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  • Partners for a Low-Carbon Hyderabad

    A stakeholder analysis with respect to “Lifestyle Dynamics and Climate Change”

    by Fritz Reusswig, Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf, Ulrike Anders ...
    Series Book 4/2009 - Emerging megacities
    This paper analyses the structure of local, regional and national stakeholders that might be relevant for a transition of Hyderabad into a low-carbon megacity. The main angle of the stakeholder selection in this report is defined by the leading question of our research: How do (local) lifestyle dynamics contribute to climate change, and how can lifestyle changes help to reduce local emissions and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Social Representation of Climate Change

    A case study from Hyderabad (India)

    by Fritz Reusswig, Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf ...
    Series Book 4/2010 - Emerging megacities
    In this report we underline the importance of studying the social representation of climate change for climate policy, especially in a democracy such as India. Social representations are, from a social science point of view, no epiphenomena of ‘real’ issues, but the very fabric of individual reality and, building on that, collective decision making. If climate change is not socially represented, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Methods for Stakeholder Analysis

    Exploring actor constellations in transition and change processes towards sustainable resource use and the case of Hyderabad, India

    by Christian Kimmich, Hannah Janetschek, Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf, Jennifer Meyer-Ueding, Julian Sagebiel, Fritz Reusswig, Kai Rommel, Markus Hanisch ...
    Series Book 1/2009 - Emerging megacities
    Currently 23 cities exceed the 10 million inhabitants’ threshold. The number of world’s megacities is expected to grow to 39 in 2025 with 32 of these in emerging economies. While today cities cater for over half of the world’s population, they are facing ever increasing environmental problems. Whether or not an emerging megacity will be able to cope with expected climate change impacts and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Geopolitics of Renewables

    by David Criekemans, Thijs van de Graaf, Thomas Sattich, Susann Handke, Marloes Dignum, Rick Bosman, Antonella Battaglini, Duncan Freeman, Nadejda Komendantova, Kanika Chawla, Fritz Reusswig, Sagatom Saha, Varun Sivarum, Karen Smith Stegen ...
    Series Book 61 - Lecture Notes in Energy
    Renewables are a game changer for interstate energy relations. Their abundance and intermittency, possibilities for decentral generation and use of rare earth materials, and generally electric nature of transportation make them very different from fossil fuels. What do these geographic and technical characteristics of renewable energy systems imply for infrastructure topology and operations, ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

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  • The Culture of Cities

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