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Power resources --- Ressources énergétiques --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- 537.872 --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Social aspects. --- energie --- Ressources énergétiques --- Power resources - Social aspects
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The OECD Green Growth Strategy aims to provide concrete recommendations and measurement tools, including indicators, to support countries’ efforts to achieve economic growth and development, while ensuring that natural assets continue to provide the resources and environmental services on which well-being relies. The strategy proposes a flexible policy framework that can be tailored to different country circumstances and stages of development. This report was coordinated with the International Energy Agency (IEA). This report looks at the role of the energy sector in moving towards a green growth model and the policies to facilitate the transition. Together with innovation, going green can be a long-term driver for economic growth, through, for example, investing in renewable energy and improved efficiency in the use of energy and materials.
Energy policy -- Environmental aspects. --- Power resources -- Economic aspects. --- Power resources -- Environmental aspects. --- Power resources -- Social aspects. --- Power resources --- Energy policy --- Environmental aspects. --- Economic aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries
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Power resources --- Hydrocarbons --- Industrialization --- Ressources énergétiques --- Social aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Aspect social --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Esclavage --- --Énergie --- --Énergie fossile --- --Power resources --- Sustainable development --- Climatic changes --- Ressources énergétiques --- Social aspects. --- Énergie --- Énergie fossile --- Power resources - Social aspects --- Power resources - Environmental aspects --- Hydrocarbons - Environmental aspects --- Industrialization - Environmental aspects --- Climatic changes - Social aspects
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Green skills, that is, skills needed in a low-carbon economy, will be required in all sectors and at all levels in the workforce as emerging economic activities create new (or renewed) occupations. Structural changes will realign sectors that are likely to decline as a result of the greening of the economy and workers will need to be retrained accordingly. The successful transition to a low-carbon economy will only be possible if workers can flexibly adapt and transfer from areas of decreasing employment to new industries. This report suggests that the role of skills and education and training policies should be an important component of the ecological transformation process.
Energy policy -- Environmental aspects. --- Power resources -- Economic aspects. --- Power resources -- Environmental aspects. --- Power resources -- Social aspects. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental Sciences --- Environmental sciences --- Green movement --- Vocational guidance --- Ecologism --- Environmental action groups --- Environmental groups --- Environmental science --- Environmentalism --- Political ecology --- Sustainable living --- Science
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This book argues that the basic component of any society's social security and sustainability is cultural capital and its ability to fully recognise diversity in knowledge production and advancement. However, with regard to African societies, since the dawn of racial slavery and colonialism, cultural capital - indigenous knowledge in particular - has iniquitously and acrimoniously suffered marginalisation and pejorative ragtags. Increasingly since the 1990's, cultural capital informed by African knowledge systems has taken central stage in discussions of sustainability and development. This is not unrelated with the recognition by America and Europe in particular of the central role that cultural capital could and should assume in the logic of development and sustainability at a global level. Unfortunately, action has often failed to match words with regard to the situation in Africa. The current book seeks to make a difference by exploring the role that African cultural capital could and should assume to guarantee development and sustainability on the continent and globally. It argues that lofty pan-African ideals of collective self-reliance, self-sustaining development and economic growth would come to naught unless determined and decisive steps are taken towards full recognition of indigenous cultural capital on the continent.
Energy consumption -- Social aspects. --- Power resources -- Social aspects. --- Social Change --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Pan-Africanism. --- African relations --- African cooperation --- Regionalism (International organization) --- Sustainable development --- Ethnoscience --- Culture --- Economic aspects --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Indigenous knowledge systems --- Traditional knowledge systems (Ethnology) --- Ethnology --- Science --- Social aspects
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This path-breaking volume explores cultures of energy, the underlying but under-appreciated dimensions of both crisis and innovation in resource use around the globe. Theoretical chapters situate pressing energy issues in larger conceptual frames, and ethnographic case studies reveal energy as it is imagined, used, and contested in a variety of cultural contexts. Contributors address issues including the connection between resource flows and social relationships in energy systems; cultural transformation and notions of progress and collapse; the blurring of technology and magic; social tension
Energy consumption -- Social aspects. --- Energy consumption. --- Power resources -- Social aspects. --- Energy consumption --- Power resources --- Business & Economics --- Industries --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Energy conservation --- E-books --- #SBIB:316.334.5U34 --- #SBIB:39A4 --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: milieuproblematiek --- Toegepaste antropologie
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Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need--from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out not to be useful any more. Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels offers a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we understand the past--and for what might happen next. Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by classicist Richard Seaford, historian of China Jonathan Spence, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, and novelist Margaret Atwood.
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'The Thread of Energy' breaks down the most influential driver of human actions and decision making: energy. In this book, geographer Martin J. Pasqualetti exposes the technical and fundamental influences of energy, preparing scholars for the coming energy transitions that lie ahead.
Power resources --- Power resources - Social aspects --- Renewable energy sources --- Power resources. --- Renewable energy sources. --- Ressources énergétiques. --- Ressources énergétiques --- Énergies renouvelables. --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social. --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Relation between energy and economics --- Ressources énergétiques. --- Ressources énergétiques --- Énergies renouvelables.
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Why plant trees that only provide shade when they could yield fruit as well? Why not take advantage of sunny patches at the outskirts of parking lots to grow carrots and strawberries, free for the harvesting? The idea that public land could be used creatively to grow fresh food for local citizens was beginning to gain traction when Public Produce was first published in 2009, but there were few concrete examples of action. Today, things are different: fruits and vegetables are thriving in parks, plazas, along our streets, and around our civic buildings. This revised edition profiles numerous communities and community officials that are rethinking the role of public space in cities, and how our most revered urban gathering spots might nourish both body and soul. Taking readers from inspiration to implementation, Public Produce is chock full of tantalizing images and hearty lessons for bringing agriculture back into our cities.
Urban agriculture. --- Urban gardening. --- City planning --- Streetscapes (Urban design) --- Health aspects. --- Urban streetscapes --- City gardening --- Urban farming --- Hygienic aspects --- Environment. --- Public policy. --- Agriculture. --- Environment, general. --- Public Policy. --- Power resources --- Environmental aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Cultural landscapes --- Urban health --- Gardening --- Agriculture --- Land use, Urban --- Social aspects --- Environmental aspects --- E-books --- Environmental sciences. --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Environmental science --- Science --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Power resources - Social aspects --- Power resources - Environmental aspects
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Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth century thought just the opposite. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, biology, and history, Ian Morris explains why. Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need-from foraging, farming, and fossil fuels. Each energy source sets strict limits on what kinds of societies can succeed, and each kind of society rewards specific values. But if our fossil-fuel world favors democratic, open societies, the ongoing revolution in energy capture means that our most cherished values are very likely to turn out not to be useful any more. Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels offers a compelling new argument about the evolution of human values, one that has far-reaching implications for how we understand the past-and for what might happen next. Originating as the Tanner Lectures delivered at Princeton University, the book includes challenging responses by classicist Richard Seaford, historian of China Jonathan Spence, philosopher Christine Korsgaard, and novelist Margaret Atwood.
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- History --- Civilization -- Forecasting --- Civilization -- History --- Fossil fuels -- Social aspects -- History --- Hunting and gathering societies -- History --- Power resources --Social aspects -- History --- Social change -- History --- Social evolution -- History --- Social values -- History --- Social values --- Social evolution --- Social change --- Power resources --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Agriculture --- Fossil fuels --- Civilization --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Social & Cultural Anthropology --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Cultural history --- Fossil energy --- Fuel --- Energy minerals --- Food gathering societies --- Gathering and hunting societies --- Hunter-gatherers --- Hunting, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Subsistence hunting --- Energy --- Energy resources --- Power supply --- Natural resources --- Energy harvesting --- Energy industries --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Evolution --- Values --- History --- Social aspects --- Forecasting --- Forecasting. --- History.
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