Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Living with Environmental Change
Waterworlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Climate change is a lived experience of changes in the environment, often destroying conventional forms of subsistence and production, creating new patterns of movement and connection, and transforming people’s imagined future.
This book explores how people across the world think about environmental...
Blue Skies over Beijing
Economic Growth and the Environment in China
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Over the last thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most...
Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability
Between past and future
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and...
Climate Change and Cultural Heritage
A Race against Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
History reveals how civilisations can be decimated by changes in climate. More recently modern methods of warfare have exposed the vulnerability of the artefacts of civilisation. Bringing together a range of subjects - from science, energy and sustainability to aesthetics theory and civilization theory...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
Within the span of last couple of years, the increasing human interference with v- ious natural ecosystems and higher discharge of pollutants has presented numerous challenges to the society related to preserving the nature for a better tomorrow. The challenges also mount pressure on the scienti?c...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Private sector investment is widely recognized as the engine of economic growth. The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) long-term strategic framework 2008-2020 (Strategy 2020) identifies private sector development and private sector operations as one of five drivers of change to pursue its vision and agenda....
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The 2012 Development Effectiveness Review (DEfR) is the sixth annual corporate performance report of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The review found that the development effectiveness review process introduced in 2008 has successfully propagated a results culture across ADB. This has led to improved...
Towards Low Carbon Cities in China
Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights for policy, urban planning and management.
Drawing on the results of a four-year multidisciplinary research project, the book examines how factors such as urban households’...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book examines the challenges and possibilities of conducting cultural environmental history research today. Disciplinary commitments certainly influence the questions scholars ask and the ways they seek out answers, but some methodological challenges go beyond the boundaries of any one discipline....
Nations, Do Not Wait for the Energy Corporations!
We can reduce our electricity price and the expenditures for heating and driving our car by two thirds. How? By consuming our own power coming from our own photovoltaic modules and wind power shares, from “photovoltaic plug-in fields” in our county.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
With this new strategy your country can reduce the price of electricity by greater than half with clean power!
This book, written by marketing strategist Clemens Hauser from the “green energy country” of Germany, introduces a breakthrough concept in renewable energies worldwide....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
‘Transdisciplinarity’ is a form of research and practice that synthesises knowledge from a range of academic disciplines and from the community. There is now global interest and a significant body of work on transdisciplinarity and its potential to address the apparently intractable problems of...
Sustainability in Austerity
How Local Government Can Deliver During Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
As the economic crisis of 2008/09 unfolded, it became apparent that the huge mountains of debt being built up by central governments were unsustainable and that savage cuts would be needed to balance budgets. It also became clear that the public sector would be one of the first in line when the axe...
Urban Sustainability and River Restoration
Green and Blue Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Urban Sustainability and River Restoration: Green and Blue Infrastructure considers the integration of green and blue infrastructure in cities as a strategy useful for acting on causes and effects of environmental and ecological issues. River restoration projects are unique opportunities for sustainable...
The World We'll Leave Behind
Grasping the Sustainability Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
It is now clear that human activity has influenced how the biosphere supports life on Earth, and given rise to a set of connected environmental and social problems. In response to the challenge that these problems present, a series of international conferences and summits led to discussions of sustainable...