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Climate Change Effects and Sustainability Needs
Zusammenfassung: This book provides simultaneously, a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of climate change issues in Morocco and proposes levers of action and innovative practices to be used to strengthen the resilience and adaptation strategies. The book offers the opportunity to debate contemporary mutations, the paradigms of change as a complex process, the dynamics of values, the complexity of the issues and the opportunities for transformation, starting from a reflective approach on the historical, scientific, theoretical and strategic dimensions of action, creativity and environmental innovation in a perspective of sustainability
Buildings and Climate Change
The building sector contributes up to 40 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from energy use during the life time of buildings. Identifying opportunities to reduce these emissions has become a priority in the global effort to reduce climate change. This publicatiion provides an overview of current knowledge about greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, and presents opportunities for their minimisation.
A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean
'Here's a work arriving just at the right moment and contributingnew insights at precisely the time when public opinion remains sceptical of the not very promising future we are preparing for our children, when governments balk at explaining to their electorates the vital but unpopular decisions that have to be taken and when civil society, with few ways and means, is finally becoming involved. This remarkable work will help all actors to understand the inter-linkages between economic activities and the environment in the Mediterranean Basin and take concerted, effective action to build a positive, sustainable future' Mohamed Ennabli, former Minister of the Environment and Land Use Panning, ...
The Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism, and the Building and Construction Sector
This submission functions as a place holder for texts to be developed under the Copenhagen Agreement in relation To The building sector. it is directly aligned with the draft Call for Action and essentially builds on the work of SBCI over the past three years. UNEP-SBCI proposes that emission reduction in buildings is recognized as an appropriate area for NAMA (Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action) and that the development of frameworks required to monitor, report and verify such actions are included in a post-2012 Agreement.
Buildings and Climate Change
This report, produced by UNEP's Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative (SBCI), a think tank and partnership between the United Nations and leading companies and organizations in the building sector, presents results from almost three years of research and collaboration with leading experts around the world. Buildings contribute to well over one third of global energy use and associated greenhouse gas emissions, but also have a huge potential to achieve drastic emission reductions at virtually no cost. The current climate footprint from buildings is equivalent to 8.6 billion tons of CO2 a year and is predicted to almost double to 15.6 billion tons of CO2 by 2030. In addition, the pressure to develop new buildings - as a result of population growth, urbanization and modernization - will lead to an almost doubling of existing building stock in developing countries by 2050. The report highlights the opportunity lying within buildings to deliver cuts in greenhouse gas emissions throug
Make Your Building Smile
Renewable energy technology is a reality but has still not penetrated the building sector to the extent that it has become part of our everyday lives. From photovoltaic panels to ground source heat pumps, technology can help consumers save emissions while reducing their energy bills. This brochure details 25 projects aiming to overcome the remaining hurdles renewable energy applications face in buildings, both residential and commercial. With a little push, perhaps better marketing or a new approach from local authorities, these applications can help change Europe's energy map definitively.
Cities, Towns & Renewable Energy
This book includes several case studies chosen to illustrate how enhanced deployment of renewable energy projects can result from local policy regardless of a community's size or location.
The Ecological Footprint of Tourism
This book can be considered as a unique addition to the fields of social and environmental sciences. It adopts a methodological approach in calculating the Ecological Footprint of Tourism (TEF), through a specific case study related to the hospitality sector in Greece. The book provides useful insights on the TEF as an environmental and sustainability indicator within the ongoing energy transition and under the pressures exercised by climate change and mass tourism models. It introduces the reader to the concepts of ecological footprint, climate change, sustainable development and renewable energy governance, and their role in shaping 21st century tourism. This work will be of interest to students, academics and researchers engaged with tourism, energy, and environmental management, as well as various tourism stakeholders, as it details how to measure environmental impact and promote sustainability in tourism, through the utilization of the Ecological Footprint.
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change
This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences.
El Valle de Chalco -Mexico- Ville sortie d'un lac
L'ouvrage propose, à 20 ans d'intervalle, deux photographies d'une ville satellite de Mexico, El Valle de Chalco. Souci environnemental et dynamique d'une société en transition, tel est le sujet du livre qui pose par ailleurs la question centrale du fait politique : une société c'est autant les gens que l'espace, les pesanteurs du passé que les espérances du futur, la population et l'action politique.
