Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738178545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738178545
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Integrating Science & Technology into Development Policies An International Perspective
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 926403210X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This publication provides the proceedings of an international workshop, held in South Africa, intended to address how international co-operation in science and technology can further the three inter-related aspects (economic, social and environmental) of the development process.
Integrating Climate Change Actions Into Local Development
Author: Livia BizikovaPublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1849771758
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
To date, climate change adaptation and mitigation have been treated separately both in research and in the climate negotiations. However, a growing body of literature is now being developed that points to actual and potential synergies and trade-offs between responses to climate change and sustainability. This literature has evolved in a spontaneous way with diverse approaches and no common methodology to help practitioners explicitly plan for these synergies. This special issue of the Climate Policy journal addresses this gap between scientific knowledge and practitioners' needs by focussing on linkages between climate change and sustainable development at the level of conceptual framework and methods. In particular, the papers address in an integrated way local development options involving both adaptation and mitigation in order to promote resilience to climate change in human and natural systems. The special issue provides policy and methodological guidelines for linking local deveopment pathways with responses to climate change, based on collaboration between local practitioners, the public and scientists.
Décision et Action
Author: POMEROL Jean-CharlesPublisher: Lavoisier
ISBN: 274628894X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Quelle que soit l’importance de la décision, l’hésitation peut paralyser l’action. S’intéressant à la décision pour l’action, le décideur est alors, soit confronté aux théoriciens qui ne se mettent pas à sa portée, soit renvoyé à des études de cas trop souvent anecdotiques. Ce livre établit un lien entre la décision, l’action et les théories récentes de l’intelligence artificielle, de la neurobiologie et de la psychologie. Quels sont les principaux comportements psychologiques dont il faut se méfier ? Quel est le rôle de l’intuition ou de l’émotion ? Comment éviter la manipulation ? Quel est le bon usage de la planification ? Comment rester rationnel sans être un expert des probabilités ? Comment passer de la décision à l’action ? Illustré par de nombreux exemples, cet ouvrage répond, dans un langage simple et didactique, aux interrogations des managers.
Ensuring Environmental Compliance Trends and Good Practices
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264059598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This report examines the strategies and instruments that governments use to ensure compliance with pollution prevention and control regulations, particularly in the industrial sector.
Sustainable Development and Adjustment in the Mediterranean Countries Following the EU Enlargement
Author: Franco PrausselloPublisher: FrancoAngeli
ISBN: 9788846478061
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Deep-Sea Ecosystems Off Mauritania
Author: Ana RamosPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9402410236
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
This book compiles the main findings of the multidisciplinary long-term research program developed in the continental margin of one of the more productive and unknown areas of the world oceans, Northwest Africa. The more than 25,000 preserved fishes and benthic invertebrates and quantitative data collected in 342 trawling stations, the 267 oceanographic profiles, the 211 sediment samples and the 28,122 km2 prospected by multi˗beam echo sounding allowed to obtain an overview of the amazing biodiversity of the demersal and benthic fauna inhabiting soft- and hard-bottom habitats, as well as the fascinating geomorphology and oceanography, hidden in the Mauritanian slope.
The Performance of Socially Responsible Investment Funds in Europe
Author: Eva Maria KreibohmPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3844104828
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Socially responsible investing (SRI) is an investment approach that combines investors’ financial as well as nonfinancial goals in the security selection process. Technically, investors can engage in SRI either by directly investing in companies that implement corporate social activities or by investing their money in SRI funds, which apply screening criteria to select securities. The screening process applied by the SRI funds has led to controversy among academics regarding whether the use of SRI screens in the security selection process influences the financial performance of the funds. The empirical study analyzes whether or not the screening process applied by such funds influences their financial performance. Previous research mostly has focused on analyzing the performance of SRI equity funds established in the United States. The study at hand not only includes SRI equity funds, but also SRI balanced and fixed income funds established in Europe, the biggest market for SRI globally. The study provides unexpected results that are not only of interest for investors, who want to get a better understanding of the effect on the financial performance of their portfolios in case SRI funds are added. The results are also relevant for SRI fund managers, who are interested in promoting their funds and attracting (new) investors, and for academics, whose research interests are e. g., located in the fields of SRI, fund portfolio performances and market efficiencies.
Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries
Author: United Nations Environment Programme StaffPublisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9280717537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: France 2016
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264252711
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This report is the third Environmental Performance Review of France. It evaluates progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on energy transition and biodiversity.
