Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
South Africa’s transition to a greener economy features prominently in the long-term development vision of the country, and is an integral part of the country’s national climate change response strategy. Despite significant gains in socio-economic development since its transition to democracy,...
Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City
Acting in the common place
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking, in today’s cities? Can justice be the basis on which the practices of city building rely? Can this recognition constitute sustainability in city building, from a pragmatic perspective? Today, we are faced with a mountain of reasons...
Toward an Environmentally Sustainable Future
Country Environmental Analysis of the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This publication presents the results of a 2-year effort to update environmental assessment in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The research was a collaborative effort involving the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the National Development and Reform Commission,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Describes all aspects of sustainable conversion adaptation of existing buildings and provides solutions for making urban settlements resilient to climate change
This comprehensive book explores the potential to change the character of cities with residential conversion of office space in order...
Sustainable Business Models
Innovation, Implementation and Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive exploration into the identification and development of sustainable business models as well as their implementation, management and evaluation. With ever-increasing pressure on organisations to respond to societal change and improve competition through sustainable...
In Search of China's Development Model
Beyond the Beijing Consensus
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book examines the development model that has driven China's economic success and looks at how it differs from the Washington Consensus. China’s Development Model (CDM) is examined with a view to answering a central question: given China’s peculiar matrix of a socialist party-state juxtaposed...
by Sarah James and Torbjörn Lahti
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword and cities and towns like the last places to change but The Natural Step for Communities provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability and explains how others can emulate their success.Chronicled in the...
Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Principles and Practices for Sustainable Operations and Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
***Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management***is the essential guide to the principles and practices of sustainable logistics operations. Based on extensive research, this book covers the whole scope of sustainable logistics. The case studies, with particular attention for use in a teaching...
Sustainable Resource Management
Global Trends, Visions and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Sustainable Resource Management is the result of years of exhaustive research by Germany's Wuppertal Institute. Looking at material flows, industrial and societal metabolism and their implications for the economy, this important new book provides radical perspectives on how the global economy should...
Beyond Growth
The Economics of Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
"Daly is turning economics inside out by putting the earth and its diminishing natural resources at the center of the field . . . a kind of reverse Copernican revolution in economics."
--Utne Reader
"Considered by most to be the dean of ecological economics, Herman E. Daly...
Marine Ecotourism
Issues and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
Marine ecotourism is a major growth area within ecotourism, itself a rapidly expanding area within tourism as a whole. The activity has been attracting increasing attention, both from the popular media and from professionals and academics with an interest in tourism’s potential to contribute to...
by Jeremy Carew-Reid
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
IUCN – The World Conservation Union Founded in 1948
The World Conservation Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse' range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union, IUCN seeks...
Cities and Sustainability
A new approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Cities are the most likely actors to design and bring about lasting sustainability. An agreement among the world’s larger cities is possible, and likely a necessary but insufficient condition to achieve sustainable development.
Cities and Sustainability explores the ways in which cities are...
An Introduction to the Green Economy
Science, Systems and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice. Considerable investments are now being made into the development of green technology, renewable energy,...