Table of Contents: “…Can Disability Code Activation Promote Sustainable Development in Egypt...After the Arab Spring? …”
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Table of Contents: “…BreadfruitPeach palm; Sago palm; 7 Fuelwood, Fodder, and Woody Grasses; Leucaena; Bamboos; 8 Spices and Natural Food Colorants; Clove; Cinnamon and cassia; Vanilla; Annatto; 9 Nuts; Cashew; Brazil nut; Macadamia; 10 A New Cornucopia; The plant domestication process; A starting point for the search; Some crop candidates; Prospects for adoption; 11 Conservation Strategies; Ex situ conservation; In situ conservation; 12 Realizing the Potential; Conservation and sustainable development; Secure resource bases; Reaping the harvest; Research priorities for marginal lands; The quarantine bottleneck.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Googins and Steven Rochlin -- A commitment to sustainable development : the long journey begins / Mark Wade -- International responsibility codes / Ans Kolk and Rob van Tulder -- The mainstreaming of socially responsible investing : current developments and future trends / Steven Lydenberg -- Corporate philanthropy : taking the high ground / Michael E. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Challenges In Water Resources Management -- A Whole-Life Cost Approach To Sewerage And Potable Water System Management -- Reuse Of Urban Water: Impact Of Product Choice -- Urban Water Resources Management In Romania - Perspectives For The Sustainable Development In Order to Supply Water to Human Settlements -- Water Quality And Wastewater Treatment Systems In Georgia -- Stormwater Management In Urbanised Areas -- Safety And Security Of Water Supply And Sanitation -- Small Urban Rivers Of Chernivtsi: Level Of Organic Pollutants Content, Main Sources And Effective Green Solutions -- Reconstruction And Rehabilitation Of Sewer Systems In Slovakia -- Waste Water Treatment From Small Urban Areas -- Allium-Assay In Evaluation Of Drinking And Surface Water Mutagenicity -- Modelling Water Quality For Integrated Water Resources Management At The Basin Scale -- Xenobiotics And Its Treatment, Impact Assessment -- Polar Organic Micropollutants In The Water Cycle -- Pharmaceuticals And Personal Care Products (Ppcp) In Canadian Urban Waters: A Management Perspective -- Viruses In Ground Water -- Ecohydrology Of Dojran Lake -- Polychlorinated Biphenyls In Urban Environment Of Belarus: Sources, Pollution, Problems Of Monitoring -- Phytotoxicity Assessment Of Effluent Waters, Surface Water And Sediments -- Monitoring And Modelling Pesticide Dynamics In Surface Water -- Methods For Toxicity Testing Of Xenobiotics In Wastewater Treatment Plants And In Receiving Water Bodies -- Chromium And Atrazine Contamination Of The Ljubljansko Polje Aquifer -- Wastewater Treatment And Reuse -- Cost Modelling In Waste Water Treatment Processes: An Empirical Analysis For Spain -- Review On The Assessment Of The Removal Efficiency Of Wastewater Treatment Plants For Selected Xenobiotics -- Poster Section -- Aqueous Photocatalysis, Natural Organic Matter Characterization And Removal: A Case Study Of The Photacatalytic Oxidation of Fulvic Acid -- Chemical And Ecological Problems Of Small Reservoirs At Designing Of Wastewater Treatment Installations -- Facts, Contradictions And Possible Improvement Actions For Hazardous Wastewater Management - A Case Study -- Complex Kinetic Indexes For Estimation Of Surface And Waste Water Quality -- Continually Measured Orp And Ph Signal For Control Of Nitrogen Removal -- Operation Of Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant With Submerged Membrane Modules -- The Comparative Study Of The Overall Effect Of Crude Oil On Fish In Early Stages Of Development -- Evaluation Of Vilnius City (Lithuania) Snow Pollution Toxicity By Use Of Fish Biotests -- Minimization Of Dangerous Pollutants In The New Sanitation Concept For Separation Treatment Of Wastewater -- Pollution Of Ground Sources Of Drinking Water With Technogenic Tritium.…”
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Table of Contents: “…4.5 The Balancing Role for States Between Federal Directives and Business Regulation -- 5 Industry Responses to the Clean Air Act -- 5.1 Ford Motor Company -- 5.2 DuPont -- 5.3 Rohm and Haas -- 5.4 Exxon Mobil -- 5.5 Texas Instruments -- 5.6 3M Corporation -- 5.7 The Procter & Gamble Company -- 5.8 Boeing -- 5.9 The Impact of Expanded Federal Regulations on Small-Scale Stationary Sources -- 5.10 Sustainable Development as an Emerging Element in Corporate Culture -- 5.11 Corporate Advocacy in Climate Change Policies -- 6 Industry and Multi-State Association Roles -- 6.1 Associations Representing the Automobile Industry -- 6.2 The American Chemistry Council and the Responsible Care® Program.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The example of pollination services and pest management in coffee landscapes -- Insect diversity responses to forest conversion and agroforestry management -- Plant diversity in homegardens in a socio-economic and agro-ecological context -- Tree species diversity relative to human land uses in tropical rain forest margins in Central Sulawesi -- Alternatives to slash-and-burn in forest-based fallow systems of the eastern Brazilian Amazon region: Technology and policy options to halt ecological degradation and improve rural welfare -- Protected Area Management and Local Benefits — A case study from Madagascar -- Integrated concepts of land use in tropical forest margins -- Potentials to reduce deforestation by enhancing the technical efficiency of crop production in forest margin areas -- Migration and ethnicity as cultural impact factors on land use change in the rainforest margins of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia -- From global to regional scale: Remote sensing-based concepts and methods for mapping land-cover and land-cover change in tropical regions -- Effects of land-use change on matter and energy exchange between ecosystems in the rain forest margin and the atmosphere -- Science and technology and sustainable development in Brazilian Amazon.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Instruments of Action & Change -- An Autoethnographic Narrative of Institutional Injustice: Queer Resilience through Use of Evidence and Memory / Donna Braquet -- Inspiring Information Communities to Advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Information Action Briefs for Social Transformation / Kendra S. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Technology and society -- 4.1 The inter-dependence of science, technology and society -- 4.1.1 Examples of the impact of science on technology -- 4.1.2 Examples of the impact of technology on science -- 4.1.3 Impact of science and technology on society -- 4.1.4 Examples of societal responses to global issues created by science and technology -- 4.1.5 New emerging technologies and their impact on society -- 4.1.6 Other problems arise from internet use -- 4.1.7 Policies and regulations -- 4.1.8 The environment -- 4.1.9 Sustainable development -- 4.1.10 Poverty -- 4.1.11 Fast emerging nanotechnologies, ethics, and society -- 4.1.12 Research and impact on society -- 4.1.13 Examples of issues of concern in developing countries.…”
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Table of Contents: “…United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Modernisation Through Technical Assistance -- The World Bank: From Structural Adjustment to Good Governance -- The Regional Development Banks -- The WTO and the IMF: Sustainable Development and Good Governance -- Conclusion: Policy Changes in and among Multilateral Institutions -- 4 The Politics of Multilateral Institutions Unpacking the Black Box -- Politics in Multilateral Institutions: A Framework -- Governance and Cross- Cutting Issues: The Fine Art of Policy Making in Multilateral Institutions -- The Inspection Panel Function and the ADB in Samut Prakarn -- Legitimacy and Representation A Case for Critical Engagement? …”
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Table of Contents: “…1.2 Computer Science as a Science1.3 Construction in Computer Science1.4 Similarities and Differences in Computer Science in Comparison1.5 Computer Science and Computer Science Education1.6 The Relationship of Computer Science Education, Media Education & Digital Education1.7 Conclusion: Computer Science Education for all2 Foundation of Goals on the Children's Level2.1 Children in Digital Worlds2.2 Foundations of Learning Psychology2.3 Access to Computer Science for Children2.4 International Comparison: Curricula and their Classification in the Competence Model2.5 Placing the International Standards Within the Framework of a Competence Model for Computer Science Education at the Primary Level2.6 Results/Conclusion3 Goals at the Level of the Children3.1 Overarching Basic Competencies3.2 Motivation, Interest and Self-Efficacy of Computer Science3.3 Computer Science Competencies of Children3.4 Prioritisation of Specific Competence Expectations at the Level of the Children4 Goals for Early Childhood Educators and Primary School Teachers4.1 Motivation, Interest and Self-Efficacy4.2 Attitudes, Approaches and Understanding of Roles4.3 Computer Science Competencies4.4 Computer Science Didactic Competencies4.5 Key Competencies for Dealing With Digital Media4.6 Conclusion/Recommendations5 Examples of Prioritised Competence Domains for Computer Science Education5.1 Examples of Early Computer Science Education5.2 Summary Heat Map of Priority Setting in the Examples6 Prerequisites for Successful Early Computer Science Education6.1 General Conditions for Successful Implementation6.2 Measuring Instruments to Determine the Prerequisites for Success7 ConclusionB Professional Recommendations for Informatics Systems (Nadine Bergner, Kathrin Müller)1 Introduction2 Overview of Possible Informatics Systems3 Description and Technical Assessment of Individual Informatics Systems3.1 Cubetto Robot from Primo Toys3.2 Beebot from Terrapin3.3 KIBO from KinderLab Robotics3.4 Ozobot/Ozobit from Evollve Inc.3.5 LEGO WeDo 2.03.6 Dash & Dot from Wonder Workshop3.7 Scratch and ScratchJR3.8 Makey Makey from JoyLabzLLC3.9 LEGO Mindstorms (NXT & EV3)3.10 Arduino Microcontroller with ArduBlock4 Recommendations5 ConclusionConclusion and Outlook -- How the "Haus der kleinen Forscher" Foundation uses the findings ("Haus der kleinen Forscher" Foundation)1 Recommendations from the Expert Reports as a Basis for the (further) Development of the Foundation's Substantive Offerings1.1 Motivation, Interest and Self-Efficacy when Dealing with Computer Science1.2 Computer Science Process Domains1.3 Computer Science Content Domains1.4 Computer Science Didactic Competencies1.5 Attitudes, Mindsets and Understanding of Roles with Regard to the Design of Computer Science Education2 Digital Education -- A Chance for Good Early STEM Education for Sustainable Development3 Scientific Monitoring and Evaluation of the Professional Development Workshops4 Outlook -- Organisational Development in Educational InstitutionsReferencesAppendixIllustration Credits"Haus der kleinen Forscher" FoundationEnglish Publications issued by the "Haus der kleinen Forscher" Foundation to date…”
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Table of Contents: “…Spatial Data Infrastructures -- A Showcase of Spatial Data Infrastructures and Related Technologies -- Towards Interoperable Environmental Security Applications — The Role of Open Geospatial Service Platform -- Signal and Data Processing -- Sorting Spatial Data by Spatial Occupancy -- Gis Model Applications for Sustainable Development and Environmental Planning at the Regional Level -- Application of Neural Networks In Image Processing and Visualization -- Data Processing for Heavy Metals Accumulation in Urban Areas -- A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Conceptual Approach to Optimal Landfill Monitoring -- Environmental Protection and Industry: Parameters Necessary for Environmentally Related Decision Making -- Time-Frequency Analysis for Sar and Isar Imaging -- Processing of Multichannel Remote Sensing Data for Environment Monitoring -- Earth Observation and Remote Sensing -- Exploiting Earth Observation Missions: Opportunities and Issues in Ground Segment Interfaces Harmonization -- Data Filtering and Data Fusion in Remote Sensing Systems -- Soil Mapper® Multi-Sensor and Multi-Temporal Applications for Semantic-Based Image Information Mining -- Cooperative Decentralization: A New Way to Build an Added Value Chain With Shared Multi-Resolution Satellite and Aerial Imagery and Geoinformation -- Cosmo/Skymed to Support MGCP Mapping -- Scientific Visualization -- Visual Processing of Geographic and Environmental Information in the Basque Country: Two Basque Case Studies -- Dynamic Terrains: Cities and Real-Time Video on Gigantic Terrain Models -- Digital Terrain Models: A Tool for Establishing Reliable and Qualitative Environmental Control Processes -- Advanced Clustering Analysis for Environmental Indicators -- Soknos — An Interactive Visual Emergency Management Framework -- Visual Analytics -- Geospatial Visual Analytics -- Gis & Visual Analytics on Grid Technology -- Visual Analytics for the Strategic Decision Making Process -- Visual Analysis of Public Discourse on Environmental Issues -- Exploring Environmental News Via Geospatial Interfaces and Virtual Globes -- Spatio-Temporal Visualization for Environmental Decision Support -- Virtual Worlds and Spinning Globes -- Application of Virtual Worlds to Environmental Security -- Geographic Information Processing: Standards-Based Open Source Visualization Technology for Environmental Understanding -- Skylineglobe: 3D Web Gis Solutions For Environmental Security and Crisis Management -- Continental, National Regional, Local Experiences — Case Studies -- The Challenge of a Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Mediterranean Islands -- A Distributed Real-Time Monitoring System for Landslide Hazard and Risk Assessment -- Validity of Drastic and SI Vulnerability Methods -- Environmental Security and Pastoralism -- Investigation Processes at the Kato Souli Basin -- Estimate of Soil Erosion in Jordan by Using GIS -- Data Access for Environment Protection and Economic Development -- Remote and in Situ Sensing for Dike Monitoring: The Ijkdijk Experience -- Political, Economical and Social Factors in the Protection of the Environment -- Environmental Protection VS. …”
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Table of Contents: “…PROBABILISTIC METHODS FOR RISK ASSESSMENT OF COASTAL AREAS -- DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF CONTAMINATED SITES -- VISUALIZATION OF PARETO FRONTIER IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING -- SPATIALLY-EXPLICIT POPULATION MODELS WITH COMPLEX DECISIONS -- Applications of Risk Assessment -- RISK ASSESSMENT IN DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF TERRORIST ATTACKS IN HARBORS AND COASTAL AREAS -- COMPLEX HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT AND ANALYSIS FROM EXPOSURE TO IONIZING RADIATION, CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS AND OTHER SOURCES OF HARM -- ROLE OF RISK ASSESSMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING -- HUMIC SUBSTANCES AS A NATURAL FACTOR LOWERING ECOLOGICAL RISK IN ESTUARIES -- RISK ASSESSMENT APPLICATIONS IN CROATIA -- Case Studies in Environmental Security Analysis -- RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND DESALINATION PROCESSES ON THE COASTAL AQUIFER IN ISRAEL -- EVALUATION OF DRINKING GROUNDWATER FOR THE RURAL AREAS ADJACENT TO THE NEARBY DESERT OF GIZA GOVERNORATE OF GREATER CAIRO, EGYPT -- IMPACT OF LITHUANIAN SEA HARBORS ON ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY AND LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS -- THE CASPIAN SEA REGION -- INVESTIGATION OF DISCHARGE OF FRESH WATER IN THE CANAKKALE STRAIT (DARDANELLES -TURKEY) -- THE SOUTH MEDITERRANEAN COASTAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT -- LAKE SEVAN IN ARMENIA -- MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS AND THE TAR CREEK SUPERFUND SITE -- UNMANNED SEA VEHICLES FOR HARBOR PATROLLING.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Sustainibility and discontinuity: Introduction -- Sustainable development and environmental sustainability -- Preconditions of environmental sustainability -- Ten times more eco-efficient production system -- Bio- and technocycles -- Biocomapatibility and Biocycles -- Non-interference and technocycles -- Industrial ecology and dematerialisation -- Transition scenarios -- Strategy of efficiency: a radical way of doing things better -- Strategy of sufficiency: a radical way of doing less -- Compound strategy -- 2. …”

Table of Contents: “…The Agri Valley Amid Oil Supply and the Lucanian Apennines National Park -- Planning and Management in the Otranto-Leuca Nature Park: Integration of Approaches for an Active Conservation -- A Regional Planning for Protected Areas Sustainable Development in the Mercantour and Maritime Alps.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Upgrading Stormwater Management Facilities -- Retrofitting Urban Drainage Systems Using Best Stormwater Management Practices — Some Scandinavian Experiences -- Reduction of Runoff by Modified Trough — Infiltration Trench System — A Case Study of Leszno Town -- The Kingston Pond: A Case Study of Stormwater Pond Upgrading -- Control of Urban Runoff Stormwater Discharge to Receiving Waters Using Off-Line Storage -- Urban Tree Root Systems and Tree Survival Near Sewers and Other Structures -- City of Toronto Wet Weather Flow Management Master Plan -- Retrofitting/Upgrading Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Facilities -- New Regulations for the Treatment of Combined Sewage in Austria — Based on Minimum Requirements and Water Quality Criteria -- Implementation Experience of CSO Pollution Control Policies and Procedures in the UK -- Increasing Knowledge of CSO Technologies -- Upgrading the North Toronto Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Storage and Treatment Facility -- Improving Combined Sewer Overflow and Treatment Plant Performance by Real-Time Control Operation -- Combined Sewer Overflows into the Crati River (Cosenza, Italy) and Retention Storage Sizing -- Modernisation Problems of the Sewerage Infrastructure in a Large Polish City -- Optimising/Upgrading Sewage Treatement Plant Performance -- Extension of the Vienna Main Sewage Treatment Plant -- Improving Sewage Treatment Plant Performance in Wet Weather -- Upgrading Sewage Treatment Plants for Higher Performance by Optimising Reject Water Treatment -- Upgrading Wastewater Treatment Performance -- Bulgarian Policy and Actions for Municipal WWTPs Construction and Upgrading -- Improving STP Performance by Lime Addition -- Stream Restoration -- Restoring Natural Waterways in Denver, USA Area -- Urban Stream Restoration Structures -- Restoration of Urban River Habitat in Compliance with EU Directives -- Urban Streams — Urban Master Planning and Heavily Modified Water Bodies Designation Required by WFD -- The Zurich Stream Day-Lighting Program -- Advances in Modelling the Experimental Data on Pollutant Dynamics in Ephemeral Streams Influenced by Transient Storage in Dead Zones -- Local Scour Downstream of Grade Control Structures in Urban Stream Restoration -- Challenges in Restoring Urban Environment -- Upgrade of Water and Sewerage Facilities in Slovakia to Achieve Compliance with Major EU Directives -- Urban Water and Climate Change -- Environmental Protection Technologies for Sustainable Development -- Assessing Exfiltration from a Sewer by Slug Dosing of a Chemical Tracer (NaCl) -- Urban Wetlands in Belarus: State, Threats and Perspectives -- Restoration of Urban Waters in St. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Acting on knowledge -- 4.1 Wholehearted opposition to mining -- 4.1.1 Radical political ecology and environmental activism: mining as the brutal face of capitalism -- 4.1.2 Grassroots movements and activist NGOs: mining as an abuse of human rights -- 4.2 Making mining companies accountable -- 4.2.1 Self-regulation: mining companies and sustainable development -- 4.2.2 Northern NGOs -- 4.2.3 Consensus between NGOs and mining companies: improving mining technology -- 4.3 The gap between company ideals and the social reality of mining: what can be done? …”
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