Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Climate Change Adaptation and Development
Transforming Paradigms and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Climate change poses multiple challenges to development. It affects lives and livelihoods, infrastructure and institutions, as well as beliefs, cultures and identities. There is a growing recognition that the social dimensions of vulnerability and adaptation now need to move to the forefront of development...
China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions
The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
China, a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world’s population, will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions. The aims of the Paris Agreement may stand or fall with China, both for its own contribution and the example it will set the developing world.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
One of the most heartening developments in climate change mitigation in recent years has been the increasing attention paid to the principle of ‘thinking globally and acting locally’. The failure of the international community to reach significant global agreements on the reduction of greenhouse...
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories
Religion and Community Development in Rural Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories examines the ways in which religion and community development are closely intertwined in a rural part of contemporary Latin America. Using historical, documentary, and ethnographic data collected over more than a decade as an aid worker and as a researcher...
New Media and International Development
Representation and affect in microfinance
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
New Media and International Development is the first in-depth examination of microfinance’s enduring popularity with Northern publics. Through a case study of Kiva.org, the world’s first person-to-person microlending website, and other microfinance organizations, the book argues that international...
Just Transitions
Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Current economic growth strategies are rapidly depleting natural resources and eco-systems. Just Transitions provides a comprehensive overview of these global challenges from a global South perspective. How do developing countries eradicate poverty via economic development while encountering the consequences...
by Kyla Tienhaara
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
It is widely accepted that limiting climate change to 2°C will require substantial and sustained investments in low-carbon technologies and infrastructure. However, the dominance of market fundamentalism in economic thinking for the past three decades has meant that governments have generally viewed...
Prophets of Agroforestry
Guaraní Communities and Commercial Gathering
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
For almost four centuries, the indigenous Chiripá (Guaraní) people of eastern Paraguay have maintained themselves as a distinct society and culture, despite continual and often intense relations with Paraguayan society and the international economy. In this study, Richard K. Reed explores the economic...
Civil Society Sustainability
New challenges in organisational legitimacy, credibility, and viability
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This publication focuses on the challenges faced by civil society to remain sustainable in response to major changes in the global political, economic and social environment. Academics and practitioners from all over the world have contributed original articles, practical notes and viewpoints which...
Structural Economics
Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In all societies, the main causes of environmental degradation are resource extraction and the generation of waste by households and industries. Realistic strategies for mitigating these impacts require an understanding of both the technologies by which resources are transformed into products, and...
Limited Wants, Unlimited Means
A Reader On Hunter-Gatherer Economics And The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
For roughly 99% of their existence on earth, Homo sapiens lived in small bands of semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, finding everything they needed to survive and thrive in the biological richness that surrounded them. Mif not all of the problems that threaten our own technologically advanced society...
by Christoph Kotsch
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 1,7, University of Duisburg-Essen (Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: Starting a few years ago, China introduced several policies to support the implementation of green buildings...
Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME
Placing Sustainability at the Heart of Management Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Since the inception of the United Nations Global Compact-sponsored initiative Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) in 2007, there has been increased debate over how to adapt management education to best meet the demands of the 21st-century business environment. While consensus has...
Smart Urban Regeneration
Visions, Institutions and Mechanisms for Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The role of real estate in our cities is crucial to building sustainable and resilient urban futures. Smart Urban Regeneration brings together institutional, planning and real estate insights into an innovative regeneration framework for academics, students and property professionals.
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