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Sustainable Technology for Society 5.0 details the use of AI in complex data analysis and sustainable decision making. This book brings together valuable scientific contributions that address the issues of sustainable building, transformative tech models, and other sustainability technology topics that have an impact on Society 5.0.

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change. A key resource for researchers, policy makers, donors and NGO practitioners in international development, peacebuilding, civil society, politics, and international relations.

This open access textbook introduces the emerging field of Development Engineering and its constituent theories, methods, and applications. It is both a teaching text for students and a resource for researchers and practitioners engaged in the design and scaling of technologies for low-resource communities. The scope is broad, ranging from the development of mobile applications for low-literacy users to hardware and software solutions for providing electricity and water in remote settings. It is also highly interdisciplinary, drawing on methods and theory from the social sciences as well as engineering and the natural sciences.The opening section reviews the history of ¿technology-for-development¿ research, and presents a framework that formalizes this body of work and begins its transformation into an academic discipline. It identifies common challenges in development and explains the book¿s iterative approach of ¿innovation, implementation, evaluation, adaptation.¿ Each of the next six thematic sections focuses on a different sector: energy and environment; market performance; education and labor; water, sanitation and health; digital governance; and connectivity. These thematic sections contain case studies from landmark research that directly integrates engineering innovation with technically rigorous methods from the social sciences. Each case study describes the design, evaluation, and/or scaling of a technology in the field and follows a single form, with common elements and discussion questions, to create continuity and pedagogical consistency. Together, they highlight successful solutions to development challenges, while also analyzing the rarely discussed failures. The book concludes by reiterating the core principles of development engineering illustrated in the case studies, highlighting common challenges that engineers and scientists will face in designing technology interventions that sustainably accelerate economic development.Development Engineering provides, for the first time, a coherent intellectual framework for attacking the challenges of poverty and global climate change through the design of better technologies. It offers the rigorous discipline needed to channel the energy of a new generation of scientists and engineers toward advancing social justice and improved living conditions in low-resource communities around the world.

This book looks at different dimensions of political participation of women voters in India.

This book presents international emergency mechanisms relative to disaster risk reduction (DRR). The goal is to share knowledge about existing frameworks, and utilize established DRR policies and programs, as another means to reinforce and strengthen national security in countries around the world.

Infrastructure development presents significant challenges for both developing and developed countries, hindering their progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Governments often struggle to effectively leverage the necessary resources and expertise for financing and managing infrastructure projects, resulting in untapped potential for sustainable and inclusive development. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Through Infrastructure Development , edited by Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu, Poshan Yu, and Yue Wei, offers a comprehensive guide to address these challenges. Focusing on public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a transformative solution, the book equips policymakers, investors, practitioners, and researchers with the essential knowledge and tools needed to navigate the complexities of infrastructure development and leverage the expertise and resources of the private sector. By showcasing successful case studies, analyzing critical success factors, and providing valuable insights into the implementation of PPPs in both developing and developed countries, this book becomes an indispensable resource for driving progress towards the SDGs. Covering crucial topics such as financing, risk management, legal frameworks, and sustainability considerations, it empowers readers to make informed decisions and foster collaborative partnerships between the public and private sectors. Through its comprehensive roadmap, this book enables stakeholders to unlock the full potential of sustainable and inclusive infrastructure development, paving the way for a prosperous future for all.

Against the backdrop of global COVID-19 pandemic setbacks, this edited volume is a timely contribution to revisit the comprehensive framing of human security and development by examining the protection-empowerment nexus applied to different vulnerable groups and populations affected by the pandemic.

Against the backdrop of global COVID-19 pandemic setbacks, this edited volume is a timely contribution to revisit the comprehensive framing of human security and development by examining the protection-empowerment nexus applied to different vulnerable groups and populations affected by the pandemic.

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History presents a cutting-edge overview of the dynamic and ever-expanding field of environmental history. It addresses recent transformations in the field and responses to shifting scholarly, political, and environmental landscapes.

The book discusses the indispensable connection between the environment and health via all possible aspects, focussing on human interactions with the environment.

This book presents a reconceptualision of universities¿ role in regional engagement and proposes a roadmap for a renewed research agenda. Starting from the grassroots level of universities¿ "everyday" engagements, the book delves into the manifold ways in which university knowledge agents build connections with regional partners.

Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanity's survival on the planet. This title questions scarcity's taken-for-granted nature.

Earthquake prediction, especially impending earthquake prediction, is one of the most difficult worldwide problems in the human history. This book focuses on the root cause of the long-standing unsolved earthquake prediction, as well as the alternatives which may solve it at present and its theoretical basis.This book emphasizes that: through practice Professor Dajiong Lu has first achieved the accurate prediction of some teleseisms, near earthquakes and local earthquakes in the world, thus laying a theoretical foundation for human beings to solve this problem, and proposing a feasible way for the realization of real earthquake prediction.This book popularizes the knowledge of earthquake prediction with easy-to-understand and lively writing. At the same time, it expounds the resistance encountered in the research process with a serious scientific attitude and humorous language, and how Professor Dajiong Lu can make progress after overcoming the formidable obstacles. This book has well popularized the knowledge of earthquake prediction, especially impending earthquake prediction, and it is worth reading. By reading this book, readers can have a new understanding of earthquake prediction.

GLETSCHER UND FÜCHSE, beide hinterlassen ihre Spuren, einer ist dabei nur langsamer. "Je mehr man weiß, umso mehr sieht man" - dieses alte Sprichwort passt perfekt zu diesem neuen Naturführer in Bildbandform, denn er wird noch mehr die Augen öffnen. Auf der Spurensuche in der Natur vermischen sich die Zusammenhänge aus Tier- und Pflanzenwelt - eingebettet in eine Landschaft, die ebenfalls wie ein Buch zu lesen ist, wenn man deren Spuren versteht. Geländeformen, Tiere, Pflanzen, Wälder, Pilze, Mineralien: Die Natur präsentiert sich beim Wandern so vielfältig, und ein Aha-Erlebnis reiht sich an das nächste, wenn man - durch diesen Bildband mit geschärfterem Blick - unterwegs ist. So wird man zum Beispiel verstehen, was ein Pionierwald ist, und schätzen was es für ein Wunder ist, dass Steinböcke in den Alpen überlebt haben. Erstmalige Kombination aus Landschafts- und Naturführer in einem Bildband. Für Outdoorbegeisterte und Naturverbundene ein Augenöffner, der auch unscheinbare Spuren sichtbar macht.

Biogeotherapy - nature-based climate solutions, life as a geological healing force, presents a movement of farmers, scientists, politicians, and diplomatic actors. It is based on four natural restorative practices: holistic grazing management, no-till agriculture with cover crops, biochar, and massive reforestation. Agro-forestry, blue carbon, living machines, the restoration of peatlands, and other nature-based solutions (NbS) or negative emission technologies (NET) are also briefly described. The 4 per 1000-the diplomatic arm of this movement which is rising at the forefront of action for climate restoration-is described. 4 per 1000 are part of a movement for regenerative agriculture, regenerative ranching and for the negative emissions bio-sourced materials. Finance carbon levers, such as carbon dioxide removal certificates, are presented, with their controversies. Pharaonic, Babylonian, and vertiginous words to define the climate challenge often sound too weak for such a journey. Biogeotherapy leads to Civilization 280 and offers a long path forward to genuinely desirable sustainable economic development.

Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 2024Tim Hannigan undertakes an epic east-west journey on foot through his own homeland, from the woodlands of the Tamar Valley to the remote western region of Penwith. As he walks, he explores how the Cornwall of the popular imagination has been constructed by writers, artists and others, and how myths, projections and tropes intersect with the real Cornwall - its landscapes, histories, communities and sense of self. A richly informative tour of one of the most popular regions of Britain, The Granite Kingdom can be read as an evocative travelogue, a celebration of Cornwall's landscapes, a fascinating account of its history and cultural significance, and an unflinching exploration of uneasy questions about regional identity.

"O Enigmático Mundo das Abelhas" investiga a vida intrincada e fascinante das abelhas, revelando as maravilhas ocultas de suas estruturas sociais complexas, sistemas de comunicação hipnotizantes e papel essencial na manutenção da biodiversidade da Terra.

"This is a story about the pair of brothers who travel to the Himalayas to search for plants, aided by a knowledgeable local guide. It is one adventurous situation after another with their eventually being trapped in a hanging valley but finding an exist through a cave. All problems are dealt with through the resourcefulness of the three men. Reid obviously has a good knowledge of natural history, including that of the Himalayas, allowing him to insert specific plants and animals into the narrative."

Am Beispiel der Hanseforschung und des Hansischen Geschichtsvereins wird herausgearbeitet, wie offiziöse Historiografie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert immer im Dienst des jeweiligen staatlichen Regimes stand. Beamtetes akademisches Bildungsbürgertum lieferte nationalistische Vaterlandsideologien, nordisch-arischen Rassismus, Judenfeindlichkeit und aggressive völkische Geopolitik. Die nationalsozialistische Ideologie der faschistischen Bewegung entstammte ebenfalls der Feder rechtskonservativer Aktivisten vor allem des Alldeutschen Verbandes. Intellektuelles Kultur- und Bildungsbürgergertum bereitete zwei Weltkriege weltanschaulich mit vor und beteiligte sich als Propagandisten für überhebliches Deutschtum und deutschen Kolonialismus und Imperialismus. Bis heute ist es noch kaum gelungen, mit den gefährlichen staatlichen und ideologischen Traditionen der deutschen Klassengesellschaft zu brechen, da die Aufarbeitung der Geschichte immer in den Händen einer Geschichtswissenschaft lag, die selber Teil des historischen Problems war.

Zahlreiche Autorinnen und Autoren der Gegenwart begeben sich in ihren Texten auf literarische Spurensuche in den kulturellen Interferenzräumen ihrer Herkunft, Sehnsucht oder Imagination. Häufig setzen sie sich - wie etwa Olga Tokarczuk, Maja Haderlap, Katja Petrowskaja, Jaroslav RudiS oder Karolina Kuszyk - dabei mit ererbten Traumata auseinander und beschäftigen sich mit der Historie von Regionen plurikultureller Prägung im östlichen Europa wie Niederschlesien, Böhmen, Podolien, Siebenbürgen oder dem Wolgagebiet. Vor allem die Enkelgeneration thematisiert Kriege, Zerstörungen, Vernichtungen und Zwangsmigrationen, aber auch Neuanfang und Integration auf neue Art und Weise. Der vorliegende Band unternimmt den Versuch, den von der Kunstgeschichte/Denkmalpflege geprägten Begriff des Shared Heritage, des gemeinsamen bzw. geteilten kulturellen Erbes, das durchaus auch als schwieriges Erbe verstanden werden kann, auf literarische Texte zu beziehen.