Ecoeficiencia. Propuesta de diseño para el mejorameinto ambiental. (Spanish Edition)

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Founder Dr Francis Edgar Kanthack retired at the age of 78, in , and would have been proud and amazed at the progress achieved by the group in subsequent years. The company is the oldest consulting firm in South Africa, and one of the longest serving on the African continent, which provides a unique perspective of the evolving consulting engineering landscape. Quality assurance is governed by ISO , and accreditation and standards.

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Power generation, particularly for hydro-electric schemes, was a focus from inception and remains a key specialisation. This coordination is essential for investor confidence and commitment. That means addressing socio-economic imbalances. In response, we have positioned ourselves and committed to being a social change catalyst. This gives us a real sense of purpose. We want to awaken the passion for a career in engineering across all its facets, inspiring young minds, where we invest a great deal of focus to assist the South African government in meeting its objectives.

In addition to tuition, the company also supplies books and equipment, and learners have the opportunity to experience the world of engineering first-hand by understudying professionals at their offices. The company has an active bursary programme in place for aspiring applicants. In South Africa, the focus on lowest cost tendering has tended to relegate engineers to a lower status.

Our priority is to target companies with competent leadership. We then assist with financial management, HR and IT implementation. That means ensuring local skills transfer in all the countries that we operate in. Across the African continent, there is huge potential, where scalable projects extend from just 1 MW to MW. This is the largest infrastructure project undertaken by the country. Works commenced in September The dam will have a final crest length of m and a wall height of 80 m. The reservoir is designed to store approximately million m 3 of water, primarily used to irrigate 5 hectares of agricultural development in the area.

We were also extensively involved in Phase I, which became operational from That means addressing the pre landscape, where infrastructure planning divided communities. And to the investment agencies out there: The first day was spent in Bangkok, Thailand, introducing the participants to the work done and challenges faced by CAN members in Thailand, China and India. The following five days were spent in groups — each focusing on a different sector of city development, for example the transport group, which I was part of — doing fieldwork alongside local communities in Chumsang City of Nakornsawan Province, Thailand.

That was how we started our fieldwork on the 16 th of July. Focusing our attention on understanding the local communities of Chumsang, listening to their ideas, concerns and how they wished their city to be in the future. This was a challenge, particularly as most of us had spent the first two days of the workshop meeting and exchanging with many different people from Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, China, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia.

So by the time we arrived in Chumsang, my mind was already full of questions and ideas. Co-Creation was the theme of the workshop.

Understood in this way, co-creation was very representative of the dynamics and needs of Chumsang. Like other similarly sized cities in Thailand, Chumsang faces many concerns related to its natural resources and landscapes, the loss of its cultural traditions, the changing dynamics of migration in its young and old populations and as a result the increasing day to day challenges in making the city livable, sustainable and lively.

Following this theme, the workshop in general had a loose structure that allowed space for conversations to evolve, take different directions and reveal those elements that were not immediately obvious about the city and its people. At first this way of working felt uncertain, unfamiliar and risky but as we were immersed in to the fieldwork, the friendly people and the excitement of it all, it became easier to go with the flow and allow our ideas and projects to develop in a very organic way. As the transport and cycling group, we happily spent a lot of time on our bicycles, visiting the city and using any excuse to get on the saddle.

By the end of the first day, it was harder to walk straight and our faces were quite pink from the sun, but it was through these rides around the city that we found inspiration to work. We even wrote a song! Within the transport group, I felt very connected to my colleagues, not only by being part of CAN, which encouraged us to work together but also through our other interests, in my case cycling.

In other cases, photography, culture, music, heritage and ecology brought people together to share ideas on making the city. These elements, represented through our different interests and hobbies, are also an important part of what makes cities vibrant and CAN Co-Create seemed to build on this synergy very well. It took a wholesome perspective toward community architecture and in this case, for the first time, at the scale of the city. I think this was one of its greatest strengths. In this way, the opportunity that CAN workshops bring about by generating attention, bringing in professionals and practitioners from many contexts to work with local communities and catalyze change not only focused on one arm of city development but many.

We established groups that addressed housing, mobility, politics, environment, culture, health and one that emphasized the connectivity and cohesion between these different elements at the level of the city. At the same time, this transversal approach also brought many communities to work together.

We worked with two cycling groups, a group of elderly, the old market community, young school children, communities that were to be relocated and communities that had already been housed. Initially, it seemed that these different groups had their own motivations for participating in the workshop. However, at the end of each day, as we reviewed our progress and our findings, the work gradually demonstrated how intricately connected these different motivations and processes really were. Although some groups progressed quicker than others during the five days of fieldwork, reviewing, changing and even starting over a couple of times; the level of involvement from community groups in the presentation of the outcomes, on the last day, was moving.

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It showed that these processes of participation intrigued people and invited them to feel part of something greater. Toward the end of the workshop, I increasingly noticed that people built on these connections and worked with them, moving around the room, between different groups, sharing information and presenting ideas in sync with each other. There were many things about the CAN workshop that motivated me but it is what happens after the workshops, which I find the most significant.

How the transformative process that CAN workshops initiate, by bringing so many minds together in one place, can ripple out into a series of waves of transformation in other places; How those of us who attend the CAN workshop can carry our experiences and through them, diffuse the energy of CAN into existing and new networks. After the workshop I was left with this intrigue, excited to see what happens next. If people follow up and use them. They have been great hosts, showing me around and teaching me about the beautiful city of Hanoi.

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Being back in conversations about community practices reminds me of my intrigue, what happens after the workshop? Believing it all the more as I listen, discuss and exchange with people who, despite having returned to their busy lives, are still talking about visiting Chumsang again, strengthening the CAN network in Vietnam and even about extending the scope of the existing one. When President Obama traveled to his first G Summit in London in April , the global economy was, by several key measures, on a worse trajectory than was seen in at the outset of the Great Depression.

The G played a vital role in responding to the global financial crisis and strengthening the global financial architecture. Starting in , the G mobilized trillions of dollars in fiscal stimulus, rebuilt confidence in the international financial system, and committed to prevent a retreat into protectionism and beggar-thy-neighbor policies. G leaders also launched reforms that have made international financial institutions more reflective of a changing world, including the historic International Monetary Fund quota and governance reform package.

The G has taken steps to put in place financial regulations to prevent another financial crisis, enhance cooperation on tax issues and financial transparency, and tackle critical challenges like climate change and global health security. In Hangzhou, G leaders recognized that more work remains to strengthen growth, expand opportunity, and ensure the benefits of trade and open markets are widely felt.

G leaders built on the significant steps they have already taken to address corruption, tax evasion and avoidance, and other challenges that undermine the integrity of the global financial system. In Hangzhou, G leaders committed to use all policy tools — including fiscal policy — to achieve the common G goal of strong, sustainable, balanced, and inclusive growth.

G leaders took stock of progress toward their commitment to lift G output by an additional 2 percent by Recognizing that in the current environment much more needs to be done to boost growth and create broad-based opportunity, G leaders also endorsed the following:.

Building on the G's major breakthrough in Antalya in to affirm important voluntary, peacetime norms of responsible state behavior in cyberspace, G leaders this year made additional groundbreaking policy commitments aimed at promoting innovation and the digital economy as one of the most important drivers of global economic growth and development, including in the areas of:. With the official deposit on September 3 of the U. In addition to working together to bring the Paris Agreement into force in , G leaders maintained strong momentum on climate action at the Hangzhou Summit:. In Hangzhou, leaders acknowledged the historic numbers of people displaced around the world, and reaffirmed their call for global efforts in addressing the root causes and effects.

Recognizing the historic global consensus reached with the adoption of the Agenda for Sustainable Development Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda one year ago, G leaders affirmed their strong commitment to implementing the Agenda. This work will complement actions the United States has committed to take to implement this Agenda at home and internationally.

Of , foreign students in the US, the country most open to students from abroad, only 31, come from sub-Saharan Africa. Increasing the number of African students at these prestigious institutions offers many advantages. Those who decide to stay in the country where they study — usually a developed country — have the potential to earn higher salaries and can send money home on a regular basis. The under-representation of African students in renowned universities is not just down to financial limitations. India has a similar demographic weight and per capita GDP to the sub-Saharan region, but sends , students to the US, three times more than Africa.

In addition to this, African students are already finding the money to study abroad. The problem lies in secondary education. In the wake of the Millenium Development Goals, the goal of providing universal primary education has led to a focused effort and positive results: The national exams are not standardised and the diplomas they receive are not internationally recognised. Developing high-quality secondary schools is the only way to ensure talented students get into good universities and go on to contribute to the development of the continent. Each university and country has its own admission procedures and they are not always easy to understand from the information available on public websites.

The network of current students and alumni is not strong enough to provide the motivation, examples and guidance students need for support. I had to pretend to be ill to take my SAT exam.

My school principal would not have given me permission to miss a day of classes. As there is no standardisation across these documents, applications from African candidates are very difficult for major universities to assess. With 54 countries, just as many national programmes and no standardisation, it is difficult to compare qualifications awarded in Africa. Besides this, exam pass rates fluctuate from one year to another.

Since, the majority of schools in sub-Saharan Africa still use traditional, teacher-centred methods that are are based on memorisation. These fall short of international standards, which strongly advocate an analytical approach and individual thinking. In most African countries, secondary schools need a complete overhaul of curricula, exam organisation systems and teacher training programmes.

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Product details File Size: September 4, Sold by: Enabled Amazon Best Sellers Rank: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Escenarios de desarrollo sustentable, sustentabilidad en las IES. Al escenario que inspira la IAU lo denominaremos de esa manera: Internacionalmente trabajar por la justicia ambiental global y establecer intercambio de estudiantes y profesores. El escenario construido a partir de esta propuesta contempla 5 dimensiones: Las propuestas revisadas se sintetizan en la siguiente tabla 3.

Tal como ha ocurrido con el "enverdecimiento" de los campi. Revisemos un caso, la Universidad de Hawai en Manoa, de acuerdo con Cusick ha incorporado como temas de sustentabilidad: La forma de abordar estos temas ha sido diferenciada en las carreras que ofrece.

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Se construyeron nueve dimensiones de la sustentabilidad de las IES. Santiago de Chile, agosto. Calidad, pertinencia y relevancia: Recuperado en diciembre 01, Joinville, Brasil, 5 al 8 de abril de Pathways towards a Shared Future: Recuperado en enero 10,

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