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100 per cent Renewable
100% Renewable - Energy Autonomy in Action
ed Peter Droege
The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power. Our massive dependence on fossil fuels has upset the very climatic system that made human evolution possible. The global economy and its financial system are in jeopardy, running hot on overtly cheap yet increasingly costly and fast depleting oil. A 100% renewable world is seen by many as an impossible dream in anything but the very long term. But not only do a growing number of initiatives and plans dare to make the change but many have already achieved it.
This rich collection presents a series of pioneering efforts and their champions, and the paths to their successes. Ranging from initiatives by individuals to visions for companies, communities and entire countries, it defeats tired economic and technical counter-arguments, showing how the schemes featured not only can and do work but do so economically and with available technology. The book is introduced by incisive writing by Peter Droege, explaining the challenges and framing a roadmap towards a 100% renewable reality.
Sustainability Networks
Sustainability Networks - Cognitive Tools for Expert Collaboration in Social-Ecological Systems
by Janne Hukkinen
Sustainability is a word that means different things depending on who is using it, thus underlining the potential problems involved in experts from different fields teaming up to tackle sustainability problems. In this book, Janne Hukkinen argues for a reflexive approach to sustainability as a means of coming to grips with the threatening challenges arising out of human-environment interaction. The author illustrates his argument with a case study of natural resource management in Lapland, showing how sustainability is understood holistically by academics and professionals alike.
This book reflects an emerging cognitive turn in sustainability sciences, conceptualizing environmental challenges during action on our social and material environments, rather than in isolation. Hukkinen argues that this conceptual blending enables sustainability experts to hybridize themselves: to immerse themselves in the fields of other experts and imagine the other's work - both prerequisites of trans-disciplinary knowledge integration. This book shows how sustainability experts can reveal their intellectual engagements when designing scenarios and indicators and presents a rigorous framework for organizing expert collaboration.
Nätbaserad utbildning
Nätbaserad utbildning - en introduktion
av Stefan Hrastinski
Författaren ger många praktiska tips samtidigt som läsaren uppmuntras till egna reflektioner. Förutom en översikt av aktuella forskningsresultat återges en mängd kortare intervjuer med personer som arbetar med och forskar om nätbaserad utbildning.
The State of the World Atlas
Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night.
- The world's car population has grown five times as fast as the human population ver the last 50 years.
- Wal-Mart's sales revenue exceeds the GDP of 150 countries.
- Climate change may put 2.7 billion at risk of armed conflict.
- Germany generates more tourists than anywhere else.
- Americans use 160 times more water than people in Rwanda.
If you want to get behind the headlines and understand the world - from urbanization to globalization, terrorism to tourism, military spending to human rights - The State of the World Atlas is unmatched.
Perspectives to Global Social Development
Perspectives to Global Social Development
ed. Mikko Perkiö
This book is based on a UniPID Virtual Course "Perspectives to Global Social Development" lecture series, coordinated by the University of Tampere. It has been funded by Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in order to inform the public about development issues. This book concerns human well-being in the global context focusing on the economically less developed regions known as the Global South. Social Development combines a multidisciplinary approach of development studies with concepts of social sciences.
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