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Consumption corridors: living a good life within sustainable limits
Consumption Corridors: Living a Good Life within Sustainable Limits explores how to enhance peoples’ chances to live a good life in a world of ecological and social limits. Rejecting familiar recitations of problems of ecological decline and planetary boundaries, this compact book instead offers a spirited explication of what everyone desires: a good life. Fundamental concepts of the good …
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- 9780367748746
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- 110 p
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- 330 FUC c
Cultural Resources : Planning And Management
ABSTRACT Cultural resource management is a new and vital field that has come about as a result of intensified federal efforts to identify, evaluate, and manage cultural resources as an element of the environment. Anthropologists, sociologists, historians, folklorists, planners, and others have had to pool their talents and knowledge to properly respond to n
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- 9780429047817
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- 216 p
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- 300 HIL c
The conservation of ecosystems and species
ABSTRACT Originally published in 1987, Conservation of Ecosystems and Species examines conservation as a major world issue for governments, industrialists and the general public. The need for conservation has become more urgent as human activity continues to encroach upon the remaining natural ecosystems of our planet. This book examines a wide range of conservation issues and explains the sci…
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- 9780367815660
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- 302 p
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Commoning the City Empirical Perspectives on Urban Ecology, Economics and Ethics
This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics. The chapters in this volume draw on case studies in a diversity of urban contexts, ranging from Detroit, USA to Kyrenia, Cyprus – on urban gardening an…
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- 9780429021886
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- 228 p
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- 337 COM
Das ökonomische Laboratop: Eine soziologische Ethnographie des wirtschaftswi…
Dieses Open-Access-Buch ist die erste soziologische Ethnographie, die sich der Forschungspraxis wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Laborexperimente widmet. Wissenschaftliche Labore sind Orte der Außeralltäglichkeit, die zum Zweck wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen geschaffen werden. Der Untersuchungsgegenstand ökonomischer Laborexperimente ist das menschliche Entscheidungsverhalten. Dieses ist imm…
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- 978-3-658-33019-4
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The Future European Energy System: Renewable Energy, Flexibility Options and …
This open access book analyzes the transition toward a low-carbon energy system in Europe under the aspects of flexibility and technological progress. By covering the main energy sectors – including the industry, residential, tertiary and transport sector as well as the heating and electricity sector – the analysis assesses flexibility requirements in a cross-sectoral energy system with hig…
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- 978-3-030-60914-6
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Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People: Key Factors for the Success…
This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure among this group. It offers a critical and reflexive perspective about social reality from a multidisciplinary and transversal point of view, sharing knowledge and practices…
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- 978-3-030-52588-0
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Frontiers of Real Estate Science in Japan
This open access book presents recent research and hot topics in the field of real estate science in Japan. It features carefully selected English translations of peer-reviewed papers and excellent articles published in the Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences, as well as papers presented at the Japan Association of Real Estate Sciences (JARES) annual conference. The topics covered incl…
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- 978-981-15-8848-8
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Invasive Species in Forests and Rangelands of the United States: A Comprehens…
This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade. This multi-disciplinary book, written by over 100 national experts, presents the latest research on a wide range of natural science and social science fields that explore the…
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- 978-3-030-45367-1
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Routledge handbook of high-performance workplacesThe Routledge Handbook of Mu…
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