Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Managing the Business Case for Sustainability
The Integration of Social, Environmental and Economic Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The difficulties in moving towards corporate sustainability raise the question of how environmental and social management can be integrated better with economic business goals. Over the last decade, the relationship between environmental and economic performance, and more recently the interaction...
Sustainability Science
Key Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Sustainability Science: Key Issues is a comprehensive textbook for undergraduates, postgraduates, and participants in executive trainings from any disciplinary background studying the theory and practice of sustainability science. Each chapter takes a critical and reflective stance on a key issue...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
What impact has globalisation had on transport? And what have been the consequences for the environment? This book aims to answer these questions and more. It looks in detail at how globalisation has affected activity levels in maritime shipping, aviation, and road and rail freight, and assesses the...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This 2010 review of Japan's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation. It includes coverage of policy for greening growth,...
Corporate Sustainability
Integrating Performance and Reporting
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Invaluable guidance for complete integration of sustainability into reporting and performance management systems
Global businesses are under close scrutiny from lawmakers, regulators, and their diverse stakeholders to focus on sustainability and accept responsibility for their multiple bottom...
The Healing Organization
Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
The image of modern corporations has been shaped by a focus on profits over people and the environment, but this approach to capitalism is no longer viable. We are at an inflection point where business must take the lead in healing the crises of our time. The Healing Organization shows how corporations...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2007
The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering consequences of this wealth, producing what is now known as the "resource curse." Countries with...
The Organic Farmer's Business Handbook
A Complete Guide to Managing Finances, Crops, and Staff - and Making a Profit
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2009
Contrary to popular belief, a good living can be made on an organic farm. What’s required is farming smarter, not harder.
In The Organic Farmer’s Business Handbook, Richard Wiswall shares advice on how to make your vegetable production more efficient, better manage your employees and finances,...
by Christine Susan DeGraw
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Before starting her own house cleaning business, Christine had read many books and articles on house cleaning tips and approaches recommending long-term contracts, giving free estimates, and using toxic chemicals. These means were costly, inefficient, and bad for the environment. Christine will provide...
The Surprising Solution
Creating Possibility in a Swift and Severe World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
"Bruce Piasecki's underlying theme in The Surprising Solution-that business can and will lead our society into this new and better world-is right on target. In this new frontier, sustainability and innovation are inextricably linked and are the only two guarantors of long-term corporate success...
People Planet Profit
How to Embrace Sustainability for Innovation and Business Growth
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Social and environmental issues are more important than ever and consumers are committed to supporting change. 'Doing good' is no longer a peripheral activity but fundamental to every aspect of how we do business, every day, for everyone.
People, Planet, Profit is the first book to truly address...
DK Essential Managers: Green Business
Sustainability, Resources, Efficiency, Cost Savings, Triple Bottom Line
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
Green Business gives hard-working guidance on howto do business ethically and sustainably, while still turning a tidy profit. Part of the best-selling Essential Managers series, this book will carry the same livery on the jacket, but will have a completely modern, updated design. New books in this...
Good to Green
Managing Business Risks and Opportunities in the Age of Environmental Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
The business world is undergoing dramatic change that is driven by tough new legislation, expanded market based incentives and increased consumer awareness of environmental issues (e.g., hazard ingredients in products, alternative energy, reduction in greenhouse gases). This is forcing companies to...
Lean and Green
Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2000
When it comes to believing that business can be profitable and environmentally sensitive, cynics abound on both sides. But in Lean and Green, Pamela Gordon proves that capitalism and environmentalism are not mutually exclusive-quite the contrary. She shows how "green" business practices...