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  • Higher Education and Sustainable Development

    A model for curriculum renewal

    de Cheryl Desha, Karlson 'Charlie' Hargroves ...
    Responding to the global and unprecedented challenge of capacity building for twenty-first century life, this book is a practical guide for tertiary education institutions to quickly and effectively renew the curriculum towards education for sustainable development.The book begins by exploring why curriculum change has been so slow. It then describes a model for rapid curriculum renewal, ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Factor Five

    Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity

    de Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker, Charlie Hargroves, Michael H. Smith, Cheryl Desha, Peter Stasinopoulos ...
    When first published in 1997, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by renowned economic and engineering experts Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, transformed how economists, policy makers, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders thought about innovation and wealth creation. Through examples from a wide range of industrial sectors, the authors demonstrated ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Whole System Design

    An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Engineering

    de Peter Stansinoupolos, Karlson Hargroves, Cheryl Desha, Michael Smith ...
    Whole System Design is increasingly being seen as one of the most cost-effective ways to both increase the productivity and reduce the negative environmental impacts of an engineered system.A focus on design is critical, as the output from this stage of the project locks in most of the economic and environmental performance of the designed system throughout its life, which can span from a few ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Cents and Sustainability

    Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures

    de Cheryl Desha, Charlie Hargroves, Michael Harrison Smith ...
    Cents and Sustainability is a clear-sighted response to the 1987 call by Dr Gro Brundtland in Our Common Future to achieve a new era of economic growth that is 'forceful and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable'. The Brundtland Report argued that not only was it achievable, but that it was an urgent imperative in order to achieve a transition to sustainable development while ... Leer más

    $166.99 USD

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  • Green IT

    Managing your carbon footprint

    Edición de BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT ...
    New legislation, rising energy costs and increasing demand for green credentials have moved sustainable IT up the business agenda. Yet the term ‘green IT’ still means a variety of things to a variety of people – whether that’s sustainably managing and procuring IT assets, ethically recycling hardware or using IT to enable carbon footprint reduction. This ebook looks at these different aspects and ... Leer más

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  • The Sixth Wave

    How to Succeed in a Resource-Limited World

    de Bianca Nogrady, James Bradfield Moody ...
    How to succeed in a resource limited world.Making predictions about the future is a dangerous game, particularly when that future has never looked more uncertain. Natural resources are dwindling and we are wasting the resources we do have at an unparalleled rate. Climate change threatens our way of life and digital technology is advancing at such a rate as to leave many of us baffled. But far from ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Sustainable Materials without the hot air

    Making buildings, vehicles and products efficiently and with less new material

    de Julian Allwood, Jonathan Cullen ...
    Series series without the hot air
    Now in its second edition, Sustainable Materials shows how we can greatly reduce the amount of material demanded and used in manufacturing, while still meeting everyone's needs.Materials, transformed from natural resources into the buildings, equipment, vehicles and goods that underpin our remarkable lifestyle, are made with amazing efficiency. But our growing demand is not sustainable. Production ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Infrastructures of Consumption

    Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

    de Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet ...
    For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Material Architecture

    de John Fernandez ...
    Composed of a series of essays, this book deals with the broad issues affecting the nature of architectural materials and provides a focused review of the state of the art materials. It also provides designers with the tools they need to evaluate and select from the thousands of different materials that are available to them. The book is organized into three sections; ‘Time’ looks at how the ... Leer más

    $103.99 USD

  • Precedents in Zero-Energy Design

    Architecture and Passive Design in the 2007 Solar Decathlon

    de Michael Zaretsky ...
    ‘Michael Zaretsky’s Precedents in Zero-Energy Design is such an important book … it will help readers recognize that design comes before technology – and renewable energy systems alone can’t solve the problems we face’ – John D. Quale, Assistant Professor of Architecture and ecoMOD Project Director, University of VirginiaThe world is currently facing an environmental crisis and as anyone ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Positive Development

    From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design

    de Janis Birkeland ...
    Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Sustainable Energy Management

    de Mirjana Radovanovic, Stevan Popov, Sinisa Dodic ...
    While the last few decades have witnessed incredible leaps forward in the technology of energy production, technological innovation can only be as transformative as its implementation and management allows. The burgeoning fields of renewable, efficient and sustainable energy have moved past experimentation toward realization, necessitating the transition to more sustainable energy management ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD