Download or read book Asentamientos Urbanos Sustentables Y Resilientes written by Gian Carlo Delgado and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Circular Economy Adoption written by Sadhan Kumar Ghosh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book brings out a comprehensive collection of information on principle and policy of circular economy. It deals with the general principles, pathways of circular economic development in different countries, use of circular economy in achieving sustainable development goals. The book covers policy instruments that helps implementing resource efficient processes, strategies of implementing circular economy concepts, Decarbonisation, and developing business promoting circular economy principles. The circular economy has gained increasing prominence as a tool which presents solutions to some of the world’s most pressing sustainable development challenges. By addressing root causes, the concept of a circular economy, an economy in which waste and pollution do not exist by design, products and materials are kept in use, and natural systems are regenerated provides promise to achieving SDGs. This book is of interest and use to practitioners, capacity builders and policymakers, entrepreneurs, NGOs, general people, and valuable source of reference to the relevant researchers and students in global markets. As circular economy is gaining momentum and interest in general, the book serves as reading material for undergraduate and graduate students in any field specifically environmental science, waste management, medical science as well as environmental management at national and international level.
Download or read book Hacia ciudades y territorios inteligentes resilientes y sostenibles written by Asociación Sostenibilidad Y Progreso De Sociedades and published by Bubok. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El final del presente decenioy el próximo van a ser decisivos para orientar el rumbo de los generalizadosprocesos de urbanización, identificados como una de las principalesmegatendencias mundiales. Estamos en un momento histórico para entender que lasciudades y los territorios son elementos críticos de la transición hacia lasostenibilidad local y global. Como partes de la solución y del problema, laszonas urbanas y sus entornos tienen capacidades para rediseñar la políticaurbana y regional con un enfoque integrado y sostenible a fin de abordar conesperanza los desafíos sistémicos y los fenómenos globales como el cambioclimático. La transición urbana y territorial en la era del Antropoceno y elCambio Global precisa ajustes proactivos y adaptativos de los socioecosistemasurbanos y las regiones en el denominado ?siglo metropolitano?.El libro estádistribuido en 7 partes que abordan diferentes temáticas de interés en lasciudades:? La transición urbana y territorial frente alcambio global y las megatendencias mundiales.? Las bases para definir ciudades y territorioscon inteligencia, sostenibilidad y resiliencia en busca de la convivencia.? Perspectiva sistémica y la gestión delmetabolismo urbano.? Criterios de ecoeficiencia, morfología,movilidad e impacto ambiental en la gestión urbana.? Gestión de la sostenibilidad y la resilienciaen un contexto territorial.? Agendas estratégicas y marcos de referenciapara los nuevos paradigmas urbanos.? Modelos avanzados de gobernanza local: nuevascapacidades y responsabilidades de las sociedades y de los gobiernos urbanos yregionales.A lo largo de, estetexto se abordan los desafíos de los nuevos paradigmas urbanos donde se debenencuadrar coherentemente las políticas, las normativas, los sistemas deplanificación, gestión y gobernanza participativa de las ciudades y lasregiones. Así, se resalta el enfoque integrado de la dimensión urbana en unmarco territorial, al tiempo que se enfatiza la relación de las ciudades y delos territorios, insistiendo en los nexos urbano-rurales para mejorar lasostenibilidad y la resiliencia local-regional. La gestión de lossocioecosistemas urbanos y los territorios se tiene que plantear desde unenfoque de sistemas considerando el metabolismo de las modernas ciudades y losfactores de ecoeficiencia relacionados con la morfología urbana, la movilidad yel mayor impacto ambiental de los patrones urbanos dispersos frente acompactos, que son mucho más eficientes y sostenibles.El libro se publica enun momento oportuno, justo después de la Conferencia HABITAT III, señalando laimportancia estratégica de las zonas urbanas, en su empeño por dominar elplaneta, para trazar y afrontar colectivamente el futuro en el marco de undesarrollo humano sostenible. Es una obra profunda con contenidos de máximaactualidad que debe ser de interés para el mundo académico, para profesionalesinvolucrados con la planificación de la gestión urbana y para el gobierno anivel local, así como también para todos aquellos estudiosos de los procesos desostenibilidad aplicada a la dimensión urbana y territorial.Las ciudades yterritorios, donde viven, trabajan y sueñan las personas, requieren formas degestión y gobernanza inteligentes, resilientes y sostenibles, pero tambiénnecesitan más sabiduría para crear lugares habitables y convivenciales.Sobre el autorLuis M. Jiménez Herrero esDoctor y Licenciado en Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales e Ingeniero TécnicoAeronáutico. Ha trabajado profesionalmente en los campos de la Ingeniería,Economía, Gestión ambiental y Desarrollo Sostenible, tanto para el sector públicoy privado. Desde 1979 ha sido profesor en la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas dela Universidad Complutense de Madrid impartiendo enseñanzas de Medio Ambiente yDesarrollo, y Economía Ecológica y Desarrollo Sostenible. En la actualidad esProfesor Honorífico de la UCM. Es autor de numerosas publicaciones y varioslibros sobre economía del Medio Ambiente, Desarrollo Sostenible y EconomíaEcológica. Ha sido Director Ejecutivo del Observatorio de la Sostenibilidad enEspaña (OSE, 2005 a 2013), dirigiendo Informes anuales y temáticos sobre sobresostenibilidad y los procesos de desarrollo sostenible. Actualmente esPresidente de la Asociación para la Sostenibilidad y el Progreso de lasSociedades (ASYPS) que está dedicada a impulsar respuestas ante el cambioGlobal para favorecer la transición hacia paradigmas de progreso sostenible. [email protected]
Download or read book Circular Economy Recent Trends in Global Perspective written by Sadhan Kumar Ghosh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the advantages of the circular economy as a powerful - and inevitable - model for tackling the current challenges against shrinking resources and establishing the resource efficient economy. The experienced contributors present the status and strategies of circular economy implementation in several countries with hands on experience to protect the environment while promoting the circular economy through legislative requirements, best practices adopted and popularizing the idea of circulation of resources amongst the researchers & academia, policy makers, industry, and the general public at large. The book advocates model that consists of designing products and processes with a view to endlessly recycling them evolving a greater scope of sustainable development.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy written by Ernesto Vivares and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook to Global Political Economy provides a comprehensive guide to how Global Political Economy (GPE) is conceptualized and researched around the world. Including contributions that range from traditional International Political Economy (IPE) to GPE approaches, the Handbook gathers the investigations, varying perspectives and innovative research of more than sixty scholars from all over the world. Providing undergraduates, postgraduates, teachers and researchers with a complete set of traditional, contending and regional perspectives, the book explores current issues, conceptual tools, key research debates and different methodological approaches taken. Structured in five parts methodologically correlated, the book presents GPE as a field of global, regional and national research: • historical waves and diverse ontological axes; • major theoretical perspectives; • beyond traditional perspectives; • regional inquiries; • research arenas. Carefully selected contributions from both established and upcoming scholars ensure that this is an eclectic, pluralist and multidisciplinary work and an essential resource for all those with an interest in this complex and rapidly evolving field of study.
Download or read book The North American Mosaic written by Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Download or read book Water Resources of Chile written by Bonifacio Fernández and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person. However, water availability varies enormously in space, as less than 1,000 m3/person are available for more than 50% of the population. The temporal and spatial distribution of water resources is driven by processes highly variables across a country with different climates explained not only by a large range of latitudes (from 17° to 56° south), but also the presence of the Pacific Ocean and the Andes with peaks up to 7000 m. This geography makes of Chile a true natural laboratory in which water is essential for the society and the economy of the country. The relevance of water resources for the country has become even more significant in the context of a mega-drought that has affected practically the entire territory in recent years, although large floods such as those in Atacama 2015 and 2017 also take place periodically. This unique book brings together the state-of-art knowledge about the hydrology of Chile and its water resources, with a particular focus on quantitative aspects. The chapters are prepared by many of the most relevant researchers and practitioners working in water resources in the country. High-quality research contributions on climate and meteorology, surface and subsurface hydrology, water quality, water monitoring, water resource and global change, among other issues, are presented in this unique book, which offers a useful guide for academicians, researchers, practitioners and managers dealing with diverse water-related issues in Chile and other regions with similar characteristics
Download or read book The State of Latin American and Caribbean Cities 2012 written by United Nations and published by UN. This book was released on 2012 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region on the planet. Located here are some of the largest and best-known cities, like Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Lima and Santiago. The region also boasts hundreds of smaller cities that stand out because of their dynamism and creativity. This edition of State of Latin American and Caribbean cities presents the current situation of the region's urban world, including the demographic, economic, social, environmental, urban and institutional conditions in which cities are developing.
Download or read book The Circular Economy and the Global South written by Patrick Schröder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The circular economy is a policy approach and business strategy that aims to improve resource productivity, promote sustainable consumption and production and reduce environmental impacts. This book examines the relevance of the circular economy in the context of developing countries, something which to date is little understood. This volume highlights examples of circular economy practices in developing country contexts in relation to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), informal sector recycling and national policy approaches. It examines a broad range of case studies, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, and Thailand, and illustrates how the circular economy can be used as a new lens and possible solution to cross-cutting development issues of pollution and waste, employment, health, urbanisation and green industrialisation. In addition to more technical and policy oriented contributions, the book also critically discusses existing narratives and pathways of the circular economy in the global North and South, and how these differ or possibly even conflict with each other. Finally, the book critically examines under what conditions the circular economy will be able to reduce global inequalities and promote human development in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Presenting a unique social sciences perspective on the circular economy discourse, this book is relevant to students and scholars studying sustainability in economics, business studies, environmental politics and development studies.
Download or read book Cracking the code written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.
Download or read book How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease written by United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report considers the biological and behavioral mechanisms that may underlie the pathogenicity of tobacco smoke. Many Surgeon General's reports have considered research findings on mechanisms in assessing the biological plausibility of associations observed in epidemiologic studies. Mechanisms of disease are important because they may provide plausibility, which is one of the guideline criteria for assessing evidence on causation. This report specifically reviews the evidence on the potential mechanisms by which smoking causes diseases and considers whether a mechanism is likely to be operative in the production of human disease by tobacco smoke. This evidence is relevant to understanding how smoking causes disease, to identifying those who may be particularly susceptible, and to assessing the potential risks of tobacco products.
Download or read book World Cities Report 2020 written by United Nations and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rapidly urbanizing and globalized world, cities have been the epicentres of COVID-19 (coronavirus). The virus has spread to virtually all parts of the world; first, among globally connected cities, then through community transmission and from the city to the countryside. This report shows that the intrinsic value of sustainable urbanization can and should be harnessed for the wellbeing of all. It provides evidence and policy analysis of the value of urbanization from an economic, social and environmental perspective. It also explores the role of innovation and technology, local governments, targeted investments and the effective implementation of the New Urban Agenda in fostering the value of sustainable urbanization.
Download or read book Meeting at Grand Central written by Lee Cronk and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book A New roadmap for the Man and the Biosphere MAB Programme and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Genius Planet written by Ludger Hovestadt and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world where the power is always on, where there is not just enough energy, but an abundance of it. Such a world is no Utopia, it is a possible reality. Using indefinitely available sources of energy – especially photovoltaic solar, in combination with others – and networking this energy, much in the way that we have networked information, we can get beyond our current energy ‘crisis’ and resolve it. The world we then find ourselves in is not a world without problems – we will face new challenges on the way – but in terms of energy it is a world of plenty. Rooted in sound theory and based on technology that is available now, A Genius Planet offers an accessible but detailed and insightful perspective on how we can free ourselves from our dependency on natural resources and generate, trade, and use energy in ways that open up the genuine potential that we have at our disposal today.
Download or read book A Tale of the Dispossessed La Multitud Errante written by Laura Restrepo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of "The Dark Bride" comes a new novella published in a bilingual English/Spanish edition.
Download or read book Measuring the Information Society Report 2016 written by United Nations Publications and published by UN. This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Measuring the Information Society Report, which has been published annually since 2009, features key ICT data and benchmarking tools to measure the information society, including the ICT Development Index (IDI). The IDI 2016 captures the level of ICT developments in 175 economies worldwide and compares progress made since the year 2014. The MISR 2016 assesses IDI findings at the regional level and highlights countries that rank at the top of the IDI and those that have improved their position in the overall IDI rankings most dynamically since 2014. It will also use the findings of the IDI to analyze trends and developments in the digital divide. The report will present 2015 prices for about 160 countries and provide a detailed analysis of mobile-cellular, fixed-broadband and mobile-broadband prices over the period 2008-2015. It will highlight the role of ICTs in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and present the newly agreed SDG indicator framework, including the ICT indicators. The report will also include a chapter looking into new metrics to measure mobile uptake, and a chapter presenting data analyzing Internet use and uptake.
