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This contributed volume presents an attempt to understand climatic variability and induced risk to livelihood of communities and to offer insights on how catastrophic conditions and crises can be mitigated through public policy interventions. The case studies herein...
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Springer
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2024-05-30
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This scholarly work discusses the historical, contemporary, and prospective dimensions of environmental activism and its intersection with global media. It provides a comprehensive view of the pivotal role played by the media in shaping awareness concerning...
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Springer
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2024-05-07
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This open access book provides the first comprehensive review of the state of the art of social tipping points applied to energy systems from a social interdisciplinary perspective. It does so by presenting a novel theory of systemic and transformative change, linking...
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Springer
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2024-03-22
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Sustainable Hybrid Energy Systems Discovering comprehensive approaches to build sustainable hybrid energy systems Hybridization is the eternal theme of human energy utilization. However, it has never been more important than it is now because of the urgency of...
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Wiley-VCH
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2024-02-05
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The greatest challenges of the twenty-first century stem from the fact that we are now living in a new epoch: the Anthropocene.The human footprint on the planet can no longer be denied. One of the greatest and most essential human innovations, agriculture, is being...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2024-02-01
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There is ample evidence that engaging developing countries on climate change mitigation would have significant, positive impacts on global climate efforts.There is much debate, however, on the most effective strategy for unlocking these low-cost mitigation...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-01-01
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Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of food production, distribution, and consumption, where each step of the process is built on some form of exploitation. While highlighting the broken...
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Polity
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2023-12-07
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Build and manage the sustainable cities of the future with this comprehensive guide Climate change is among the biggest challenges facing today's cities, which are in turn a major factor in driving or mitigating climate change. It is no surprise then that urban planning...
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Wiley
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2023-12-04
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Cultural heritage is increasingly recognized for its contributions to the transition to climate action, and heritage education can play an important role in developing climate adaptation competencies. These can foster positive dialogs surrounding climate change, shift...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2023-11-17
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This book explores the relationship between pedestrians/cyclists’ mode and route choice to/from metro/railway stations and the micro-level (street-scale) built environment in a second-tier city in China. More specifically, it investigates how the street-scale built...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-11-14
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Urban Sustainability
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?In diesem Sammelband werden aus unterschiedlichen fachspezifischen, wissenschaftlichen und praktischen Perspektiven vielfältige Aspekte des Themas „Imperiale Lebensweise und Politische Bildung“ beleuchtet und kritisch reflektiert. Die didaktischen Potenziale...
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Springer VS
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2023-09-22
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Citizenship. Studien zur Politischen Bildung
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Developing an original approach, this book examines how both nationalism and climate change threaten humankind with future catastrophes, arguing that humanity is on a fast track to a dystopian future unless significant changes are implemented. While the world warms,...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-09-01
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Springer Studies on Populism, Identity Politics and Social Justice
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This Brief discusses the translation of global environmental norms across local contexts in France. It provides a snapshot of how global-level environmental norms travel vertically across levels of governance, from the global to the local, and asks how global...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-08-26
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SpringerBriefs in Political Science
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Covering the many important changes in food markets and food politics that have shaped both global and local farming and eating over the past decade, this compact and authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2023-08-04
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Diese Studie interessiert sich für einzelne Personen oder kleine Gruppen und deren Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Steuerung der lokalen Energiewende. Wie funktioniert dieser grundlegende Prozess der Steuerung, bei dem einzelne Personen bestimmte Kompetenzen, Leistungen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2023-08-01
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Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection
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A transdisciplinary approach to investigating relationships between biomass burning and human health outcomes Environmental degradation is causing severe impacts on the various Earth ecosystems. Unsustainable development and anthropogenic pressure have altered the...
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Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2023-07-04
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Environmental protection has not equally established itself as a permanent fixture in the political systems of all countries: to date, governments and entire societies have responded to environmental challenges in a variety of ways, and concrete environmental policy is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-06-13
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Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication
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Our culture has no concept of stopping. We continue to build motorways and airports for a future in which cars and planes may no longer exist. We’re converting our planet from a natural one to an artificial one in which the quantity of man-made objects – houses,...
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Polity
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2023-05-25
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While the ambitious objectives outlined in the EU’s Green Deal aim at making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, national implementation greatly varies depending on local geographies, history, culture, economics, and politics. This book analyses Member...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2023-03-28
Collection :
The Future of Europe
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US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, partisanship and polarization, and escalating...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-02-19
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