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Co-Creativity and Engaged Scholarship : Transformative Methods in Social Sust…
This open access book explores creative and collaborative research methods within the social sustainability sciences. The term co-creativity is used in reference to both individual methods and overarching research approaches that, through socially inclusive forms of action and reflection, stimulate alternative understandings of why and how things are, and how they could be. Supported by a wide-…
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- 9783030842482
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- xxxi, 559 p.
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- 338.927072 COC A
The great reconfiguration : a socio-technical analysis of low-carbon transiti…
This book is intended for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in the dynamics and governance of low-carbon transitions. Drawing on the Multi-Level Perspective, it develops a whole system reconfiguration approach that explains how the incorporation of multiple innovations can cumulatively reconfigure existing systems. The book focuses on UK electricity, heat, and mobility sys…
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- 9781009198233
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- xiii, 399p.; ill.
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- 333.70941 GEE t
Politics and the environment in Eastern Europe
Europe remains divided between east and west, with differences caused and worsened by uneven economic and political development. Amid these divisions, the environment has become a key battleground. The condition and sustainability of environmental resources are interlinked with systems of governance and power, from local to EU levels. Key challenges in the eastern European region today include …
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- 9781800641341
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- xii, 325p. : ill.
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- 363.700947 KRA p
On the literature and thought of the German Classical Era : collected essays
Das vorliegende Buch ist das wissenschaftliche Vermächtnis von Hugh Barr Nisbet (1940–2021), Emeritus des Sidney Sussex College und Nestor der britischen Aufklärungsfor-schung. Nisbet schloss die Arbeit an diesem Band im Dezember 2020 ab, wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod am 6. Februar 2021. Seine Absicht war es, so der Verfasser und zugleich Herausgeber in seinem konzisen Vorwort, einige der ze…
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- 9781783747719
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- viii, 336 p. : ill.
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- 830.9006 NIS o
Impact of climate change on agricultural and natural ecosystems
This book illustrates the main results deriving from fourteen studies, dealing with the impact of climate change on different agricultural and natural ecosystems, carried out within the Impact of Climate change On agricultural and Natural Ecosystems (ICONE) project funded by the ALFA Programme of the European Commission. During this project, a common methodology on several Global Change-related…
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- 9788884539212
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- 244 p. : ill.
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- 551 MAR i
Transforming Biodiversity Governance
Over fifty years of global conservation has failed to bend the curve of biodiversity loss, so we need to transform the ways we govern biodiversity. The UN Convention on Biological Diversity aims to develop and implement a transformative framework for the coming decades. However, the question of what transformative biodiversity governance entails and how it can be implemented is complex. This bo…
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- 9781108856348
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- xviii, 390p,: ill
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- 346.04695 ING
Beyond the limits to growth: new ideas for sustainability from japan
Sustainable Development; Energy Policy, Economics and Management; Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings); Climate Change Management and Policy; Renewable and Green Energy; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
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- 9783662549971
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- iv, 131 p. : ill.
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- Science for Sustainable Societies
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Governing the Climate-Energy Nexus
Combating climate change and transitioning to fossil-free energy are two central and interdependent challenges facing humanity today. Governing the nexus of these challenges is complex, and includes multiple intergovernmental and transnational institutions. This book analyses the governance interactions between such institutions, and explores their consequences for legitimacy and effectiveness.…
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- 9781108676397
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- xviii, 294p,: ill
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- 393.73874561 GOV
Environmental Technologies
This book on Environmental Technology takes a look at issues such as air, soil and noise pollution problems, environmental quality assessment, monitoring, modelling and risk as- sessment, environmental health impact assessment, environmental management and envi- ronmental technology development. It represents institutional arrangements, financial mechanisms and some sustainable technologies. Th…
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- 9789535158226
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- v, 278p. : ill,
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- 363.7 BUR e
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such…
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- 9781783747528
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- xxxiii, 696p,: ill
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- 334 JOH
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