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Towards Sustainable Global Health (open access)

Towards Sustainable Global Health

Global health has in recent years drawn increasing scientific, political and popular attention not only due to global epidemics themselves,but also because of the social activities and environmental conditions that shape health threats and influence those who are affected. The study dealswith the issue of 'Sustainable Global Health'which has evolved from the realization that there will be no alleviation of poverty without success in control of serious public health threats, no economic prosperity and sustainability without a healthy workforce, and no social stability and peace as long as people have to suffer from insufficient health services, from malnutrition, from HIV/AIDS pandemics, or from lack of safe water. The study addresses a broad range of issues related to human health at regional and global levels. It includes the theme of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) as a tool for the private sector to exercise responsibility and interest in using the workplaces as a route and as means for education, and for a wide participation of every citizen in securing his or her individual health and well-being. Highlighted throughout the study are integrated approaches towards sustainable health.These approaches shed light on both the importance of multilevel health governance and the …
Date: 2008
Creator: Exner, Martin; Klein, Günter; Rechkemmer, Andreas & Schmidt, Falk
System: The UNT Digital Library
UGEC Viewpoints, No. 2, September 2009 (open access)

UGEC Viewpoints, No. 2, September 2009

Urbanization is a global phenomenon that has transformed and continues to alter landscapes and the ways in which societies function and develop. For this issue of UGEC Viewpoints, the editors collected case-studies presented at the Open Meeting that span across regions and themes: from Australia and the United States, as well as the less developed nations in Africa, megacities of Asia such as Dhaka, Bangladesh and Delhi, India, vulnerable coastal areas of the Yucatan Peninsula, and the largest rainforest in the world, the Brazilian Amazon. Currently, more than half of the world's population lives in cities; the United Nations projects that by 2030 the world will advance to the 60% urbanization threshold. Rapid urbanization effects will not only be present within the immediate locations (cities and their metropolitan areas), but will be experienced regionally and globally. The UGEC project seeks to better understand these implications and the complex dynamic systems of urban areas that affect and are affected by global environmental change (e.g., climate change, natural disasters, loss of biodiversity, freshwater ecosystem decline, desertification, and land degradation). Several commonalities are readily identifiable in the authors' research, some of which include an attention to the roles of the governance structures within …
Date: September 2009
Creator: Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project
System: The UNT Digital Library
Policies to Change the World: Energy Sufficiency - Eight Policies towards the Sustainable Use of Energy (open access)

Policies to Change the World: Energy Sufficiency - Eight Policies towards the Sustainable Use of Energy

This booklet discusses how energy sufficiency is the best solution for reducing energy consumption and waste. It presents policies for reducing global energy consumption such as energy auditing, phasing out incandescent light bulbs, combined heat/cooling energy and power, carbon-negative cooking, smart metering, area road pricing, and other measures.
Date: 2009
Creator: Rohde, Anja & Bee, Hilmar
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Carbon Finance: A quantitative modelling framework to explore scenarios of the Global Deal on Climate Change (open access)

Global Carbon Finance: A quantitative modelling framework to explore scenarios of the Global Deal on Climate Change

According to the abstract, the purpose of this paper is to provide a quantitative research methodology for analyzing the costs of dealing with climate change.
Date: April 2009
Creator: Great Britain. Office of Climate Change
System: The UNT Digital Library
Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon (open access)

Capability and cost assessment of the major forest nations to measure and monitor their forest carbon

According to the Executive Summary, the aims and objective of this report are to provide an assessment of national capacity and capability in 25 tropical countries for measuring and monitoring forest as a requirement for reporting on REDD under IPCC guidelines. This paper was commissioned by the United Kingdom Office of Climate Change as background work to its report 'Climate Change: Financing Global Forests' (the Eliasch Review).
Date: April 7, 2008
Creator: Harcastle, P. D.; Baird, David & Harden, Virginia
System: The UNT Digital Library
GEO Year Book 2007: An Overview of Our Changing Environment (open access)

GEO Year Book 2007: An Overview of Our Changing Environment

This publication is an overview of major global environmental issues and policy decisions during the course of 2007.
Date: 2007
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewables 2010: Global Status Report (open access)

Renewables 2010: Global Status Report

This report describes economic trends in building the capacity of renewable energy in several countries.
Date: 2010
Creator: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
System: The UNT Digital Library
Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010: Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Finacning (open access)

Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010: Analysis of Trends and Issues in the Finacning

This report shows that in spite of the global economic downturn, investment in sustainable energy is still strong.
Date: 2010
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development (open access)

Dead Planet, Living Planet: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Restoration for Sustainable Development

This report discusses some vital services that natural ecosystems contribute to human health and development.
Date: 2010
Creator: Nelleman, Christian & Corcoran, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freshwater Under Threat: South Asia (open access)

Freshwater Under Threat: South Asia

This report focuses on three major South Asian river basins: the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Basin, the Helmand River Basin, and the Indus River Basin. The authors use a composite Water Vulnerability Index based on development pressures, ecology, and other factors, to demonstrate the vulnerability of the river basins.
Date: unknown
Creator: Babel, Mukland S. & Wahid, Shahriar M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Clearing the Waters: A focus on water quality solutions (open access)

Clearing the Waters: A focus on water quality solutions

This report discusses global water issues and offers a variety of proposals for countering the degradation of freshwater ecosystems for the benefit of public health and the environment.
Date: March 2010
Creator: Palanaippan, Meena; Gleick, Peter H.; Allen, Lucy; Cohen, Michael J.; Christian-Smith, Juliet; Smith, Courtney et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNEP Year Book 2008: An Overview of Our Changing Environment (open access)

UNEP Year Book 2008: An Overview of Our Changing Environment

This publication is an overview of global and regional environmental issues and policy decisions actions during 2008.
Date: 2008
Creator: United Nations Environment Programme
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNEP Year Book 2009: New Science in Our Changing Environment (open access)

UNEP Year Book 2009: New Science in Our Changing Environment

This publication provides an overview of global and regional environmental issues policy decisions during 2009.
Date: 2009
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (open access)

Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission

The objective of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) under the brand 'Solar India' is to establish India as a global leader in solar energy, by creating the policy conditions for its diffusion across the country as quickly as possible. The scope of these guidelines is to select new projects and provide the necessary policy framework for development of projects under the "bundling scheme" for Phase I of the JNNSM.
Date: October 2010
Creator: India. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Beshot (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Beshot

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), as narrated by Beshot Khullar of Phaaidaam Village.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Robert (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Robert

Transcription of Robert Leivon narrating "The Pear Story," a popular story that is a commonly-used linguistic tool, including an English translation.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P. & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Dilbung Kennedy (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Dilbung Kennedy

Transcription of a retelling of the Pear Story as narrated by Kennedy Dilbung of Charangching Khunkha village.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about Sombeel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about Sombeel

Transcript for The Story of Sombeel by Sankhil Thampol Khularnu of Thamlakhuren Village Recorded by Daniel Tholung in 2000 as part of his collection on Lamkang culture and traditions.
Date: 2000
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Utt, Tyler P. & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel (open access)

Transcription: Traditional story about the Squirrel

Transcription of a retelling of Theipaa paomin (the Squirrel Story), as told by Bunghon Sankhil of Keithelmanbi Lamkang village in Chandel District Manipur.
Date: June 18, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Framework for the U.S. - India Defense Relationship (open access)

Framework for the U.S. - India Defense Relationship

This document outlines the framework between the United States and India in relation to security and defense. Shared interests are discussed in the documents which include: maintaining peach and security; defeating terrorism and violent extremism; preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; supporting a rule-based order, protecting the free flow of commerce.
Date: June 3, 2015
Creator: Carter, Ashton & Parrikar, Manohar
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interlinear-glossed text: Retelling of An Old Man and King (open access)

Interlinear-glossed text: Retelling of An Old Man and King

Transcription, translation and linguistic analysis of the recording of Raja Safdar Ali Khan, a speaker of Srinagar Burushaski, narrating a popular story entitled "Mapher ke Tham" ('old man and king').
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Munshi, Sadaf
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Edward Harris, April 26, 2002 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Edward Harris, April 26, 2002

Interview with Robert Edward Harris, a veteran of World War II, serving in India at the time. Harris answers questions relating to his training, duties, and activities while over in India towards the end of the war; Harrs also answers questions concerning his feelings towards the war and his enemies.
Date: May 13, 2003
Creator: Bottoms, Aaron & Harris, Robert Edward
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Jacqueline Cochran's Typed Daily Schedule: December 1969 to December 1973] (open access)

[Jacqueline Cochran's Typed Daily Schedule: December 1969 to December 1973]

Text of Jacqueline Cochran's typed daily schedule from December 21, 1969, to December 15, 1973, including golf tournaments, doctor appointments, hair appointments, Arthritis Foundation committee meetings, dinner meetings, budget meetings, and board meetings. Entries include day of week, time, and location. They also include personal handwritten notes on some entries.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Lamkang (open access)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Lamkang

Lamkang UDHR translation by Sumshot Khular and Tholung Swamy Ksen, produced and printed by Community Action and Research for Development. A pamphlet containing Lamkang and English versions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
Date: 2007
Creator: Shishak, W. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library