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Landscape impact assessment in planning processes
Aims and Scope Growing social and economic needs exert major pressures on landscapes, challenging preserved landscape values and the regional significance of places. As a result, the scope oflandscape management has broadened and diversifiedin response to international calls for greater landscape protection, and to existing and new challenges, such as thoserelating to climate change adaptation…
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- 9783110601558
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- X, 218 p.
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- 712 BEL l
Understanding the bigger energy picture : DESERTEC and beyond
This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate to global climate, the water cycle and other re…
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- 9783319579665
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- xv, 110p. : ill.
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- 333.79 DUR u
The illusion of risk control : what does it take to live with uncertainty?
This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an event and the severity of its consequences, is poorly suited to situations where uncertainty and am…
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- 9783319329390
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- v, 112p. : ill.
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- 658.155 ILL i
Sustainable manufacturing : challenges, solutions and implementation perspect…
Sustainability imposes an unprecedented challenge on society and has become the driving force of an urgent search for innovative solutions in all branches of economy. Manufacturing plays a key role in many areas of human living, and it is both part of the problem and of the solution. This book offers an overview of the broad field of research on sustainability in manufacturing with a particula…
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- 9783319485140
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- xii, 283p. : ill.
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- 670 SUS s
Peran matematika, sains, dan teknologi dalam mencapai tujuan pembangunan berk…
Tujuan Pembangunan Berkelanjutan (Sustainable Development Goals/SDGs) merupakan rangkaian agenda pembangunan berkelanjutan mulai tahun 2015 sampai 2030. SDGs terdiri atas 17 tujuan yang disepakati pada September 2015 oleh negara-negara anggota PBB, akan memandu pencapaian tujuan global yakni pembangunan berkelanjutan hingga tahun 2030. SDGs sesungguhnya disusun berdasarkan capaian Tujuan Pemban…
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- 9786023923281
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- xiv, 359p. : ill.
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- 307.1 PER p
Nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in urban areas : linkages…
This book brings together research findings and experiences from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in urban areas. Emphasis is given to the potential of nature-based approaches to create multiple-benefits for society. The expert contributions present recommendations for creating synergies between ongoing…
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- 9783319560915
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- xi, 342p. : ill.
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- 307.1216 NAT n
21st century cooperation: regional public goods, global governance, and susta…
This edited volume explains the importance of regional public goods (RPGs) for sustainable development and shows why they are particularly important in the context of 21st-century international relations. By presenting a new and original data set and by presenting original essays by renowned scholars, this book lays the foundation for what will become an increasingly important focus for both ec…
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- 9781315185927
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- xxvi, 381p.: ill.; 24 cm
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- 302.14 TWE t
Evaluating climate change action for sustainable development
This authoritative book presents the ever progressing state of the art in evaluating climate change strategies and action. It builds upon a selection of relevant and practical papers and presentations given at the 2nd International Conference on Evaluating Climate Change and Development held in Washington DC in 2014 and includes perspectives from independent evaluations of the major internation…
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- 9783319437026
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- xxiv, 355p. : ill.
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- 363.73874 EVA e
Ecosystem services for well-being in deltas : integrated assessment for polic…
This book answers key questions about environment, people and their shared future in deltas. It develops a systematic and holistic approach for policy-orientated analysis for the future of these regions. It does so by focusing on ecosystem services in the world’s largest, most populous and most iconic delta region, that of the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh. The book covers the concep…
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- 9783319710938
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- l, 593p. : ill.
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- 333.709 ECO e
Designing sustainable energy for all : sustainable product-service system des…
This open access book addresses the issue of diffusing sustainable energy access in low- and middle-income contexts.Access to energy is one of the greatest challenges for many people living in low-income and developing contexts, as around 1.4 billion people lack access to electricity.Distributed Renewable Energy systems (DRE) are considered a promising approach to address this challenge and pro…
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- 9783319702230
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- xxxii, 208p. : ill.
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- 621.042 DES d
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