Download or read book Evoluci n y Estado de la HUELLA DE CARBONO written by Antonio José Guerrero Lucendo and published by Universidad Miguel Hernández. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las universidades, que pueden considerarse como pequeñas ciudades que contribuyen a la sostenibilidad a través de su educación, investigación, el funcionamiento de su propio patrimonio y su relación con la sociedad (Cortese, 2003; Gomera et al., 2021; Gu et al., 2019), desempeñan un importante papel en la sostenibilidad medioambiental a través de la lucha contra el cambio climático (E. C. Cordero et al., 2020). En este sentido, están empezando a abordar los problemas climáticos a través de políticas de reducción de carbono (Robinson et al., 2018). La huella de carbono puede ser un buen indicador de desempeño ambiental universitario si se evalúa e interpreta adecuadamente, por lo que suele ser el indicador clave de desempeño comúnmente utilizado para evaluar los impactos ambientales relacionados con el cambio climático (A. J. Guerrero-Lucendo, 2023; Lo-Iacono-Ferreira et al., 2018). Por ello, algunos autores consideran que la evaluación del cálculo de la huella de carbono en las universidades debería de ser uno de los pasos iniciales hacia la sostenibilidad ambiental del campus (Ridhosari & Rahman, 2020; Valls-Val & Bovea, 2021), y el informe de la huella de carbono el inicio de las prácticas educativas sostenibles (Kulkarni, 2019). Aunque no existen referencias relevantes que evidencien el uso de la huella de carbono como indicador de desempeño ambiental en las universidades (Lo-Iacono-Ferreira et al., 2018), la medición de la huella de carbono en estas organizaciones está ampliamente registrada. En la literatura podemos encontrar algunos estudios centrados en la comparación de las huellas de carbono de diferentes universidades, pero asociadas a regiones geográficas concretas (A. J. Guerrero-Lucendo, 2023; Valls-Val & Bovea, 2021), como Bailey & LaPoint (2016), que compararon las huellas de carbono de nueve universidades situadas en Texas (EE.UU.) o Robinson et al. (2015) con 20 universidades del Reino Unido. A nivel español, existen varias publicaciones de artículos sobre las huellas de carbono en los campus universitarios en los últimos años, como la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Lo-Iacono-Ferreira et al., 2018), la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Alvarez et al., 2014), la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (Gomez et al., 2016), la Universidad del País Vasco (Rodríguez Andara et al., 2020), la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (A. Guerrero-Lucendo et al., 2019) y la Universidad Jaime I (Valls-Val & Bovea, 2022). Como referencia en cuanto a revisión comparativa de las huellas de carbono de las universidades españolas se dispone de un mapeo general del desempeño ambiental en la mitigación del cambio climático de las universidades españolas a través de una herramienta estandarizada de cálculo de la huella de carbono (A. Guerrero-Lucendo et al., 2022). En este estudio, se obtuvieron 77 huellas de carbono para el periodo 2011-2020 de 14 universidades españolas a través del Registro Español de Huellas de Carbono. Los valores de las huellas se analizaron junto con diferentes variables y se recalcularon utilizando ratios de actividad estandarizados. Aunque se observó una disminución global de la huella de carbono total (72,7%), las emisiones directas de gases de efecto invernadero (Alcance 1) se mantenían estables, mientras que la disminución se debía a la reducción de las emisiones causadas por el consumo de electricidad (Alcance 2) a través de empresas proveedoras de electricidad, que garantizan que la energía suministrada se genera a partir de fuentes renovables o de cogeneración (A. Guerrero-Lucendo et al., 2022).
Download or read book Huella de carbono 2020 2021 written by España. Oficina Española de Cambio Climático and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El presente informe se corresponde con los cálculos de huella de carbono para los alcances 1, 2 y 3 del Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica y el Reto Demográfico (MITECO) de los años 2020 y 2021.
Download or read book Huella de carbono 2019 written by España. Oficina Española de Cambio Climático and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resumen: el presente informe se corresponde con los cálculos de huella de carbono de alcance 1+2 y 3 del Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica (MITECO) del año 2019.
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 Fresh Tracks in the Forest Assessing Incipient Payments for Environmental Services Initiatives in Bolivia written by Nina Robertson and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are being considered worldwide with great interest and expectation. Proposals to create agreements in which beneficiaries of environmental services pay landowners directly for the provision or protection of these services are innovative and promising. But what real PES experiences are actually out there? This work assesses a range of PES or PES-type experiences in one country, Bolivia, in the fields of carbon sequestration, protection of watershed services, biodiversity and aesthetic landscape values. The report concludes that while none of the generally young initiatives adhere fully to the principle of PES as developed in the theoretical literature, many experiment with some of the relevant PES mechanisms. Protection of watersheds and landscape values are the most common types, though the implementing intermediaries often have underlying biodiversity-protection goals. Main obstacles to PES implementation include ideological resistance against the PES concept, the difficulty of building trust between buyers and sellers, and limited willingness to pay on behalf of service users. During their relatively short lifetime, basically all initiatives had been successful in making service sellers (PES recipients) better off in economic terms, while the effectiveness in achieving environmental objectives and securing positive social impacts so far remained more variable. In some cases, redesigning these initiatives to bring them closer to the full PES principles could also enable them to more effectively achieve positive environmental and livelihood outcomes.
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 WORLD ENERGY OUTLOOK 2018 written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The State of Latin American and Caribbean Cities 2012 written by and published by . 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 bes-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 teh current situation of the region's urban world, including the demographic, economic, social, environmental, urban and institutional conditions in which cities are developing." -- p.4 of cover.
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 Sustainable Development and Renovation in Architecture Urbanism and Engineering written by Pilar Mercader-Moyano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on refurbishment as an alternative to the current crisis in the construction sector, as well as on measures designed to minimize the effects on the environment. Furthermore, it offers professionals insights into alternative eco-efficient solutions using new materials to minimize environmental impacts and offers solutions that they can incorporate into their own designs and buildings. It also demonstrates best practices in the cooperation between various universities in Andalusia in Spain and Latin America and many public and private companies and organizations. This book serves as a valuable reference resource for professionals and researchers and provides an overview on the status of investigations to find solutions to improve sustainable development in terms of materials, systems, facilities, neighborhoods, buildings, and awareness of the society involved.
Download or read book Climate Change Policy written by Michael Bothe and published by Eleven International Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the research results of an interdisciplinary study on climate change policies by the Enforcing Environmental Policy (EEP) Network, a project supported by the Human Dimension Potential Programme. Contributions are from highly qualified economic and legal specialists based at research institutes across Europe. The book gives answers to several questions related to the implementation of the international rules on climate change, most notably the Kyoto Protocol. It analyses ways and means to facilitate and encourage compliance with the objectives of the Kyoto Protocol. It is addressed to policy-makers, academics, business-sector and stakeholders throughout and outside Europe. Due to its interdisciplinary approach, this work is a distinctive and unique product compared to the existing literature on the subject. The effective implementation of climate protection and clean air policy requires an understanding of the political, legal and economic structures and constraints facing policy makers - and this is exactly what this book offers.
Download or read book Silvopastoral Systems in Southern South America written by Pablo Luis Peri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-authored volume contains peer-reviewed chapters from leading researchers and professionals in silvopastoral systems topic in Southern South America (Argentina, Chile and South Brazil). It is a compendium of original research articles, case studies, and regional overviews and summarizes the current state of knowledge on different components and aspects (pasture production, animal production, trees production, carbon sequestration, conservation) of silvopatoral systems in native forests and tree plantations. The main hypothesis of the book is that farmers have integrated tree and pasture/grassland species in their land use systems to reach higher production per unit of land area, risk avoidance, product diversification, and sustainability. These production systems also impact positively in main ecosystem processes. Management of these productive systems, Policy and Socioeconomic Aspects provide great opportunities and challenges for farmers and policy makers in our region. The book is unique on this subject in Southern South America and constitutes a valuable reference material for graduate students, professors, scientists and extensionists who work with silvopastoral systems.
Download or read book The Code Book written by Simon Singh and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-08-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives. From Mary, Queen of Scots, trapped by her own code, to the Navajo Code Talkers who helped the Allies win World War II, to the incredible (and incredibly simple) logisitical breakthrough that made Internet commerce secure, The Code Book tells the story of the most powerful intellectual weapon ever known: secrecy. Throughout the text are clear technical and mathematical explanations, and portraits of the remarkable personalities who wrote and broke the world's most difficult codes. Accessible, compelling, and remarkably far-reaching, this book will forever alter your view of history and what drives it. It will also make you wonder how private that e-mail you just sent really is.
Download or read book Register of Research written by Great Britain. Department of the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Forest Law written by Ursula Biemann and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This artist's book accompanies the exhibition of a collaborative project by Swiss artist Ursula Biemann and Brazilian architect Paulo Tavares, presented at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MSU in August 2014. Forest Law is a dynamic visual-textual engagement with the legal, ecological, cosmological and scientific dimensions of the tropical forest in the Ecuadorian Amazon. A trajectory through a transforming landscape, the book illuminates a series of legal cases and indigenous struggles for the rights of nature, incorporating text fragments, video stills and newly designed maps as well as a selection from legal documents, historical archives and other research material. This publication is coupled with the exhibition catalogue The Land Grant: Forest Law.
