Sustainable Assessment Method for Energy Systems provides the reader with a new method for energy system evaluation. It is widely recognized that future energy strategies will have to deal with energy as a complex issue that incorporates environmental, economic, social, cultural, educational, and material resource attributes. Sustainable Assessment Method for Energy Systems offers a new methodology based on multi-criteria indicators for the evaluation of energy a...

Bu çalışma, Taliban'ın ülke yönetimini yeniden ele geçirmesinin ardından Türkiye'ye yönelik gerçekleşen düzensiz Afgan göçünün, Türk basınında nasıl temsil edildiğini kapsamlı bir şekilde araştırmayı ve araştırmanın sonuçlarına dayalı olarak göçün medyadaki sorunlu temsilinin iyileştirilmesine yönelik sürdürülebilir çözüm stratejileri geliştirmeyi amaçlamıştır. Bu çalışma temel olarak Türkiye'ye göç eden Afganların haber fotoğrafları üzerinden nasıl temsil edildiğine odaklansa da bu çalışm...

The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban processes around transportation, land use, planning policy, racism, and inequality. Case ...

Hope is a complex concept—one academics use to accept the unknown while also expressing optimism. However, it can also be an action-oriented framework with measurable outcomes.In Education Transformation in Muslim Societies, scholars from around the world offer a wealth of perspectives for incorporating hope in the education of students from kindergarten through university to stimulate change, dialogue, and transformation in their communities. For instance...

„Az akadályokon keresztül végre bemásztam erre a kényelmes helyre, ahol legfeljebb az egyik ormótlan nagy fék csiklandozza az utas oldalbordáját. Még ki sem fújtam magam, mellém állt az elegáns férfiú és ékes szavakkal emlékeztetett előnyös helyemre; előbb barátságosan, majd egyre hangosabb és méltatlankodóbb hangon kezdte követelni tőlem a pótdíjakat. Hasztalan hivatkoztam arra, hogy voltaképpen az egész kocsi viteldíját kifizettem, szerinte ez a Konstantinápolyból magammal hozott utalván...

The International Conference on New and Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development held in Ponta Delgada, Azores (2002), Portugal, has provided technology specialists and hardware developers with the opportunity to discuss, review and demonstrate the research directions, the design methodologies, and the production techniques leading to cost- effective energy technologies for sustainable development.This dialog provides the context for more detailed technical present...

The tie that binds all Americans, regardless of their demographic background, is faith in the American system of government. This faith manifests as a form of civil, or secular, religion with its own core documents, creeds, oaths, ceremonies, and even individuals. In The Rhetoric of American Civil Religion: Symbols, Sinners, and Saints, contributors seek to examine some of those core elements of American faith by exploring the proverbial saints, sinners and dominant symbols of the American...

This manuscript analyzes and exposes the first four chapters of the Quran and its author, Mohammad's character. It sheds light on the Quran's primary contents, revealing the flaws, inconsistencies, contradictions, abrogations, and devious vision of the Quran's author, where violence is the core of his teaching. It questions "Allah": if He has infinite wisdom, why is none of it reflected in the Quran? It reveals that Mohammad stated his ideas in the Quran as God's revelation, filled with li...

Presentazione“Le ragazze afgane” narra dell’incontro di un mercante di tappeti di origine iraniana e Azar, una ragazza afgana di Herat, avvenuto durante l’invasione sovietica dell’Afghanistan negli anni Ottanta.Hossein, il mercante, si reca nel suo paese d’origine per visitare i parenti e per acquistare tappeti da rivendere in Italia, paese in cui vive dalla fine degli anni Sessanta. Al suo arrivo scopre che oltre ai tappeti con decorazioni tradizionali, stanno circolando sul...

Özellikle aynı kültür çevresinde bulunmanın etkisiyle, İranlı ve Afganistanlı şair, yazar ve düşünürlerin yapıtları Türkiye’de yüzyıllar boyunca ilgi gördü, ders kitabı olarak okutuldu, bu yapıtlara şerhler ve nazireler yazıldı.Yirminci yüzyıl başlarında ise İran ve Afganistan’da edebiyatın Batı’ya yönelmesinde, bu ülkelerin aydınlarının “Batı’nın kapısı” olarak gördükleri ülkemizin büyük etkisi oldu.Oysa, bu iki ülkenin modern yazarlarından, Samed Behrengi ve Sâdık Hidâyet g...

This work contains a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the First Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2002. This conference was focussed on the following objectives: More...to discuss sustainability concepts of energy, water and envi

Sustainable development encompasses economic, social, and ecological perspectives of conservation and change in natural resources. It is generally defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This definition is based on the ethical imperative of equity within and between generations. Moreover, apart from meeting; "the basic needs of all"; sustainable development implies sustaining the natural life...