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Interdisciplinary Practices for the History of Solar Engineering in Chile
This paper seeks to question some intersections between history and engineering, through the history of solar energy in Chile. In this analysis we...
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Sociomaterial Solar Waste: Afterlives and Lives After of Small Solar
The problem of solar waste from off-grid technologies is attracting increasing attention. This chapter argues that solar waste represents multiple...
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Renewable Energy
Renewable energy can be defined as energy produced by natural resources that are naturally replenished within a time span of a few years (Lund H....
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Energy
Energy enables life and any economic process. With few exceptions, the energy used by life on Earth originates from the sun. As energy enables...
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Measuring and Understanding the World Through Geoinformatics Using the Example of Natural Hazards
New digital data is being created at every moment in an unprecedented quantity, such as new web content, satellite images or photos taken with a...
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Writing of Project Plans and Applications
A well-thought-out project plan is crucial in order to be able to carry out the research in an ethically responsible manner. Ethics is part of the...
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Energies and Energetics
This chapter, Energies and Energetics, deals with the fundamental knowledge and basic definitions from the fields of primary forms of energy, energy...
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Equality as Industrial Capitalism’s Trojan Horse: Environmental Racism, Green Colonialism, and The Renewable Energies Revolution
“Equality: Industrial Capitalism’s Trojan Horse—Environmental Racism, Green Colonialism, and The Renewable Energies Revolution” explores the crucial...
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Responsibility: A Theory of Action Between Care for the World, Ethology, and Art
This essay explores the concept of responsibility with respect to today’s ecological and pandemic crisis. It identifies a fundamental category in...
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On the Confluence of Permaculture and African Agrarianism
This chapter offers a sketch of some practical components of a small but arguably typical permaculture homestead, with attention given to possible...
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Energy Sovereignty: A Values-Based Conceptual Analysis
Achieving energy sovereignty is increasingly gaining prominence as a goal in energy politics. The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual...
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Designing for Care
This article introduces Designing for Care (D4C), a distinctive approach to project management and technological design informed by Care Ethics. We...
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Anthropocene
Between 2000 and 2020, scientists and non-scientists alike gradually embraced the idea that humankind had created a new epoch, the »Anthropocene,« or...
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Ethical Sensemaking in Impact Investing: Reasons and Motives in the Chinese Renewable Energy Sector
This article explores impact investing within the renewable energy sector. Drawing on ethical decision making and sensemaking, this article...
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Climate Change and Geography
The geographical literature is contributing with critical insights to the debate on issues connected with climate change asking for a cultural shift...
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Climate Change and Geography
The geographical literature is contributing with critical insights to the debate on issues connected with climate change asking for a cultural shift...
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How Easy is it to Feed Everyone? Economic Alternatives to Eliminate Human Nutrition Deficits
One of the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals is to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030. This goal will be missed....