Download or read book Ethnobotany of Mexico written by Rafael Lira and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the history, current state of knowledge, and different research approaches and techniques of studies on interactions between humans and plants in an important area of agriculture and ongoing plant domestication: Mesoamerica. Leading scholars and key research groups in Mexico discuss essential topics as well as contributions from international research groups that have conducted studies on ethnobotany and domestication of plants in the region. Such a convocation will produce an interesting discussion about future investigation and conservation of regional human cultures, genetic resources, and cultural and ecological processes that are critical for global sustainability.
Download or read book Value Chain Finance written by Lucian Peter Christoph Peppelenbos and published by Kit Pub. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Value Chain Finance is a solution to such dilemmas.
Download or read book Cracking the code written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.
Download or read book Governing the Metropolis written by Eduardo Rojas and published by David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. This book was released on 2008 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.
Download or read book An lisis del mercado textil actual Fast fashion y econom a circular como soluci n written by Samuel González Crespo and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este Trabajo de Fin de Grado (TFG) aborda los impactos y desafíos del fenómeno del fast fashion en el contexto global y propone la economía circular como una solución viable. El estudio comienza con una revisión histórica de la moda y el surgimiento del fast fashion, destacando sus efectos negativos sobre el medio ambiente y las condiciones laborales. Se explora cómo este modelo de negocio ha conducido a la rápida obsolescencia de las prendas ya una producción intensiva de bajo costo, lo que ha generado problemas de contaminación y explotación laboral en las cadenas de suministro globales. En respuesta a estos problemas, el trabajo examina la economía circular, un enfoque que promueve la sostenibilidad a través del reciclaje y la reutilización de materiales, así como la implementación de modelos de negocio más responsables. Se presentan casos de estudio y ejemplos de empresas que han adoptado prácticas de moda sostenible, evidenciando cómo estas pueden integrarse en las estrategias de comercio internacional. Este trabajo es relevante por su enfoque integral y su propuesta de soluciones prácticas y sostenibles, subrayando la importancia de transformar el sector textil para enfrentar los desafíos del siglo XXI .El TFG concluye que la transición hacia una economía circular en la industria textil no solo es necesaria para mitigar los daños ambientales, sino que también ofrece oportunidades para el desarrollo económico inclusivo y la mejora de las condiciones laborales. Este cambio requiere la colaboración entre gobiernos, empresas y consumidores para fomentar una moda más ética y sostenible. Palabras clave: sostenibilidad, economía circular, fast fashion, slow fashion, moda sostenible.
Download or read book World Anthropologies written by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.
Download or read book Meeting at Grand Central written by Lee Cronk and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book A New roadmap for the Man and the Biosphere MAB Programme and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Genius Planet written by Ludger Hovestadt and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a world where the power is always on, where there is not just enough energy, but an abundance of it. Such a world is no Utopia, it is a possible reality. Using indefinitely available sources of energy – especially photovoltaic solar, in combination with others – and networking this energy, much in the way that we have networked information, we can get beyond our current energy ‘crisis’ and resolve it. The world we then find ourselves in is not a world without problems – we will face new challenges on the way – but in terms of energy it is a world of plenty. Rooted in sound theory and based on technology that is available now, A Genius Planet offers an accessible but detailed and insightful perspective on how we can free ourselves from our dependency on natural resources and generate, trade, and use energy in ways that open up the genuine potential that we have at our disposal today.
Download or read book Transformative Approaches to Sustainable Development at Universities written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents and disseminates experiences from a wide range of universities, across the five continents, which showcase how the principles of sustainable development may be incorporated as part of university programmes, and present transformatory projects and programmes, showing how sustainability can be implemented across disciplines. Sustainability in a higher education context is a fast growing field. Thousands of universities across the world have signed declarations or have committed themselves to integrate the principles of sustainable development in their activities: teaching, research and extension, and many more will follow.
Download or read book The Doubtful Strait El Estrecho Dudoso written by Ernesto Cardenal and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... very well translated... Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America." --Booklist "Combining hsitory with poetry, Cardenal exposes the violence, treachery, injustice, and exploitation that are so much a part of Central America and Mexico's] past and present." --World Literature Today "Explore this dense, beautiful poem and you will be rewarded with riches that 'delight and hurt not'." --Nicaragua Update "... a remarkable text.... El estrecho dudoso is a masterful and compelling poetic account of early colonial Central America, and the translation is likewise masterful." --Colonial Latin American Historical Review In this book-length poem, Nicaraguan priest and revolutionary Ernesto Cardenal tells the story of the Spanish conquest of Central America from the "discovery" of the American continent to recent historical events. A remarkable achievement and an engrossing narrative, the poem is published here in both Spanish and English.
Download or read book A Tale of the Dispossessed La Multitud Errante written by Laura Restrepo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of "The Dark Bride" comes a new novella published in a bilingual English/Spanish edition.
Download or read book Human Scale Development written by Manfred A. Max-Neef and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a people-centred approach to development.
Download or read book Sustainable and Innovative Wine Tourism written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of the support that Cajamar Caja Rural provides to the agri-food business, the wine sector has received special attention in recent years. It is an activity to be found in practically every part of the Spanish State and its impact, not only in terms of land use, with more than 900,000 hectares dedicated to vine growing, but socially and economically as well, with 110,000 agricultural holdings and over 4,300 wineries, is considerable. [Editeur].
Download or read book Moda sostenible written by Alison Gwilt and published by Editorial Gg. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide offers ways to introduce sustainable strategies into every step of the fashion design and production process. Alison Gwilt discusses each of the steps and decision-making considerations involved in developing a fashion collection and offers practical advice and suggestions. From the search for empathy in design, zero-waste, and recycling, this book takes a practical approach to strategies that fashion designers can adopt during the design process. It includes numerous photographs and diagrams, as well as case studies from internationally known fashion brands. Este libro es una guía práctica para introducir estrategias sostenibles en cada uno de los pasos que configuran el proceso de diseño y producción de moda. Partiendo del día a día del trabajo en la industria de la moda, Alison Gwilt se detiene en las diferentes tareas y en la toma de decisiones que se producen a lo largo del desarrollo de una colección de moda para ofrecer consejos y alternativas prácticas que apuesten por un enfoque sostenible. Desde la búsqueda de la empatía en el diseño y el uso de monomateriales hasta el patronaje con residuo cero o las técnicas de revalorización, el libro perfila los impactos medioambientales y sociales relacionados con el ciclo de vida de las prendas y analiza, con un enfoque eminentemente práctico, las estrategias que los diseñadores de moda pueden utilizar para evaluarlos durante el proceso de diseño. El libro está ilustrado con numerosas fotografías y diagramas, e incluye ejemplos y casos prácticos extraídos de marcas de diseño de moda que ya son una referencia a nivel internacional.
Download or read book Manual de moda sostenible written by María Lourdes Delgado Luque and published by Editorial Almuzara. This book was released on 2019 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro –por su particularidad de poseer contenidos dirigidos simultáneamente a diferentes públicos- responderá algunas de las siguientes preguntas: • A los consumidores y a la sociedad en general: ¿Para qué están estas dos industrias? ¿A quiénes benefician? ¿Cuáles son los motivos del beneficio económico en detrimento del medioambiente y de los seres humanos? • A Profesionales de la Industria: ¿Qué es lo que los trabajadores y profesionales de estas industrias esperan? ¿Cómo puede ser diseñada y producida la moda para que prosperemos como seres humanos? • Para los emprendimientos: ¿Qué modelos de negocios propician los valores de la sustentabilidad? ¿Cómo se puede ser una empresa textil o de moda holística e interconectada en un mundo que exige cada vez más transparencia? • A las casas de estudio: ¿Entienden que la sustentabilidad es transversal y contextual y que necesita de una formación específica por parte del docente? • Como diseñadores: ¿Qué tan atados al sistema actual estamos y cuánto lo apoyamos y perpetuamos inadvertidamente? ¿Qué tanto conocemos los impactos de los materiales que usamos? Todas estas cuestiones se pueden resumir en: “todos queremos ser sostenibles, intentamos en forma muy limitada y, además, pareciera que nadie enseña su complejidad.
Download or read book Hosts and Guests Revisited written by Valene L. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
