Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
The Quest for Sustainable Business
An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In January 2010, author, academic and social entrepreneur Dr Wayne Visser set off on a nine-month, 20-country "quest" to talk to entrepreneurs, business leaders and innovators and learn about how companies in all parts of the world can and are helping to tackle the world's most pressing...
Beyond the Triple Bottom Line
Eight Steps toward a Sustainable Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
A pragmatic new business model for sustainability that outlines eight steps that range from exploring a mission to promoting innovation; with case studies.
Many recent books make the case for businesses to become more sustainable, but few explain the specifics. In this book, Francisco Szekely...
by Philip Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The major environmental impact of most businesses derives from energy usage. The upside of this is that using energy more responsibly improves profitability. A business’s cheapest unit of energy is also the one which is least damaging to the planet: the unit you don't use.There are many ways to...
Impact Investors in Asia
Characteristics and Preferences for Investing in Social Enterprises in Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This report provides insights to investors keen to invest in the region, financial intermediaries that advise social enterprises (SEs) on capital raising, and developers of platforms seeking to connect SEs in the region with impact investors. Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), an SE based in Singapore,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book focuses on understanding the status quo of sustainable practices in industry operations from an emerging economy perspective, presenting various practices in India. In order to offer a balance between theory and practice, it provides guidelines for applying models to achieve the goal of...
Sustainable Urban Energy Policy
Heat and the city
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate transformative change is, however, without precedent.
Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the...
Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange
Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ‘technology’ itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology implies...
Sustainable Modernity
The Nordic Model and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies,...
Sustainable Thinking
Ethical Approaches to Design and Design Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Sustainable Thinking explores how values and sustainability can reshape the way design management is practised and applied. The book discusses how designers can combine innovative creative thinking with analytical problem-solving skills to produce outputs that are business ready and ethically driven.
Examples...
by Doug McKenzie-Mohr
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet's ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own actions, we must educate and encourage those around us to change theirs. If one individual recycles his plastic...
by John Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Change and development are going on all around us. On both an international platform, as well as at the local governmental and community level, governments, decision and policy makers constantly strive to improve the world in which we live, seeking to make it better and to improve quality of life.
This...
Towards a Sustainable University
The Ca’ Foscari Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Towards a Sustainable University tackles the challenge of sustainability in universities. Universities are also a working environment and an organization in which sustainability can be experienced. This book shows how a sustainable university can shape future citizens and future managers following the sustainable paradigm.
by Naima Kaabouch, Wen-Chen Hu
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
It is more important than ever to be concerned with energy related efforts, especially on what we as individuals can do now to help protect our future. With research coming out left and right on sustainable initiatives, we can only hope that future generations will benefit greatly from the efforts of...
The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia
A Regional Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
This publication reviews the economics of climate change in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Viet Nam. It confirms that the region is highly vulnerable to climate change, demonstrates that a wide range of adaptation measures are already being...