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Fab Labs as Tools for Sustainable Development

Ivana Gađanski

Fablabs are open high-tech workshops where individuals have the opportunity to develop and produce custom-made things, not accessible by conventional industrial scale technologies. Fablabs offer the possibility of digital fabrication and rapid protot

Serbia and Renewable Energy: Facts to Consider

Nikola Rajaković

The field of energy, especially electric engineering, is facing transformative changes. With this in mind, actual energy strategy must be adjusted to account for these inevitable novelties.

Energy Transformation for a Sustainable World

Nebojša Nakićenović

The greatest challenge for humanity is to achieve economic and social development while remaining within the safe operating space for a stable planet. To achieve this, rapid and equitable deployment of decarbonization technologies and systems are nee

Environment and Education

Mihailo Crnobrnja

The first great environmental alarms went off in the beginning of the 1970s, when the two reports from the Club of Rome—entitled The Limits to Growth (1972) and Mankind at the Turning Point (1974)—were published. Simultaneously, Stockholm hosted the

A New Climate

Vladimir Djurdjevic

The first ideas of possible anthropogenic (human caused) impacts on climate through greenhouse gas emissions, above all carbon dioxide resulting from the burning of fossil fuels, were introduced at the end of the 19th century.

Culture – The Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development

Slobodan Cvejić

As an innovation to traditional approach, in last couple of years culture has been emphasized as the fourth pillar of sustainable development. Decades of experience in designing, implementing and evaluating development programmes in diverse contexts

Sustainable Development at the University - Are We Ready for an Interdisciplinary Journey into the Future?

Violeta Orlović Lovren

After more than three decades of official promoting of sustainable development in relevant international documents, different approaches and definitions of the concept have entered a new review process and research era, titled ‘Sustainability 2.0’

Cyberspace: Securing a future that has already arrived

Vladimir Radunović

Cyberspace has become an essential component of modern society. Fast-developing information and communication technologies (ICT) are being connected to the Network of Networks ‒ the Internet. Both ICT as a technological information infrastructure, an

The Significance of Urban Planning for Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Development of Cities

Mila Pucar

The increasing consumption of oil and gas has not only led to a decrease in fossil fuel reserves but also caused many unwelcomed changes on our planet. Serbia is being confronted with such issues on daily basis. Since the Country imports a major part

Spatial Development Strategy for Serbia: Opportunity, Illusion or Need?

Velimir Šećerov

Velimir Šećerov: In the last 25 years, constant dynamic transformations happening in Serbia have helped to create an environment where the need for channelling development processes became an intractable and seemingly elusive task. Pondering over the

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