Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
The Human Capacity for Transformational Change
Harnessing the collective mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflections and empirical research from leading researchers and practitioners working in this transdisciplinary and transnational academic field. Over the course of the book, these contributors provide critical...
Shock Waves
Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two...
Sustainability
Key Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Highly original, it covers the very broad spectrum of ideas covered under sustainability, from participation, resilience, growth, ecological modernism through...
The Water–Food–Energy Nexus
Power, Politics, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
The world of development thinkers and practitioners is abuzz with a new lexicon: the idea of "the nexus" between water, food, and energy which is intuitively compelling. It promises better integration of multiple sectoral elements, a better transition to greener economies, and sustainable development....
by Dr. Richard Munang
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
While Africa has long been referred to as the dark continent, its shown itself to be a bearer of light to the world. Leaders such as the late former president of South Africa Nelson Mandela, former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, Nobel laureates Wangari Maathai and Desmond Tutu, and others...
Educating for Sustainability in Japan
Fostering resilient communities after the triple disaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Educating for Sustainable Development (ESD) approaches are holistic and interdisciplinary, values-driven, participatory, multi-method, locally relevant and emphasize critical thinking and problem-solving. This book explains how ESD approaches work in the Japanese context; their effects on different...
by Llewelyn Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Port Hope Simpson Off the Beaten Path Vol 3
Series Title: Port Hope Simpson Mysteries
Vol 8
by
Llewelyn Pritchard
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2010 Llewelyn Pritchard
Follow the Labrador Coastal Drive, Route 510 in Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada and discover the Town’s “Pitprops, Politics...
by Llewelyn Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Port Hope Simpson Off the Beaten Path Vol 4
Series Title: Port Hope Simpson Mysteries
Vol 8
by
Llewelyn Pritchard
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2010 Llewelyn Pritchard
Follow the Labrador Coastal Drive, Route 510 in Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada and discover the Town’s “Pitprops, Politics...
Dispatches from the Sweet Life
One Family, Five Acres, and a Community's Quest to Reinvent the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
A memoir of life in Suraqueta, a subtropical town in Bolivia where the Andes meets the Amazon — part of a grassroots network of “transition towns” that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of climate change and economic instability
A timely, personal exploration...
Rethinking Urban Sprawl
Moving Towards Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
This report provides a new perspective to the nature of urban sprawl and its causes and environmental, social and economic consequences. This perspective, which is based on the multi-dimensionality of urban sprawl, sets the foundations for the construction of new indicators to measure the various...
Eco-Responsible Cities and the Global Ocean
Geostrategic Shifts and the Sustainability Trilemma
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2018
This book examines the nexus of cities and oceans and the interrelations between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 11 and 14, just after the first two critical years following the milestone year of hope in 2015. It advocates for actions both for sustainable cities, the largest interconnected...
by Thomas S. Konrad
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 1,0, Business School INSEEC Paris - Bordeaux, language: English, abstract: This present empirical Master thesis deals with renewable energies as potential growth factor in emerging countries in the context of...
Evolutions in Sustainable Investing
Strategies, Funds and Thought Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Sustainable Investing is fast becoming an essential method of generating long-term returns, moving beyond the negative approaches to socially responsible investing that have dominated the field. This book, our second on the subject, provides over 15 case studies of leading global investors and companies...