Brazilian Urban Policy: Sustainability as a Driving Force

Sustainability as a Driving Force in Contemporary Library Design

The drive for energy efficiency arising from a growing awareness of the dangers of climate change is leading to new approaches to library design. The article explores the interaction between library architecture and sustainability by reviewing the many complex strategies employed for saving or recycling evermore scarce natural resources. Although the focus is upon energy consumption, the articl...

Evaluation of Biogas as an Alternative Driving Force of Electrically Operated Vehicles: A Case Study

In the present world, energy is indispensable for maintaining the comfort level and living standard of the human. On the other hand, the energy crisis is a major problem in most of the developing countries like Bangladesh. A possible reason is that, the decreasing level of conventional energy sources and the lack of initiatives for introducing the alternative sources of energy. Moreover, the in...

[Sustainability of Brazilian policy for access to antiretroviral drugs].

OBJECTIVE The expense of acquiring antiretroviral drugs in Brazil has given rise to debate about the sustainability of the policy of universal access to AIDS medications, despite the evident benefits. The objective of this study was to analyze the evolution of the Ministry of Health's spending on acquiring antiretroviral drugs from 1998 to 2005, the determining factors and the medium-term susta...

What Is The Driving Force Behind Industrial Development In Iran? Rent Seeking And Labor Exploitation As The Driving Force Of Industrial Growth

A driving force.

Paul B. MacCready has a knack for knowing the difference between the impossible and that which is merely extremely difficult. In the late 1980s, MacCready, founder and CEO of AeroVironment, a company that consults on pollution management and wind energy, figured that a battery-powered automobile could be practical , provided the entire machine was optimized for efficiency. It would have to be e...