Download or read book An lisis de indicadores de sostenibilidad ambiental y urbana en las agendas 21 local y ecoauditorias municipales El caso de las regiones urbanas europeas written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El comienzo de este tercer milenio nos enfrenta a un conjunto de cambios que son el corolario de procesos generados a partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. El desarrollo sostenible está dentro del conjunto de cambios paradigmáticos a nivel de sociedad, que lenta pero sostenidamente van perfinlándose como un cambio alternativo, factible, necesario ... La primera parte de esta tesis aborda el desarrollo sostenible desde una perspectiva de ciencia posnormal, un enfoque mergente, sistémico, que postula la necesidad de abordar nuevas metodologías de trabajo, que incluyan los niveles de incertidumbre en los cuales actualmente se toman decisiones, mediante un enfoque participativo, holístico, flexible, tal como lo es la gestión ambiental adaptativa. La segunda parte investiga el tema de los indicadores ambientales y urbanos, buscando establecer la lógica sugyacente en la formulación de estos significativos parámetros del actual lenguaje de sostenibilidad. Concretamente, se investigan los indicadores ambientales y urbanos utilizados en dos instrumentos de gestión estratégica ambiental: la Agenda 21 y las ecoauditorias territoriales municipales. La tercera parte aborda los casos de estudio seleccionados: Catalunya (Diputación de Barcelona y Diputación de Girona), la Región del Mar Báltico (Dinamarca, Estonia, Finlandia, Alemania, Islandia, Latvia, Lituania, Noruega, Polonia, el noreste de Russia y Suecia), Alemania y Gran Bretaña. Y en ellos, se recopilan los antecedentes de rigor y se evaluan los resultados obtenidos a la fecha mediante la utilización de los sistemas de indicadores ambientales y urbanos propuestos en cada caso. La cuarta y última parte intenta establecer una sistematización de la información ambiental obtenida mediante la aplicación de los indicadores ad-hoc, la búsqueda de un lenguaje común, de un orden genérico que permita aclarar las fortalezas y debilidades evidenciadas en el proceso de sostenibilidad impulsado a través de las Agendas 21 y los instrume.

Download or read book An lisis de indicadores de sostenibilidad ambiental y urbana en las Agendas 21 Local y ecoauditorias municipales written by Ma Eliana Pino Neculqueo and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Desarrollo sostenible y Agenda 21 local written by Francisco Javier Garrido and published by IEPALA Editorial. This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El libro compuesto por textos de diferentes autores presenta enfoques y metodologías de trabajo complementarias sobre la sostenibilidad en general y , más en concreto, sobre la Agenda 21 Local como herramienta de diagnóstico, planificación y acción participativa para el desarrollo local sostenible. En ese sentido, las reflexiones que se efectúan sobre tales cuestiones se fundamentan en la presentación y el análisis de experiencias sobresalientes de desarrollo sostenible y de procesos específicos de Agenda 21 Local en España y Latinoamérica. Con todo ello se aportan elementos teóricos, metodológicos y prácticos sobre aspectos fundamentales de la sostenibilidad y sobre la participación como mecanismo de profundización de la democracia.

Download or read book Dimensi n medioambiental de la RSC written by María Jesús Muñoz Torres and published by Netbiblo. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extender el nivel de bienestar de los países desarrollados a todas las regiones del planeta solo es posible si se adopta un modelo de crecimiento económico que integre las tres dimensiones de la sostenibilidad: viabilidad económica, justicia social y conservación de los recursos naturales. Los nuevos retos ambientales y socioeconómicos que plantea el actual escenario internacional son, a su vez, oportunidades para reorientar nuestro modelo de crecimiento hacia el desarrollo sostenible tal como se definió en el Informe Brundlandt “desarrollo que permite satisfacer las necesidades de la generación presente sin impedir que las generaciones futuras puedan satisfacer las suyas”. Desde una perspectiva eminentemente económica, este texto aborda las relaciones existentes entre la actividad humana y el medio ambiente y describe los instrumentos disponibles para afrontar los problemas ambientales, tanto los que tienen carácter voluntario para las organizaciones como aquellos que los gestores públicos pueden aplicar para conciliar el crecimiento económico con la conservación del patrimonio natural.

Download or read book Indicadores de Agenda Local 21 written by IHOBE. and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dimensi n social de la sostenibilidad y la agenda local 21 criterios para incorporar los aspectos sociales en las agendas locales 21 written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book La agenda 21 local en acci n 50 buenas pr cticas ambientales written by Sociedad Pública de Gestión Ambiental=Ingurumen Jarduketarako Sozietate Publikoa and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Propuesta de una metodolog a de planificaci n para el desarrollo urbano sostenible y dise o de un sistema de evaluaci n de la sostenibilidad de ciudades medianas de Am rica Latina written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RESUMEN Los aportes conceptuales y metodológicos de este trabajo se desarrollan a partir de reconocer la importancia que tienen las ciudades para el Desarrollo Sostenible global. Para avanzar en el conocimiento de esta problemática se caracterizan los aspectos sociales, ambientales y económicos en el contexto urbano latinoamericano y se analizan, en concreto, las dificultades que presentan las ciudades de tamaño mediano para su sostenibilidad. La revisión del tema de estudio se centra en la evolución que han tenido durante la última década en América Latina la investigación, la gestión y la evaluación del desarrollo urbano sostenible y la incidencia de los principales enfoques en los modelos aplicados para la sostenibilidad de la ciudad. El análisis de los resultados permite afirmar que para orientar la planificación del desarrollo sostenible es necesario construir metodologías más apropiadas para conocer la realidad urbana de las ciudades latinoamericanas en el contexto de la sostenibilidad. La propuesta de la metodología de planificación integra la investigación, la gestión y la evaluación y desarrolla las bases conceptuales y los instrumentos para cada uno de los componentes así: para la investigación define los criterios básicos para la interdisciplinariedad y la participación comunitaria y propone como instrumento metodológico el Perfil de Desarrollo Sostenible. Para la gestión define las características técnicas y políticas de actuación y propone estrategias para implementar la Agenda Local 21. Para la evaluación diseña un sistema en el que se definen las dimensiones, los componentes, los fenómenos y los indicadores que permitirán evaluar el estado en que se encuentran las ciudades y conocer el índice o tendencia de sostenibilidad urbana. Como parte integral del proceso metodológico de este trabajo se aplican los indicadores y se calcula el índice de sostenibilidad en cuatro ciudades medianas de América Latina, tomadas como estudio de caso: Curitiba y Porto Al.

Download or read book Indicadores de sostenibilidad social written by Cruz Roldán Carmona and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cities of Tomorrow written by Peter Hall and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997-02-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.

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Download or read book The Failure of Environmental Education And How We Can Fix It written by Charles Saylan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The hope for the future depends on teaching current and future students the analytical and critical thinking skills for dealing with the most critical problems. My own hope is for this book to be read by everyone, even those outside the field of environmental education. Read this book, read it again, share it widely, and do something - anything - to help our needy and wounded planet."-Marc Bekoff, author of The Animal Manifesto: Six Reasons For Expanding Our Compassion Footprint "Saylan and Blumstein provide a compelling vision of what can be, and what should be, if we have the courage to open our eyes and the boldness to act.”-Peter Saundry, Ph.D., Executive Director of the National Council for Science and the Environment “A clarion call to incorporate environmental education in all grades K-12, across all academic disciplines, in order to produce future generations of environmental stewards."-Mark Gold, President, Heal The Bay "We need a sea change in the educational system. After all, if we can teach schoolchildren that vandalism is wrong, why can we not teach them that environmental destruction is wrong? This book is a haunting call to action. A beautifully written manifesto that gets it right."-Ron Swaisgood, Director of Applied Animal Ecology, Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego Zoo Global “The greatest threat to the future of all species on the planet is the huge gap between what is understood about global climate change by the scientific community and what is known about climate change by the people who need to know -- the public. The sound prescriptions in this book need to be read now. We are running out of time.”-Dr. James Hansen, world-renowned climatologist and author of Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity “Environmental education is a disaster and educating the public on environmental issues is the greatest challenge facing humanity today. This book will help us understand why we are headed toward the collapse of civilization, and more important, how to fix it. Packed with sound science, useful information, and brilliant ideas, it is a book we must read, and give, to our local school boards and principals nationwide. Our children will thank us."-Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb and Humanity on a Tightrope

Download or read book Sustainable Tourism written by Gerda K. Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although widely advocated, sustainable tourism is subject to numerous interpretations -- from environmentally friendly forms of tourism to maintaining the economic viability of tourist activity in a specific place. This book explores various views on sustainable tourism and demonstrates its complexity and diversity, in order to clarify the issues in operational terms. It addresses questions such as: can tourist activity be sustainable economically; can tourism lead to sustainability from an environmental perspective; and what is the role of tourism as a sustainable development strategy? Much of the book consists of a series of European case studies, from the U.K., France, Spain, Italy and Greece. These case studies cover three main themes: recreation and tourism in natural and rural areas; coastal tourism; and islands. The book represents a valuable supplementary text for students of tourism, as well as related disciplines such as geography, economics, environmental management, and local and regional planning and development.

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