Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Financial Inclusion for Poverty Alleviation
Issues and Case Studies for Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
More than one billion people still live below the poverty line – most of them in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Financial inclusion is a major issue, as more than three-quarters of the numbers of poor and disadvantaged women and men do not have access to financial products and services, such...
Demystifying Sustainability
Towards Real Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
What is sustainability? Much has been said about the terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ over the last few decades, but they have become buried under academic jargon. This book is one of the first that aims to demystify sustainability so that the layperson can understand the...
Urban Social Sustainability
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban Social Sustainability provides an in-depth insight into the discourse and argues that every urban intervention has a social sustainability dimension that...
Culture, Development and Petroleum
An Ethnography of the High North
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The discovery, just forty years ago, of vast oil and gas reserves in the Southwestern part of Norway, and more recently in the Arctic High North region, created an economic titan and posed a vast array of challenges for both the Norwegian government and the residents of this area. How to extract and...
Sustainable Frontiers
Unlocking Change through Business, Leadership and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Sustainable Frontiers throws down the gauntlet to business to step up and be the catalyst for a sustainable future. It presents eight keys to unlocking transformational change – through leadership, enterprise, innovation, transparency, engagement, responsibility, integration and future-fitness....
The Business of Sustainable Mobility
From Vision to Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In many parts of the world, there is a crisis of mobility. The choices we have made over the past 200 years on modes and technologies of transport have brought us unprecedented global interaction and in many respects increased personal freedom. However, all this mobility has come at a cost to society,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the state of research on religions and global development. Part one highlights critical debates that have emerged within research on religions and development, particularly with respect to theoretical, conceptual and methodological considerations, from...
Some Governance and Peaceful Coexistence Issues for Sustainable Advancement
A Nigerian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Nigeria is passing through stress in its journey toward attaining a reasonable level of sustainable development as a nation, and Nigerians need to contribute their quota to improve the situation. This is the context in which this wonderful and easily readable book by Sir Anthony Wakwe LawrenceSome...
African Successes, Volume IV
Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet...
The Sustainable Business Workbook
A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability and Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Whether you are undertaking the exercises for your own purposes or with the intent of completing a certification course in sustainable development, this workbook will be of help. The companion text for this publication is The Sustainable Business: A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability...
Emerald Cities
Urban Sustainability and Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development. In Emerald Cities, Joan Fitzgerald shows how in the absence of a comprehensive national policy, cities like Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco,...
Sustainability Assessment
A Rating System Framework for Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Concerns about environmental, social, economic, health, and other impacts in the building industry have led to the development of a number of environmental and sustainability assessment approaches, strategies, models, appraisals, and methodologies. Green technology and practices have been implemented...
Creative Industries and Innovation in Europe
Concepts, Measures and Comparative Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
In recent years, the study of creativity has shifted from analysis of culture as an end in itself to one of economic enhancement, and its capability to generate wealth and promote economic development. Increasingly, European cities and regions are using the arts to fuel wellbeing and reinvigorate...
Development Management of Transforming Economies
Theories, Approaches and Models for Overall Development
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
This insightful book offers a new and innovative tool in the study of development. The authors propose ‘The Overall Development Model’ which provides a strategy for long-term, sustainable and adaptable development for countries around the globe. Starting with a comprehensive study into what...