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Digital Preservation in Libraries

Author : Jeremy Myntti
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838917135
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Digital Preservation in Libraries written by Jeremy Myntti and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s information landscape, there are fewer topics that more urgently demand expansive discourse than digital preservation, which touches on everything from technology to copyright. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) steps up to the challenge with this comprehensive overview. Global in scope, it features case studies and contributions that discuss such key issues as the history of digital preservation; digital preservation and information ethics; strategies for getting started, sustaining digitization programs, and performing evaluation; fine-tuning digital preservation workflows, with a look at Digital Streams Matrix for analyzing pathways and tasks; preserving e-books, mobile device data, and other specific types of materials; collaborative efforts in digital preservation, including jargon-free techniques for engaging non-technical colleagues in digital legacy tools and processes; and the copyright, legal, and administrative issues connected with digital preservation. Academic librarians, technical services staff, technologists, and administrators will all benefit from this incisive collection.

Design Education for a Sustainable Future

Author : Rob Fleming
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136659781
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Design Education for a Sustainable Future written by Rob Fleming and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is a powerful force that is fundamentally reshaping humanity’s relationship to the natural world and is ushering in the Age of Integration. The move from well-intentioned environmental friendliness to the higher bar of integral sustainability and regenerative design demands a new type of design professional, one that is deeply collaborative, ethically grounded, empathically connected and technologically empowered. As a response, this book argues for a great leap forward in design education: from an individualistic and competitive model casually focused on greening; to a new approach defined by an integral consciousness, shaped by the values of inclusivity and cooperation, and implemented by a series of integrative behaviors including: an ethically infused design brief a co-creative design process on-going value engineering pre-emptive engineering design validation through simulation on-line enabled integrated learning the use of well vetted rating systems. This book contains the integral frameworks, whole system change methodologies and intrinsic values that will assist professors and their students in an authentic and effective pursuit of design education for a sustainable future.

Population 10 Billion

Author : Danny Dorling
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1780338783
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Population 10 Billion written by Danny Dorling and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before May 2011 the top demographics experts of the United Nations had suggested that world population would peak at 9.1 billion in 2100, and then fall to 8.5 billion people by 2150. In contrast, the 2011 revision suggested that 9.1 billion would be achieved much earlier, maybe by 2050 or before, and by 2100 there would be 10.1 billion of us. What's more, they implied that global human population might still be slightly rising in our total numbers a century from now. So what shall we do? Are there too many people on the planet? Is this the end of life as we know it? Distinguished geographer Professor Danny Dorling thinks we should not worry so much and that, whatever impending doom may be around the corner, we will deal with it when it comes. In a series of fascinating chapters he charts the rise of the human race from its origins to its end-point of population 10 billion. Thus he shows that while it took until about 1988 to reach 5 billion we reached 6 billion by 2000, 7 billion eleven years later and will reach 8 billion by 2025. By recording how we got here, Dorling is able to show us the key issues that we face in the coming decades: how we will deal with scarcity of resources; how our cities will grow and become more female; why the change that we should really prepare for is the population decline that will occur after 10 billion. Population 10 Billion is a major work by one of the world's leading geographers and will change the way you think about the future. Packed full of counter-intuitive ideas and observations, this book is a tool kit to prepare for the future and to help us ask the right questions

Preparing for a Sustainable Future

Author : David Crowther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789819924578
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Preparing for a Sustainable Future written by David Crowther and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term sustainability has become one of the most significant in the current era. It seems to be ubiquitous amongst academics, politicians, business leaders, media personnel and even the general public. It is no exaggeration to state that it is considered all over the world to be the most pressing issue to be addressed for the long-term future of the planet and its inhabitants. The topic is of course complex, and the issue of sustainability is under much debate as to what it actually is and how it can be achieved, but it is completely certain that the resources of the planet are fixed in quantity and, once used, cannot be reused except through being reused in one form or another. At present, much of the discourse of sustainability has focused upon the environment and in particular upon climate change and the effects that this is having. Thus, the discourse has tended to be about mitigation. Sustainability of course requires all three pillars of the triple bottom line-economic, environmental and social-to be addressed. Indeed, it might be considered that the effects upon the social, and how we choose to live our lives, might well be the most profound effect of achieving sustainability. This book therefore focuses upon some of the many aspects of the social and how we can adapt our lives to accommodate the requirements of sustainability. it therefore takes a very different approach to addressing the issues of sustainability, while of course not ignoring the other pillars. This book therefore sets out to examine various aspects of the changes to personal, corporate and institutional behaviour which may have to come about in our search for sustainability. It is tended to address some of the issues and how they are being dealt with in various parts of the world. As always, our concept is to share best practice and thereby enrich both the discourse and our progress towards sustainability. Thus, we focus upon the current situation while also considering the extent to which the focus is changing so much that we need to think about new approaches to our understanding of behaviour and differing effects in practice. The international origins of the contributors to this book make this an original contribution taking some of the best ideas from around the world. This book therefore addresses these issues from a perspective not generally addressed by researchers, or even by politicians and the press. It therefore provides fresh perspectives upon the important issue of our common future. As always, this approach is based on the tradition of the Social Responsibility Research Network srrnet.org (a worldwide body of scholars with membership of several thousand), which in its 20-year history has sought to broaden the discourse and to treat all research as inter-related and relevant to business. This tradition has always been to explore the subject widely and to seek relevant solutions, while also sharing best practice. This book is based primarily upon some of the contributions from the network at our recent conference and shows both commonality and diversity in approaches and effects.

The Myth of Progress

Author : Tom Wessels
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611684161
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Progress written by Tom Wessels and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2013 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative critique of Western progress from a scientific perspective

Sustainable Technology Development

Author : Paul Weaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351283227
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Technology Development written by Paul Weaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the time it takes to read this sentence, about fifteen people will be added to the world's population. Read the sentence again, and there will be thirty. Tomorrow, each of these people will be demanding greater prosperity. Production and consumption are increasing fast but will have to grow even faster in the future to keep up with population growth and a world increasingly divided by inequality. How should we react to these trends? Certainly, many use growth figures to forecast disaster. But there is an alternative vision: one of a sustainable future, in which growth is seen not as a threat, but as the driving force behind innovation. This is the scenario worked out in the Netherlands by Sustainable Technology Development (STD), a five-year programme of research and "learning-by-doing" based on setting up new innovation networks and working with new methods to search for sustainable technological solutions. In order to make sustainability tangible, STD made a leap in time. What human needs will have to be satisfied fifty years from now? Taking a sustainable future vision as a starting point, STD demonstrated what steps we should take today for new technologies and systems to be in place in time. These results are now available for the first time in a comprehensive, specifically written English-language book, together with a description of the unique working method of STD and the results and key lessons from a set of the programme's illustrative case studies. This book serves as a manual for industry, governments and social leaders wanting to prepare themselves for a sustainable future. Sustainable Technology Development sets out the programme's underpinning philosophy and describes its approach, methods and findings. Delivering sustainability means finding ways to meet human needs using a fraction of the natural resources we use today. The world's richer nations would be wise to target at least ten-fold improvements by 2050 in the productivity with which conventional natural resources and environmental services are used. And they need to bring new, sustainable resources on-stream to augment the resource base and replace the use of unsustainable alternatives. Sustainable Technology Development marks a significant contribution to our understanding of innovation processes and how these might be influenced in favour of sustainable technology development. In principle, technology could play a pivotal role in sustainable development. Whether it does or not depends on whether innovators can be encouraged to make this an explicit goal, adopt long-term time-horizons and search for renewable technologies. Given the long lead-times involved, there is no time to waste in beginning the search. The STD programme has begun to make inroads into one of the most urgent of all needs concerning sustainable development: that for innovation in the innovation process itself.

Chemistry: The Key to our Sustainable Future

Author : Minu Gupta Bhowon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400773897
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Chemistry: The Key to our Sustainable Future written by Minu Gupta Bhowon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemistry: The Key to our Sustainable Future is a collection of selected contributed papers by participants of the International Conference on Pure and Applied Chemistry (ICPAC 2012) on the theme of “Chemistry: The Key for our Future” held in Mauritius in July 2012. In light of the significant contribution of chemistry to benefit of mankind, this book is a collection of recent results generated from research in chemistry and interdisciplinary areas. It covers topics ranging from nanotechnology, natural product chemistry to analytical and environmental chemistry. Chemistry: The Key to our Sustainable Future is written for graduates, postgraduates, researchers in industry and academia who have an interest in the fields ranging from fundamental to applied chemistry.

Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development

Author : Enakshi Sengupta
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789736412
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development written by Enakshi Sengupta and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book explores the sustainable development goals, how well universities have been able to integrate them into their curriculum, and how universities can institutionalize the goals and sustainable development into their strategic plans and institutional culture

Preparing Globally Competent Professionals and Leaders for Innovation and Sustainability

Author : Guo-Brennan, Linyuan
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668445298
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Preparing Globally Competent Professionals and Leaders for Innovation and Sustainability written by Guo-Brennan, Linyuan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal and organizational struggles and accomplishments revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic highlight that innovation is the defining trait of individuals and organizations that thrive in the 21st century. The global health crisis not only accelerated the global geopolitical tensions and disrupted organizations in all sectors, but confirmed the importance of preparing globally competent citizens, professionals, and learners who can effectively respond to the economic, environmental, and digital transformations in the 21st century through lifelong learning and professional development. Leaders today need to not only understand the financial, operational, sociocultural, and historical contexts of regional, national, and global systems, but also to build effective partnerships and trusting relationships with all stakeholders in effective policymaking, fostering an organizational culture that supports innovation and managing risks. Preparing Globally Competent Professionals and Leaders for Innovation and Sustainability is centered on international higher education’s role for the global common good. It critically examines the need for globally competent citizens, professionals, and leaders in the 21st century and higher education’s role in the global common good for a sustainable world. The book presents an evidence-based interdisciplinary framework and promising strategies to allow all learners to develop global citizenship and global leadership while addressing the need to prepare human capital for the global knowledge economy and digital transformation of the 21st century. Covering topics such as accessible education, international higher education, and organizational innovation, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for organizational leaders, executives, faculty and administration of higher education, government officials, human resource managers, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

The Future of Sustainability

Author : Marco Keiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402049080
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Sustainability written by Marco Keiner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a broad discussion on sustainable development, rethinking and improving its effectiveness as a paradigm of today and tomorrow. Outstanding visionary thinkers and scientists offer their timely assessment on the future prospects of mankind: In what direction are we heading? How can the world become more just and equitable, and how can future development be sustained to adequately address economic, social, and – perhaps most important – environmental issues?

Standing up for a Sustainable World

Author : Claude Henry
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800371780
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Standing up for a Sustainable World written by Claude Henry and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.

Sustainability and the U.S. EPA

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309212553
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Sustainability and the U.S. EPA written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability is based on a simple and long-recognized factual premise: Everything that humans require for their survival and well-being depends, directly or indirectly, on the natural environment. The environment provides the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Recognizing the importance of sustainability to its work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working to create programs and applications in a variety of areas to better incorporate sustainability into decision-making at the agency. To further strengthen the scientific basis for sustainability as it applies to human health and environmental protection, the EPA asked the National Research Council (NRC) to provide a framework for incorporating sustainability into the EPA's principles and decision-making. This framework, Sustainability and the U.S. EPA, provides recommendations for a sustainability approach that both incorporates and goes beyond an approach based on assessing and managing the risks posed by pollutants that has largely shaped environmental policy since the 1980s. Although risk-based methods have led to many successes and remain important tools, the report concludes that they are not adequate to address many of the complex problems that put current and future generations at risk, such as depletion of natural resources, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. Moreover, sophisticated tools are increasingly available to address cross-cutting, complex, and challenging issues that go beyond risk management. The report recommends that EPA formally adopt as its sustainability paradigm the widely used "three pillars" approach, which means considering the environmental, social, and economic impacts of an action or decision. Health should be expressly included in the "social" pillar. EPA should also articulate its vision for sustainability and develop a set of sustainability principles that would underlie all agency policies and programs.

Education for Sustainable Development

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231003941
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Education for Sustainable Development written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shaping the future we want

Author : Buckler, Carolee
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9231000535
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the future we want written by Buckler, Carolee and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Winning Strategies for a Sustainable Future

Author : Bertelsmann Bertelsmann Stiftung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783867934916
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Winning Strategies for a Sustainable Future written by Bertelsmann Bertelsmann Stiftung and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first Earth Summit was held in 1992, many countries have been looking for a new concept of economic and social progress. The financial and environmental crises of recent years have further demonstrated that a profound shift from traditional concepts of growth and prosperity toward policies committed to sustainability and intergenerational equity is needed. "Winning Strategies for a Sustainable Future" presents pioneering approaches for achieving these goals, including examples from Bhutan, Costa Rica, Finland, Ghana, and Tasmania. The Reinhard Mohn Prize was established by the Bertelsmann Stiftung in memory of its founder and is awarded biennially for innovative ideas that address urgent social and political challenges.

Our Common Future

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195531916
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Our Common Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education

Author : Peter Blaze Corcoran
Publisher : Brill Wageningen Academic
ISBN 13 : 9789086863037
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education written by Peter Blaze Corcoran and published by Brill Wageningen Academic. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection invites educational practitioners and theorists to speculate on - and craft visions for - the future of environmental and sustainability education. It explores what educational methods and practices might exist on the horizon, waiting for discovery and implementation. A global array of authors imagines alternative futures for the field and attempts to rethink environmental and sustainability education institutionally, intellectually, and pedagogically. These thought leaders chart how emerging modes of critical speculation might function as a means to remap and redesign the future of environmental and sustainability education today. Previous volumes within this United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development series have responded to the complexity of environmental education in our contemporary moment with concepts such as social learning, intergenerational learning, and transformative leadership for sustainable futures. 'Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education' builds on this earlier work - as well as the work of others. It seeks to foster modes of intellectual engagement with ecological futures in the Anthropocene; to develop resilient, adaptable pedagogies as a hedge against future ecological uncertainties; and to spark discussion concerning how futures thinking can generate theoretical and applied innovations within the field.