Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Designing for Sustainability
A Guide to Building Greener Digital Products and Services
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Pixels use electricity, and a lot of it. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. That’s because today’s average web page has surpassed two megabytes in size, leading to slow load times, frustrated users, and a lot of wasted energy. With this practical...
Aid, Technology and Development
The Lessons from Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Over the last 50 years, Nepal has been considered an experiential model in determining the effectiveness and success of global human development strategies, both in theory and in practice. As such, it provides a rich array of in-depth case studies in both development success and failure. This edited...
Steady-State Economics
Second Edition With New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
First published in 1977, this volume caused a sensation because of Daly's radical view that "enough is best." Today, his ideas are recognized as the key to sustainable development, and Steady-State Economics is universally acknowledged as the leading book on the economics of sustainability.
The Predistribution Agenda
Tackling Inequality and Supporting Sustainable Growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The concept of predistribution is increasingly setting the agenda in progressive politics. But what does it mean? The predistributive agenda is concerned with how states can alter the underlying distribution of market outcomes so they no longer rely solely on post hoc redistribution to achieve economic...
by World Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
The WDR 2012: Gender Equality and Development will focus on the evolution of gender equality across the world in the context of the development process. The report will consider gender equality as a core development goal in itself, and will argue that gender equality matters for the pace of development....
Beyond Scarcity
Water Security in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Water has always been a source of risks and opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. Yet rapidly changing socioeconomic, political, and environmental conditions make water security a different, and more urgent, challenge than ever before. This report shows that achieving water security means...
by Adeyemi Egbeleke
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
The prevalence of Corporate Unsustainability is because businesses and companies practices guided by the 'Almighty CSR' are not able to deal with Corporate Responsibilities (CR) performance issues. Corporate Unsustainability contributed to global sustainability problems such as devastation to lives...
Converging World
Connecting Communities in Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
The Converging World is based on the principle of ‘contraction and convergence’ in regard to climate change, which means reducing the ecological footprint of some while increasing that of others. As the pressures of population and consumption are stretching the planet’s capacity beyond its limits,...
Teaching Business Sustainability
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In a world where corporate governance scandals have become the everyday, the role of business schools in producing the managers of today – and tomorrow – has come into sharp focus. Today's managers and the MBAs that will follow them are in need of an education that grounds business ethics and...
The Answers: Sustainability
How can you learn to live more sustainably, without giving up your lifestyle-why should you care?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
How can you learn to live more sustainably, without giving up your lifestyle, and why should you care? We often hear the terms sustainability and sustainable development, but how much do we really understand about what they mean? Is sustainability just climate change in a different package? What’s...
by Michael Southworth, Eran Ben-Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The topic of streets and street design is of compelling interest today as public officials, developers, and community activists seek to reshape urban patterns to achieve more sustainable forms of growth and development. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities traces ideas about street design and...
Embodying Integral Development
A Holistic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
In this fourth and final volume of the CARE-ing for Integral Development series, Ronnie Lessem integrates all that has come before in terms of: Community activation; Awakening integral consciousness; and institutionalized Research. Here he focuses on individual and community development alongside...
An Enduring Partnership
The Maldives and the Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
The Asian Development Bank has partnered with the Government of the Maldives since 1978 to help in the country's development. The partnership has yielded substantial improvements in various sectors of the economy, with particular emphasis on tax administration; energy development; maritime transport;...
Natural Step
A Framework for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
The Natural Step framework for sustainability was first developed in 1989. The framework and the organisation, The Natural Step International, have been through many changes during that time, yet the essence of this unique, science-based approach remains unchanged. It is a way of seeing the world...