Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
From Me to We
The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In From Me to We: The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life, systems change expert Bob Doppelt reveals that most people today live a dream world, controlled by false perceptions and beliefs. The most deeply held illusion is that all organisms...
by Amanda Eliza Bertha
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The world food system is in serious danger. People are starving to death because their food is being hoarded, sold to other countries or is just not being produced. This book takes a look at the economic crisis with special attention to the world food system.
Beyond the Energy–Water–Food Nexus
New Strategies for 21st-Century Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Providing food, clean water and energy for a growing population is one of the greatest challenges facing public and private sector professionals. While there is widespread recognition of the complex feedback loops between energy, water and food, there has been less focus on viable solutions.
This...
Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries
Towards a Framework for Corporate Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries addresses a significant gap in research on the political and diplomatic role of multinational corporations in peace processes in intrastate conflict: Corporate Peacemaking. The author focuses on corporations in the oil and mining sectors, supporting or participating...
Local Action on Climate Change
Opportunities and Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. However, while accounts of urban climate change governance are growing, there is now a real need for further conceptual and empirical work to better understand...
The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice
Managing a Global Industry
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice is an ethnographic study of the effects of Fair Trade on indigenous women, as reported by the women themselves, and seeks to develop a deeper understanding of Fair Trade, globalization, culture, and policy in building justice.
The Guide to the Circular Economy
Capturing Value and Managing Material Risk
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The term "Circular Economy" is becoming familiar to an increasing number of businesses. It expresses an aspiration to get more value from resources and waste less, especially as resources come under a variety of pressures – price-driven, political and environmental.Delivering the circular...
by Scott Poynton
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Is certification the solution? Can it deliver urgently needed improvements to complex problems like deforestation and the exploitation of people? In this controversial new book, Scott Poynton, founder of The Forest Trust, makes a compelling case for a new approach to social and environmental problems...
Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World
Combining Principles and Profit to Create the World We Want
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Create a Better World Through the Power of Profit! Imagine your business making a big impact solving problems like hunger, poverty, war, violence, and catastrophic climate change while making a healthy profit. Guess what: you don’t have to just imagine; you can make it real. "Guerrilla...
by Lewis, Michael and Conaty, Pat
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (Social, Ecological, Economic) Change as a prerequisite for replacing...
Revolution in a Bottle
How Terracycle Is Eliminating the Idea of Waste
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The amazing story of what Inc. magazine called “the coolest little startup in America.”
Tom Szaky dropped out of Princeton a decade ago to found TerraCycle, a company that makes the nonrecyclable recyclable. TerraCycle is now at the forefront of the eco-capitalist movement, partnering with...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This book aims to explore the avenue of landscape economics and provides the building blocks (from different scientific disciplines) for an economic analysis of landscapes. What exactly constitutes and determines the value of a landscape? It focuses on the value of landscapes in its broadest sense,...
The New Grand Strategy
Restoring America's Prosperity, Security, and Sustainability in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The New Grand Strategy tells the story of a plan, born within the Pentagon, to recapture America’s greatness at home and abroad by elevating sustainability as our new strategic imperative. It aligns our enduring national interests of prosperity and security with a new framework that addresses pressing...
by Holly Rustick
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
Grant writing shouldn’t feel like a trip to the dentist. Take the pain out of the process with this innovative and fun, yes fun, guide. Learn all the inside tips and tools of the grant-writing trade in this easy-to-read and upbeat book.
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