Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
by Charisios Achillas, Dionysis D. Bochtis, Dimitrios Aidonis
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
Today, one of the top priorities of an organization’s modern corporate strategy is to portray itself as socially responsible and environmentally sustainable. As a focal point of sustainability initiatives, green supply chain management has emerged as a key strategy that can provide competitive advantages...
Achieving Sustainable Business Excellence
The Role of Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
Compiling the best practices of business excellence frameworks around the world, this new book addresses the need for innovative research on sustainable business performance. Using detailed empirical studies, the authors outline the motives and benefits of the implementation of such frameworks in...
Motoring Africa: Sustainable Automotive Industrialization
Building Entrepreneurs, Creating Jobs, and Driving the World's Next Economic Miracle.
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Global business leaders looking for profitable growth and cost-effective access to new markets will want to read Motoring Africa. Local African business leaders looking to innovate and create new opportunities will want to read Motoring Africa. Local African government leaders looking to encourage...
Popular Representations of Development
Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Although the academic study of development is well established, as is also its policy implementation, less considered are the broader, more popular understandings of development that often shape agendas and priorities, particularly in representative democracies.
Through its accessible and provocative...
Low Carbon Development
Key Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of low carbon development and takes an international...
by Lata Narayanaswamy
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Knowledge-for-development is under-theorised and under-researched within development studies, but as a set of policy objectives it is thriving within development practice. Donors and other agencies are striving to improve the flow of information within and between decision-makers and so-called ‘poor...
Narrowing the Development Gap in ASEAN
Drivers and Policy Options
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
An important part of the vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is to ensure that the benefits of development and economic integration are equitably shared by all member states and their citizens. ASEAN’s work therefore aims to narrow the development gap between ASEAN member...
The Imperative of Development
The Wolfensohn Center at Brookings
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
The achievements and legacy of the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings
The Imperative of Development highlights the research and policy analysis produced by the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings. The Center, which operated from 2006 to 2011, was the first home at Brookings...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Whilst education has been widely recognised as a key tool for development, this has tended to be limited to the incremental changes that education can bring about within a given development paradigm, as opposed to its role in challenging dominant conceptions and practices of development and creating...
The Magic of Tiny Business
You Don’t Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
“This is a powerful book—tiny is mighty. Sharon Rowe's simple shift in thinking is a profound idea, precisely what we need to hear.”
—Seth Godin, author of Linchpin
Too many of us feel trapped by work that keeps us from living our purpose. We fantasize about starting our own business,...
Common Wealth
Economics for a Crowded Planet
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
In Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty- offers an urgent assessment of the environmental degradation, rapid population growth, and extreme poverty that threaten global peace and prosperity....
Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility
An Introductory Text on CSR Theory & Practice - Past, Present & Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility (CSR) - incorporating corporate responsibility, sustainable development, business ethics, corporate citizenship, business & society and corporate governance - has become a widely taught subject in business schools and practiced in companies around the world....
Javatrekker
Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2007
In each cup of coffee we drink the major issues of the twenty-first century-globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination-are played out in villages and remote areas around the world. In Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee,...
The Economics of Enough
How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many...