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Climate Wars: The fight for survival as the World overheats
Climate Wars: The fight for survival as the World overheats
by Gwynne Dyer
From one of the world’s great geopolitical analysts, a terrifying glimpse of the none-too-distant future, when climate change will force the world’s powers into a desperate struggle for advantage and even survival.
Dwindling resources. Massive population shifts. Natural disasters. Spreading epidemics. Drought. Rising sea levels. Plummeting agricultural yields. Crashing economies. Political extremism. These are some of the expected consequences of runaway climate change in the decades ahead, and any of them could tip the world towards conflict. Prescient, unflinching, and based on exhaustive research and interviews, Climate Wars promises to be one of the most important books of the coming years.
For more information see the publishers web site.
Peoples of the Baltic, Regional Development, and the Baltic Sea Region
BUP International Teachers’ conference on
Peoples of the Baltic, Regional Development, and the Baltic Sea Region
2 - 6 September 2011
Gniezno, Poland
All BUP teachers of the Peoples of the Baltic, Regional Development, or any other courses related to the topic are welcome to apply for participation. At the conference we will have the possibility to welcome 45 of teachers which means that every country in the network may send about 4 teachers.
Last application date prolonged until: 10th August, 2011, for details see the BUP web site.
Innovative CSR among the top 40 Sustainability Books in the World
Innovative Corporate Social Responsibility
eds: Prof. Walter Leal Filho (BUP, Germany), Dr Celine Louche (Belgium) and Dr Samuel Idowu (UK)
This book has been listed among the 2010 Top 40 Sustainability Books by the University of Cambridge.
BUP Research Seminar
HAW Hamburg is hosting in Hamburg the "BUP Research Seminar" on the 25th-26th May 2011. The aims of the Seminar are:
- to identify research areas where BUP Universities have strong expertise and are able to compete in attracting EU and international funding;
- to cluster the expertise in thematic areas, with a view to forming powerful and attractive Consortia to bid for project funding;
- to agree on a workplan with future calls for projects, where BUP universities can take part.
Drivers and Barriers to Implementing ESD
Drivers and Barriers to Implementing ESD with Focus on UNESCO's Action and Strategy Goals for the Second Half of the Decade 
by D. Gross & S. Nakayama
Results of an international survey on UNESCO's goals have been published, performed by German-Japanese cooperation on ESD (NGO). The gained insights isolate those goals which will be most promising in being realized till the end of the Decade.
There are also critical comments on the German and Japanese governmental approaches for the Second Half.
Global Environmental Research, vol. 14, No. 2, 2010, AIRIES, Japan. Education for Sustainable Development: Promises and Challenges.
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