Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Art, Culture and International Development
Humanizing social transformation
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Culture is not simply an explanation of last resort, but is itself a rich, multifaceted and contested concept and set of practices that needs to be expanded, appreciated and applied in fresh ways if it is to be both valued in itself and to be of use in practical development. This innovative book places...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014
In an age of rising environmental concerns, it has become necessary for businesses to pay special attention to the resources they are consuming and the long-term effects of the products they are creating. These concerns, coupled with the current global economic crisis, demand a solution that includes...
Investing in Resource Efficiency
The Economics and Politics of Financing the Resource Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of resource...
Universities and Global Human Development
Theoretical and empirical insights for social change
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This book makes the case for a critical turn in development thinking around universities and their contributions in making a more equal post-2015 world. It puts forward a normative approach based on human development and the capability approach, one which can gain a hearing from policy, scholarship,...
Managing Environmentally Sustainable Innovation
Insights from the Construction Industry
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A paradigm shift is happening at this moment. Firms and consumers are aware of the fact that they cause environmental pollution, depletion of resources and are responsible for the dangers involved. At the same time awareness is growing that they need to and will develop the appropriate solutions in...
Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity
Economic and Global Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Written by international experts in their respective fields, Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity provides a comprehensive overview of global issues of raw materials supply and resource use. It also introduces new views and perspectives on the sustainable growth of emerging economies and develops...
Development Asia—Beyond the MDGs
November 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
This issue of Development Asia discusses the post-2015 development agenda and its implications for Asia and the Pacific. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have served humanity well. They galvanized global attention for helping the world's poor and vulnerable. In less than 3 years, a new development...
Sustainable Pathways for our Cities and Regions
Planning within Planetary Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
In an urbanizing world, the majority of people live in urban settlements predominantly on the coastal edge. Focus has historically been on people, place and the challenges and opportunities of living with global change, and academic attention has largely been on sustainability science or sustainable...
Sustainable Business
Integrating CSR in Business and Functions
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The developments in our environment and society have made it clear that the way we run our businesses and govern our nations is not sustainable in the long run. This is also why more and more companies and organizations are pursuing sustainable business through various Corporate Social Responsibility...
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by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
With a rapidly growing commercial economy that requires a sound financial system to sustain growth, Cambodia is committed to the long-term development of the financial sector, channeling financial resources to productive investments, and managing the inherent risks to achieve sustainable economic growth...
Sustainable Fashion
Governance and New Management Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This edited volume comprises ideas, visions, strategies, and dreams of entrepreneurs, managers, scientists and political experts who share their best practice experience relating to the joint goal of a more sustainable, humanistic, and responsible fashion industry. Readers will find a variety of approaches...
by David Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2007
Sustainable Tourism comprehensively examines the theoretical and applied dimensions of contemporary sustainable tourism from a global perspective. Using international case studies and examples, it provides cutting edge coverage of the latest developments in the area, both theoretically and practically....
by Farhad Analoui, Joseph Kwadwo Danquah
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book contributes to our understanding of a neglected and poorly-understood concept within the development field: ‘capacity development’ in the context of human and organisational sustainable development. Relating ‘capacity development’ to other perspectives in development thinking and...
Sustainable Culinary Systems
Local Foods, Innovation, Tourism and Hospitality
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
There is increasing public and academic interest in local and sustainable foods and food tourism. These interests have been reflected in such diverse elements as the growth of farmers markets, green restaurants, food miles, crabon and sustainability labelling, concerns over food supply and security,...