El protagonismo de las materias primas

Bajo el título El protagonismo de las materias primas tuvo lugar el Segundo Foro de Economía y Sostenibilidad organizado por la Fundación Santander Central Hispano. El octavo número de Cuadernos de Sostenibilidad y Patrimonio Natural recoge las intervenciones de los expertos que participaron en el ...

Environmental risk assessment

quantitative measures, anthropogenic influences, human impact

This book deals with environmental and human risk problems caused by contamination from the perspective of real world applications with quantitative procedures. It includes risk methods for the discussion of environmental problems where data are sparse or fuzzy, as well as incorporating political, social and ...

Frontiers in water resource economics

This edited volume focuses on recent methodological advances within the field of water resource economics and shows how these advances can be applied to the economics of water issues. It identifies five areas of particular importance - asymmetric information and game theory, uncertainty, space, water quality ...

Población y planificación hidrológica

análisis internacional de los contenidos sociodemográficos de la planificación hidrológica

Esta obra indaga sobre la utilidad de los estudios de población en el marco de la planificación y gestión del agua. El análisis parte de la revisión del cuerpo doctrinal de la planificación hidrológica y se completa con la comparación de los contenidos sociodemográficos identificados ...

La deuda ecológica española

impactos ecológicos y sociales de la economía española en el extranjero

Los impactos ambientales de la economía española son crecientes y no se producen únicamente en nuestro territorio, sino que cada vez más cruzan nuestras fronteras y perjudican seriamente a ciudadanos de otros países que ven reducida su capacidad soberana y violados sus derechos fundamentales. A ...

¿Estamos cambiando el clima?

El creciente interés por el cambio climático y por el clima futuro de la Tierra, convertidos ambos en temas estrella de los medios de comunicación, plantea numerosas e inquietantes incertidumbres a los ciudadanos del siglo XXI. Las noticias sobre el cambio climático que leemos en ...

Criterios para una política turística sostenible en los Parques Naturales de Andalucía

La obra pretende desarrollar un concepto metodológico que delimite los elementos principales para la formulación de una política turística sostenible en estos espacios y cuyo contenido pueda orientar la definición de un modelo de planificación y gestión turística adaptable a los parques naturales de la ...

Collapse

how societies choose to fail or survive

In Collapse, Jared Diamond investigates the fate of past human societies, and the lessons for our own future. What happened to the people who built the ruined temples of Angkor Wat, the long-abandoned statues of Easter Island, the crumbling Maya pyramids of the Yucatan? All ...

The state and the global ecological crisis

Countering the current view of many environmental activists that sovereign nations cannot provide effective environmental governance, The State and the Global Ecological Crisis offers analyses and case studies that explore the prospects for "reinstating the state" as a facilitator of progressive environmental change rather than ...

Encyclopedia of the city

In an increasingly urban society, the city has become a fascinating area of study. The Encyclopedia of the City is an essential resource examining the idea of the city from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective including fields such as politics, sociology, history, urban design, cultural ...

Cities and creative class

In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the "creative class"--the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent. Cities that ...

Land use problems and conflicts

causes, consequences and solutions

The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. Not only is urban land use and sprawl a hot-button issue, but issues of rural land use have also been in the headlines. Policy makers and citizens ...

Sustainable urban development

.Vol.1: The framework and protocols for environmental assessment

Sustainable Urban Developments examines the models of sustainable development and sets out the framework for analysing urban development and the sustainability issues this gives rise to. It examines the protocols (planning, property development, design, construction and operational activities) developed to address the issues and provides ...

Intellectual capital for communities

nations, regions, and cities

In the knowledge economy, the value of corporations is directly related to their knowledge and intellectual capital. But broaden the perspective a little wider and you begin to see the possibilities: Think of cities, regions, even entire nations, in addition to the public sector. If ...

Rethinking regional innovation and change

path dependency or regional breakthrough

Beyond path dependency and competitive convergence: Institutional transfer from a discourse-analytical perspective.- Tacit knowledge, path dependency and local trajectories of growth.- Regional transformation and regional disequilibrium: New knowledge economies and their discontents.- Switching ties, recombining teams: Avoiding lock-in through project organization?- Knowledge- intensive services as ...

Globalization and urban development

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities ...

Economic development finance

Economic Development Finance is a comprehensive and in-depth presentation of private, public, and community financial institutions, policies and methods for financing local and regional economic development projects. The treatment of policies and program models emphasizes their applications and impact, key design and management issues, and ...

Governing sustainable cities

Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world and the EU is currently finalizing its Urban Thematic Strategy, which will guide European urban environmental policy for the next decade. Based on three years of field research in 40 European cities, this ...

Economic geographies

ciruits, flows and spaces

How do we conceptualise the production and re-production of social life? What are the most appropriate ways to conceptualise capitalist economies and their geographies? Economic Geographies integrates ideas of structure, agency, and practice to provide: · a detailed overview of recent key debates in economic geography ...

Communities and communication

building urban partnerships

This book compares three great cities of the South, Nairobi, Colombo and Rio de Janeiro, to explore how local government interacts with the communities of the cities, and to discover how communication can lead to partnership. The authors explore what partnership means, arguing that it ...