Author : John Fitzgerald
Publisher :
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Railroad signal towers
ISBN : 9780908573790
Author : Fred Lee
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 1998-07
Category : Freight cars
ISBN : 9780908573738
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9780473354213
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Ulrich Beck
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 1992-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803983465
An analysis of the condition of Western societies that will take its place as a core text of contemporary sociology alongside earlier typifications of society as postindustrial, and current debates about the social dimensions of the postmodern
Author : Paul Harremoes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134207786
The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU, and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial. This volume looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played or could have played, in a range of major and avoidable public disasters. From detailed investigation of how each disaster unfolded, what the impacts were and what measures were adopted, the authors draw lessons and establish criteria that could help to minimise the health and environmental risks of future technological, economic and policy innovations. This is an informative resource for all those from lawyers and policy-makers, to researchers and students needing to understand or apply the principle.
Author : European Environment Agency
Publisher : Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Antibiotics in animal nutrition
ISBN :
The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. This title looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played in a range of major and avoidable public disasters.
Author : J.K. Gilbert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 26,67 MB
Release : 2003-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402011121
Chemical education is essential to everybody because it deals with ideas that play major roles in personal, social, and economic decisions. This book is based on three principles: that all aspects of chemical education should be associated with research; that the development of opportunities for chemical education should be both a continuous process and be linked to research; and that the professional development of all those associated with chemical education should make extensive and diverse use of that research. It is intended for: pre-service and practising chemistry teachers and lecturers; chemistry teacher educators; chemical education researchers; the designers and managers of formal chemical curricula; informal chemical educators; authors of textbooks and curriculum support materials; practising chemists and chemical technologists. It addresses: the relation between chemistry and chemical education; curricula for chemical education; teaching and learning about chemical compounds and chemical change; the development of teachers; the development of chemical education as a field of enquiry. This is mainly done in respect of the full range of formal education contexts (schools, universities, vocational colleges) but also in respect of informal education contexts (books, science centres and museums).
Author : Anthony J. Masys
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319211064
This book captures current trends and developments in the field of systems thinking and soft operations research which can be applied to solve today's problems of dynamic complexity and interdependency. Such ‘wicked problems’ and messes are seemingly intractable problems characterized as value-laden, ambiguous, and unstable, that resist being tamed by classical problem solving. Actions and interventions associated with this complex problem space can have highly unpredictable and unintended consequences. Examples of such complex problems include health care reform, global climate change, transnational serious and organized crime, terrorism, homeland security, human security, disaster management, and humanitarian aid. Moving towards the development of solutions to these complex problem spaces depends on the lens we use to examine them and how we frame the problem. It will be shown that systems thinking and soft operations research has had great success in contributing to the management of complexity.
Author : Nicola Labanca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 331933753X
This book offers an interdisciplinary discussion of the fundamental issues concerning policies for sustainable transition to renewable energies from the perspectives of sociologists, physicists, engineers, economists, anthropologists, biologists, ecologists and policy analysts. Adopting a combined approach, these are analysed taking both complex systems and social practice theories into consideration to provide deeper insights into the evolution of energy systems. The book then draws a series of important conclusions and makes recommendations for the research community and policy makers involved in the design and implementation of policies for sustainable energy transitions.
