Global Sustainability
The Impact of Local Cultures, A New Perspective for Science and Engineering, Economics and Politics
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-need 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Wilderer, Peter A. (Hrsg.) / Kopp, Horst (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-527-60446-3
- EAN: 9783527604463
- Produktnummer: 13889802
- Verlag: Wiley-Vch
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 265 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'098 KB
Über den Autor
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 became the first German recipient of the Stockholm Water Prize, internationally the highest award in the field of water and environment. 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. 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.
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