Global Sustainability

The Impact of Local Culture

Peter A. Wilderer, Edward D. Schroeder, Horst Kopp

240 pages, parution le 07/12/2004

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Résumé

This first book to focus on cultural diversity as a key element of sustainable development in the context of science and engineering provides cross-disciplinary information and assistance in understanding our world in transition. As such, it furnishes the global scientific community and decision makers in governmental and non-governmental institutions as well as in industry with much-needed information on how the various factors affecting sustainable development -- including culture -- depend on and interfere with each other.

Featuring a contribution by the President of the Club of Rome, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal, this is vital reading for all (natural) scientists, engineers, economists, ecologists, environmental organizations, and consultants.

L'auteur - Peter A. Wilderer

Professor Peter A. Wilderer is in charge of the Institute an Advanced Studies on Sustainability, funded by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He teaches at the German Institute of Science and Technology, Singapore, in Industrial Ecology and Industrial Chemistry. Besides he serves as honorary professor at the Advanced Wastewater Management Center of the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2003, he received the Stockholm Water Prize 2003. He has authored and co-authored over 300 scientific publications. Professor Edward D. Schroeder is a member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of California, Davis. He has authored or co-authored over 120 papers and two textbooks on various aspects of environmental engineering.

L'auteur - Edward D. Schroeder

Professor Edward D. Schroeder is a member of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of California, Davis. He has authored or co-authored over 120 papers and two textbooks on various aspects of environmental engineering.

L'auteur - Horst Kopp

Professor Horst Kopp is working at the Institute for Geography at the Friederich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He is co-editor of The Arab World Geographer.

Sommaire

History and Mandate of Sustainability: From Local Forestry to Global Policy
Sustainable Development: Exploring the Cross-Cultural Dimension
Sustainable Development and Cultural Diversity
Technological Progress in Different Cultures and Periods: Historical Evolution Projected into the Future
Views of Sustainability: Elements of a Synthesis
A New Way of Thinking about Sustainability, Risk and Environmental Decision-Making
Humility and Establishing the Sustainable Environment
Conflicts and Conflict-solving as Chances to Make the Concept of Sustainable Development Work
Sustainability through Science-Technology-Society Education
Sustainability and Consumption of Raw Materials in Germany
Sustainability, Culture and Regional Scales: Some Remarks from Human Geography
Sustainable Development in Asia: Traditional Ideas and Irreversible Processes
Sustainability of Development and Valuation of Non-renewable Resources: An Analysis in the Context of Local Cultures
Sustainability in Latin American Countries: Challenge and Opportunities for Argentina
On the Roles Engineers May Play in the Attempt to Meet Basic Demands of Man and Nature
Integrating Cultural Aspects in the Implementation of Large Water Projects
Sustainability from an Entrepreneurial Point of View Seen from the Particular Standpoint of a Company Active in the Water Industry
Synthesis

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Peter A. Wilderer, Edward D. Schroeder, Horst Kopp
Parution	07/12/2004
Nb. de pages	240
Format	17,5 x 24,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	775g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9783527312368