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For some years now, growing scientific warnings have continued to strengthen the belief that an unprecedented global warming is underway, and that only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster. In his June 2, 2022 address to the Stockholm+50...
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With the Stockholm+50 Conference, held on 2-3 June 2022, the global movement to protect the environment has reached a 50 year milestone. The first UN Conference on the Human Environment, also held in Stockholm, from 5-16 June 1972, proved to be the watershed in...
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On 21 May 2019, it was officially recognized that we are now living in the Anthropocene, our earth’s latest geological epoch, named for the 'unmistakable imprint of human activities'. This announcement came almost 60 years after the publication of Rachel Carson’s...
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You read about it every day: How can we create a sustainable, reliable and affordable energy supply? Does a local water supply play a role in this? Why don’t we drive hydrogen cars that are powered by the sun and rain? The availability of cheap green energy is...
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Energy spurs social and economic development and has multiple effects on the ecological and social environment of societies.Energy access for socially equitable development, energy security for economic growth, and the mitigation of climate change all represent issues...
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Professor Wolfgang Haber ist Vorkämpfer und seit vier Jahrzehnten wichtigster Exponent des Natur- und Landschaftsschutzes in Deutschland. In dieser umfassenden und aktuellen Übersicht setzt er sich kritisch mit der Wechselbeziehung zwischen landwirtschaftlicher Nutzung...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2014-03-12
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PDF, ePub
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Im Frühjahr 2005 machten zu hohe Feinstaubbelastungen der Luft in zahlreichen deutschen Großstädten in der Presse Schlagzeilen. Messungen hatten ergeben, dass die zulässigen Grenzwertüberschreitungen für Feinstaub pro Jahr bereits erreicht waren. Diese einzuhaltenden...
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In Deutschland wird eine lebhafte Diskussion über die CCS-Technik (Carbon Capture and Storage) geführt. Die Diskussion umfasst dabei ein ganzes Konvolut an Argumenten für und gegen den Einsatz der Technik. Allen Argumenten ist jedoch gemein, dass sie einen starken...
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A sustainable world can only be achieved by an open collaboration between science, business and the public. That is why we create the Green Village: an innovative, lively, interactive & challenging environment where entrepreneurs, innovators, companies, artists,...
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Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beschäftigen sich mit den Essensgewohnheiten, die sich bei vielen Menschen durch die Industrialisierung im 19. Jahrhundert sehr verändert haben. So erweitert Susanne Finsterer den Forschungsansatz von Spiekermann, Essen kulturell zu...
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"I have been looking for a book which does this for ages! It provides a clear explanation of the different elements and concepts which underpin how the planning system works and which are fundamental to the operation of the UK system. It also provides good guidance on...
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Building on the first principles of environmental chemistry, engineering, and ecology, this volume fills the need for an advanced textbook introducing the modern, integrated environmental management approach, with a view towards long-term sustainability and within the...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2012-01-24
Format(s) :
PDF, ePub
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Surprisingly optimistic. That is what the future of energy looks like, according to author Ad van Wijk. Over a quarter of a century ago Van Wijk co-founded and was CEO of Econcern, the company that developed into the largest Dutch sustainable energy...
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This study focuses on the five most prominent Swiss writers of the last thirty-five years whose work features ecological crisis. It is an analysis of five narratologically divergent styles, ranging from the eco-parables of Franz Hohler to the hermeneutically defiant...
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'A magnificent achievement. A who's who of contemporary remote sensing have produced an engaging, wide-ranging and scholarly review of the field in just one volume' - Professor Paul Curran, Vice-Chancellor, Bournemouth University
Remote Sensing acquires and interprets...
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"Understanding Environmental Issues provides an excellent foundation for developing critical thinking about contemporary environmental concerns and the ways in which these are debated, represented and managed. The book should achieve its aim of stimulating students to...
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"A monumental and timely contribution to scholarship on society and environments. The handbook makes it easy and compelling for anyone to learn about that scholarship in its full manifestations and as represented by some of the most highly respected researchers and...
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"An exemplary introduction to cutting edge work on the geographies of nature. Intellectually demanding, clearly written and empirically rich, this is a book that deserves a wide readership within and beyond the geographical discipline."
- Sarah J. Whatmore, Oxford...
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This accessible textbook offers the first critical introduction to the UK's urban and rural planning policy. Andrew Gilg explains and evaluates policy development at each of the key stages:
· Objectives: what is the aim of planning in the UK?
· Methods: how...
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Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning.
Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas - urban...
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