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Embracing the Future, Powering Growth: An Energy System Renewed for China
To build a new energy system is the key towards China's goal of carbon emissions peak and achieving carbon neutrality. The new energy system will reshape the conventional energy system in an integrated and revolutionary way. It will not only bring about major changes in energy production, utilization and consumption, as well as emissions of greenhouse gas (GHG) and local pollutants, but also ha…
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- 978-3-031-73075-7
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- XXXI, 403
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Ecological Jurisprudence: The Law of Nature and the Nature of Law
This open access book explores the rise of ecological jurisprudence, a transformative legal theory that challenges traditional legal boundaries. Drawing on over 15 years of research and teaching, the book offers a comprehensive theoretical exploration of this new approach to law, via a comprehensive examination of a wide range of initiatives from around the world, as well as a deep theoretical …
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- 978-981-96-0173-8
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- XXVI, 424
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Demanding a Radical Constitution: Environmentalism, Resilience, and Participa…
This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the world’s most progressive national constitutions, presented to the Chilean public in 2022. Although that text was ultimately rejected in a national referendum, it drew on decades of diverse environmental, political, Indigenous, and community organizing and contained concepts and goals at the f…
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- 978-3-031-75690-0
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- XIV, 168
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Decoding Marine Genetic Resource Governance Under the BBNJ Agreement
This open access book provides practical guidance for understanding the new treaty adopted in June 2023 that will change the way biodiversity is governed in about two thirds of the oceans known as areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). The Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyon…
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- 978-3-031-72100-7
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- XXIV, 329
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Aquaponics Food Production Systems = Combined Aquaculture and Hydroponic Prod…
This open access book, written by world experts in aquaponics and related technologies, provides the authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key aquaculture and hydroponic and other integrated systems, socio-economic and environmental aspects. Aquaponic systems, which combine aquaculture and vegetable food production offer alternative technology solutions for a world that is increasingl…
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- 9783030159436
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- XVI, 619 hlm ill; lamp
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Global Citizenship Education = Critical and International Perspectives
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought…
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- 9783030446178
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- XIV, 217 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Die Finanzkrise 2008 im Unbewussten = Über die Ökonomie des Seelenlebens in…
Helga Klug eröffnet in diesem Open-Access-Buch neue ungewohnte Sichtweisen auf die psychische Verarbeitung der Finanzkrise 2008. Dabei rückt die Autorin unbewusste Prozesse in den Fokus, wie sie in Krisenmodellen, Abwehrmechanismen, Zukunftserwartungen, sozialen Beziehungen und Affekten, die das Krisenerleben begleiten, zum Ausdruck kommen. Die Krise, die bisher nicht hinreichend erfasst und …
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- 9783658284756
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Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagement für eine nachhaltige Zukunftsgestaltung
In diesem Open Access-Buch werden fünf zentrale Themenbereiche des Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagement (UBRM) vorgestellt. Umwelt- und Bioressourcenmanagerinnen und -manager kennen die Herausforderungen des 21. Jahrhunderts, wie sie zum Beispiel in der Agenda 2030 der Vereinten Nationen – den sogenannten nachhaltigen Entwicklungszielen (Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs) – formu…
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- 9783662604359
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- XIV, 273 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Rescaling Sustainability Transitions = Unfolding the Spatialities of Power Re…
This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes induced by sustainability transitions are expected to assemble as a variegated and heterogeneous process reproduced by different spatial contexts and scales. Hence, the pract…
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- 9783031699184
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- XVII, 299 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Political Leadership and Agricultural Transformation = A New Research Agenda
This open access book examines the impact of political leadership on agricultural transformation to understand why cases of successful agricultural transformation are so rare in the developing world. It highlights the importance of leadership and its interaction with the socio-political system as a key factor impacting agricultural transformation. The book takes a first step in systematically e…
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- 9783031698521
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- XV, 84 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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