Download or read book UNEP Annual Review 1978 written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 1980 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book UNEP Annual Review 1980 written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Participatory Sensing Opinions and Collective Awareness written by Vittorio Loreto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces and reviews recent advances in the field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potential of emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with the latest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians, computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex data sets. There is overwhelming evidence that the current organisation of our economies and societies is seriously damaging biological ecosystems and human living conditions in the short term, with potentially catastrophic effects in the long term. The need to re-organise the daily activities with the greatest impact – energy consumption, transport, housing – towards a more efficient and sustainable development model has recently been raised in the public debate on several global, environmental issues. Above all, this requires the mismatch between global, societal and individual needs to be addressed. Recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can trigger important transitions at the individual and collective level to achieve this aim. Based on the findings of the collaborative research network EveryAware the following developments among the emerging ICT technologies are discussed in depth in this volume: • Participatory sensing – where ICT development is pushed to the level where it can support informed action at the hyperlocal scale, providing capabilities for environmental monitoring, data aggregation and mining, as well as information presentation and sharing. • Web gaming, social computing and internet-mediated collaboration – where the Web will continue to acquire the status of an infrastructure for social computing, allowing users’ cognitive abilities to be coordinated in online communities, and steering the collective action towards predefined goals. • Collective awareness and decision-making – where the access to both personal and community data, collected by users, processed with suitable analysis tools, and re-presented in an appropriate format by usable communication interfaces leads to a bottom-up development of collective social strategies.

Download or read book Annual Review United Nations Environment Programme written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book UNEP Annual Report written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report details the goals and activities of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote global sustainable development in 2003, as well as providing information on the organisation's funding, structure, personnel and offices around the world. Special attention is given to: Water for the future; Environment and security; Protecting the atmosphere; The regional perspective; Leadership for sustainable development; Knowledge for decision making; Sustainable consumption and production; and, Participation and inspiration.

Download or read book UNEP GC written by United Nations Environment Programme. Governing Council and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conservation and Development written by Andrew Newsham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation and development share an intertwined history dating back to at least the 1700s. But what are the prospects for reconciling the two, and how far have we come with this project? This book explores these questions through a detailed consideration of the past, present and future of the relationship between conservation and development. Bringing to bear conceptual resources from political ecology, social-ecological systems thinking and science and technology studies, Conservation and Development sets this relationship against the background of the political and economic processes implicated in environmental degradation and poverty alike. Whilst recognising that the need for reconciling conservation and development processes remains as compelling as ever, it demonstrates why trade-offs are more frequently encountered in practice than synergies. It also flags alternative visions for conservation and development obscured or ignored by current framings and priorities. Bringing together policy and theory, Conservation and Development is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students and a useful reference for researchers in related fields. Each chapter contains a reading guide with discussion questions. The text is enlivened by a number of new case studies from around the world. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the history, current state, and projections for future shifts in the relationship between conservation and development.

Download or read book Accessions List Eastern Africa written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number 6 includes cumulative main and added entry index for the monographs listed in that year.

Download or read book Social Conflict and Environmental Law written by Allan Jacob Greenbaum and published by [North York, Ont.] : Captus Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development written by Uma Nabhi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the role of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as an advocate for greater environmental responsibility and analyses the major achievements and outcomes of two landmark conferences – Stockholm (1972) and Rio (1992) – which set the agenda for the future role of the UNEP. It discusses the UNEP’s evolution, objectives and the problems of differing perspectives within, its ability to deal with environmental challenges, its skill in successfully carrying out the mandate and contributing to the pursuit of environmental security. The book also looks at five developing countries of South Asia, namely India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, to study the role of the South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP), which plays an active role in the management of environmental issues and constitutes an important landmark in regional cooperation in South Asia. The author evaluates the contributions of National Conservation Strategies not only in creating environmental awareness but also in strengthening environmental governance architecture by integrating Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals into the development planning of these South Asian countries under study. Drawing on in-depth research and interviews, this book will be of interest to students, teachers, researchers, policymakers and strategic analysts working in the fields of environment studies, sustainable development, environmental science and policy, environmental law and governance, geography, politics and international affairs.

Download or read book Technologies to Maintain Biological Diversity written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Executive Director written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Advisory Committee on Oil Pollution of the Sea and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Global Regimes and Nation States written by Robert Boardman and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when environmental issues are prominent on many countries' political agendas, this book examines how one country, Australia, is handling the interplay between international and domestic environmental politics.

Download or read book Natural Resources Development in the Sahel written by Lee H. MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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