Download or read book L acc s l eau written by Laurent Baechler and published by De Boeck Superieur. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parmi toutes les ressources naturelles sur lesquelles reposent les activités humaines, l’eau se distingue par le fait qu’elle est vitale, et sans substitut. Ces spécificités fondent le droit à l’eau, reconnu depuis peu comme un droit humain fondamental. Mais l’eau est également rare, et soumise à des pressions croissantes du fait de l’expansion démographique et économique mondiale. De sorte que l’accès à l’eau est de plus en plus un défi quotidien pour une grande partie de la population mondiale, principalement dans les pays pauvres. Au-delà, ce sont les équilibres entre écosystèmes et activités humaines qui sont menacés par la détérioration des ressources en eau, en quantité comme en qualité. A n’en pas douter, l’accès à l’eau fait partie des grands enjeux du développement durable pour les décennies à venir, aux côtés de la lutte contre le changement climatique et de la protection de la biodiversité. A mesure que l’observateur explore les conditions dans lesquelles ce défi peut être relevé, il découvre à quel point les problèmes et leurs solutions éventuelles se comprennent à un échelon local, tant la question de l’accès à l’eau en un point de la planète est différente, et relativement indépendante, de ce qu’elle peut être ailleurs. La question de l’eau est bien la plus complexe des problématiques du développement durable. Il en résulte que l’analyse de cette question mobilise un très large éventail de disciplines, et débouche sur une littérature gigantesque, que personne ne peut couvrir. Le champ de connaissances est tellement vaste qu’il devient difficile d’en avoir une perspective panoramique. De fait, il n’existe pas d’ouvrage présentant de manière claire et synthétique l’ensemble des enjeux de l’accès à l’eau et de sa gestion au 21e siècle. L’objectif de cet ouvrage est de combler cette lacune, en tenant compte de ce que les différentes disciplines concernées ont à dire sur le problème de l’accès à l’eau dans ses diverses dimensions.
Download or read book L acc s l eau written by Laurent Baechler and published by De Boeck Supérieur. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'eau a un statut à part parmi les ressources naturelles. Elle est indispensable à la vie sur Terre et n'a pas de substitut. Elle est indéfiniment renouvelable par son cycle naturel, mais également épuisable par les pressions des activités humaines issues de l'expansion démographique et économique. Son accessibilité, défi tout autant économique que géopolitique ou même éthique, est l'un des principaux enjeux du développement durable. Avec une couverture médiatique moindre que d'autres problématiques comme le climat ou la biodiversité, l'accès à l'eau n'en reste pas moins un sujet central. À mesure que l'économie se développe, c'est l'équilibre entre écosystèmes et activités humaines qui est menacé par la détérioration des ressources en eau, autant en qualité qu'en quantité. Pour aborder ces enjeux liés à l'eau, cet ouvrage se propose de croiser un champ considérable de connaissances et de disciplines comme l'économie, l'hydrologie ou encore le droit, car l'accès à l'eau recoupe des problématiques à des échelons très divers, du local au global.
Download or read book The Work of the International Law Commission written by Vereinte Nationen International Law Commission and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The End of Desertification written by Roy H. Behnke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question in the title of this book draws attention to the shortcomings of a concept that has become a political tool of global importance even as the scientific basis for its use grows weaker. The concept of desertification, it can be argued, has ceased to be analytically useful and distorts our understanding of social-environmental systems and their resiliency, particularly in poor countries with variable rainfall and persistent poverty. For better policy and governance, we need to reconsider the scientific justification for international attempts to combat desertification. Our exploration of these issues begins in the Sahel of West Africa, where a series of severe droughts at the end of the 20th century led to the global institutionalization of the idea of desertification. It now seems incontrovertible that these droughts were not caused primarily by local land use mismanagement, effectively terminating a long-standing policy and scientific debate. There is now an opportunity to treat this episode as an object lesson in the relationship between science, the formation of public opinion and international policy-making. Looking beyond the Sahel, the chapters in this book provide case studies from around the world that examine the use and relevance of the desertification concept. Despite an increasingly sophisticated understanding of dryland environments and societies, the uses now being made of the desertification concept in parts of Asia exhibit many of the shortcomings of earlier work done in Africa. It took scientists more than three decades to transform a perceived desertification crisis in the Sahel into a non-event. This book is an effort to critically examine that experience and accelerate the learning process in other parts of the world.
Download or read book Tropical Forests in a Changing Global Context written by Morgan de Dapper and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility written by Liisa North and published by Between The Lines. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian mining activity in Latin America has exploded over the past decade and a half. Investors have responded to neoliberal policies of deregulation, privatization, state-downsizing, and export promotion encouraged by leading capitalist nations and international financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The result, predictably, has been sharp conflicts between the communities affected by mining and their advocates on one side, and the transnational mining companies supported by the local state and the Canadian government on the other. This collection, the most comprehensive in the English-language to date, investigates these conflicts in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Contributors address the related sustainable development, community, corporate, legal, and social issues. A valuable contribution to Latin American development studies, this collection will prove of interest to students and specialists in the field, journalists, NGOs, and policymakers.
Download or read book Hydrology of Mediterranean and Semiarid Regions written by Eric Servat and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania written by and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1991 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boundary Layer Theory written by Hermann Schlichting (Deceased) and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the near-legendary textbook by Schlichting and revised by Gersten presents a comprehensive overview of boundary-layer theory and its application to all areas of fluid mechanics, with particular emphasis on the flow past bodies (e.g. aircraft aerodynamics). The new edition features an updated reference list and over 100 additional changes throughout the book, reflecting the latest advances on the subject.
Download or read book Biodiversity and Protected Areas written by Karen Beazley and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity and Protected Areas assembles twelve topics from around the world, illustrating the complexities and promise of addressing the biodiversity crisis. Authors from Mongolia, Africa, India, Canada, Iraq, and the United States dwell on particular aspects and challenges relevant to those regions. Lessons and approaches from interesting localities, coupled with global analyses give the reader a synthetic view of emerging problems. The opportunities for understanding common issues across different geographies abound, such as comparing local conservation in sub-Saharan Africa with a distribution of very small protected areas in Massachusetts. Several topics will be of immediate interest to policymakers. The book is illustrated with numerous color maps and figures and the authors strove for clear, uncomplicated writing. The editors provide an overview of chapters, placing them in the context of other biodiversity and protected area literature. Students and conservationists attempting to broaden their views of biodiversity and protected areas should find this collection to be interesting.
Download or read book The International Society as a Legal Community written by Hermann Mosler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Indonesian Fashion written by Alessandra Lopez y Royo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indonesian fashion has undergone a period of rapid growth over the last three decades. This book explores how through years of social, political, and cultural upheaval, the country's fashion has moved away from “colonial fashion” and “national dress” to claim its own distinct identity as contemporary fashion in a global world. With specific reference to women's wear, Contemporary Indonesian Fashion explores the diversity and complexity of the country's sartorial offerings, which weave together local textile traditions like batik and ikat-making with contemporary narratives. The book questions concepts of “tradition” and “modernity” in the developing world, taking stock of the elite consumption of luxury brands and the large-scale manufacturing of fast fashion, and introduces us to the rise of new trends such as busana muslim (or “modest wear”), creating a portrait of a vibrant and growing national and, increasingly, international, industry. Exploring clothing in shopping malls, on the catwalk, in magazines, and online, the book examines how Indonesian fashion is made, presented, and consumed, combining research in Indonesia with analysis and personal reflection. Contemporary Indonesian Fashion ultimately questions the deeply entrenched eurocentrism of "global fashion", simultaneously interrogating current homogenizing beauty and body image discourses posited as universal, by pointing to absences, silences, and erasures as reflected by contemporary Indonesian fashion- hence the "looking glass" of the title. Aptly illustrated, the book offers a new perspective on a rapidly developing new fashion capital, Jakarta.
Download or read book United Nations Juridical Yearbook 1981 written by United Nations Staff and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the First National Workshop on State of the Environment Reporting in Zimbabwe written by Lovemore Sola and published by Government of Re. This book was released on 1997 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Population Biology of Plants written by John L. Harper and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written in 1977, brought together for the first time, the current knowledge of plants that might be relevant to understanding their population biology. ¿This monumental volume did more than summarize the state of plant biology; ¿it linked the conceptual and theoretical developments in population ecology, mostly derived from the study of animals, with field observations and experimental evidence of population regulation and life history evolution in plants. ¿ ¿The field of population biology was already well established in the 1960s although with a clear zoocentric emphasis, however, it is because of Harper¿s work that the field experienced a veritable explosion, reached maturity and became a mainstream scientific endeavour worldwide. This field is so vast now that it would be pointless, if not impossible, for someone to summarise it. It is precisely because of this that PBP is as relevant now as it was in 1977. John Harper¿s style of highlighting unanswered questions and the limitations of both theory and empirical evidence served and still serves as foundation for research agendas worldwide. Much remains to be done in this field and this alone makes PBP an essential element in the library of every student/researcher of population biology, whether interested in plants or animals.¿ From the ¿Preface to the 2010 Printing¿ written by José Sarukhán, Rodolfo Dirzo and Miguel Franco.
Download or read book Categories Objectives and Criteria for Protected Areas written by IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. Committee on Criteria and Nomenclature and published by IUCN. This book was released on 1983 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
