Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Sustainable Consumption
Key Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues provides a concise introduction to the field of sustainable consumption, outlining the contribution of the key disciplines in this multi-disciplinary area, and detailing the way in which both the problem and the potential for solutions are understood.
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How Power Shapes Energy Transitions in Southeast Asia
A complex governance challenge
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
An understanding of the role of energy-related governance systems and the conditions required for a shift towards renewables in developing countries is urgently needed in order to tap into the global potential of low-carbon development. Although renewable energy sources have become technically feasible...
Asian Development Bank Sustainability Report 2018
Investing for an Asia and the Pacific Free of Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been issuing its Sustainability Report since 2007. The Sustainability Report allows stakeholders to assess ADB's operational and organizational sustainability performance, providing them with a single point of reference to understand ADB's commitment to sustainable...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This publication describes further progress of ongoing and recently undertaken initiatives for the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI). It highlights the issues and many of the encouraging outcomes resulting from earlier efforts. It also explores issues expected to emerge in the future,...
The Politics of Cultural Development
Trade, cultural policy and the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
There is a growing recognition of the role that culture can play in sustainable development strategies. This development has generally been welcomed, but also raises a number of questions: What are the implications in policy and practice? Who are the most influential voices in promoting a global agenda...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Political economy analysis facilitates understanding on how incentives, institutions, and ideas shape political action and development outcomes in ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs). These factors can inform assessments of feasibility of policy reform and institutional change, the contribution...
Financing Low-Carbon Urban Development in South Asia
A Post-2012 Context
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The cities of South Asia are growing at an unprecedented rate, and there is potential to steer this development onto a sustainable and green path. Carbon financing serves as a valuable revenue source to help cities earn additional income to support low-carbon development. With the end of the first...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in Asia and the Pacific can apply a wide range of policy, capacity,...
Mountain Majesty
A History of CODEP Haiti Where Sustainable Agricultural Development Works Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
What makes...an organization successful? A leader effective? A community thrive? Especially in impoverished, disaster-prone Haiti? Mountain Majesty: The History of CODEP Haiti Where Sustainable Agricultural Development Works, Volume 2 reveals the inner workings and complexities of this remarkable...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
OECD Environmental Performance Reviews provide independent assessments of countries’ progress towards their environmental policy objectives. Reviews promote peer learning, enhance government accountability, and provide targeted recommendations aimed at improving environmental performance, individually...
The Sustainable Company
How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
"What Mr. Laszlo calls 'Planetary Ethics' or the integration of economic, environmental, social and high ethical objectives into long-term business strategy, is the new price of entry for corporate survival. Those who 'get' this and do it best will enjoy increasing shareholder value. I believe this...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Economic growth is one of the primary goals for all countries. There are many factors that contribute to a healthy and stable economy, and studying these emerging methods and techniques can aid in creating sustainable economic growth. Business Infrastructure for Sustainability in Developing Economies...
Green Economy in the Western Balkans
Towards a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This multidisciplinary approach to the Western Balkans addresses topics from responsible business and ethics, innovation, corporate social responsibility, and new technology to human resources management. It is a theoretical and practical guide towards a sustainable future for the Western Balkans,...
Sustainability in Transition
Principles for Developing Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Sustainability in Transition: Principles for Developing Solutions offers the first in-depth education-focused treatment of how to address sustainability in a comprehensive manner. The textbook is structured as a learning-centered approach to walk students through the process of linking sustainable...