Download or read book Hacia un desarrollo sostenible para las autoridades locales written by Malini Mehra and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sostenibilidad local written by Observatario de la Sostenibilidad en España and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sostenibilidad local written by Observatorio de la Sostenibilidad en España and published by . This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El Informe se ha dividido en tres capítulos además de un Resumen Ejecutivo, en el que se sintetizan las principales conclusiones del mismo. El primer capítulo expone una aproximación a la situación de la sostenibilidad local en su vertiente urbana a través de un sistema de indicadores aplicados a las capitales de provincia como conjunto representativo. El segundo aborda la situación de la sostenibilidad local en su vertiente rural, ofreciendo un conjunto de indicadores que se complementan con una muestra seleccionada de diez zonas piloto suficientemente representativas. El tercero y último capítulo trata las interacciones urbanas-rurales en un marco de sostenibilidad territorial, explicando la necesidad de establecer un nuevo diálogo campo-ciudad, y los requerimientos que ello implica, a fin de proponer algunas herramientas para una nueva estrategia territorial integrada. El análisis de la sostenibilidad local intenta poner en evidencia la necesidad de desarrollar un enfoque territorial que integre los distintos territorios urbano, rural y los espacios intermedios, lo que implica identificar, reconocer y gestionar los recursos endógenos de cada uno de ellos y propiciar su revalorización, como un modo de garantizar procesos sostenibles y diversificados.
Download or read book Extractive Sector and Civil Society written by Flavia Milano and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4% of Latin America and the Caribbean’s GDP comes from the extractive sector. This figure is equivalent to the amount generated by agriculture in the same region. An effective engagement between governments, companies, and civil society is required to propel sustainable development. With this regional diagnosis of countries rich in natural resources like Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, the IDB seeks to shed light on best practices among stakeholders of the extractive sectors. It focuses in actions of information, dialogues, consultations, collaborations, and partnerships that are driving development in the region. From the findings of the diagnosis, 3 roadmaps were drafted, to guide the stakeholders in strengthening their engagement.
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 Airbnb El viaje de Evan Spiegel y Brian Chesky hacia la revoluci n del intercambio written by MAX EDITORIAL and published by Max Editorial. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La historia de Evan Spiegel y Brian Chesky comienza en entornos diferentes, pero ambos demostraron un espíritu emprendedor desde temprana edad. Spiegel, nacido en una familia adinerada de Los Ángeles, estudió en la prestigiosa Universidad de Stanford, donde comenzó a desarrollar Snapchat. Chesky, por otro lado, creció en una familia de clase media en Nueva York y estudió en la Escuela de Diseño de Rhode Island. Desde pequeños, ambos tuvieron un rasgo común: una visión clara e innovadora de lo que se podía hacer para mejorar el mundo que los rodeaba. La fundación de Airbnb tiene sus raíces en 2007, cuando Chesky y su compañero de cuarto, Joe Gebbia , luchaban por pagar el alquiler en San Francisco. Hicieron de la crisis una oportunidad y alquilaron colchones inflables en su apartamento durante una conferencia que llenó los hoteles de la ciudad. Llamaron al servicio "Air Bed & Breakfast". Pronto, Nathan Blecharczyk, programador y colega de Chesky, se unió al dúo y juntos convirtieron la idea en una startup. Airbnb rápidamente se destacó al ofrecer una alternativa a los hoteles tradicionales. La plataforma permitía a cualquier persona con espacio extra ganar dinero alquilándolo. Este concepto no sólo desafió a las cadenas hoteleras establecidas sino que también revolucionó la forma en que la gente viajaba. En lugar de alojarse en hoteles estándar, los viajeros ahora podrían alojarse en casas únicas, experimentando las culturas locales de una manera más auténtica. El éxito de Airbnb no se debió sólo a su originalidad, sino a su modelo de negocio. Centrándose en la economía colaborativa, la empresa creó un sistema en el que todos ganaban: los anfitriones tenían una nueva fuente de ingresos, los invitados ahorraban dinero y la empresa ganaba comisiones por las transacciones. La plataforma también ofrecía una serie de herramientas para ayudar a los anfitriones a administrar sus propiedades, desde controles de seguridad hasta atención al cliente. Con el crecimiento vinieron los desafíos. Airbnb se ha enfrentado a una serie de problemas regulatorios en varias ciudades del mundo. Los gobiernos locales han comenzado a imponer restricciones y regulaciones para controlar el impacto de Airbnb en el mercado inmobiliario y la comunidad local. Además, han surgido preocupaciones sobre la seguridad de los huéspedes y la protección de los anfitriones. La empresa tuvo que invertir mucho en medidas de seguridad, políticas de seguridad y relaciones públicas para mitigar estos desafíos. Desde su creación, Airbnb ha transformado millones de vidas en todo el mundo. Este capítulo presenta historias de anfitriones que encontraron una nueva vocación, viajeros que vivieron experiencias inolvidables y comunidades que se beneficiaron del turismo generado por la plataforma. El impacto social y económico de Airbnb se ha extendido mucho más allá del mercado hotelero, fomentando una nueva mentalidad de compartir y sustentabilidad. Descubra mucho más...
Download or read book Cerro Matoso S A written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainability Ethics and Sustainability Research written by Christian Becker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book identifies the specific ethical aspects of sustainability and develops ethical tools to analyze them. It also provides a methodological framework to integrate ethical and scientific analyses of sustainability issues, and explores the notion of a new type of self-reflective inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research. With this, the book aims to strengthen the overall ability of academics to contribute to the analysis and solution of sustainability issues in an inclusive and integrated way.
Download or read book Engaging People in Sustainability written by Daniella Tilbury and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].
Download or read book In Review written by Inter-American Foundation and published by . This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Development Research and Practice in Mexico and Selected Latin American Countries written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an essential overview of sustainable development research in Mexico. It discusses the empirical research methods and findings, as well as practical initiatives and projects being pursued in Mexico and other countries in the region. Although a number of Mexican universities are now conducting high-quality research on matters related to sustainable development, there are few publications that offer a multidisciplinary overview of research efforts for a broader audience. This book addresses that gap in the literature, providing researchers at Mexican universities – including those from other countries working in Mexico – with an opportunity to present their work, i.e. curriculum innovations, empirical work, activities, case studies, and practical projects. As such, it fosters the exchange of information, ideas and experiences, successful initiatives and best practices.
Download or read book Traffic Congestion written by Alberto Bull and published by Santiago, Chile : United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. This book was released on 2003 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book GIS LATAM written by Miguel Felix Mata-Rivera and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First GIS LATAM Conference, GIS LATAM 2020, held in September 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 9 full papers and 2 short papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers are focused on the GIS applications in data analytics in spheres of health, environment, government, public, and education.
Download or read book International Community Psychology written by Stephanie Reich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-07-03 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth guide to global community psychology research and practice, history and development, theories and innovations, presented in one field-defining volume. This book will serve to promote international collaboration, enhance theory utilization and development, identify biases and barriers in the field, accrue critical mass for a discipline that is often marginalized, and to minimize the pervasive US-centric view of the field.
Download or read book Cradle to Cradle written by William McDonough and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world? In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective; hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles, without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are). Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, William McDonough and Michael Braungart make an exciting and viable case for change.
Download or read book Engineering Education for Sustainability written by João Paulo Davim and published by River Publishers Management Sc. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understood to be a key issue in modern society, sustainability is characterized by its three essential pillars, namely: the environment, society and the economy. Education plays an important role in how people understand and accept sustainability. The integration of sustainability in engineering education is a relatively new phenomenon, and presenting information about engineering education for sustainability is of great interest to improve communication between professors, researchers and students at universities, institutes and research laboratories. Topics discussed in the book include: Experiences from 5 years of educating sustainability to computer science students Review of decision support methods in green and sustainable supply chains Analyzing the drivers of engineering education for sustainability using the MCDM approach Visualization technologies in construction education: a comprehensive review of recent advances A legal framework and compliance with construction safety laws and regulations.
Download or read book Ecuador Poverty Report written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Valuable report based on the Ecuador Living Standard Measurement Survey (1994). Uses total consumption expenditures. Provides a baseline reference for future work. Contrast with INEC's basic needs survey (item #bi 97002637#)"--Handbook of Latin AmericanStudies, v. 57.
