Sustainability in the Hospitality Industry: Principles of Sustainable Operations
A clear understanding of the issues surrounding climate change, global warming, air and water pollution, ozone depletion, deforestation, the loss of biodiversity and global poverty is essential for every manager in the hospitality industry. Present and future hospitality executives need to know how sustainable management systems can be integrated into their businesses while maintaining and hopefully improving the bottom line.
Hydraulic power has been used for hundreds of years for everything from sawmills to steam generators. Water Power explores the past and present uses for this source of renewable energy and uses vivid photographs and illustrations to discuss its future in energy development.
The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, complicated by the growing uncertainties of global climate change.
People in Iceland use the heat from volcanoes to make electricity. Pipes pump water through the hot rocks underground near a volcano. As the water heats up, it turns to steam. The steam is used to make electricity.
Islands Magazine - escape to the world's most seductive getaways. ISLANDS takes you there... in six spectacular issues a year. From the Caribbean to South Pacific, from Tahiti to the Greek Isles, ISLANDS explores the most beautiful and exotic places on earth. You'll want to pack your bags after each issue that sparkles with outstanding photography.
