Have you always wanted to know more about sustainability? And what the next generation thinks we should do?

In this book, written, designed, and published by students you will read everything you have always wanted to know about sustainability, including DIYs, recipes, poems and fictional stories.

In 1985 vormde zich bij mij zich het plan om een proefschrift te gaan schrijven. Dit was gebaseerd op de ervaring dat maar al te vaak irrationele of onbewezen argumenten tot besluiten van groot belang leidden. Mijn bedoeling was om deze besluitvorming van een betere basis te voorzien, zo mogelijk zelfs van een optimale basis. Dit leidde tot de formulering in een proefschrift van alles wat nodig was op tot zo’n optimalisatiemodel te komen. Gaandeweg ontstond de conclusie dat er twee modellen...

This book covers the many renewables technologies implemented worldwide by harnessing sustainable resources, mitigating pollution and climate change, and providing cost effective services. It supports multi-disciplinary master's degrees in science and engineering, and specialist modules at undergraduate level.

Now in its fourth edition, Geographies of Development: An Introduction to Development Studies remains a core, balanced and comprehensive introductory textbook for students of Development Studies, Development Geography and related fields. This clear and concise text encourages critical engagement by integrating theory alongside practice and related key topics throughout. It demonstrates informatively that ideas concerning development have been many and varied and highly contested - varying fro...

Now in its second edition, Water Resources: An Integrated Approach provides students with a comprehensive overview of natural processes associated with water and the modifications of these processes by humans through climate change and land management, water-related health issues, engineering approaches to water and socio-economic processes of huge importance to water resources. The book contains chapters written by 24 specialist contributors, providing expert depth of coverage to topics. The...

The Global Casino is an introduction to environmental issues which deals both with the workings of the physical environment and with the political, economic and social frameworks in which the issues occur. Using examples from all over the world, the book highlights the underlying causes behind environmental problems, the human actions which have made them issues, and the hopes for solutions. It is a book about the human impact on the environment and the ways in which the natural environment i...