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While biodiversity loss is an ecological phenomenon, it also has further dimensions - political, social and, last but not least, economic.

From Nobel Prizewinning economist Joel Mokyr, a revealing look at why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe.

Advances in Natural Gas: Formation, Processing, and Applications is a comprehensive eight-volume set of books that discusses in detail the theoretical basics and practical methods of various aspects of natural gas from exploration and extraction, to synthesizing, processing and purifying, producing valuable chemicals and energy.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

This book examines the sustainability of supply chains in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), in developed and emerging economies.

Today, the new Indonesian capital city, Nusantara, planning is being anticipated as "e;representing national identity,"e; "e;a model city,"e; or "e;a gift to the world,"e; and many other extraordinary labels.

Reduction in the size of the world's remaining rainforests is an issue of huge importance for all societies.

This innovative book analyses the evolving nature of leadership, exploring an ever-increasing range of theoretical concepts and applying these to practices within healthcare organisations.

Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming.

Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people.

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world.

The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans.

This two-volume book examines the most important global problem-the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensible introduction to bioeconomy.

Over the years, a large and growing literature on the economics of climate change has developed.

Der vorliegende Sammelband möchte auf die Herausforderungen, die Chancen und auf die Erfolgspraktiken eines koordinierten Vorgehens im Aufbau von Resilienz aufmerksam machen.

The global response to HIV/AIDS has been a major aspect of global health and development policy over the last three decades.

This book challenges the idea that a sharp boundary should be drawn between the state and civil society.

This book highlights the first comparative long-term analysis of the negative impacts of large dams on riverine communities and on free-flowing rivers in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society.

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie ein Forschungsprozess mit der Methode der Erkundungsaufstellung erfolgreich gelingen kann.

The world's deserts are sufficiently large that, in theory, covering a fraction of their landmass with PV systems could generate many times the current primary global energy supply.

There is no more fundamental substance to life on earth than water.

Im Kontext der Energiewende sind Energiespeicher ein zentrales technisches, wirtschaftliches und energiepolitisches Thema.

Originally published in 1991.

By the end of World War II, the United States had become well integrated into the world markets for forest products.

Die Abfallwirtschaftspolitik in Deutschland muß sich in diesem Buch einer Analyse unterziehen.

Measurements of individual benefits of different health and medical interventions are fundamental for prioritizing among different alternative uses of resources in the healthcare sector.

The use of financial concepts and tools to shape development is hardly new, but their recent adoption by advocates of sustainable environmental management has created opportunities for innovation in business and regulatory groups.

Hydropower generation by construction of large dams attracts considerable attention as a feasible renewable energy source to meet the power demand in Asian cities.

Decision-making tools are needed to support environmental management in an increasingly global economy.

The book examines the trade liberalization measures, which were initiated in India during 1991 and which focused on manufacturing industries.

India has been traditionally well-endowed with large freshwater reserves, but increasing population, urbanization and agricultural growth in recent decades are causing overexploitation of surface and groundwater.

This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, how they compete and operate and how it affects us all.

Enterprises located in rural regions face various challenges in the globalised and digitised world.

The fully updated 2nd edition of this critically acclaimed book covers the exciting developments in light science of the past five years.

The most important theme of the discourse on sustainable development and sustainability challenges concerns the relationship between innovation and sustainability.

This book is an economic analysis of plagiarism in music, focusing on social efficiency and questions of inequity in the revenue of authors/artists.

Christoph Heible evaluiert die gesundheitswirtschaftlichen Effekte des medizinisch-technologischen Fortschritts und des demografischen Wandels auf Basis modellgestützter und szenarienbasierter Analysen.

Der Leser merkt schnell, dass dies kein klassisches Lehrbuch ist.

Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is using it, thus underlining the potential problems involved in experts from different fields teaming up to tackle sustainability problems.

Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles.

Protected areas (PAs) contain biodiversity and ecosystems of high conservation value.