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Ecotourism. --- Eco-tourism --- Eco-travel --- Ecological tourism --- Ecotravel --- Environmental tourism --- Green tourism --- Nature tourism --- Tourism

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"This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national, and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making. The book focuses on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, where there are stark socio-economic inequalities in addition to diverse geographic and climatic settings. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal. These localities offer ecological contrasts, rural-urban diversity, varied exposure to different climate events and diverse state and official responses. The book unpacks the diverse discourses, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the "above", "middle" and "below" understand and experience climate change and uncertainty and makes a case for bringing together diverse knowledges and approaches to understand and embrace climate-related uncertainties in order to facilitate transformative change. Appealing to a broad professional and student audience, the book draws on wide-ranging theoretical and conceptual approaches from climate science, historical analysis, science technology and society studies, development studies and environmental studies. By looking at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change and uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology, the book argues for plural and socially just ways to tackle climate change in India and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

Environmental policy --- Economic development --- Environmental aspects. --- Eco-development --- Ecodevelopment

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This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national, and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a "wicked problem" for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making. The book focuses on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, where there are stark socio-economic inequalities in addition to diverse geographic and climatic settings. Based on empirical research, it covers case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta in West Bengal. These localities offer ecological contrasts, rural-urban diversity, varied exposure to different climate events and diverse state and official responses. The book unpacks the diverse discourses, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the "above", "middle" and "below" understand and experience climate change and uncertainty and makes a case for bringing together diverse knowledges and approaches to understand and embrace climate-related uncertainties in order to facilitate transformative change. Appealing to a broad professional and student audience, the book draws on wide-ranging theoretical and conceptual approaches from climate science, historical analysis, science technology and society studies, development studies and environmental studies. By looking at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change and uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology, the book argues for plural and socially just ways to tackle climate change in India and beyond.

Economic development --- Climatic changes --- Environmental aspects. --- Government policy. --- Eco-development --- Ecodevelopment

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In the context of the Paris Agreement, the three Belgian regions have for objective to move towards the European objective of carbon neutrality by 2050. The reduction of the emission levels in the building sector is one of the elements proposed in the Belgian long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategy. One way to achieve it is to use carbon-neutral energy sources for heat and hot water production such as heat pumps, district heating, etc. In parallel to this strategy, the eco-district concept characterized by its increasing energy performance is more and more present in urban planning. The goal of this study is to identify the possible environmental and economical benefits that can be obtained by installing heat pumps in eco-districts compared to traditional natural gas heating technologies. To do so, several heating system configurations including district heating
and storage are studied. These configurations are simulated thanks to an advanced simulation and optimization tool and compared through their total discounted cost and total CO2 emission. The simulations performed cover the effect of the centralization, storage, eco-district energy level and size, distances inside the eco-district, dual hourly electricity rate, natural gas and electricity price variation, CO2 taxes, subsidies, Dutch commodity prices and carbon emitted by the electricity production. The simulations performed show that the air source heat pump cases are almost twice as expensive as the natural gas condensing boiler ones when Belgian commodity prices are applied. Different economical ways to promote heat pumps in eco-districts are investigated. Concerning the environmental benefit, the air source heat pumps have very low carbon emissions compared to natural gas condensing boilers.

Heat pump --- eco-district --- carbon neutrality --- district heating --- heating system --- storage --- Ingénierie, informatique & technologie > Energie

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