Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Global Governance and Rules for the Post-2015 Era
Addressing Emerging Issues in the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Attention is increasingly being paid to the conceptualization of the sustainable development agenda that should guide global development efforts beyond 2015. New trends are shaping the international environment, suggesting that the world emerging from the recent economic and financial crisis will...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The debate over how far governments should intervene in economies in order to promote economic growth, a debate which from the 1980s seemed settled in favour of the neo-liberal, non-interventionist consensus, has taken on new vigour since the financial crisis of 2008 and after. Some countries, most...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
This book is the latest report by the World Bank to estimate comprehensive wealth including produced natural and human / institutional assets for over 100 countries. This ground-breaking report presents wealth accounts for 1995 2000 and 2005 permitting the first longer-term assessment of global regional...
by Herman E. Daly, Robert Costanza, Thomas Prugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
The mdifficult questions of sustainability are not about technology; they are about values. Answers to such questions cannot be found by asking the "experts," but can only be resolved in the political arena. In The Local Politics of Global Sustainability, author Thomas Prugh, with Robert Costanza...
by Jiansu Mao, Chunhui Li, Yuansheng Pei
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This textbook systematically addresses why and how Circular Economy should be developed and practiced by employing a Discussion and Research (D&R) teaching method. This method allows us to show the whole process of academic research, from formulating the key questions, to methodology design, and...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2017, the 48th edition of this series, includes the latest available economic, financial, social, and environmental indicators for the 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank. It presents the latest key statistics on development issues concerning...
Gender Mainstreaming Case Study
Sri Lanka—North East Coastal Community Development Project and Tsunami-Affected Areas Rebuilding Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Two projects in Sri Lanka employed participatory approaches, bringing key stakeholders together and facilitating women's involvement---the North East Coastal Community Development Project which was aimed to improve sustainable livelihood and natural resource management in poor coastal communities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Environmental and sustainable development concerns permeate numerous aspects of society, including economic activity. Many countries now run their economies based on such sustainable economic structures to improve production models and overall living conditions. Green Economic Structures in Modern Business...
China Confronts Climate Change
A bottom-up perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
China is an integral actor in any movement that will stabilize the global climate at conditions suited to sustainable development for its own population and for people living around the world. Assessments of China’s climatic-system consequences, impact, and responsibilities need to take into account...
by Matthew Kaplan, Mariano Sanchez, Jaco Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations,...
by Stephen Ison, Jon Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
The volume is based on papers presented at a workshop on the green transport agenda and its implications for Chinese cities, organised by the World Conference on Transport Research Society in September 2010. The five sections of this volume review the challenges facing urban transport internationally...
Breaking Out of the Poverty Trap
Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
This book provides unique insights into the challenges and potential solutions to alleviate poverty in western China. Many people are interested in China's economic and social development; the development of Tibet is an important part of this narrative. Unlike big cities in the east of China, Tibet...
Strategy for Sustainable Competitive Advantage
Surviving Declining Demand and China's Global Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Due to the adverse outcomes of the recent global recession and the public deficit crisis in the USA and Europe, Western companies can expect flattening or declining sales in their domestic markets. They will also face growing competition as Chinese firms seek to block the activities of foreign companies...
The Necessary Transition
The Journey towards the Sustainable Enterprise Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Life on Earth for humanity and our ecosystems is at a point of great change. There is much to be learnt about previous great disruptions. The key words are *adaptation* and *transformation*. Most international companies operate across multiple social and environmental geographies, so they know this...