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Dam Development
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The Renewable Energy Transition
Canada is a well-endowed country that serves as an ideal model to lead the reader through the development of energy, resources, and society historically and into a post-carbon future. The book provides an historical perspective and describes the physical resource limitations, energy budgets, and climate realities that will determine the potential for any transition to renewable energy. Political and social realities, including jurisdiction and energy equality issues, are addressed. However, we cannot simply mandate or legislate policies according to social and political aspirations. Policies must comply with the realities of physical laws, such as the energy return on investment (EROI) for f...
Paradigm Shift in Urban Mobility
Tomasz Janasz demonstrates that digital technologies and new mobility concepts can lead to a reduction of the automobiles in urban areas by a factor of 10. The book features two vivid case studies of such digital mobility concepts: TwoGo by SAP and smexx. The author proposes six prototypes of business models for ‘Shared Automobility Services’. Janasz offers also the ‘Transformative Literacy’ for designing sustainable urban mobility systems of the future. The author elaborates on the socio-political patterns of urban mobility by presenting the case of the City of Basel (Switzerland). He proposes the framework of ‘Integrated Sustainable Urban Mobility’ to explain how to overcome car dependence in cities.
Nahverkehrs-Tage 2023
Eine Verkehrswende ist nötig. Während dieser Aussage nahezu von allen Seiten zugestimmt wird, kommt die praktische Umsetzung dieses gesellschaftlichen Großprojekts nicht schnell genug voran. Obwohl in Wissenschaft und Praxis viele Lösungsansätze und Konzepte existieren, tut sich die Politik häufig schwer, die notwendigen Strategien und Maßnahmen für eine Verkehrswende umzusetzen. Grund dafür sind (erwartete) Widerstände von Gruppen, die bisher vom autogerechten Verkehrssystem profitieren und die notwendigen Verhaltensänderungen als nachteilig empfinden. Darüber hinaus nimmt zwar das Bewusstsein für nachhaltiges Verhalten in der Bevölkerung zu, häufig jedoch ohne eine wirksame ...
Werkstattstechnik
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Higher education
This White Paper sets out the government's policies for the reform of higher education. The reforms seek to tackle three challenges (i) Putting higher education on a sustainable footing; (ii) Seeking to deliver a better student experience - that is, improvements in teaching, assessment, feedback and preparing the student for the world of work; (iii) Pushing for higher education institutions to take more responsibility for increasing social mobility. The Paper is divided into six chapters, with an annex. Chapter 1: Sustainable and fair funding; Chapter 2: Well-informed students driving teaching excellence; Chapter 3: A better student experience and better-qualified graduates; Chapter 4: A div...
