La prise de conscience collective des dégâts générés par une empreinte technologique de plus en plus grande avec la mise en danger des ressources naturelles dont l'atmosphère elle-même s'accompagne de l'implication progressive des citoyens dans le débat médiatique ouvert entre les décideurs économiques, les institutions étatiques, les élus locaux et les scientifiques.
Polymer-Carbonaceous Filler Based Composites for Wastewater Treatment serves as the first book to offer a concise treatment of the use of these materials in the treatment of wastewater.
In this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers.
In this book Christopher Shaw analyses how liberalism has shaped our understanding of climate change and how liberalism is legitimated in the face of a crisis for which liberalism has no answers.
Climate Change in the Himalayas: Vulnerability and Resilience of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems explores and assesses issues affecting species survival in the rich forests of the Himalayan region.
This book provides an overview of interdisciplinary approaches that have applied social science to research focused on issues around food, agriculture and natural resource management.
This book highlights research presented during the American Solar Energy Society's 52nd National Solar Conference (ASES SOLAR 2023) held at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Although our planet faces numerous ecological crises, including climate change, many Christians continue to view their faith as primarily a "spiritual" matter that has little relationship to the world in which we live.
Drawing on studies in environmental and sustainability education, this book brings together new work that has explored the research-policy interface in varied contexts and from diverse perspectives.
Originally published in 1995, after decades of steady growth, this book was written at a time when the world's food supply was no longer keeping up with population increases.
Drawing on studies in environmental and sustainability education, this book brings together new work that has explored the research-policy interface in varied contexts and from diverse perspectives.
This book presents select proceedings of the Third International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials and Sustainable Engineering (EGRWSE-2022).
Dans un contexte d'extinction de masse de la biodiversité, on assiste paradoxalement à un « retour » des grands carnivores (ours brun, loup gris, lynx) en Europe.
The new Asian Development Bank (ADB) Energy Policy, approved in October 2021, guides ADB's energy sector operations to support energy access improvement and low-carbon transition in Asia and the Pacific.
This book turns critical feminist scrutiny on national climate policies in India and examines what transition might really mean for marginalized groups in the country.
Les constats relatifs à l'écosystème sont accablants : non seulement, les catastrophes se multiplient mais, malgré les évidences accumulées depuis cinquante ans, fondamentalement rien n'a changé, la trajectoire reste la même, pire la tendance s'est accentuée dans une course mortifère.
The first-and only-source to integrate the multiple disciplines and professions exploring the many ways people interact with the natural and designed environments in which we live.
Sustainable Planet is a two-volume resource that provides comprehensive coverage on the world's most pressing environmental issues, their impact in countries around the world, and how-or if-they are being addressed.
Gold Dust (1980) looks at the adventures and ordeals, delusions and successes and catastrophes of the men and women - the forty-niners - caught up in the gold rush.
À l'heure où nos États modernes se divisent sur les moyens de réagir aux crises écologiques annoncées, où les difficultés de faire émerger des solutions à la fois sociales et écologiques sont criantes jusqu'au conflit social, cet ouvrage de mise en perspective historique et de présentation systémique offre une lecture écolo-salutaire.
This sector directional guide describes the context and rationale that will guide the agenda of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in supporting developing member countries with financing, knowledge, convening ability, and technical assistance to ensure improved the coherence, relevance, efficiency, and effectiveness of ADB's energy sector investments.
Ce livre retrace et explique de manière thématique le parcours du combat écologique que le Président Denis Sassou N'Guesso mène depuis maintenant quatre décennies pour la défense de la nature, la protection de l'environnement et au profit du développement durable, de la paix et des générations futures.
Originally published in 1995, but with enduring relevance in a time of global population growth and food insecurity, when it was first published, this book attracted much global attention, and criticism from Beijing.
Murray Bookchin was not only one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century--he was also one of the most prescient.
