Urban Nature (Routledge Studies in Urban Ecology)
This book showcases the diversity of ways in which urban residents from varying cultural contexts view, interact, engage with and give meaning to urban nature, aiming to counterbalance the dominance of Western depictions and values of urban nature and design. Urban nature has up to now largely been defined, planned and managed in a way that is heavily dominated by Western understandings, values and appreciations, which has spread through colonialism and globalisation. As cities increasingly re...
The Sustainable Development Goals
On 25 September 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda to be achieved by 2030. For the goals to be reached, everyone needs to do their part: governments, the private sector, civil society and people like you. Elyx, the United Nations' digital ambassador, uses various expressions and actions to help demonstrate the meaning of each goal. Created by French artist YAK, Elyx has no rac...
Alternative Economies and Spaces: New Perspectives for a Sustainable Economy
Trade in Japanese Endemic Reptiles in China (A TRAFFIC Report)
by Kahoru Kanari and Ling Xu
Creating Sustainable Cities (Schumacher Briefings)
by Herbert Girardet
How can we put the pulsing heart of conviviality back into our cities? How can we make sure of creating cities of diversity for the new millennium: places of cultural vigour and physical beauty that are also sustainable in economic and environmental terms? This Schumacher Briefing shows the way forward.
The Trade in Tokay Geckos 'Gekko Gecko' in South-East Asia (A Traffic Southeast Asia Report)
by Olivier S. Caillabet
National System Planning for Protected Areas (Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines S., #1)
by Adrian G. Davey
Sustainability, Climate Change and the Green Economy
by Godwell Nhamo and Vuyo Mjimba
Sharing water, sharing benefits
While there are no "blueprints" for how to prevent and resolve water resource conflicts which would be applicable in every instance, patterns do tend to emerge from which the best of global experience can be distilled. This workbook is centered around the development of negotiations within a hypothetical basin. It facilitates the building of skills to transform conflict at the interpersonal, intersectoral, and international levels, and offers principles for institutional capacity building within...
Promoting Sustainable Economies in the Balkans
This report explains that economic reconstruction alone will not be sufficient to bring long-term peace and stability to the Balkan region, although raising living standards could foster sustainable economic growth and reduce political tensions.
Sustainable Development (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, #19)
With growing evidence of unsustainable use of the world's resources, such as hydrocarbon reserves, and related environmental pollution, as in alarming climate change predictions, sustainable development is arguably the prominent issue of the 21st century. This volume gives a wide ranging introduction focusing on the arid Gulf region, where the challenges of sustainable development are starkly evident. The Gulf relies on non-renewable oil and gas exports to supply the world's insatiable CO2 em...
Conserving the Environment (Opposing Viewpoints (Prebound)) (Opposing Viewpoints (Library))
The Energy Mix for Sustaining Our Future (Springer Proceedings in Energy)
This book gathers the proceedings of the Energy and Sustainability 2018 Symposium (EAS 2018) held in Windsor, Canada in June 2018. It brings together the state-of-the-art on specific aspects of the current energy status, and covers a wide range of energy and engineering systems, from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, from the atmosphere, solar and wind, to underground geothermal and underwater turbines and energy storage. The book demonstrates how conventional internal combustion...
On lit beaucoup de choses sur l'Afrique, souvent peu encourageantes. Au quotidien, le monde entend parler des maladies, du desespoir et de la mort. Une telle litanie de souffrances n'est pas sans fondement, mais il y a aussi des histoires d'espoir, des promesses et du potentiel. Elles aussi representent une part tres importante de l'histoire complexe de l'Afrique subsaharienne (ASS) dans les premieres annees du XXIeme siecle. Tout comme il existe de multiples histoires, il faut donc des perspect...
Corporate Social Responsibility: Verbindliche Standards Des Wettbewerbsrechts?
Water governance in Latin America and the Caribbean (OECD studies on water)
UNESCO Biodiversity Learning Kit