The global energy crisis is a two-dimensional phenomenon: on the one hand, the gap between a continuously depleting supply capacity of fossil fuel and rapidly increasing demand for energy is fast widening, and, on the other, the burning of fossil fuels intensifies the problem of global warming day by day.
At 37 trillion individuals per year, wild-caught shrimp and prawns appear to be the single most numerous group of animals directly killed for human food consumption on the planet.
For centuries travelers have been drawn to the stunning and mysterious Dead Sea and Jordan River, a region which is unlike any other on earth in its religious and historical significance.
Water Treatment: Resource Recovery and Sustainability provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research in increasing the sustainability of water treatment processes.
A New Index for Public Space: After Distancing offers readers a re-evaluation of the notion of publicness as a lens to unpack the complexity of urban space.
Transforming Education for Sustainable Development documents and disseminates learning around education for sustainable development and associated pedagogical approaches, techniques, and experiences that have been generated across the Master of Development Practice (MDP) Global Association over the past 12 years.
This volume identifies and debates important elements of what would be involved in an education that is truly adequate for the environmental situation that currently confronts us.
The aim of the monograph is to present a modern and original approach towards designing and implementation of effective solutions that ensure an induction towards positive climate change.
Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability - both as a concept and as a political objective.
Environmental jurisprudence is a dynamic field that integrates insights from various disciplines, including basic sciences, earth science, economics, and law.
The book describes the results of the AGaStor Project's social research carried out in northwestern Poland which recognizes the main social opportunities and barriers to the introduction of CCUS to society.
This volume covers concepts and innovative approaches to sustainable development with respect to environmental health, looking at issues such as climate change, pollution control, liquid waste, solid waste management, toxic chemical exposure, food and agro-industrial waste, etc.
Son muy escasos los organismos internacionales que se preocupan por la situación de los docentes: en América Latina la Red Estrado es uno de los contados colectivos que realiza estudios, investigaciones y propuestas por mejorar la condición humana y profesional de los educadores.
This volume covers concepts and innovative approaches to sustainable development with respect to environmental health, looking at issues such as climate change, pollution control, liquid waste, solid waste management, toxic chemical exposure, food and agro-industrial waste, etc.
Transparency and Public Participation for Radioactive Waste Management in Europe investigates how the pillars of the Aarhus Convention, and a broader understanding of transparency by Civil Society (CS), can be transposed into Radioactive Waste Management (RWM), particularly in the establishment of Radioactive Waste (RW) facilities in different national contexts.
This book describes a fauna of global conservation concern and provides a framework for researchers to begin to test hypotheses regarding the evolution of freshwater mussels in Central America.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving field of autonomous urban mobility, examining its transformative potential and the principles guiding its innovation.
Electrification and the Future of Decentralized Electricity Supply addresses the role of electrification in the energy transition by examining what an electrified future entails, how it can be achieved, and the challenges that must be overcome to succeed.
Cluttered Universes of Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Kantor is a collection of four essays bringing Kantor's and Beckett's texts, theatres, and theories into conversation with deconstruction, new materialism, environmental humanities, and posthumanism.
Cluttered Universes of Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Kantor is a collection of four essays bringing Kantor's and Beckett's texts, theatres, and theories into conversation with deconstruction, new materialism, environmental humanities, and posthumanism.
Im Rahmen eines vom BMBF geförderten Verbundprojekts wurde die Errichtung und Integration von Großwärmespeichern mit mehreren Zehntausend Kubikmeter zur saisonalen Speicherung und Bereitstellung von Wärme im Quartiersmaßstab untersucht.