Retos del sector energético para el desarrollo sostenible en Iberoamérica
Author : Víctor R. Hernández-Mendible
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN :
Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance
Author : Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2024-11-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 1040152031
Book Description
Courage, Contributions and Compliance: The Routledge Handbook of Climate Law and Governance recognises calls from the United Nations (UN), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The elders, and others, for climate justice and urgent action, and convenes insights from leading legal and institutional experts, professors, professionals and early career scholars on emerging climate law and policy challenges, commitments and solutions. The collection explores the role of law and governance in scaling up global responses to climate change and advancing sustainability. Based on careful study of international advances and the full spectrum of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the global response to climate change, as submitted by Paris Agreement Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the volume compiles a compelling, coherent and systematic topical account from across diverse legal jurisdictions. Analytical chapters by leading experts, practitioners and scholars close to ongoing climate negotiations explore recent legal and institutional innovations related to climate change which can support implementation and compliance with the Paris Agreement and advance the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They highlight ways to raise ambition through law and policy, to reform national legal and institutional arrangements to implement NDCs and to further develop international law and governance in the face of the existential threat of climate change and the world: sustainable development commitments. Presenting a pathway for advancing climate ambition in the coming decades, this book will be of interest to government officials, academics, students, professionals and policy makers working in the area of climate law and governance.
Retos del sector energético para el desarrollo sostenible
Author : Víctor Rafael Hernández-Mendible
Publisher : Ediciones Olejnik
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9563929489
Book Description
"Constituye un auténtico honor presentar la primera publicación promovida por la Red Iberoamericana de Derecho de la Energía (RIDE), titulada “Retos del sector energético para el desarrollo sostenible en Iberoamérica”, en la cual participan autores de diferentes países: Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, España, México, Perú, Portugal, Uruguay y Venezuela. Con este amplio número de aportes se abordan algunos de los temas de mayor actualidad para la región en materia energética. Las reflexiones vertidas en esta obra colectiva materializan uno de los objetivos de la Red Iberoamericana de Derecho de la Energía (RIDE), que está concebida como un espacio para la formulación de propuestas, debate de ideas, intercambio de criterios y opiniones, integrada por profesionales, académicos y funcionarios, con desempeño sobresaliente vinculados en el Derecho de la Energía, -entiendo como tal aquel que regula los sectores de los hidrocarburos líquidos y gaseosos, la electricidad, así como las energías derivadas de fuentes renovables convencionales y no convencionales-, que en un ambiente libre y plural, con vocación interdisciplinaria, convoca la participación de abogados, ingenieros, economistas y otros profesionales, cuyos conocimientos y experiencias puedan contribuir a la consolidación de este proyecto común. Es inspirados en estas ideas que se ha visualizado la necesidad de desarrollar este espacio que coadyuve al fomento de la reflexión, la investigación, el estudio, el intercambio de saberes, el diálogo y la formulación de las propuestas y las recomendaciones sobre el vigoroso mundo de las energías, en especial, en la región iberoamericana que tiene abundantes fuentes de energías renovables, pero que requiere de importantes reformas para estimular la inversión de capitales y tecnologías, destinadas a lograr su efectivo y eficiente aprovechamiento, que permitan brindar satisfacción a las necesidades energéticas de todas las personas que conviven en esta región, sin descuidar la sostenibilidad". Víctor Rafael Hernández-Mendible. Pedro Curvello Saavedra Avzaradel.
Agrobiodiversity, Community Participation and Landscapes in Agroecology
Author : Tomás Enrique León-Sicard
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 2832553249
Book Description
Maintaining and managing agrobiodiversity is a key issue proposed by agroecology, not only to maintain high agricultural productivity, but also to increase the resilience, stability and sustainability of the agroecosystems, meant as the functional relationship between the natural assets and the human use of them, at farm and farm matrix scale. The main hypothesis of this approach is that, the greater the interactions between organisms of different trophic levels (edaphic organisms, multiple crops, weed plants, herbivores, carnivores, plants in living fences, corridors or forest patches within agroecosystems), the greater will be the possibilities of obtaining abundant and varied harvests, with fewer external inputs (pesticides, fertilizers) and better environmental performance. The agrobiodiversity is meant as the variety and the disposition of the cultivations, pastures, farms, that affect the soil properties and create habitat diversity, landscape diversity and connectivity. At the level of landscapes or territories, the set of biodiverse agroecosystems generate natural matrices that have a powerful impact on the recovery and restoration of forest corridors, which, in turn, positively influence many ecosystem services for nature conservation and free movement and recovery of many populations of animal species, including those in danger of extinction.
The Circular Economy and the Global South
Author : Patrick Schröder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0429783698
Book Description
The circular economy is a policy approach and business strategy that aims to improve resource productivity, promote sustainable consumption and production and reduce environmental impacts. This book examines the relevance of the circular economy in the context of developing countries, something which to date is little understood. This volume highlights examples of circular economy practices in developing country contexts in relation to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), informal sector recycling and national policy approaches. It examines a broad range of case studies, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa, and Thailand, and illustrates how the circular economy can be used as a new lens and possible solution to cross-cutting development issues of pollution and waste, employment, health, urbanisation and green industrialisation. In addition to more technical and policy oriented contributions, the book also critically discusses existing narratives and pathways of the circular economy in the global North and South, and how these differ or possibly even conflict with each other. Finally, the book critically examines under what conditions the circular economy will be able to reduce global inequalities and promote human development in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. Presenting a unique social sciences perspective on the circular economy discourse, this book is relevant to students and scholars studying sustainability in economics, business studies, environmental politics and development studies.
Building Capabilities for Productive Development
Author : Jorge Cornick
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1597823171
Book Description
Productive development policies (PDPs) are notoriously hard. They involve a daunting level of technical detail, require public-private collaboration, are in constant danger of capture, and demand time consistency hard to achieve in a politically volatile region. Nevertheless, the potential of PDPs to revitalize the regionâs economic performance and spur productivity growth cannot be ignored. This book takes an in-depth look at 17 cases involving productive development agencies from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica and Uruguay, identifying key features of institutional design and agency-level practices that make success more likely in this difficult policy arena. Careful study of these experiences might help successful productive development policies gain currency across the region. The cases in this book should not be seen as the exceptions that prove the rule of lackluster PDP performance, but rather as examples that demonstrate the rule can be broken.
Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Author : Luis Portales
Publisher : Springer
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030134563
Book Description
Social entrepreneurship and social innovation both seek to improve the world through social change. Whereas social entrepreneurship revolves around the business side of change, social innovation focuses on the processes through which that change is generated. This textbook provides a comprehensive analysis of both topics, covering all the characteristics and elements of social innovation and social entrepreneurship, from a conceptual and practical perspective. The book has four sections: 1) Basics and concepts of Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship; 2) Business models and generation of value in social enterprises; 3) Social innovation within traditional companies, and 4) Definition and alignment of the impact of social innovation and entrepreneurship. Students and any practitioners that want to know about social innovation or social entrepreneurship will be exposed to contemporary topics in the field as well as a variety of cases and tools for its development. With its learning objectives, reflective questions, the definition of key concepts, and exercises, this book is the definitive text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in social innovation and social entrepreneurship.
Renewable energy market analysis: Latin America
Author : International Renewable Energy AgencyIRENA
Publisher : International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9292602101
Book Description
The report offers a comprehensive review of the status and trends in the region’s renewable energy development. It highlights Latin America’s wealth of knowledge, draws key lessons, and outlines findings to support the continued expansion of renewables for power generation, transport and other end-uses.
World Development Report 2008
Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821368095
Book Description
The world's demand for food is expected to double within the next 50 years, while the natural resources that sustain agriculture will become increasingly scarce, degraded, and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In many poor countries, agriculture accounts for at least 40 percent of GDP and 80 percent of employment. At the same time, about 70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas and most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. 'World Development Report 2008' seeks to assess where, when, and how agriculture can be an effective instrument for economic development, especially development that favors the poor. It examines several broad questions: How has agriculture changed in developing countries in the past 20 years? What are the important new challenges and opportunities for agriculture? Which new sources of agricultural growth can be captured cost effectively in particular in poor countries with large agricultural sectors as in Africa? How can agricultural growth be made more effective for poverty reduction? How can governments facilitate the transition of large populations out of agriculture, without simply transferring the burden of rural poverty to urban areas? How can the natural resource endowment for agriculture be protected? How can agriculture's negative environmental effects be contained? This year's report marks the 30th year the World Bank has been publishing the 'World Development Report'.
Environmental Governance in Latin America
Author : Fabio De Castro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137505729
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multiple goals have led to a myriad of contrasting initiatives that are reshaping social relations and rural territories. This edited collection addresses these tensions by unpacking environmental governance as a complex process of formulating and contesting values, procedures and practices shaping the access, control and use of natural resources. Contributors from various fields address the challenges, limitations, and possibilities for a more sustainable, equal, and fair development. In this book, environmental governance is seen as an overarching concept defining the dynamic and multi-layered repertoire of society-nature interactions, where images of nature and discourses on the use of natural resources are mediated by contextual processes at multiple scales.
