-level climate risk assessments for cities in Armenia, Georgia, and Uzbekistan, this report is designed to mainstream mitigation and adaptation into urban planning to help ensure climate resilient growth.
Leadership for the Great Transition-a changemaker's toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilienceThe Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring changemakers to step into their full power at this time of unprecedented global crisis.
This book entitled "e;Sustainable Disaster Management and Human Health"e; is designed to assist the readers with a body of knowledge which permits a transition into the application of disaster management planning and procedures for healthcare facilities and organisations, for the successful achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (UNSDG 2030).
This book is a guide to one hundred plays addressing the most urgent and important issue of our time: the climate crisis100 Plays to Save the Worldis a book to provoke as well as inspireto start conversations, inform debate, challenge our thinking, and be a launchpad for future productions.
Biological invasions - the introduction, establishment and spread of invasive alien species - are complex global phenomena that can cause significant environmental, ecological, and economic harm.
Green bond issuance has surged in recent years in response to growing investor appetite and borrowers' needs as they embark on the sustainability transition.
Now in a thoroughly revised and expanded second edition, this classroom-tested text demonstrates and illustrates how to apply concepts and methods learned in disparate courses such as mathematical modeling, probability, statistics, experimental design, regression, optimization, parameter estimation, inverse modeling, risk analysis, decision-making, and sustainability assessment methods to energy processes and systems.
Originally served at the coronations of French kings, Champagne is now popular around the world and sales increase year on year as people discover this delicious, delightful, de-lovely drink.
There has been a burgeoning interest in energy security in recent years due to the transformation of the energy landscape through deepening market deregulation, rising environmental challenges, growing energy hunger, and significant political changes.
Riesige, neuartige Wald- und Buschbrände, gigantische Sturzregen, beschleunigte Vernichtung der Wälder, Dürrekatastrophen und Tornados - nahezu täglich Katastrophenmeldungen in Zeitungen und News-Tickern.
This book presents a methodology for the design, construction, monitoring, optimization, and post-occupancy evaluation of net-zero and positive-energy communities based on the experiences gained in the EU Horizon 2020 ZERO-PLUS project.
There has been a burgeoning interest in energy security in recent years due to the transformation of the energy landscape through deepening market deregulation, rising environmental challenges, growing energy hunger, and significant political changes.
Biological invasions - the introduction, establishment and spread of invasive alien species - are complex global phenomena that can cause significant environmental, ecological, and economic harm.
Considering sustainability as a flawed and restrictive term in practice, Sustainable Futures for Climate Adaptation argues that we must radically adapt humanity and reform society, cities, buildings, and our approach to migration in order to coexist in harmony with our natural environments.
As humans expand the frequency and scale of interactions off-planet, Space Criminology ponders the nature of crime, harm and transgression in outer space and possible responses to these.
The book reports the results on the fate of POPs in the abiotic and biotic components of the aquatic environment North Pacific Ocean (include Russian part of North Pacific), possible health risks for coastal residents Pacific Ocean exposed to these hazardous pollutants are systematized.
This volume provides state-of-the-art knowledge on xenobiotics in urban ecosystems, addressing a wide range of related issues, such as xenobiotic types and chemical composition, environmental fate, remedial approaches, regulatory policies and socioeconomic impacts.
'The perfect accompaniment to a year of forest walks'Gardens Illustrated 'Books of the Year'A seductive mix of science, history and culture'Tracy Chevalier'I love this book'Lauren Laverne, as featured on BBC Radio 6 MusicA wondrous seasonal journey through Britain and Ireland's trees.
Stadtwerken mit ihren oft mannigfachen Geschäftsbereichen wie Energieerzeugung, öffentlicher Nahverkehr, Netzbetrieb Strom/Gas/Wasser, dem Vertrieb von Strom oder Gas sowie dem Ausbau/Betrieb von Ladeinfrastruktur kommt eine maßgebliche Rolle bei der konkreten & lokalen Umsetzung von Nachhaltigkeitsprojekten zu.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of inclusive, sustainable development, emphasizing the critical need to integrate the perspectives and needs of people with disabilities and marginalized communities into the global sustainability transition to a sustainable future.
Acknowledging the multidimensional nature of disasters’ impacts and subsequent recovery pathways as well as the central role of communities’ agency, this book introduces and discusses the political, architectural and social dimensions of disaster-induced displacement and reconstruction in the long-term view.
Recurring and worsening flood incidence around the world has necessitated the understanding and strengthening of community-based flood risk management from an international perspective.
This book presents a methodology for the design, construction, monitoring, optimization, and post-occupancy evaluation of net-zero and positive-energy communities based on the experiences gained in the EU Horizon 2020 ZERO-PLUS project.
