"The 21st century will see monumental change. Either the human race will use its knowledge and skills and change the way it interacts with the environment, or the environment will change the way it interacts with its inhabitants. In the first case, the focus of this book, we would see our...

Das Drama unserer Gegenwart hat einen Namen: Externalisierung. Die meisten Menschen in den Industrienationen leben über ihre Verhältnisse. Umweltlasten und Sozialkosten werden "externalisiert", verschoben - an die Armen im reichen Norden, an die Ärmsten im Süden sowieso. Der Wohlfahrtsstaat...

Praktische Beispiele aus Gebäudetechnik, Stahl- und Zementindustrie, Landwirtschaft und Verkehr nebst einer Analyse politischer Instrumente, um den Ressourcenverbrauch in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft um 80% zu senken. Fortsetzung von "Faktor 4". (Rolf Raschka)

The creative class approach (Florida, 2002b) has led to many developments. Therefore, measurement of creativity (Chantelot, 2010), economic influence of creative people in urban (Marlet & Van Woerkens, 2007) and rural (McGranahan & Wojan, 2007) environments, or creative people geography...

Since some years Richard Florida's ideas on the creative class have attracted a great deal of theoretical and empirical attention. One part of his theory says that the "creative class" - people with highly creative and innovative abilities - are the driving force of regional economic...