Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Sustainable Excellence
The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
How the world's most influential companies are building business strategies that tackle the biggest global challenges.
Today's business landscape is changing in fundamental ways: Natural resources are growing ever more scarce and expensive. Technology and changing consumer expectations are...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book endeavors to take the conceptualization of the relationship between business, government and development in African countries to a new level. In the twenty-first century, the interests and operations of government and business inevitably intersect all over the African continent. No government,...
Sustainable Investing
Revolutions in theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
A seminal shift has taken place in the world of investing. A clear and overarching reality has emerged which must be solved: financial considerations must factor in sustainability considerations for ongoing societal success, while sustainability issues equally need to be driven by a business case....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
With the built environment contributing almost half of global greenhouse emissions, there is a pressing need for the property and real estate discipline to thoroughly investigate sustainability concerns. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Real Estate brings together the latest research of leading...
Sustainable Banking
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2018
This book aims to provide scholars, students and practitioners with a broad analysis – both theoretical and practical – of what it means to be a sustainable bank. It provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable banking literature and practices, discussing environmental and social pressures....
Focused Action
Priorities for Addressing Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This publication outlines the five priority areas and three modalities of ADB's approach to climate change: expanding the use of clean energy, encouraging sustainable transport and urban development, managing land use and forests for carbon sequestration, promoting climate-resilient development, and strengthening related policies and institutions.
Energy Law and the Sustainable Company
Innovation and corporate social responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
What kind of decision-making should multinationals engage in to create a sustainable company? There is substantial debate over why CEOs, senior management and Boards of Directors make the wrong decisions by not asking the right questions, with the result that not only is the company itself damaged,...
Sustainable Food Systems
Building a New Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this...
Sustainable Business Models
Principles, Promise, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This book provides a rich overview and takes a closer look at the current state of theory and practice in the field of sustainable business models. The chapters in this book examine and analyze existing and new approaches towards sustainable business models and showcase the implementation of sustainable...
by Bruno Losch, Sandrine Freguin-Gresh, Eric Thomas White
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
This book makes a compelling case for reintegrating structural issues into agricultural and rural development policies, which have for the last 30 years over-focused on short-term issues. It shows how the liberalization of agriculture in many late developing countries has not in fact led to the development...
Technology and the City
Systems, applications and implications
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively uncharted territory. Technology and the City aims to fill that gap, exploring the growing importance of smart technologies and systems in contemporary cities, and providing an in-depth understanding of both theoretical...
by Adrian Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The World Conservation Union, Founded in 1948, brings together States government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organisations in a unique world partnership over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies...
Sustainable Banking
Managing the Social and Environmental Impact of Financial Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Sustainable Banking introduces business leaders and students to the many ways in which financial institutions can manage their environmental and social impact and meet the needs of the current generation without compromising the needs of future generations. Olaf Weber and Blair Feltmate go beyond...
Irrigation Subsector Guidance Note
Building Blocks for Sustainable Investment
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
One irrigation subsector goal of the Asian Development Bank is to produce more food with less water. Estimates suggest that food production in the developing world must double by. By that year, urban and industrial water demand will have increased from 20% of total regional demand to 40% (about 80%...