Описание: Providing up-to-date coverage of green nanomaterials and systems, this book provides comprehensive information on nanostructured materials, including their applications in energy and environmental sciences.
Автор: Brian Gardner Название: Global Food Futures: Feeding the World in 2050 ISBN: 0857851543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857851543 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 15840.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By 2050 the world will face the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people in the face of climate change, rising energy costs and pressure on food-growing land and resources. This is the first scholarly yet accessible account of the global food situation, synthesising the key issues in one volume.
Автор: Gwilt Alison, Payne Alice, Ruthschilling Evelise Anicet Название: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion ISBN: 1350058130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350058132 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion showcases the global fashion industry's efforts to reduce the negative impacts associated with fashion production and consumption.
Illustrated throughout with infographics, photographs and diagrams of creative works, eighteen essays focus on six regions, examining sustainable fashion in the context of local, cultural and environmental concerns. Also included are 18 regional 'Spotlight' sections highlighting the differences and similarities across regions by concentrating on examples of best practice, design innovation and impact on the community.
Описание: In order to yield the expected benefits, sustainability initiatives need to be undertaken by means of a close cooperation between universities on the one hand, and societal partners on the others.
Описание: Looks at how tenure and rights-based approaches can harmonize the concepts of responsible fisheries, social and economic development, and the fair and equitable application of user rights in capture fisheries.
Описание: In 2015 the United Nations adopted a set of seventeen goals “to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all”, with specific targets for each goal to be achieved by 2030. These are the Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs] of the United Nations, or "Transforming our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". The UN calls on governments, the private sector, individuals and civil society bodies to join together to achieve these goals. This volume groups international organizations by the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals, indicating which organizations are – or could be – concerned with which SDGs. It can also be used as an index to descriptions in Volume 1. Each organization is listed with its complete address.
Discover how to invest your capital to achieve a powerful, lasting impact on the world. The Global Handbook of Impact Investing: Solving Global Problems Via Smarter Capital Markets Towards A More Sustainable Society is an insightful guide to the growing world-wide movement of Impact Investing. Impact investors seek to realize lasting, beneficial improvements in society by allocating capital to sources of impactful and sustainable profit.
This Handbook is a how-to guide for institutional investors, including family offices, foundations, endowments, governments, and international organizations, as well as academics, students, and everyday investors globally. The Handbook s wide-ranging contributions from around the world make a powerful case for positive impact and profit to fund substantive, lasting solutions that solve critical problems across the world.
Edited by two experienced and distinguished professionals in the sustainable investing arena and authored by two dozen renowned experts from finance, academia, and multilateral organizations from around the world, the Global Handbook of Impact Investing educates, inspires, and spurs action towards more responsible investing across all asset classes, resulting in smarter capital markets, including how to:
- Realize positive impact and profit
- Integrate impact into investment decision-making and portfolio
- Allocate impactful investments across all asset classes
- Apply unique Impact Investing frameworks
- Measure, evaluate and report on impact
- Learn from case examples around the globe
- Pursue Best Practices in Impact Investing and impact reporting
While other resources may take a local or limited approach to the subject, this Handbook gathers global knowledge and results from public and private institutions spanning five continents. The authors also make a powerful case for the ability of Impact Investing to lead to substantive and lasting change that addresses critical problems across the world.
Автор: Mann, Alana Название: Food in a changing climate ISBN: 1839827254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839827259 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 3657.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The production of our food is unsustainable; deviations of how we can cultivate resilient communities through the just application of new technologies, the recovery of traditional knowledge, and by building diversity to protect the livelihoods of food producers everywhere are explored in this book.
Название: Global perspectives on sustainable fashion ISBN: 1350058149 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350058149 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion showcases the global fashion industry's efforts to reduce the negative impacts associated with fashion production and consumption.
Illustrated throughout with infographics, photographs and diagrams of creative works, eighteen essays focus on six regions, examining sustainable fashion in the context of local, cultural and environmental concerns. Also included are 18 regional 'Spotlight' sections highlighting the differences and similarities across regions by concentrating on examples of best practice, design innovation and impact on the community.
- Editorial. This chapter will introduce the concept of gamification and outline the structure of the book. Agnessa Spanellis and J. Tuomas Harviainen (editors)
- Intro: why gamification is relevant. This chapter will discuss why gamification is a relevant topic in modern world and why it should be used as an effective tool to address societal challenges around the world. Michael Sutton (Akio Morita School of Business, Anaheim, CA)
- Getting participants. This chapter will discuss the issues of getting the participants and various approaches to engaging with the participants in experimentation-based research, such as participatory action research. Lobna Hassan (Tampere University, Finland)
- Social lens
- Peace-making. This chapter will describe the case of using gamification to help promote the ideas of peace and fight stereotypes and perceptions in war-torn Yemen. Philipp Busch (GIZ, Germany)
- Livelihood of smallholder farmers. This chapter will describe the case of how some dimensions of multidimensional poverty, i.e. house sanitation and mouth hygiene have been improved with gamification intervention in the rural communities of Paraguay. Katharina Hammler (Fundacion Paraguaya)
- Refugee integration. This chapter will describe a case of using a gamified approach to introduce refugee children to the societal value of their new home and help them integrate faster in the society. Mela Kocher (Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland)
- Community resilience. This chapter will present how gamification is used to increase resilience of rural communities that are prone to the effects of natural disasters and climate change. Tri Yani Sunarharum (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)
- Social impact of gamified education. This chapter will describe how gamification can engage children from disadvantaged communities and thereby improve their opportunities and help uplift the community. Richard Landers (University of Minnesota)
- Inclusivity in the workplace. This chapter will describe a case of making science centres a more inclusive place for people with disabilities, by recreating their experiences for others with gamification. Kate Sang (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
- Environmental lens
- Ecosystems. This case will discuss how gamification can help to learn how to ecosystems in Amazon area are organised and what approaches can be used to research them more effectively. David Cole (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
- Reduction of carbon emissions. This chapter will present a case of changing the behaviour of consumers through gamification intervention in order to reduce energy consumption. Ronald Dyer (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Disaster prevention and awareness. This chapter will demonstrate how gamification can be used to increase awareness about natural disasters and mitigation of the circumstances. Hidehiko Kanegae (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
- Public transportation. This chapter will present a case of using gamification to increase the use
Описание: Takes readers through the various goals and objectives that have been set by the United Nations to achieve the goals of sustainability in the near future. The goals target various areas such as poverty, education, employment, food, the environment and more, to ensure overall sustainability to the people around the globe.
Описание: This book profiles various cases that are emerging in addressing global challenges in the context of SDGs for society in the era of climate change and covers case studies of projects being undertaken to tackle biodiversity, food security, climate change, energy and water security.
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