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For years, alternative vehicle and propulsion concepts have had a very difficult time catching on, even though technicians and engineers have repeatedly pointed out that the design quality of electric propulsion systems or other novel vehicle concepts is available and feasible. Often enough,...
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The intensity and scope of attention to the (negative) impacts of business activities on the social and natural environment have waxed and waned over the past forty years. A revival of interest on a wide scale is visible and audible again today. Numerous organizations, including the United...
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The “Kyoto Protocol”, as the first and only implementation mechanism under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will expire by the year 2012. There are, however, many good reasons not to abandon this multilateral approach to climate change, but to soon go for a new round...
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This discussion paper is about the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) - one of the multilateral agreements that came out of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. UNCCD is based on a conceptualization of international...
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The “Kyoto Protocol”, as the first and only implementation mechanism under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will expire by the year 2012. There are, however, many good reasons not to abandon this multilateral approach to climate change, but to soon go for a new round...
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guideline for dealing with the planet’s ecological and social crisis. The concept, globally inaugurated in 1987 by the World …
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Ausgehend von europäischen Definitionen der Umweltarbeit (SERIEE, Konzept "Eco Industries") sind etwa 1 bis 1,5% aller Beschäftigten im Umweltbereich tätig. Die meisten Umweltarbeitsplätze befinden sich im Entsorgungsbereich (Wasser und Müll) und lassen sich als nachsorgende...
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