Rediscovering Sustainability: Economics of the Finite Earth, A.R.G. Heesterman

Автор: Aslaug Mikkelsen (Editor), Oluf Langhelle (Editor)
Название: Arctic Oil and Gas: Sustainability at Risk?
ISBN: 0415619823 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415619820
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book analyzes the expanding oil and gas activities in the Arctic from a social and developmental perspective, raising questions concerning the interaction between indigenous peoples, governments and oil and gas companies.

Автор: Schellnhuber
Название: Earth System Analysis: Integrating Science for Sustainability.
ISBN: 3540580174 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540580171
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: As humanity approaches the 3rd millennium, the sustainability of our present way of life becomes more and more questionable. New paradigms for the long-term coevolution of nature and civilization are urgently needed in order to avoid intolerable and irreversible modifications of our planetary environment. Earth System Analysis is a new scientific enterprise that tries to perceive the earth as a whole, a unique system which is to be analyzed with methods ranging from nonlinear dynamics to macroeconomic modelling. This book, resulting from an international symposium organized by the Potsdam Institute, has 2 aims: first, to integrate contributions from leading researchers and scholars from around the world to provide a multifaceted perspective of what Earth System Analysis is all about, and second, to outline the scope of the scientific challenge and elaborate the general formalism for a well-defined transdisciplinary discourse on this most fascinating issue.

Автор: Stephens
Название: Smart Grid (R)Evolution
ISBN: 1107047285 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107047280
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is designed for those interested in energy system change, renewable energy, sociotechnical transitions, electricity, climate mitigation, and climate change adaptation. The contribution this book makes is valuable because it goes beyond conventional technical and economic perspectives to explore the social implications of the diversity of smart grid futures.

Автор: Eckhard Worch
Название: Adsorption Technology in Water Treatment
ISBN: 311024022X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110240221
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
Цена: 136310.00 T
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Adsorption processes have played a central role in water treatment for many years but their importance is on the rise with the continuous discoveries of new micropollutants in the water cycle (pharmaceuticals for example). In addition to the classical application in drinking water treatment, other application fields are attracting increasing interest, such as wastewater treatment, groundwater remediation, treatment of landfill leachate, and so on.
Based on the author's long-term experience in adsorption research, the scientific monograph treats the theoretical fundamentals of adsorption technology for water treatment from a practical perspective. It presents all the basics needed for experimental adsorption studies as well as for process modelling and adsorber design.
Topics discussed in the monograph include: introduction into basic concepts and practical applications of adsorption processes; adsorbents and their characterisation, single and multi-solute adsorption equilibria, adsorption kinetics, adsorption dynamics in fixed-bed adsorbers and fixed-bed adsorber design, regeneration and reactivation of adsorbents, introduction into geosorption processes in bank filtration and groundwater recharge. According to the increasing importance of micropollutants in the water cycle, particular attention is paid to their competitive adsorption in presence of background organic matter.
Clear illustrations, extensive literature references and a useful index make this work indispensible for both scientists and technicians involved in water treatment.

Автор: R M Harrison, R E Hester
Название: Still Only One Earth: Progress in the 40 Years Since the First UN Conference on the Environment
ISBN: 1782620761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782620761
Издательство: ORCA BOOK SERVICES
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Описание: Discussing the key environmental issues affecting the Earth today, this book brings policy makers and environmental scientists up to date with current opinions and attitudes.

Автор: Mowforth Martin
Название: Tourism and Sustainability
ISBN: 1138013269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138013261
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct. So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring inequality between the rich and poor? Are ever-expanding tourism markets a smoke-free, socioculturally sensitive form of human industrialisation? Is alternative tourism really a credible lever for reducing global inequality and eliminating poverty? Tourism and Sustainability critically explores the most significant universal geopolitical norms of the last half century – development, globalisation and sustainability – and through the lens of new forms of tourism demonstrates how we can better get to grips with the rapidly changing new global order. The fourth edition has been extensively revised and updated, and benefits from the addition of new material on climate change and tourism. Drawing on a range of examples from across the Third World, Mowforth and Munt expertly illustrate the social, economic and environmental conditions that continue to affect the tourism industry. With the first edition hailed by Geoffrey Wall as ‘one of the most significant books produced on tourism [since the turn of the millennium]’, Tourism and Sustainability remains the essential resource for students of human geography, environmental sciences and studies, politics, development studies, anthropology and business studies as well as tourism itself.