Electronic Books

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Pilot Society and the Energy Transition The co-shaping of innovation, participation and politics

This book examines the role of pilot and demonstration projects as crucial devices for conducting innovation in the context ...

Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety

This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, ...

Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy

The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, ...

Saving Biological Diversity

The distinctive contribution of this book is that it presents a pragmatic approach for preserving biological diversity. Experts ...

Science of Societal Safety

This book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, ...

Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion : Agroecology and Endogenous Development

This book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous ...

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

This book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and ...

Social Development in the World Bank Essays in Honor of Michael M. Cernea

This book honors the work of Michael Cernea, who was the World Bank’s first professional sociologist, by taking on and ...

Society 5.0 A People-centric Super-smart Society

This book introduces readers to the vision on future cities and urban lives in connection with “Society 5.0”, which ...

Sustainable Development and Environmental Management : Experience and case studies

This book presents the new EU approach to environmental management and its attempt to place it in the perspective of sustainable ...

Territorial Cohesion

"Territorial cohesion" strives for a more balanced spatial development and seeks to improve integration throughout the ...

The Belt and Road Initiative Green Development Case Studies Report 2020

In accordance with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, it showcases 17 projects under the framework of Belt & Road ...

The Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers

This volume shares new data relating to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), with emphasis on experiences in Eastern and Southern ...

The Handbook of Environmental Voluntary Agreements

environmental policy represent a “third wave” of regulation in the environmental field. “Command and control” was ...

The Sanitation Triangle : Socio-Culture, Health and Materials

In this book, we present the concept of the Sanitation Triangle, which considers the interconnections of health, materials, ...

Towards Environmental Innovation Systems

The book brings together research communities from different disciplines and countries, and offers an exchange about theoretical ...

Transformation Literacy : Pathways to Regenerative Civilizations

This book brings science and practice together and inspires a global movement towards co-creating regenerative civilizations ...

Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers

This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread ...

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