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Author : Ewan McLeish
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1433900882
Looks at the issue of overpopulation, its causes, and its impact on people and the environment.
Author : Rainer Münz
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 190659810X
Today our planet is home to 6.8 billion people. By the year 2050, the global population will have grown to 9 billion. Yet the problems that will come with this massive expansion are not universal. Many developing nations will experience high demographic growth, while industrialized countries will have to deal with aging and eventually shrinking populations, as well as with more immigration. Overcrowded World? Global Population and International Migration offers a perspective on the causes and effects of rapid population change, and asks two vital questions: how can Earth sustain this growth? And what can we do to improve the living conditions of present and future generations?
Author : Rainer Münz
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781906598587
Today our planet is home to 6.8 billion people. By the year 2050, the global population will have grown to 9 billion. Yet the problems that will come with this massive expansion are not universal. Many developing nations will experience high demographic growth, while industrialized countries will have to deal with aging and eventually shrinking populations, as well as with more immigration. Overcrowded World? Global Population and International Migration offers a perspective on the causes and effects of rapid population change, and asks two vital questions: how can Earth sustain this growth? And what can we do to improve the living conditions of present and future generations?
Author : Roberto Verganti
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262335836
A more powerful innovation, which seeks to discover not how things work but why we need things. The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from outsiders—users or communities. This kind of innovating can be effective at improving products but not at capturing bigger opportunities in the marketplace. In this book Roberto Verganti offers a new approach—one that does not set out to solve existing problems but to find breakthrough meaningful experiences. There is no brainstorming—which produces too many ideas, unfiltered—but a vision, subject to criticism. It does not come from outsiders but from one person's unique interpretation. The alternate path to innovation mapped by Verganti aims to discover not how things work but why we need things. It gives customers something more meaningful—something they can love. Verganti describes the work of companies, including Nest Labs, Apple, Yankee Candle, and Philips Healthcare, that have created successful businesses by doing just this. Nest Labs, for example, didn't create a more advanced programmable thermostat, because people don't love to program their home appliances. Nest's thermostat learns the habits of the household and bases its temperature settings accordingly. Verganti discusses principles and practices, methods and implementation. The process begins with a vision and proceeds through developmental criticism, first from a sparring partner and then from a circle of radical thinkers, then from external experts and interpreters, and only then from users. Innovation driven by meaning is the way to create value in our current world, where ideas are abundant but novel visions are rare. If something is meaningful for both the people who create it and the people who consume it, business value follows.
Author : Ewan McLeish
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Overpopulation
ISBN : 9781625133939
Written in British English, By 2028, the world population will reach an estimated eight billion. Poor developing nations will experience the highest population growth. This book looks at the issue of overpopulation, its causes, and its impact on people and the environment. It also discusses the strategies adopted by different governments to deal with the problem.
Author : Tim Halliday,Basiro Davey
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101511388
Water and Health in an Overcrowded World, and its associated DVD, takes a global view of public health in discussing the chemical and biological pollution of water, environmental change, poverty, and lifestyle as major contributors to disease and disability in contrasting populations around the world.
Author : Rob Bowden
Publisher : Raintree
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000046504579
Examines the facts about population growth, its effects on the environment, and considers what lies ahead.
Author : Tadd Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Population
ISBN : UOM:39015007259719
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9241550376
Improved housing conditions can save lives, prevent disease, increase quality of life, reduce poverty, and help mitigate climate change. Housing is becoming increasingly important to health in light of urban growth, ageing populations and climate change. The WHO Housing and health guidelines bring together the most recent evidence to provide practical recommendations to reduce the health burden due to unsafe and substandard housing. Based on newly commissioned systematic reviews, the guidelines provide recommendations relevant to inadequate living space (crowding), low and high indoor temperatures, injury hazards in the home, and accessibility of housing for people with functional impairments. In addition, the guidelines identify and summarize existing WHO guidelines and recommendations related to housing, with respect to water quality, air quality, neighbourhood noise, asbestos, lead, tobacco smoke and radon. The guidelines take a comprehensive, intersectoral perspective on the issue of housing and health and highlight co-benefits of interventions addressing several risk factors at the same time. The WHO Housing and health guidelines aim at informing housing policies and regulations at the national, regional and local level and are further relevant in the daily activities of implementing actors who are directly involved in the construction, maintenance and demolition of housing in ways that influence human health and safety. The guidelines therefore emphasize the importance of collaboration between the health and other sectors and joint efforts across all government levels to promote healthy housing. The guidelines' implementation at country-level will in particular contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals on health (SDG 3) and sustainable cities (SDG 11). WHO will support Member States in adapting the guidelines to national contexts and priorities to ensure safe and healthy housing for all.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0198741898
Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1568495870
Author : Darrell Bricker,John Ibbitson
Publisher : Signal
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780771050893
From the authors of the bestselling The Big Shift, a provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape. For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth's resources. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm. Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline. Throughout history, depopulation was the product of catastrophe: ice ages, plagues, the collapse of civilizations. This time, however, we're thinning ourselves deliberately, by choosing to have fewer babies than we need to replace ourselves. In much of the developed and developing world, that decline is already underway, as urbanization, women's empowerment, and waning religiosity lead to smaller and smaller families. In Empty Planet, Ibbitson and Bricker travel from South Florida to Sao Paulo, Seoul to Nairobi, Brussels to Delhi to Beijing, drawing on a wealth of research and firsthand reporting to illustrate the dramatic consequences of this population decline--and to show us why the rest of the developing world will soon join in. They find that a smaller global population will bring with it a number of benefits: fewer workers will command higher wages; good jobs will prompt innovation; the environment will improve; the risk of famine will wane; and falling birthrates in the developing world will bring greater affluence and autonomy for women. But enormous disruption lies ahead, too. We can already see the effects in Europe and parts of Asia, as aging populations and worker shortages weaken the economy and impose crippling demands on healthcare and social security. The United States is well-positioned to successfully navigate these coming demographic shifts--that is, unless growing isolationism and anti-immigrant backlash lead us to close ourselves off just as openness becomes more critical to our survival than ever before. Rigorously researched and deeply compelling, Empty Planet offers a vision of a future that we can no longer prevent--but one that we can shape, if we choose.
Author : Marion Guillou,Gérard Matheron
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401785693
If a global population of 9 billion by 2050 is to be fed adequately, more food must be produced and this in keeping with increasingly stringent standards of quality and with respect for the environment. Not to mention the land that must be set aside for the production of energy resources, industrial goods, carbon storage and the protection of biodiversity.
Author : John Berger
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784783730
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary suffering. These essays offer reflections on the political at the core of artistic expression and even at the center of human existence itself.
Author : John Martin Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:HW2QQX
