This handbook provides comprehensive and critical coverage of the dynamic and complex relationship between democracy and sustainability in contemporary theory, discourse, and practice.
Zwischen dem Wissen über Ursachen, Folgen und geeignete Strategien zur Eindämmung der Klimakrise einerseits und der Umsetzung in Handeln andererseits klafft eine große Lücke.
Kernenergie, Kohlekraftwerke, grüne Gentechnik, selbst fahrende Autos, Eingriffe in die menschliche Keimbahn, Nanotechnologie und Müllverbrennungsanlagen – diese Technologien haben eines gemeinsam: Sie sind umstritten.
In their essay and film script, written for the exhibition Lithium, researchers David Habets, Cameron Hu and Stefan Schäfer focus on the element as a remedy for the exhaustion of personal reserves.
Risk perception is an important component of risk governance, but it cannot and should not determine environmental policies. The reality is that people suffer and even die as a result of false information or perception biases.
Gesellschaftliche Veränderungen speisen sich oft aus wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen. Gerade der Klimawandel zeigt dies eindrücklich. Wissenschaft ist aber immer auch Teil der Phänomene, die sie beobachtet.
In ihrer Jugend wollte Silke Butzlaff eigentlich nicht in den Bergbau. Nun steuert sie seit 37 den ältesten noch im Betrieb befindlichen Eimerkettenbagger in der Lausitz und ist doch Bergarbeiterin geworden.
Die Lausitz hat einen Strukturbruch hinter und einen Strukturwandel vor sich. Der wirtschaftliche Umbau nach der deutschen Vereinigung hat nicht viel von der Industrie, die vor allem auf Braunkohle setzte, übrig gelassen.
Risk governance is used to refer to a body of scholarly ideas and concepts for collective decision making involving uncertain consequences of events or actions.
Solar energy supplies increasing shares of global energy demand. As a renewable source of energy, it will play a major role in decarbonizing electricity supply. This chapter provides an overview on the solar sector from an economic perspective.
This chapter examines the blue economy concept and discusses the increasing and cumulative challenges that require integrated solutions and finance approaches.
In their essay and film script, written for the exhibition Lithium, researchers David Habets, Cameron Hu and Stefan Schäfer focus on the element as a remedy for the exhaustion of personal reserves.
The topic of increasing the reflectivity of the Earth as a measure to counteract global warming has been the subject of high-level discussions and preliminary research since several decades, though prior to the early 2000s there was only very limi
The effects of human activities are increasingly overwhelming the geologic, biological and chemical processes that drive changes in the abundance of trace and greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere and Earth System behaviour.
In considering the changing world, the authors of the Integrated Science: Science without Borders were asked how you would see the future of your field 30 years later. The present chapter publishes authors’ views on this subject in 2050.
Many political decision-making processes are based on evidence and expert knowledge. However, expert knowledge and its use in public policy arenas have become increasingly contested in society.
In every region and every nation in the world, people face the difficult challenges of learning to design and maintain healthy societies with limited natural resources—including water, land, and energy—under rapidly changing global to local condit
Temporality has played a central role in poststructuralist thought, where the human experience of living in time has been understood as having profound ethical and political consequences.
Das DiDaT Weißbuch liefert Orientierungen, Wegweiser und Leitplanken für einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit digitalen Daten und Infrastruktursystemen.
Das DiDaT Weißbuch ist das Ergebnis eines zweijährigen transdisziplinären Prozesses der Identifikation, Erkundung und Analyse der Probleme und Lösungsoptionen bei der Erfassung, Behandlung, Verwertung und Nutzung digitale
Three major global processes in ocean governance under the umbrella of the United Nations are currently underway: negotiations for an international legally binding agreement under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) f
If we had unrestricted basis income for everyone, what would the consequences be? Would it increase freedom and equality and so dim down the ever faster accelerating times? Would it help to save the environment with its restricted resources?
The chapter addresses the history and context of school strikes, the form of action that helped Fridays for Future gain attention for the global climate crisis.
An ecosystem approach to the management of human activities in the marine environment began to feature as a normative concept in international instruments in the 1980s, beginning with the pioneering Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Mari
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are increasingly employed as a tool to protect Europe’s swiftly declining marine biodiversity. However, despite increasing coverage, MPA effectiveness and equity is considered highly variable.
Climate change and climate-altering technologies pose an emerging risk governance challenge involving risk-risk trade-offs both regarding potential outcomes as well as governance choices.
This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature.
Das Buch präsentiert interdisziplinär Wege des Zusammenspiels von gesellschaftlicher Verantwortung für die Bewahrung und die Nutzung historischer Gärten.
PolicyadvicefordealingwiththeCoronaCrisishasbeenfocusingontwomajorconcepts: resilienceandsustainability.Thepaperexplorestherelationshipbetweenthetwoterms,illustratesthe various concepts that are associated with each term, and suggests an i
