From one of the world's leading experts on the history of energy, a rigorous examination of the transitions that structure our modern world--and the environmental reckoning that will mark its success or failure.
Nach Definition des Klimabegriffs werden die physikalischen Gesetzmaigkeiten erlautert, die den, durch anthropogene Beeinflussung verstarkten Treibhauseffekt zur Folge haben, welcher den Klimawandel beschleunigt, Die diesem entgegenwirkenden politischen Zielsetzungen und die darauf bezogenen, international gultigen Konventionen und Konferenzbeschlusse werden ebenso, wie die darauf beruhenden Manahmen, unter besonderer Hervorhebung des Emissionshandels, dargelegt.
Nach Definition des Klimabegriffs werden die physikalischen Gesetzmaigkeiten erlautert, die den, durch anthropogene Beeinflussung verstarkten Treibhauseffekt zur Folge haben, welcher den Klimawandel beschleunigt, Die diesem entgegenwirkenden politischen Zielsetzungen und die darauf bezogenen, international gultigen Konventionen und Konferenzbeschlusse werden ebenso, wie die darauf beruhenden Manahmen, unter besonderer Hervorhebung des Emissionshandels, dargelegt.
Digital Sustainability: A Managerial Guide to Creating Value for Business and SocietyAs digital transformation reshapes industries and sustainability moves to the centre of strategic decision-making, organisations face an urgent question: not whether to pursue sustainability, but how to do so in ways that are credible, scalable, and economically viable.
Writing in the tradition of Bookchin and Graeber, Julio Linares shows that when placed in the perspective of world history and anthropology, current attempts to reimagine moneyfrom MMT to Bitcoinare actually not terribly imaginative David Wengrow, co-author of The Dawn of EverythingIn this provocative book, Julio Linares explores the project of abolishing US dollar hegemony to decolonize money and create a real economic democracy by putting the power of money into peoples hands L.
Dieses Buch liefert eine fundierte Analyse der notwendigen Transformation unseres Wirtschaftssystems und rückt dabei die zentrale Rolle privater Haushalte und gemeinwirtschaftlicher Organisationen in den Fokus.
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of green finance as a key lever in addressing the global climate crisis and supporting sustainable development.
This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of green finance as a key lever in addressing the global climate crisis and supporting sustainable development.
Dieses Buch liefert eine fundierte Analyse der notwendigen Transformation unseres Wirtschaftssystems und rückt dabei die zentrale Rolle privater Haushalte und gemeinwirtschaftlicher Organisationen in den Fokus.
Providing an in-depth, novel analysis of education's role in today's economy by scrutinizing its theoretical underpinnings, this volume critiques the suitability of the current, dominant economic framework for education and for shaping educational policymaking worldwide.
Despite all the controversy and hype that climate change has generated, there now exists an overwhelming body of scientific evidence that the problem is real and that its effects are already being felt on a global scale.
The impact of invasive species is second only to that of human population growth and associated activities as a cause of the loss of biodiversity throughout the world.
Aimed at practitioners and students in environmental studies, development, economics and geography, this book systematically investigates how sustainable development can be achieved at the local and global level.
Africa stands at a critical juncture in its development trajectory, grappling with the twin challenges of climate vulnerability and persistent socio-economic inequality.
Evaluating a wealth of quantitative data, Biofuels: Biotechnology, Chemistry, and Sustainable Development discusses different types of biofuels, the science behind their production, the economics of their introduction to the marketplace, their environmental impacts, and their implications for world agriculture.
Providing an in-depth, novel analysis of education's role in today's economy by scrutinizing its theoretical underpinnings, this volume critiques the suitability of the current, dominant economic framework for education and for shaping educational policymaking worldwide.
The book describes Japan's efforts since 2015 to exit the deflationary 'lost decades' and chart a new economic course through digital and green transformation, as well as 'new/ sustainable capitalism.
This comprehensive textbook deals with multidimensional aspects of macroeconomics through lucid presentation of concepts and critical comparison of different schools of thought.
This comprehensive textbook deals with multidimensional aspects of macroeconomics through lucid presentation of concepts and critical comparison of different schools of thought.
Rigorous, yet written in a way that facilitates understanding of complex material, Environmental Economics: An Integrated Approach provides practical and working knowledge of how environmental policy analysis is developed.
Choosing the optimal management option requires environmental risk managers and decision makers to evaluate diverse, and not always congruent, needs and interests of multiple stakeholders.
The book describes Japan's efforts since 2015 to exit the deflationary 'lost decades' and chart a new economic course through digital and green transformation, as well as 'new/ sustainable capitalism.
Africa stands at a critical juncture in its development trajectory, grappling with the twin challenges of climate vulnerability and persistent socio-economic inequality.
Aimed at practitioners and students in environmental studies, development, economics and geography, this book systematically investigates how sustainable development can be achieved at the local and global level.
Balances Scientific and Economic Points of View to Thoroughly Address Management IssuesResponding to the need for clarification and benchmarks, Environmental Life Cycle Costing provides the fundamental basis on which to establish a definitive methodology.
In recent years the increased awareness of environmental issues has led to the development of new approaches to product design, known as Design for Environment and Life Cycle Design.
Facing the challenges of globalization and ecology, the standards for economic, social and environmental performance of companies are becoming more demanding.
Smart City Code: Governance Handbook for Digital Transformation Managers in the Public Sector explores how to govern the planning, implementation, and maintenance operations in smart city projects and transitions, and the urban digitalization processes that may potentially trigger.
It is widely acknowledged that, in addition to global and regional efforts to cope with climate change by means of mitigation measures, adaptation initiatives can and perhaps should play a key role in enabling communities from across Africa to better handle the problems related to it.
Smart City Code: Governance Handbook for Digital Transformation Managers in the Public Sector explores how to govern the planning, implementation, and maintenance operations in smart city projects and transitions, and the urban digitalization processes that may potentially trigger.
World Energy Resources is an explanatory energy survey of the countries and major regions of the world, their geographic and economic settings, and signif- icant inter-relationships.
This volume is the result of the International IDNDR-Conference on Early Warning Systems for the Reduction of Natural Disasters, held at the Geo- ForschungsZentrum in Potsdam, Germany from 7-11 September 1998.
Schnell und bequem auffindbare, wissenschaftlich fundierte, somit verlässliche, neutrale und umfassende Information zu modernen Energietechnologien stellt dieses Handbuch bereit.
