While plastics are extremely useful materials for modern society, plastics production and waste generation continue to increase with worsening environmental impacts despite international, national and local policy responses, as well as industry commitments.
This book offers a comprehensive review of life cycle assessment (LCA), circular economy (CE), and sustainable development, exploring their achievements and progress across the world.
To realise Colombia's clean energy ambitions and enable the necessary mobilisation of finance and investment, the government has set forth a number of important policy strategies, including the 2018 Green Growth Policy, the 2019 National Circular Economy Strategy and the forthcoming 2022 Energy Transition Policy.
El surgimiento de una de las mas exitosas economias exportadoras del planeta en el que hasta el siglo XVIII habia sido un rincon muy poco prometedor de un arcaico imperio colonial constituye sin duda el tema central de la historia de la Argentina moderna.
En el municipio de Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, México, el turismo es una actividad económica fundamental y aunque en la actualidad existe una gran cantidad de disposiciones federales, estatales y municipales que buscan su regulación, esto no significa que su sostenibilidad esté garantizada.
La economia ambiental es aquella rama del analisis economico que sugiere la aplicacion de algunos metodos que permitan valorar economicamente los recursos naturales, fortaleciendo el concepto de valoracion ambiental, que tiene como proposito asignar un valor monetario al dano realizado al recurso natural, al ecosistema o bien a las externalidades o fallas del mercado ocasionadas por las actividades economicas que pueden repercutir positivamente o negativamente a un agente economico, a un bien o a un recurso natural.
Este libro inicialmente presenta los principios economicos basicos; la relacion entre economia y recursos naturales; los derechos de propiedad; las fallas del mercado y la relacion beneficio costo como criterio de decision para la asignacion eficiente de los recursos naturales.
Soya Bean, Incredible, and Mighty, is written to delight and alert westerners, and people around the world, of the virtues and wonders of the small, unassuming vegetable.
The Art of Making Stone Love Stone was born of my inner journey through love, loss, and redemption; through the light at the end of grief and the resurrection through creativity.
Die Corona-Krise zwingt uns zu gewaltigen Veränderungen unserer privaten Lebensführung und erfordert höchst umstrittene politische Maßnahmen zum Schutz der Gesundheit und zur Verteilung knapper Ressourcen.
Die Corona-Krise zwingt uns zu gewaltigen Veränderungen unserer privaten Lebensführung und erfordert höchst umstrittene politische Maßnahmen zum Schutz der Gesundheit und zur Verteilung knapper Ressourcen.
Like many other cities in the United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan has struggled with redeveloping its economic identity after the devastation of the Great Recession of 2008.
El libro, de un lado, realiza un gran esfuerzo de sistematizacin conceptual crtica, sobre las definiciones de fronteras, regin y las interacciones con el Estado-Nacin.
From 12 to 14 December 2014, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chief justices and their designees convened in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, for their fourth roundtable on environment, with the theme "e;Role of the Judiciary in Environmental Protection.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has adopted an integrated disaster risk management (IDRM) approach which aims at strengthening disaster resilience in its developing member countries.
This report summarizes outcomes of collaboration between ADB and implementing agencies of Bhutan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, the Philippines, and Viet Nam to address gaps in the production of agricultural and rural statistics.
This publication about the urban agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is timely as the world economy embraces the region with accelerated growth.
The Star Mountain Investment Holding Limited (SMIHL) is a Papua New Guinean (PNG) landowner holding company operating in Western Province, in the shadows of the huge Ok Tedi mine.
From 15-18 November 2013, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chief justices and their designees convened in Bangkok, Thailand for their third roundtable on environment with the theme "e;ASEAN's Environmental Challenges and Legal Responses.
This publication is a result of a 2-year innovative, exploratory, and reflective study of cities as unique urban spaces that support life, work, and play.
The Star Mountain Investment Holding Limited (SMIHL) is a Papua New Guinean (PNG) landowner holding company operating in Western Province, in the shadows of the huge Ok Tedi mine.
This publication is a result of a 2-year innovative, exploratory, and reflective study of cities as unique urban spaces that support life, work, and play.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has adopted an integrated disaster risk management (IDRM) approach which aims at strengthening disaster resilience in its developing member countries.
The second edition of the Greater Mekong Subregion Atlas of the Environment again champions the environment of this unique part of Asia, an area straddled by rivers great and small, with bountiful watersheds, wetlands, and forests.