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This book discusses the risks, challenges, and opportunities of cross-border work and life from a multidisciplinary and multilevel perspective, including (a) the individual, (b) the social and organizational, and (c) the regional levels, taking into consideration the diverse and multilayered social, economic, technological, and jurisdictional issues involved. Emerging public policies and advanced information technologies (IT) have created new ...

Urban Energy Transition: Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions, Third Edition is the definitive scientific and practice-based reference on energy transformations in the global urban system. This fully revised compendium provides a structured approach to the four integral areas of finance, governance, technology, and design related to current progress and innovation in urban energy transition. Dedicated to essential strategies for abundan...

Urban Agriculture and Regional Food Systems explores the sustainable integration of food provision, distribution and consumption through urban farms, agricultural systems, user communities and structural facilities designed to optimize food production and consumption. It addresses the fundamental and pressing challenges of urban planning problems, waste minimization, food sourcing, access and equity issues and multiple land use optimization. T...

This compendium of 29 chapters from 18 countries contains both fundamental and advanced insight into the inevitable shift from cities dominated by the fossil-fuel systems of the industrial age to a renewable-energy based urban development framework. The cross-disciplinary handbook covers a range of diverse yet relevant topics, including: carbon emissions policy and practice, the role of embodied energy, urban thermal performance planning, buil...

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Frequently the site of crisis or turmoil, individual cities can be fragile environments. For the first time in history, however, the future of the entire urban system is being thrown into doubt. Catastrophic climate changes threaten the life support of hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of urban dwellers around the world. Supplies of fossil fuels, especially oil and natural gas, are declining worldwide. Modern cities not only depend on pe...

The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power. This book explains the challenges which frame the roadmap towards a 100% renewable reality.

Der für den Jahresabschluss geltende Grundsatz der Einzelbewertung stellt für die Kreditwirtschaft hinsichtlich der grossen Anzahl von Konsumentenkreditforderungen ein kaum zu vertretendes Bilanzierungspostulat dar. Hinzu kommt, dass durch die derzeit üblichen individuellen Einzelbewertungsverfahren subjektive und damit unterschiedliche Bewertungsmassstäbe angelegt werden. Es entsteht die Gefahr, dass hierdurch nicht unerhebliche Fehlinformati...

The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power. Our massive dependence on fossil fuels has upset the very climatic system that made human evolution possible. This collection explains the challenges and frames a roadmap towards a 100 per cent renewable reality.