Download or read book Contraintes environnementales et gouvernance des territoires written by Helga-Jane Scarwell and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environnement et gouvernance des territoires written by Helga-Jane Scarwell and published by Presses Univ. Septentrion. This book was released on 2008-03-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environnement, Gouvernance, Territoire : aucun des trois mots-clés qui composent le titre de ce livre n'accepte de définition simple et unique. Cet ouvrage se propose de contribuer au débat d'idées engendré par un certain nombre d'actions qui cherchent à concilier l'environnement et le développement des territoires. En effet, dans la région Nord-Pas de Calais, les grandes questions environnementales s'inscrivent dans le contexte particulier de la reconversion, entamée il y a maintenant quarante ans, d'une région longtemps dominée par des activités économiques qui ont laissé un lourd héritage. Cet ouvrage est l'un des premiers en France à offrir une vision, certes partielle et nécessairement hétérogène dans ses composantes et ses approches, de plusieurs des champs majeurs de l'environnement, air, eau, sols à l'échelle régionale. Son intérêt à ce point de vue est double. D'une part de décrire de façon extensive la situation, les dynamiques, le jeu des acteurs autour de ces thématiques dans la région Nord-Pas de Calais, et de permettre ainsi de saisir dans le détail les multiples aspects, la difficulté et la complexité des enjeux qu'il recouvre. Mais il illustre également de façon très nette la pertinence du niveau régional pour appréhender les mises en oeuvre environnementales d'un point de vue opératoire, en tant que réalité collective, rarement explorées comme telles en France. Il esquisse un chemin vers une meilleure déclinaison de l'approche environnementale à ses différentes échelles, nationale, régionale, urbaine ou locale, voire plus fines, et donne ainsi un contenu concret au caractère multiscalaire de l'environnement, en quoi réside l'apport spécifique de la géographie par rapport aux approches de caractère sociologique, économique ou politique.
Download or read book Environnement et gouvernance des territoires written by Iratxe Calvo-Mendieta and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environnement, Gouvernance, Territoire : aucun des trois mots-clés qui composent le titre de ce livre n'accepte de définition simple et unique. Cet ouvrage se propose de contribuer au débat d'idées engendré par un certain nombre d'actions qui cherchent à concilier l'environnement et le développement des territoires. En effet, dans la région Nord-Pas de Calais, les grandes questions environnementales s'inscrivent dans le contexte particulier de la reconversion, entamée il y a maintenant quarante ans, d'une région longtemps dominée par des activités économiques qui ont laissé un lourd héritage. Cet ouvrage est l'un des premiers en France à offrir une vision, certes partielle et nécessairement hétérogène dans ses composantes et ses approches, de plusieurs des champs majeurs de l'environnement, air, eau, sols à l'échelle régionale. Son intérêt à ce point de vue est double. D'une part de décrire de façon extensive la situation, les dynamiques, le jeu des acteurs autour de ces thématiques dans la région Nord-Pas de Calais, et de permettre ainsi de saisir dans le détail les multiples aspects, la difficulté et la complexité des enjeux qu'il recouvre. Mais il illustre également de façon très nette la pertinence du niveau régional pour appréhender les mises en œuvre environnementales d'un point de vue opératoire, en tant que réalité collective, rarement explorées comme telles en France. Il esquisse un chemin vers une meilleure déclinaison de l'approche environnementale à ses différentes échelles, nationale, régionale, urbaine ou locale, voire plus fines, et donne ainsi un contenu concret au caractère multiscalaire de l'environnement, en quoi réside l'apport spécifique de la géographie par rapport aux approches de caractère sociologique, économique ou politique.
Download or read book Environnement et gouvernance des territoires written by Richard Laganier Claude Kergomard (Helga-Jane Scarwell (dir.).) and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environnement, Gouvernance, Territoire : aucun des trois mots-clés qui composent le titre de ce livre n'accepte de définition simple et unique. Cet ouvrage se propose de contribuer au débat d'idées engendré par un certain nombre d'actions qui cherchent à concilier l'environnement et le développement des territoires. En effet, dans la région Nord-Pas de Calais, les grandes questions environnementales s'inscrivent dans le contexte particulier de la reconversion, entamée il y a maintenant quara.
Download or read book Gouvernance et d veloppement durable Une mise en perspective sociologique written by Philippe Hamman and published by De Boeck Supérieur. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panorama à la fois conceptuel et empirique des questions liées à la gouvernance de l'environnement et de la durabilité. Comment penser ensemble deux notions aussi complexes, sinon piégeuses, que la gouvernance et le développement durable, devenues essentielles pour saisir le fonctionnement de nos sociétés ? L'ouvrage propose une synthèse à la fois théorique et empirique d'importantes recherches conduites par l'auteur sur la problématique de la durabilité, dont des contrats européens et nationaux sur les énergies renouvelables, la mobilité et le logement durables, la nature en ville ou encore la ville durable. Ancrées dans des méthodologies qualitatives et quantitatives en sciences sociales, et attentives aux interdépendances croissantes entre échelles d'action publique, ces études ont mobilisé des comparaisons territoriales et européennes. Tout au long des développements, la réflexion sociologique est enrichie par un dialogue approfondi avec de nombreuses sources francophones et anglophones, qui débouche sur une mise à distance critique. Après avoir questionné la notion de gouvernance de la durabilité, l'auteur dégage, de façon originale, une analyse conjointe de ses compositions concrètes hiérarchiques et non hiérarchiques, à l'exemple de la gouvernance publique et urbaine. Cette mise en perspective s'appuie sur une riche bibliographie, qui pourra également servir de guide au lecteur pour des recherches futures.
Download or read book La d centralisation de l environnement written by Karine Foucher and published by PU Aix-Marseille. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DayWater written by Daniel R. Thevenot and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European DayWater project has developed a prototype of an Adaptive Decision Support System (ADSS) related to urban stormwater pollution source control. The DayWater ADSS greatly facilitates decision-making for stormwater source control, which is currently impeded by the large number of stakeholders involved and by the necessary multidisciplinary knowledge. This book presents the results of this project, providing new insights into both technical and management issues. The main objectives of its technical chapters are pollution source control modelling, risk and impact assessment, and evaluation and comparison of best management practices. It also covers management aspects, such as the analysis of the decision-making processes in stormwater source control, at a European scale, and stormwater management strategies in general. The combination of scientific-technical and socio-managerial knowledge, with the strong cooperation of numerous end-users, reflects the innovative character of this book which includes actual applications of the ADSS prototype in significant case studies. DayWater: an Adaptive Decision Support System for Urban Stormwater Management contains 26 chapters collectively prepared by DayWater scientific partners and end-users associated with this European Research and Development project. It includes: A general presentation of the DayWater Adaptive Decision Support System (ADSS) structure and operation modes A detailed description of the major components of this ADSS prototype The assessment of its components in significant case studies in France, Germany and Sweden The proceedings of the International Conference on Decision Support Systems for Integrated Urban Water Management, held in Paris on 3-4 November 2005. The book presents the ADSS prototype including a combination of freely accessible on-line databases, guidance documents, “road maps” and modelling or multi-criteria analysis tools. As demonstrated in several significant case studies the challenge for stormwater managers is to make the benefits of urban stormwater management visible to society, resulting in active co-operation of a diversity of stakeholders. Only then, will sustainable management succeed. DayWater: an Adaptive Decision Support System for Urban Stormwater Management advances this cause of sustainable urban management through Urban stormwater management, and makes achievable (by means of risk and vulnerability tools which are included) the goal of integrated urban water management (IUWM).
Download or read book Geographical Information and Climatology written by Pierre Carrega and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes two parts. The first part is more theoretical and general, and it covers fundamental principles : geospatial climate data measurement ; spatial analysis, mapping and climate ; geographical information, remote sensing and climatology ; and geographical information for initialisation of forecasting and climate models. The second part describes geographical information used in various climate applications of importance today, related to risk : urban climate ; air pollution ; hydrological problems linked to climatology ; forest fires.
Download or read book Floods written by Freddy Vinet and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The management of flood risk seems to be facing a daunting paradox. Despite increasingly effective risk knowledge tools and the efforts of international institutions to place risk reduction at the top of the agenda, the cost of disasters continues to increase. It is also increasingly difficult to avoid the urbanization or development of potential flood zones. The fundamental issue involves determining the conditions necessary for efficient prevention by focusing on adaptability to risk, which implies coping with the risk of flooding rather than directly fighting against it or simply ignoring it. This second volume of the Floods series of books explores existing policies and tools which mitigate the impact of flooding: the construction of protective structures, the reduction of vulnerability, land use planning, the improvement of crisis management, etc. The closing chapters focus on the question of adaptation through post-flood reconstruction, integrating disaster risk reduction measures, e.g. through resilient urbanism. Presents the state-of-the-art surrounding flood issues, from the description of the phenomena, to the management of risk (dikes, dams, reducing vulnerability and management of crisis) Written by specialists, but accessible to mainstream scientists Exposes knowledge, methodologies, scientific locks and the prospects of each discipline on the theme of floods
Download or read book Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks written by Benoit Roig and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment addresses the threats facing the rapidly changing world and provides guidance on how to manage risks to population health. Unlike conventional and recognized risks (major, industrial, and natural), emerging risks are characterized by low or non-existent scientific knowledge, high levels of uncertainty, and different levels of acceptability by the relevant authorities and exposed populations. Emerging risk must be analyzed through multiple and crossed approaches identifying the phenomenon linked to the emergence of risk but also by combining scientific, policy and social data in order to provide more enlightened decision making. Management of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environment provides examples of transdisciplinary approaches used to characterize, analyze, and manage emerging risks. This book will be useful for public health researchers, policy makers, and students as well as those working in emergency management, risk management, security, environmental health, nanomaterials, and food science. Presents emerging risks from the technological, environmental, health, and energy sectors, as well as their social impacts Contextualizes emerging risks as new threats, existing threats in new locations, and known issues, which are newly recognized as risks due to increased scientific knowledge Includes case studies from around the world to reinforce concepts
Download or read book International Journal of Sustainable Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CBM written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Governance and Development in Africa and the Middle East written by Khadija Darmame and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ecological Modernisation Reader written by Arthur P.J. Mol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structural environmental reform by firms and industries, governmental and intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and others is a worldwide phenomenon and the focus of this definitive collection. Includes a comprehensive introduction to and overview of Ecological Modernisation Theory; original, state-of-the-art review essays by distinguished international scholars; a selection of the best published works and debates from a quarter-century of related social science scholarship; an emphasis on environmental issues in Asian and other emerging economies; and an agenda for continued scholarship, policymaking, and practice. Accessible to students, policymakers, professionals, executives, and others interested in deeply understanding contemporary environmental issues and taking effective action for environmental solutions. Rigorous and sophisticated for use in graduate and advanced studies. Appropriate for courses in Sociology, Political Science, Policy Studies, Geography, Environmental Studies, Environmental Planning, Business, Economics, Asian Studies, Development Studies, and other fields.
Download or read book Culture 2030 indicators written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Capability Approach and Sustainability written by Ortrud Lessmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book dedicated exclusively to the question of the relationships between sustainability and the capability approach. It is rather astonishing that the issue of sustainability first posed by the Brundtland commission in 1987 has gained so little attention from capability scholars despite the approach’s focus on human well-being. This book starts with a seminal contribution by Sen on the "Ends and Means of Sustainability" delivered as a keynote in 2000. All contributions to the book focus on the difficulties that arise from a freedom-oriented view of sustainability: they argue for taking note of the impact of human life on nature, they question the meaning of intergenerational justice when measured in the currency of "substantive freedoms" (capabilities), they raise the issue of collective responsibility and suggest ways to model and operationalize the capability approach to sustainable development. The book presents the state of the art concerning "The capability approach and sustainability" while admitting that it is only a first contribution to a growing field that deserves our attention: Defining what is to be sustained and asking how it can be sustained. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.
Download or read book Dumping In Dixie written by Robert D. Bullard and published by Avalon Publishing - (Westview Press). This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be poor, working-class, or a person of color in the United States often means bearing a disproportionate share of the country’s environmental problems. Starting with the premise that all Americans have a basic right to live in a healthy environment, Dumping in Dixie chronicles the efforts of five African American communities, empowered by the civil rights movement, to link environmentalism with issues of social justice. In the third edition, Bullard speaks to us from the front lines of the environmental justice movement about new developments in environmental racism, different organizing strategies, and success stories in the struggle for environmental equity.
