Download or read book Water and Society VI written by S. Mambretti and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, civilisations have relied on the availability of clean and inexpensive water. This can no longer be taken for granted as the need for water continues to increase due to the pressure from a growing global population demanding higher living standards. Agriculture and industry, major users of water, are at the same time those that contribute to its contamination. Water distribution networks in urban areas, as well as soiled water collection systems, present serious problems in response to a growing population as well as the need to maintain ageing infrastructures. Many technologically feasible solutions, such as desalination or pumping systems are energy demanding but, as costs rise, the techniques currently developed may need to be re-assessed. The socio-political implications of a world short of clean, easily available water are enormous. It will lead to realignments in international politics and the emergence of new centres of power in the world. Policymakers need to be educated and advised on developing policies and regulations that will support the water systems of tomorrow. The role of society and its involvement with water is paramount. To meet the future demands for water, new standards, new training and additional support roles will best be delivered by those knowledgeable of the new technologies and direction of the industry. This volume highlights research on issues related to the nature of water and its use and exploitation by society.
Download or read book OECD Environmental Performance Reviews Spain 2015 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report evaluates Spain's progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on biodiversity and the environmental performance of the private sector.
Download or read book Evaluaci n de la sostenibilidad en empresas de energ a written by Jorge Andrés Polanco López de Mesa and published by Universidad de Medellín. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro es producto de una investigación realizada de manera mancomunada por la Universidad de Medellín y la empresa ISAGEN con el fin de aunar esfuerzos y estudiar la interacción de los componentes económico, social y ambiental del negocio de generación de energía, para diseñar lineamientos orientados a la incorporación de la sostenibilidad en la empresa de cara a los estándares internacionales. Entre los principales aportes de la investigación se destaca el diseño de un sistema de medición como herramienta de gestión que permite evaluar el desempeño de la sostenibilidad de manera integral y participativa durante la operación de las centrales de generación hidroeléctrica. El propósito de este texto es presentar el recorrido teórico y metodológico de la investigación de manera analítica, con la intención de discutir el alcance del sistema de medición en materia de evaluación de la sostenibilidad en la empresa.
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Download or read book Civilizing Resource Investments and Extractivism written by Wolfram Laube and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attempts to `civilize' the exploitation of natural and mineral resources are globally promoted. The body of rules and regulations -often the outcome of prolonged socio-environmental and political struggles- is impressive. However, the outcomes of their implementation are much less convincing. The chapters in this book show how international law is curtailing national and local regulation, while existing legislation is often watered-down, circumvented or reinterpreted with severe environmental, health and socio-economic impacts, particularly in the `global south'.
Download or read book Agenda 21 for the Travel Tourism Industry written by World Travel & Tourism Council and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world's largest industry, tourism has the potential to bring about substantial environmental and socio-economic improvements. This document translates Agenda 21 into a programme of action for the industry.
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Download or read book Water Agriculture and the Environment in Spain can we square the circle written by Lucia De Stefano and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The world water problems are a due to bad governance, not to physical water scarcity."This book is inspired by this statement and explores whether it holds in a specific country, Spain, where climatic conditions - Spain is one of the most arid countries of the European Union - would fully justify saying that water problems are due to physical wate
Download or read book Guide to Programs of Geography in the United States and Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Systems Smart Technologies and Innovation for Society written by Juan Pablo Salgado-Guerrero and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluaci n de la sostenibilidad en empresas de energ a written by Jorge Andrés Polanco López de Mesa and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation for a New Era written by Jeffrey A. McNeely and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2009 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation for a New Era outlines the critical issues facing us in the 21st century, developed from the results of the World Conservation Congress in Barcelona in October 2008. The landmark publication takes on the pressing issues of today and highlights the solutions to be found through investing in nature. The book is essential reading for governments, businesses and decision makers. It provides a snapshot of the current situation, split into 21 easy-to-read sections, as well as a roadmap for the future.
Download or read book Education for Sustainable Development Goals written by Rieckmann, Marco and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 67 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.
Download or read book Hijacking Environmentalism written by Richard Welford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights the need for participation and social innovation on their part. It asserts that senior executives and middle management in large corporations have often sought, deliberately or unconsciously, to block the advancement of environmentalism. Industry has reconstructed the more radical environmental agenda to suit its own purposes, in effect hijacking it, by taking it out of its traditional discourse and placing it in a liberal-productivist framework. The book concludes by examining the way forward for more sustainable business, presenting new models that place greater emphasis on issues such as equity and ethics.
