Sustainable Development category: 1942 books

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Design Is The Problem

The Future of Design Must Be Sustainable

by Nathan Shedroff
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009

Design makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources, understanding, and priorities. What we produce, how we serve customers and other stakeholders, and even how we understand how the world works is all affected by the design of models and solutions. Designers have...
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Progressive Business Models

Creating Sustainable and Pro-Social Enterprise

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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017

This book presents and analyses exemplary cases of progressive business, understood as ecologically sustainable, future-respecting and pro-social enterprise. The authors present a number of companies following progressive business practices from a range of industries including ethical and sustainable...
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The Sustainable Business

A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability and Competitiveness

by Jonathan T. Scott
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

This is the 2nd edition of The Sustainable Business (2010), winner of The President's Award for Excellence in a Published Body of Work at Kozminski University, Poland.  Recommended for managers, employees, teachers and students, this readable and informative guide explains the importance of waste...
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by Bart Bossink
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between them, and the behavior of the system. This book explores the business-societal-and-ecological...
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Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future

Insights from 45 Global Thought Leaders

by Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014

The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future offers a broad, critical discussion on what such a future should or...
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by Helen Kopnina, John Blewitt
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018

Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics. The book introduces students...
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by Gareth Kane
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was not caused by BP, but by a contractor, yet BP got the blame. The toxic waste from the production of Apple products dumped in China in 2011 was not dumped by Apple, but by a supplier, yet Apple got the blame. The horsemeat found in beef burgers...
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by Jerry A. Carbo, Viet T. Dao, Steven J. Haase
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017

Social Sustainability for Business demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate. What has become the standard, accepted "business model," with a focus on corporate profit, shareholder wealth maximization, and GDP growth, is no longer...
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Governance of Integrated Product Policy

In Search of Sustainable Production and Consumption

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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

European policy patterns are in a state of transformation. New governance models are shifting power away from states and toward the involvement of all stakeholders and the idea of shared responsibility. It's a move from command and control to push and pull. What's in this new approach for the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

What is the role of the university? Current systems may stress research output, but Wortham-Galvin, Allen, and Sherman seek to re-establish the importance of teaching and service in the work of the 21st-century university. The Sustainable Solutions series shares Portland State University’s experience...
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Race for Sustainability

Energy, Economy, Environment and Ethics

by Ken Hickson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013

“Even with the latest and best vehicles, machinery, technology and buildings, if we continue to use resources irresponsibly — if we continue to waste food, water and energy — we are not even in the race.” This book looks at the sustainable issues and the accompanying opportunities,...
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Sustainable Champions

How International Companies are Changing the Face of Business in China

by Fu Jia, Jonathan Gosling, Morgen Witzel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

In the face of strong competitive pressure and a dynamic market, multinational companies in China are forced to innovate with extraordinary pace and inventiveness. Environmental sustainability is a vital benchmark, and is a key driver for the best companies in each sector – many of them allied with...
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Towards just and sustainable economies

The social and solidarity economy North and South

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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017

With capitalism in crisis - rising inequality, unsustainable resource depletion and climate change all demanding a new economic model - the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) has been suggested as an alternative. What can contribute in terms of generating livelihoods that provide a dignified life,...
Cover of Sustainable ICTs and Management Systems for Green Computing
by Wen-Chen Hu, Naima Kaabouch
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012

One way to reduce the greenhouse gas from IT is green computing, which is the practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated subsystems for reducing the use of hazardous materials, maximizing energy efficiency, and promoting the recyclability or biodegradability...
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