Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Buying into the Environment
Experiences, Opportunities and Potential for Eco-procurement
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Green purchasing - or eco-procurement - by local and central governments has long been recommended in documents such as Agenda 21 to be a key - although sometimes supplemental-ingredient in the achievement of more environmentally responsible economies. Certainly, sustainable consumption cannot...
Rethinking Authority in Global Climate Governance
How transnational climate initiatives relate to the international climate regime
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
In the past few years, numerous authors have highlighted the emergence of transnational climate initiatives, such as city networks, private certification schemes, and business self-regulation in the policy domain of climate change. While these transnational governance arrangements can surely contribute...
by Ling Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Economic growth and its relevant subjects have been given the first priority in the research agenda since China initiated economic reforms in 1978, while the topics of social protection and gender equality have been largely left at the periphery for a long period.
This book is a collection...
EU Environmental Policy
Its journey to centre stage
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
At a time when Europeans across the continent are focused on the EU's future direction, this book provides an important contribution to the current debate. Created for reasons quite unconnected with the environment, the EU has been given a compelling new justification by the success of its environmental...
The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice
Deepening their roots
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book discusses the current demographic shifts of blacks, Latinos, and other people of colour out of certain strong-market cities and the growing fear of displacement among low-income urban residents. It documents these populations’ efforts to remain in their communities and highlights how this...
The Necessary Revolution
How Individuals And Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Imagine a world in which the excess energy from one business would be used to heat another. Where buildings need less and less energy around the world, and where “regenerative” commercial buildings – ones that create more energy than they use – are being designed. A world in which environmentally...
by Frank Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
We the People (united citizens) are the most powerful force in society. But we abdicate our power and authority when we allow vested interests to divide us into conservatives and liberals. In his Farewell Address, George Washington warned that vested interests would use political parties to divide...
Metrics for Sustainable Business
Measures and Standards for the Assessment of Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Metrics for Sustainable Business is the first book to give students a comprehensive understanding of sustainability in organizations from an accounting perspective. The book walks student through the steps for doing a sustainability assessment, and aims to develop them into financial analysts who...
Eco-Innovation in Industry
Enabling Green Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2010
Eco-innovation will be a key driver of industry efforts to tackle climate change and realise “green growth” in the post-Kyoto era. Eco-innovation calls for faster introduction of breakthrough technologies and for more systemic application of available solutions, including non-technological ones....
by Jakob von Uexkull, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1992
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
The Right Livelihood Award, known as "the Alternative Nobel Prize," was established in 1980 "to honor and support individuals...
by Suzanne Benn, Melissa Edwards, Tim Williams
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Since this classic book was first published in 2003, sustainability has increasingly been accepted as standard business practice for leading corporations, while the science itself has revealed how human activity has become the dominant force influencing irreversible changes in the planetary systems.
The...
Earth
A Tenant's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"It’s impossible to grasp the whole planet or integrate all the descriptions of it. But because we live here, we have to try. This is not just an artistic compulsion or an existential yearning, still less an academic exercise. It’s a survival issue. This is the only planet we have. We’re stuck...
by Frederic O. Sargent, Paul Lusk, Jose Rivera
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
Rural Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities offers an explanation of the concept of Rural Environmental Planning (REP) along with case studies that show how to apply REP to specific issues such as preserving agricultural lands, planning river and lake basins, and preserving historical sites.
Grow Small, Think Beautiful
Ideas for a Sustainable World from Schumacher College
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Schumacher College, based near Totnes in Devon, England, opened its doors in the early 1990s and is now an internationally-renowned centre for transformative learning on all aspects of sustainable living. James Lovelock led the first course on Gaia theory. A host of visionary thinkers has followed,...