Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Resource Salvation
The Architecture of Reuse
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
A valuable source of information, insight, and fresh ideas about a crucial aspect of the growing sustainable design movement
Mounting resource shortages worldwide coupled with skyrocketing extraction costs for new materials have made the prospect of materials reuse and recycling an issue of...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Policy makers in the People’s Republic of China have been experimenting with new approaches to environmental management, resulting in a wide array of policy and program innovations under the broad heading of eco-compensation. Many of these are market-based instruments, particularly payments for ecological...
Sustainable Communities and Green Lifestyles
Consumption and Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Sustainable communities raise questions about the compatibility of capitalism and environmentalism and how we can green our way of life in a capitalist economy that values short-term production and consumption over long-term conservation and simple living. If capitalism and its drive towards consumption...
Green IT
Managing your carbon footprint
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
New legislation, rising energy costs and increasing demand for green credentials have moved sustainable IT up the business agenda. Yet the term ‘green IT’ still means a variety of things to a variety of people – whether that’s sustainably managing and procuring IT assets, ethically recycling...
Leadership Development in a Global World
The Role of Companies and Business Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Global companies are facing a new, pressure to develop leaders with global mindsets. The war for managerial talent has never been so intense. Companies and business schools need not only to fine tune practices and models, but redesign current paradigms and create more effective and sustainable ways to invest in leadership development.
by Amadou Sy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
A broad vision for economic progress in Africa
A more peaceful and prosperous Africa is in everyone’s interest. Such an Africa would translate into more trade and investment, more jobs, and more security for all. Africa is now at a crossroads and the right path, if taken, could lead the continent...
Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME
Learning to Go Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Since the inception of the United Nations Global Compact sponsored initiative Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) in 2007, there has been increased debate over how to adapt management education to best meet the demands of the 21st-century business environment. While consensus has...
by Bob Willard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
This practical easy-to-follow guidebook helps sustainability champions at any level in a company lead a transformation to a smarter more successful and more sustainable enterprise. The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook outlines the transformational steps to take tips and techniques to use and...
Foresight in Organizations
Methods and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Foresight for Organizations will acquaint the reader with various foresight methods and tools, to show the reader how these methods are used, what the pitfalls are and how the methods relate to each other. This innovative volume offers the reader the ability to carry out a study of the future by him-...
Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise
Lessons from Frontrunner Companies
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
In combining practice and theory, this textbook provides a management perspective on the ‘business case’ for sustainability. Drawing on examples from 20 frontrunner companies located in the Netherlands, it builds upon a unique research project in which CEOs and middle-managers gave access not...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Switzerland has taken steps to improve the environmental performance of its agricultural, energy and transport sectors. The country is a top OECD performer in terms of greenhouse gas emissions intensity and it should be commended for its innovative approach towards rehabilitation of its river system....
The Compass and the Nail
How the Patagonia Model of Loyalty Can Save Your Business, and Might Just Save the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Brand development and direct marketing expert, Craig Wilson, argues for the responsibility of consumers and the companies they spend money with. It is only through the power of the consumer, and the dedication of businesses to creating responsible and sustainable products, that we will be able to combat...
In the Light of Humane Nature
Human Values, Nature, the Green Economy, and Environmental Salvation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This engaging book encourages us to tap into humanity’s highest ideals to solve environmental and social problems and become better people in the process.
Despite significant progress in recent decades, the environmental crisis is far from over. We know what needs to change, but we don’t seem...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices...