Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
by Gregory Balestrero, Nathalie Udo
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
BOOST LOYALTY, PROFITABILITY, AND GROWTH WITH A STRATEGY OF SUSTAINABILITY
Organizational Survival provides a rational, research-based approach to creating a durable business strategy designed to meet the needs of today's customers and position an organization to outperform while positively impacting...
SEE Change
Making the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The return to business-as-usual after the economic earthquake that rocked financial markets, wrecked banks and brought to light the grotesque distortions of casino capitalism on people and planet must be resisted. A new form of capitalism is both necessary and possible as some forward-thinking political,...
Technological Tools for Value-Based Sustainable Relationships in Health
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
The reach of technological advances can be found in many aspects of life, including the world of medical and healthcare. It is essential to understand these technologies so that those in healthcare professions can create and maintain bonds with the patients that rely on them as well as to identify...
Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude
Case Studies of the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Many of today’s most troubling environmental and economic issues have come to seem insoluble: carbon emissions, overshoot, inequality, joblessness, and a dysfunctional food system. Can we change direction, move away from business as usual, and achieve a more sustainable, empowering, and humane economy?...
Design for Sustainable Change
How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Design for Sustainable Change explores how design thinking and design-led entrepreneurship can address the issue of sustainability. It discusses the ways in which design thinking is evolving and being applied to a much wider spectrum of social and environmental issues, beyond its traditional professional...
ECOrenaissance
A Lifestyle Guide for Cocreating a Stylish, Sexy, and Sustainable World
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
ECOrenaissance provides inspiring tips and tricks for how to live and shop in harmony with nature without sacrificing style or luxury, and how best to benefit from the current renaissance—a global rebirth of sustainable economics, progressive ethics, and green culture—through the wisdom of eco-entrepreneurs,...
Waste Management and Sustainable Consumption
Reflections on consumer waste
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
The accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste.
While research on waste management has previously focused on finding technological...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
The issue of sustainability has become a vital discussion in many industries within the public and private sectors. In the business realm, incorporating such practices allows organizations to re-design their operations more effectively. Green Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Business Practice...
by Fiorenzo Galli
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
In the last one hundred years, the world population has grown at an impressive rate and societies are facing deep changes. New global scenarios must deal with inevitable migrations of peoples, climate changes, economic and production fluctuations, a radical digital revolution, and the global management...
Employee Engagement with Sustainable Business
How to Change the World Whilst Keeping Your Day Job
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Sustainability is, and continues to grow as, a key issue for organizations: in the board room; with investors, customers and regulators; and from employees whose demands on organizations include improving their social and environmental performance in return for loyalty and commitment. However, as...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
A groundbreaking exploration of the most promising new ideas for creating the sustainable cities of tomorrow
The culmination of a four-year collaborative research project undertaken by leading UK universities, in partnership with city authorities, prominent architecture firms, and major international...
Digital Technology and Sustainability
Engaging the Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
This book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more sustainable future.
Contemporary digital...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Following the Brexit and Trump election cycles, consistent, long-term policy solutions to environmental and other societal challenges are becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. Stepping into this breach is a clear opportunity for innovation by public and privately held companies, as well as the...
Sustainable Systems and Energy Management at the Regional Level
Comparative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Conducting a systematic and comparative review of energy and environmental issues, especially at the regional and national levels, can improve communication among different disciplines and be helpful for managers, politicians, and stakeholders involved in energy and environmental systems. Sustainable...