Sustainable Development category: 1942 books

Cover of Changement climatique et finance durable
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: April 17, 2015

En décembre 2015, la France accueille la 21e conférence climat. Les enjeux pour la planète sont cruciaux puisque les États doivent aboutir à un accord permettant de contenir le réchauffement global en deçà de 2 °C. La finance a un rôle important à jouer. Dans cette perspective, la Revue...
Cover of Le prix de l'eau et des services d'eau potable et d'assainissement
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: March 15, 2010

Les pays de l’OCDE, comme les pays non membres, sont confrontés à plusieurs défis liés à l’eau: une concurrence accrue entre les usages de l’eau, une baisse de la qualité de la ressource, les effets du changement climatique et une mauvaise gestion de la ressource. Dans ce contexte, la...
Cover of Entreprises et environnement : quels enjeux pour le développement durable ?
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2012

Les rapports entretenus par les entreprises avec l’environnement sont multiformes et puisent leurs racines dans la Révolution industrielle. Ils ont fait l’objet d’une attention accrue à partir de la décennie 1960-1970 et plus récemment encore avec les problématiques du réchauffement climatique...
Cover of De l'eau pour tous

De l'eau pour tous

Perspectives de l'OCDE sur la tarification et le financement

by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: June 24, 2009

L’eau est indispensable au développement humain et économique, ainsi qu’à la survie des écosystèmes. Cependant, des milliards de personnes n’ont pas accès aux services d’eau et d’assainissement, en premier lieu à cause d’une mauvaise gouvernance et d’un manque d’investissement...
Cover of Examens environnementaux de l'OCDE: Luxembourg 2010
by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: March 31, 2010

Cet examen 2010 approfondi de l'OCDE des programmes et politiques environnementales du Luxembourg de 2010 analyse la gestion de l'air et de l'eau, la nature et la biodiversité, le développement durable, l'interface environnement/économie, l'interface environnement/social et la coopération internationale....
Cover of L'éco-innovation dans l'industrie

L'éco-innovation dans l'industrie

favoriser la croissance verte

by Collectif
Language: French
Release Date: August 20, 2010

L’éco-innovation sera un élément essentiel des efforts consentis par l’industrie pour parer au changement climatique et parvenir à une « croissance verte » dans l’ère post-Kyoto. Elle appelle une adoption plus rapide des percées technologiques et une application plus générale des solutions...
Cover of The Living Wage
by Professor Donald Hirsch, Laura Valadez-Martinez
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017

The "living wage" is an old idea that has experienced a dramatic resurgence of political popularity in recent years. The underlying logic of the concept is quite clear: it is a wage that provides workers with enough income to live on at some level considered adequate. However, in practice...
Cover of Groundwater Allocation

Groundwater Allocation

Managing Growing Pressures on Quantity and Quality

by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

Groundwater allocation determines who is able to use groundwater resources, how, when and where. It directly affects the value (economic, ecological, socio-cultural) that individuals and society obtain from groundwater, today and in the future. Building on the 2015 OECD publication Water Resources...
Cover of The Political Economy of Biodiversity Policy Reform
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

This report provides insights on the political economy of biodiversity related policy reforms. It draws on existing literature and four new case studies covering the French tax on pesticides, agricultural subsidy reform in Switzerland, EU payments to Mauritania and Guinea-Bissau to finance marine...
Cover of Urban Access for the 21st Century

Urban Access for the 21st Century

Finance and Governance Models for Transport Infrastructure

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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014

This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle classes. Urban Access for the 21st Century seeks to change this. Policies need to be more inclusive...
Cover of The Management of International Tourism (RLE Tourism)
by Stephen F Witt, Michael Z Brooke, Peter J. Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013

International tourism is one of today’s major growth industries necessitating increasingly more sophisticated management techniques. In the light of this expansion and growing significant economic importance, this book provides a comprehensive overview of international tourism, placing particular...
Cover of Sustainability in Fashion

Sustainability in Fashion

A Cradle to Upcycle Approach

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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017

This book provides a critical insight into sustainability and fashion in a retailing and marketing context. Examining a truly global industry, Sustainability in Fashion offers international application with a view to contextualising important developments within the industry. Contributors use their...
Cover of Business and the Sustainability Challenge

Business and the Sustainability Challenge

An Integrated Perspective

by Peter N. Nemetz
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013

It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science. This integrated textbook for MBA and senior-level undergraduates offers a...
Cover of Modeling Environment-Improving Technological Innovations under Uncertainty
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008

The issues of technology and uncertainty are very much at the heart of the policy debate of how much to control greenhouse gas emissions. The costs of doing so are present and high while the benefits are very much in the future and, most importantly, they are highly uncertain. Whilst there is broad...
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