In the article, “Urban Sprawl, Global Warming and the Limits of Ecological Modernization” (Gonzalez G.A. 2005), the author examines the deficiency of the business groups’ approach to solving the climate change. According to Gonzalez’s opinion, because of the booming of automobile industry during the urban sprawl, the higher emissions of greenhouse gases worsen the climate change. The author notes that both WBCSD and ICC insist that technology is a feasible method to solving the global warming, whereas
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Presentation Plan • Motivation • Research areas • Papers and proposals in different research areas Motivations To undertake meaningful academic and professional research in the field of energy economics which would ultimately lead to delivering key sustainability principles in regional, national and international levels. Pure data driven analytical studies based on recent quantitative research underpinnings strengthen sustainable energy planning to ensure community involvement, inter-generational equity
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Exemplification of Sustainable Development Patricia Mejias Professor’s Name Course Code and Name August 3, 2013 Exemplification of Sustainable Development Sustainable development is a strategy used to promote a sustained quality of existence (Dalal-Clayton & Bass, 2002). The sustained quality of existence can be applied to the general population of a community, to a government, or even to a commercial operation. The goal of this strategy is to ensure that the materials that
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The Role of the Civil Engineer in Sustainable Development The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) defines sustainability as a set of economic, environmental and social conditions in which all of society has the capacity and opportunity to maintain and improve its quality of life indefinitely, without degrading the quantity, quality or the availability of natural resources and ecosystems. Moreover, sustainable development is the process of converting natural resources into products and services
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make shallow attempts to move technologically towards more sustainable practices; The BMW Group, however is pushing the boundaries’ of sustainability NOW with its Efficient Dynamics Program just as it did going as far back as the early 1970s. BMW has been a leader in sustainability since before there was pressure on companies to do so. Since the 1970s Sustainability has been a priority to BMW, from the introduction of our first Hydrogen powered car in the early 1970s on through consistently working
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Journal of Sustainable Development November, 2009 Green Road Approach in Rural Road Construction for the Sustainable Development of Nepal Abhiman Das Mulmi Department of Roads Ministry of Physical Planning and Works, Government of Nepal Babarmahal, Kathmandu, India Tel: 977-01-980-3483-776 Abstract Transport infrastructure provides a basis for economic activities in the rural areas in the long term. But the environment consequences cannot be neglected only foreseeing long term economic benefit
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in a collaborative way. Sustainability education (ES), Education for Sustainability (EfS), and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) are interchangeable terms describing the practice of teaching for sustainability. Various approaches to ESD encourage people to understand the complexity, and synergies between, the issues threatening planetary sustainability and understand and assess their own values and those of the society who live in the context of sustainability. ESD seeks to involve people
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What was ITC’s motivation for creating the eChoupal? - To achieve goal of from current $100M to $442.6M (growth) - Business model that would bring the IBD up to speed - To increase ITC’s margins/profits through savings, and added business, through maximizing the presence of a one-stop shop service that attract farmers - To skip middle-level transactions/processes that complicate value chain and which introduces more costs - To improve competitiveness and efficiency of the entire value chain
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communication skills is also considered. All of the three impacts as we can see is respectively agreed by the respondent. Coccossis (1996) asserts that sustainable tourism can be taken in four different interpretations that include” economic sustainability of tourism”, the “ecologically Sustainable tourism”,” sustainable tourism development” with both focus of environment as well as long term feasibility of the industry and finally “tourism as a part of a strategy for sustainable development”
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| Abstract of unicon investment solutionUnicon customers have the advantage of trading in all the market segments together in the same window, as we understand the need of transactions to be executed with high speed and reduced time. At the same time, they have the advantage of having all Advisory Services for Life Insurance, General Insurance, Mutual Funds and IPO’s also. Unicon is a customer focused financial services organization providing a range of investment solutions to our customers
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