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Book L utopia sostenibile

    Book Details:
  • Author : Enrico Giovannini
  • Publisher : Gius.Laterza & Figli Spa
  • Release : 2018-02-01T00:00:00+01:00
  • ISBN : 8858132068
  • Pages : 67 pages

Download or read book L utopia sostenibile written by Enrico Giovannini and published by Gius.Laterza & Figli Spa. This book was released on 2018-02-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Per costruire un futuro migliore ci serve un'utopia. Un'utopia sostenibile. È la via maestra che Enrico Giovannini indica per il raggiungimento entro il 2030 degli obiettivi di sviluppo sostenibile fissati dall'ONU. Fame, salute, acqua, povertà, energia, infrastrutture, occupazione, disuguaglianze, clima, pace, istruzione sono questioni che si affrontano solo con un pensiero integrato e il concorso di forze politiche, economiche e sociali. Continuare a pensare e ad agire come nel passato vuol dire far precipitare il nostro mondo in una profonda crisi ambientale, economica, sociale. È richiesto l'impegno di tutti e un profondo cambiamento del modo in cui leggiamo e affrontiamo i problemi che ci circondano.

Book Geography Notebooks  Vol 1  No 2  2018   Living in the Third Millennium  Agenda 2030 and the new Sustainability Objectives for the realisation of a global utopia at local level

Download or read book Geography Notebooks Vol 1 No 2 2018 Living in the Third Millennium Agenda 2030 and the new Sustainability Objectives for the realisation of a global utopia at local level written by AA. VV. and published by LED Edizioni Universitarie. This book was released on 2019-03-21T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'Utopia realizzabile della sostenibilità, Alice Giulia Dal Borgo-Maristella Bergaglio - Sustainable places in urban settings: abandonments and returning at the time of Agenda 2030 - Alice Giulia Dal Borgo-Maristella Bergaglio - Città inclusive, sicure, resilienti e innovative. Riflessioni sul caso italiano, Raffaella Afferni - Tutela attiva e sistemi agroalimentari nelle Aree Interne italiane, Monica Morazzoni-Giovanna Giulia Zavettieri - Gli agroecosistemi come utopie sostenibili: il Progetto Neorurale nell'area metropolitana milanese, Giuseppe Gambazza-Giacomo Zanolin - Deconstructing coastal sustainable development policies: towards a political ecology of coastalscapes in Vietnam, Andrea Zinzani - Negli spazi vuoti della metropoli: esperienze di riuso collettivo tra temporaneità e permanenze, Emanuele Garda - Didattica della sostenibilità, Silvia Anselmi - E. Giovannini, L'utopia sostenibile. Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2018, pp. 172, Marcello Tanca.

Book Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability

Download or read book Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability written by Mariella Nocenzi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book outlines the theoretical and practical implications of the recent technological revolution of human/non-human relations for social researchers, and in so doing, seeks to develop more adequate theoretical and methodological models for social scientists to describe and investigate these social transformations and their consequences. The environmental strategies to balance human actions with the earth’s resources utilizing a sustainable approach can inspire original conceptualizations and, therefore, a new sociological paradigm rooted in a necessary rethinking of the dualism between nature and culture, and of human relations in a hyper-connected society increasingly composed by non-human elements. Chapter discussions include: Sustainability and the crisis of the theoretical functional model Environmental sustainability and the evolution of capitalism From moral imperatives to indicators and indices: a methodology for validating and assessing SDGs An understanding of psychopathological syndromes related to social environments Social research between participation and critical detachment Perspectives for a New Social Theory of Sustainability emphasizes that not only are modernist theories of unlimited wealth and progress no longer supportable, but also that their theoretical and empirical settings must be reassessed if society is to move towards sustainability. It promises to be required reading for students and researchers in sociology, psychology, economics and statistics, as well as professionals within government organizations and NGOs focused on human rights work, global inequities, ethical activism, and the UN Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals. "This book provides a unique toolkit for politicians and citizens on sustainable development and how it is fulfilled every day." David Maria SASSOLI European Parliament President

Book Geoethics

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  • Author : Silvia Peppoloni
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2022-04-12
  • ISBN : 3030980448
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Geoethics written by Silvia Peppoloni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines the current development of geoethical thinking, proposing to the general public reflections and categories useful for understanding the ethical, cultural, and societal dimensions of anthropogenic global changes. Geoethics identifies and orients responsible behaviors and actions in the management of natural processes, redefining the human interaction with the Earth system based on a critical, scientifically grounded, and pragmatic approach. Solid scientific knowledge and a philosophical reference framework are crucial to face the current ecological disruption. The scientific perspective must be structured to help different human contexts while respecting social and cultural diversity. It is impossible to respond to global problems with disconnected local actions, which cannot be proposed as standard and effective operational models. Geoethics tries to overcome this fragmentation, presenting Earth sciences as the foundation of responsible human action toward the planet. Geoethics is conceived as a rational and multidisciplinary language that can bind and concretely support the international community, engaged in resolving global environmental imbalances and complex challenges, which have no national, cultural, or religious boundaries that require shared governance. Geoethics is proposed as a new reading key to rethinking the Earth as a system of complex relationships, in which the human being is an integral part of natural interactions.

Book Smart Sustainable Cities and Knowledge Based Economy

Download or read book Smart Sustainable Cities and Knowledge Based Economy written by Enrico Ivaldi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides information and resources to city planners and other public policy officials on the importance of smart sustainable cities and their relationship with urban knowledge-based economy. It answers important topical questions relating to urban sustainable development and human well-being, namely, how can we implement policies and programs that can make cities “smart” and boost their knowledge-based development? How can such programs reduce inequalities and enhance the environment where people live and work? The authors suggest a new approach to the creation of sustainable smart cities, not only in metropolises but also in smaller urban spaces. They advance the body of knowledge in entrepreneurship literature by examining both the European regional understanding of entrepreneurship and the quality of life and well-being at city levels. They also provide synthetic indexes to assess the relationship between perceived quality of life and entrepreneurship. This book stimulates the debate on the role of smart cities in promoting entrepreneurship, which is a currently under-investigated topic in Europe, and is of interest to a wide range of practitioners, professionals and academics in the area of well-being and quality of life research, urban studies, public policy, and sustainable development.

Book Fashion Communication in the Digital Age

Download or read book Fashion Communication in the Digital Age written by Nadzeya Sabatini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. FACTUM Conference proceedings are the output of one of the few academic events of its nature happening globally, researching fashion communication from different angles and perspectives. It includes contributions from scholars studying communication and marketing, management, digital transformation, and cultural heritage, among other disciplines. This book presents papers from the third bi-annual Conference, which aims to become the major reference point in the field. These proceedings seek to promote theoretical and empirical interdisciplinary work on how various communication practices impact both the fashion industry and societal fashion-related practices and values. With these proceedings, several objectives are aimed to be achieved, namely: - to establish and consolidate an international and interdisciplinary network of scholars in the field of fashion communication; - to share methodological approaches; - to expand the dialogue between communications studies and fashion-related disciplines; - to encourage junior researchers to pursue their scientific interests in this field. Finally, the book can be used by professionals in the field of fashion communication and marketing, who are eager to access sound research in a field that is developing very fast due to its digital transformation.

Book Water Resources of Italy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giuseppe Rossi
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release : 2020-04-17
  • ISBN : 3030364607
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Water Resources of Italy written by Giuseppe Rossi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive framework of the current state of water resources in Italy and of the main stages of the evolutionary way in the last decades for achieving an integrated, sustainable and equitable water resources management. The main paradigms of water resources development are identified as: i) engineering and economic approach to water resources exploitation, ii) focus on pollution control and water-excess management, iii) a comprehensive approach toward a sustainable and equitable distribution of resources and effective risk reduction of water-related disasters. After a section devoted to the analysis of some historic stages in the legislation framework and the governance of water and soil, with particular reference to planning, design, building and operation of water systems, two sections deal with the estimation of water resources availability on national territory and estimation of water demands in municipal, agricultural, industrial, ecosystem sectors. The complex problems that the Italian society has to solve in the water field and the main challenges of a changing world are discussed in the fourth section of the volume. The book will not only be useful for water professionals, but also for citizen who like to discern the key factors which delay the recognition of water as a resource for life. The description of the problems and adopted solutions could also serve as a guideline for similar situations encountered in other countries, improving the preparation of the responsible people.

Book Sustainable Development and Higher Education Institutions

Download or read book Sustainable Development and Higher Education Institutions written by Göran Finnveden and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a unique role and responsibility for the future and for driving the development of a sustainable society. HEIs are charged with the task of fostering sustainability in the leaders of tomorrow, developing solutions and methods for addressing a sustainable future and ensuring that knowledge is contributed to society. HEIs must also ensure that their everyday operations and practices are consistent with a sustainable future, and that they work toward holistically integrating sustainability into both the mission of a university and its daily tasks. This Special Issue builds on papers presented during the 2018 International Sustainable Campus Network Conference and also includes other contributions. The articles reflect the many aspects of sustainability in higher education institutions and illustrate innovation in approach, outcomes, and impact. The papers cover a range of perspectives on sustainability both on and around campuses. These include organization and management issues, networking and city partnership themes, and metrics and indicators related to sustainable development goals. The Special Issue also includes papers on education, student involvement, and gender issues. Select articles include results from surveys and desktop research; others depict approaches on experimentation, living labs, and action research.

Book Prevention of Maladjustment to Life Course Transitions

Download or read book Prevention of Maladjustment to Life Course Transitions written by Moshe Israelashvili and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and updated review of the concepts, models, and interventions related to the process of adjustment to life course transitions. In times of transition, an individual is exposed to experiences that require them to assume new roles and exhibit updated behaviors. Regardless of the characteristics of these transitions, exposure to normative trajectories imposes on the person an intensive engagement in a process of (re-)adjustment. Sometimes this demand is beyond the scope of one's ability, motivation, or comprehension. Hence, some people might ineffectively perceive and/or react to the change and end up feeling unable to handle the change and inclined to escape the situation. A preventive intervention that either reduces the impact of possible risk factors or fosters possible protective factors would support the people in managing the transition. While the importance of prevention of maladjustment is repeatedly mentioned in the literature, this is the first-known book on how to prevent maladjustment. It examines how the sense of transition emerges, what adjustment means, the models that elaborate on how people manage in times of transition, what the antecedents of maladjustment are, and especially how maladjustment could be prevented. Out of these discussions, a new model, The Transitional Stress and Adjustment (TSA) Model, is suggested as a grand framework for paving a way forward to better prevent people's maladjustment to life course transitions. Prevention of Maladjustment to Life Course Transitions is a much-needed cornerstone in the future development within the prevention science framework. This book has interdisciplinary appeal for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in psychology, sociology, public health, social work, criminology, medicine, health sciences, public policy, economics, and education who consider prevention an important vehicle of intervention to promote health and wellbeing. Its focus on the topic of adjustment also would be of special interest to those who explore child and youth development.

Book Youth Without Family to Lean On

Download or read book Youth Without Family to Lean On written by Moshe Israelashvili and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth Without Family to Lean On draws together interdisciplinary, global perspectives to provide a comprehensive review of the characteristics, dynamics, and development of youth (aged 15–25) who have no family to lean on, either practically or psychologically. In this timely volume, Mozes and Israelashvili bring together leading international experts to present updated knowledge, information on existing interventions, and unanswered questions in relation to youth without family to lean on, in pursuit of fostering these youth’s positive development. The various chapters in this book include discussions on different topics such as social support, developing a sense of belonging, parental involvement, and internalized vs. externalized problems; on populations, including homeless youth, residential care-leavers, refugees, asylum-seekers, young women coming from vulnerable families, and school dropouts; and interventions to promote these youths' mentoring relationships, labor market attainment, out-of-home living placements, use of IT communication, and participation in community-based programs. Additionally, various problems and challenges are presented and elaborated on, such as: Who needs support? Who is qualified to provide support? How should related interventions be developed? The book takes a preventive approach and aims to emphasize steps that can be taken in order to promote young people’s positive development in spite of the absence of a family to rely on in their life and examines the best practices in this context, as well as the international lessons that deserve further dissemination and exploration. This book is essential reading for those in psychology, sociology, public health, social work, law, criminology, public policy, economics, and education and is highly enriching for scholars and practitioners, as well as higher education students, who wish to understand and help the gradually increasing number of youth who are forced, too early, to manage their life alone.

Book Sustainable Development  Career Counselling and Career Education

Download or read book Sustainable Development Career Counselling and Career Education written by Laura Nota and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the Life Design paradigm and discusses the efforts made to overcome the matching paradigm between individuals and their work contexts, in order to guarantee the adoption of an active role for future career planning. Starting from the evolution of career counselling and vocational guidance in the 20th century and then following the more updated reflections in the Life Design paradigm, this book discusses research results from the Larios Laboratory (Padova, Italy) in collaboration with numerous international colleagues and institutions. These results show that career counselling and vocational designing can not only help people to plan their future in agentive ways, but also to help them getting out of the ‘mists of the present’ and to project themselves into a future that is yet to be created. This future is aligned by the world of research and international institutions, such as the UN and WHO, and follows the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with particular attention to Sustainable Development Goals 4, 8 and 12. This book reveals how trajectories can be created from one’s own mission, realized with the help of others and newly acquired strengths. It shows how career counselling and vocational designing can help people to build their own future from an inclusive and sustainable perspective, based on social justice, and to help build a better future for all.

Book Designing the City of People 4 0

Download or read book Designing the City of People 4 0 written by Dario Costi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects a set of reflections concerning the planning of contemporary cities by urban design, with a special emphasis on some needs and shortcomings emerged during the coronavirus pandemic. With the ultimate goal of designing accessible, inclusive and welcoming green cities, it discusses the urgent need for new systems of public spaces across the city, together with alternative solutions for individual mobility (especially slow mobility) and social interaction. It is intended for a broad readership, including designers, engineers, architects, social scientists, stakeholders, and public administrators, who deal with various aspects of the realization of the City 4.0.

Book L utopia dell ecologia  Una proposta per uno sviluppo pi   sostenibile

Download or read book L utopia dell ecologia Una proposta per uno sviluppo pi sostenibile written by Antonio P. Canistro and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development

Download or read book Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills an important gap in the literature, and presents contributions from scientists and researchers working in the field of sustainable development who have engaged in dynamic approaches to implementing sustainability in higher education. It is widely known that universities are key players in terms of the implementation and further development of sustainability, with some having the potential of acting as “living labs” in this rapidly growing field. Yet there are virtually no publications that explore the living labs concept as it relates to sustainability, and in an integrated manner. The aims of this book, which is an outcome of the “4th World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities” (WSSD-U-2018), held in Malaysia in 2018, are as follows: i. to document the experiences of universities from all around the world in curriculum innovation, research, activities and practical projects as they relate to sustainable development at the university level; ii. to disseminate information, ideas and experiences acquired in the execution of projects, including successful initiatives and good practice; iii. to introduce and discuss methodological approaches and projects that seek to integrate the topic of sustainable development in the curricula of universities; and iv. to promote the scalability of existing and future models from universities as living labs for sustainable development. The papers are innovative, cross-cutting and many reflect practice-based experiences, some of which may be replicable elsewhere. Also, this book, prepared by the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) and the World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre (WSD-RTC), reinforces the role played by universities as living labs for sustainable development.

Book Handbook of International Futurism

Download or read book Handbook of International Futurism written by Günter Berghaus and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of International Futurism is the first reference work ever to presents in a comparative fashion all media and countries in which the movement, initiated by F.T. Marinetti in 1909, exercised a particularly noteworthy influence. The handbook offers a synthesis of the state of scholarship regarding the international radiation of Futurism and its influence in some fifteen artistic disciplines and thirty-eight countries. While acknowledging the great achievements of the movement in the visual and literary arts of Italy and Russia, it treats Futurism as an international, multidisciplinary phenomenon that left a lasting mark on the manifold artistic manifestations of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. Hundreds of artists, who in some phase in their career absorbed Futurist ideas and stylistic devices, are presented in the context of their national traditions, their international connections and the media in which they were predominantly active. The handbook acts as a kind of multi-disciplinary, geographical encyclopaedia of Futurism and gives scholars with varying levels of experience a detailed overview of all countries and disciplines in which the movement had a major impact.

Book SDGs in the European Region

Download or read book SDGs in the European Region written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 1576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the thinking on sustainable development and a variety of initiatives across Europe, illustrating regional efforts to foster sustainable communities and ecological and social innovation. It contains various contributions which showcase examples of thinking, economic and social structures and in consumption and production patterns needed, to implement the SDGs. This book is part of the "100 papers to accelerate the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals initiative".

Book New Society Models for a New Millennium

Download or read book New Society Models for a New Millennium written by Michael Kuhn and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook