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INCREaSE 2019
This book contains the proceedings of the INternational CongRess on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXI cEntury – INCREaSE 2019, which was held in Faro, Portugal, from October 09 to 11, 2019. The book promotes a multidisciplinary approach to sustainable development, exploring a number of transversal challenges. Among other topics it discusses Climate Changes and Environmental Protection; Renewable Energy; Energy Efficiency in Buildings; Green Governance and Mobility; Water for Ecosystem and Society; Healthy Food; Sustainable Construction; and Sustainable Tourism, offering perspectives from civil, electronics, mechanical, and food engineering.
Emerging Trends in the Development and Application of Composite Indicators
Perceiving complex multidimensional problems has proven to be a difficult task for people to overcome. However, introducing composite indicators into such problems allows the opportunity to reduce the problem's complexity. Emerging Trends in the Development and Application of Composite Indicators is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the benefits and challenges presented by building composite indicators, and how these techniques promote optimized critical thinking. Highlighting various indicator types and quantitative methods, this book is ideally designed for developers, researchers, public officials, and upper-level students.
International Development Assistance and the BRICS
This book aims to bring together a series of analyses on international development assistance in the BRICS, the group of countries that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The BRICS states comprise approximately 3 billion people (~40% of the World’s population) and in terms of GDP account for 16.8 trillion dollars (~22% of the World’s economy). Over the last decade the loose coalition has evolved to become a formal partnership on both economic and political fronts. The first formal meeting of the then-four BRIC countries took place in 2006 during the United Nations General Assembly. This was followed in 2009 by the first summit of BRICS' heads of state, an event which has been convened annually ever since. On 3-5 September 2017, the ninth BRICS Summit was hosted in Xiamen, China. This book, an anthology of scholars based in BRICS countries, provides invaluable insights into the emerging global south coalition, and will be of interest to scholars, employees of NGOs, and China watchers.
Transforming Spatial Data into Public Policies for Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability
Environmental justice and social justice are well established concepts in social research. This book goes beyond the established discourse to show how Geographic Information Systems can unveil higher levels of spatial unfairness when both forms of injustice coincide in the same place. Territorial injustice is the result of the disproportionately higher exposure of vulnerable communities to pollution and environmental risks. Overlapping layers of georeferenced environmental and social information generate maps depicting territorial injustice which can be a powerful tool to facilitate social dialogue and prompt policy change. This volume brings approaches from ten Latin American countries to demonstrate how the interdisciplinarity between law and Geographic Information Systems can contribute to the development of fairer public policies, and prevent and mitigate cases of extreme injustice. The case studies presented are relevant to support the development of geolaw, and to inspire pragmatic strategies aimed both at social justice and environmental sustainability.
Managing Organizations for Sustainable Development in Emerging Countries
Managing Organizations for Sustainable Development in Emerging Countries focuses on the main challenges and opportunities of managing firms and emerging economies in the light of sustainable development. One of the key questions of sustainable development is how organizations from developing countries are achieving their economic goals while considering, simultaneously, environmental issues like conservation of natural resources, eco-efficiency, biodiversity conservation, and climate-change mitigation. These questions are relevant for government, industry, and urban sustainability. However, in the modern literature that discusses organizational management for sustainable development, few stu...
Nanotecnologia, sociedade e meio ambiente
Reflita sobre o futuro da ciência e da sociedade no livro Nanotecnologia, Sociedade e Meio Ambiente: debates na fronteira do conhecimento. Esta obra mergulha no fascinante mundo da nanotecnologia, explorando suas implicações sociais, ambientais e regulatórias. Com uma abordagem inovadora, o livro destaca a perspectiva da "Ciência dos Impactos", levando-nos além das maravilhas tecnológicas para examinar as consequências profundas que a nanotecnologia traz para a nossa vida.
A geração de energia solar como fator de desenvolvimento econômico sustentável
Esta obra teve como objetivo analisar o contexto da inserção da energia solar no Brasil e suas perspectivas de crescimento e de contribuição para o desenvolvimento econômico, social e ambiental, sob o enfoque da situação jurídica, política, social, econômica e institucional do país. O principal propósito da pesquisa foi tentar verificar a viabilidade da expansão desse tipo de energia alternativa sob todos esses enfoques, descrevendo as questões subjacentes à atual busca contínua pela sustentabilidade da nossa matriz energética, e considerando as características naturais e potenciais do país, e ainda, os óbices institucionais e econômicos, com destaque aos aspectos juríd...
Estudo da Ecoeficiência Mundial entre os Anos de 1991 e 2012
O estudo da ecoeficiencia mundial é um tema atual e de interesse global, já que as mudanças climáticas nos atingem de forma cada vez mais intensa, nos mostrando que algo está errado e que são necessárias mudanças no comportamento de toda a sociedade. O conceito de ecoeficiencia surge da necessidade de se utilizar de forma eficiente os recursos naturais, buscando a sustentabilidade econômica e ambiental. O objetivo desta obra é mostrar o comportamento de alguns países referentes a dados como emissões de gases do efeito estufa, consumo de energias renováveis e áreas de florestas.
Humanitarian Logistics
Imagine planning an event like the Olympics. Now imagine planning the same event but not knowing when or where it will take place, or how many will attend. This is what humanitarian logisticians are up against. Oversights result in serious consequences for the victims of disasters. So they have to get it right, fast.
