the concept of sustainable development

... CALCULATIONS OF INDICATORS AND OF A COMPOSITE INDEX FOR THE NETHERLANDS Climate Change Depletion of the Ozone Layer Acidification of the Environment Eutrophication of the Environment Dispersion of Toxic ... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Two of the authors of this report—Dr Hammond and Dr Adriaanse—participated in the Project on Indicators of Sustainable Development of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment ... indicator tracks the magnitude and rate of change of the atmospheric reservoir of the most abundant ozone-depleting substances Because of the long lifetimes of these chemicals and the quantities...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... result of the economic dependency of the population In other words, the higher the extent of unemployment in an area the greater the chance of the people being dependent on the exploitation of natural ... Information: The Foundation of Sustainable Development their further development and annual updating, especially in the social and economic themes A further challenge is the presentation of the information ... sustainable development The theory of sustainable development Theoretical constructs provide an important foundation for the development of an information system The reason for this is that theoretical...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:21

... on the African continent Emissions of other trace gas species included 414 Tg/yr of CO, 67 Tg/yr of CH4, 455 Tg/yr of non-methane hydrocarbons and 15 Tg/yr of NOx Table gives the breakdown of the ... achieved by the projects implemented, the magnitude of the reduction is expected to be small owing to the small number of points of intervention There’s therefore need to scale-up significantly, the ... predicated on the fact that (a) there is need for better understanding and prediction of the various properties of the atmosphere and of the affected ecosystems as well as health impacts and their interactions...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... all levels of the problems of development and the progress made, as well as of the need for strengthening the development co-operation effort, especially in the form of increased development ... OECD/DAD Liaison Officer Bernard Decaux In its study of the Capacity of the United Nations Development System (the Jackson Report) R.G.A Jackson examines the role of the UN system in development co-operation ... CHAIRMAN'S REPORT ON THE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE EFFORTS AND POLICIES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE COMMITTEE OF SEPTEMBER 1962 a) The effort being made by Members of the Committee to...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 12:20

... Every week, the team commits to delivering four to ten stories Throughout the week, they work on all phases of development for each story At the end of the week, they deploy their software for ... program the software (programmers, designers, and architects) • Why the software is important (product manager) THE XP TEAM 27 • The rules the software should follow (domain experts) • How the software ... move to their offices rather than asking them to move to your office Make sure the customers agree and that there’s adequate space available If the customers won’t move to the team, move the team...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20

... some point, then, the study of development will need to involve working out the implications of competing theories for data other than those they were constructed to fit, and testing these implications ... proportional to the given rate of technical change, p., where the constant of proportionality is the inverse of labor's share, - 13 The rate of time preference p and the degree of risk aversion ... studying the growth of the U.S economy, and of other advanced economies as well I take success at this level to be a worthy objective for the theory of economic development Neoclassical growth theory:...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 20:20

... result, they stand in the way of sustainable development and its objectives of social, environmental, and economic sustainability (figure O.1) The past 20 years have shown that the economic • The ... the design of policies But the worse the environmental degradation and existing inefficiency, the greater the potential benefits to be obtained from green policies At the firm level, the cost of ... of 1,600 households The results are astonishing: more than 70 percent of the population was unaware of the existence of energy subsidies Thus, the vast majority of buyers of 12 liter cooking...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... the product of a decision on our part to extend the concept (Weitz, 1956, 188) According to Weitz, this “openness” of the concept of art is the condition of the possibility of further creativity ... Carroll’s theory of historical narratives, one should take into account, for the reasons given above, Weitz’s sound intuition about the open character of the concept of art But on the other hand, the ... examples (e.g the member of a primitive society with no concept of art who creates the representation of a leopard and manages to endow it with something of the fearsomeness of the animal; see...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... structure of the zeolite, the size and the shape of the pores, the diffusion and chimisorption of both the substrate and the acylating agent H mordenite (entry 2) are not very active due to the monodimensional ... with the treatment and formation of organic solids in order to tailor their properties, to development of analytical techniques enabling detection of the origin of products, - and work on the development ... large effluent problems The use of stoichiometrical quantities of Lewis acid results in the formation of a complex at the end of the reaction between the aryl ketone formed and the Lewis acid ~ C/?...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 10:39

... airline, the size of the baggage handling system, the amount of security check positions and the number of departure gates On top of this, the number of staff to employ and the shifts they should ... pick the event at the top of the list The simulation then enters the A-phase which advances the clock to time minutes when the first B-event, B1, is due (Table 2.6) In the B-phase, the call from the ... section The earlier examples involve the passage of time, whether it is the movement of trains on a track or clouds in a weather system The second set of examples does not involve the passage of time...

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 17:41

... 2003/10/30 — page 10 — #10 HEAT: THE THERMAL ENVIRONMENT 11 The magnitude of hc depends on the position of the surface, the direction of the heat flow and the velocity of the fluid For example • for ... heat is released Thermodynamics is the science of the flow of heat and of its relationship to mechanical work The first law of thermodynamics is the principle of conservation of energy Energy cannot ... circles (or rather an up and down spiral) for half the year, the equinox path being the horizon circle, and for the other half of the year the sun will be below the horizon The shifting of sun-paths...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2014, 15:42

... device with 151 sensors (coils) The color encodes the Gaussian weighting, that is, the influence of the synthetic background signal The center of appearance of the synthetic signal is marked by a ... with respect to a suitable set of building blocks These building blocks may, for example, consist of the elements of a basis, a frame, or even of the elements of huge dictionaries Classical examples ... and the WeylHeisenberg group, one obtains the Besov spaces and the modulation spaces, respectively In the setting of the affine Weyl-Heisenberg group and the specific case vs (ω) = (1 + s |ω|) , the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20

... heat is released Thermodynamics is the science of the flow of heat and of its relationship to mechanical work The first law of thermodynamics is the principle of conservation of energy Energy ... and t is in °C m2 ϫ W / m2K ϫ K ϭ W (1.4) The magnitude of hc depends on the position of the surface, the direction of the heat flow and the velocity of the fluid, e.g • for vertical surfaces (horizontal ... resistances: resistances of the surfaces and of the body of the element (wall, roof, etc.), e.g for a wall of two layers: RaϪa ϭ Rsi ϩ R1 ϩ R2 ϩ Rso (1.2) The R-value of any homogeneous layer...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... CONTENTS The concept of measurement; What is measured?; The benefits of the measurement; The laws (rules) of measurement; Measure scales; Three standards of a measurement; Psychological measure; The ... reactions of skin, blood pressure, heart rate, and pupil of the eyes, the senses of man However, in the interview we usually apply the attitude scales 23 6.1 The normal psychological measure In the ... (+/-), if using division (/), the results will be meanless 16 4.4 The Ratio scale The Ratio scale has all of particularity of the interval scale Moreover, the point in the ratio scale is a value...

Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 17:20

... represents the apparent extension of the interaction zone but only to that of their mother root The global response was essentially local, since only the laterals close to the tip of the mother root ... present very briefly the historical background of these architectural models, which defines a common basis for most of the present developments Then, we shall discuss why the concept of endogenous environment ... responded In the second example [7], the growing medium of the root system was artificially made heterogeneous by the means of a hydroponics system, in which the major part of the root system bathed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... and ZG gathered the patient’s history and prepared the clinical pictures AT supervised the interpretation of the data and the design of the allergologic work-up MW organized and finalised the manuscript ... another example for the concept of compartment allergy Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy of the ... drafting the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... collected the samples and carried out the experiments DH and SS participated in the design of the study and supported performing of experiments JE and BS designed the research and wrote and edited the ... vaccinated women [20] These results indicate that area-specific HPV vaccines should be developed for preventing HPV infection and the subsequent development of premalignant lesions of the cervix in Korean ... high-risk women in South Korea The total number of HPVinfected cases in each genotype, including single and multi-infection, was calculated as the percentage of the total number of infectious cases (n...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... greater than The response interval was measured from the time of dispatch of emergency vehicles until the time of arrival at the street address (not time of collapse to arrival at the patient’s ... greater than The response interval was measured from the time of dispatch of emergency vehicles until the time of arrival at the street address (not time of collapse to arrival at the patient’s ... many of the patients were already awakening by the time of EMS arrival at the scene Nevertheless, the authors also noted that all survivors received some period of chest compressions and other...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... and the prothrombin time, which are the main features driving the development of ATC [6] Page of The performance of the tool might be improved if a better near-patient measure of the severity of ... in the emergency department However, the performance of the model was only moderate, and the AUC of our tool of 0.81 is consistent with other prediction tools (0.68 to 0.85) [15-20] Setting the ... outside of their original datasets We designed this international multicenter study to reappraise the utility of massive transfusion as a clinical concept in modern trauma care The first aim of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21