Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Risk Conundrums
Solving Unsolvable Problems
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
A risk conundrum can be viewed as a risk that poses major issues in assessment, and whose management is not easily engaged. Such perplexing problems can either paralyze or badly delay risk analysis and directions for progression. Rather than simply focusing on the progress in risk analysis that has...
Environmental Politics and Governance in the Anthropocene
Institutions and legitimacy in a complex world
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The term Anthropocene denotes a new geological epoch characterized by the unprecedented impact of human activities on the Earth’s ecosystems. While the natural sciences have advanced their understanding of the drivers and processes of global change considerably over the last two decades, the social...
Environmental Communication and Travel Journalism
Consumerism, Conflict and Concern
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Travel journalism about natural attractions is environmental communication at the cusp of consumerism and concern. Countries and regions that market forests, rivers and wildlife to international tourists drive place-of-origin brand recognition that benefits exporters in other sectors. Place-branding...
Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience
Responding to Climate Change and the Relevance of the Built Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Cities, and the built environment more broadly, are key in the global response to climate change. This groundbreaking book seeks to understand what governance tools are best suited for achieving cities that are less harmful to the natural environment, are less dependent on finite resources, and can better...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book offers a timely snapshot of soft computing methodologies and their applications to various problems related to sustainability, including electric energy consumption; fault diagnosis; vessel fuel consumption; determining the best sites for new malls; maritime port projects; and ad-hoc vehicular...
Lake Tourism
An Integrated Approach to Lacustrine Tourism Systems
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Lakes are an essential element of some of the world's most popular tourism destinations. However, increased pressure from visitors and the tourism industry as well as from other, sometimes competing, land and water uses has made the sustainable development of lakes increasingly problematic. This book...
Metaphors for Change
Partnerships, Tools and Civic Action for Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
How can we get from where we are to where we want to be? Metaphors for Change attempts to answer this question and provide a roadmap for sustainability by bringing together the thoughts of a unique collection of leading change agents from business, government and academia.
Environmental questions...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
OECD's 2010 review of Luxembourg's environmental conditions and progress in air, water, waste and materials management; nature and biodiversity; the environment-economy interface; the environment-social interface; and international commitments and co-operation. The analyses presented are supported...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
In recent years the concept of the resource "nexus" has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful new way to understand and better govern the myriad complex relationships between multiple resources, actors and their security concerns. Particular...
Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing
Theories, Histories and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and Policies examines and assesses the interdependence between sustainability and wellbeing by drawing attention to humans as producers and consumers in a post-human age. Why wellbeing ought to be regarded as essential to sustainable...
by Masudul Alam Choudhury
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Can there be God-conscious organizational behaviour in the real world of today’s capitalist corporations and the alternatives? In this overview of God-consciousness as a moral-awareness model of preference formation, functions, structures, and programs of organization within the purview of institutions...
Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture
Putting research into use in low income countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Stemming from an 11-year DFID funded programme under its Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS), Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into Low Income Countries reviews part of this programme as a case study of a broader issue of technology development...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Knowledge of scientific and technological developments, and the flexible communication and decision making, knowledge sharing, and collaboration that stem from them, can enable organizations and individuals to be successful and viable competitors in today’s global economy. Information Systems and...
Climate Justice and the Economy
Social mobilization, knowledge and the political
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
As climate change has increasingly become the main focus of environmentalist activism since the late 1990s, the global economic drivers of CO2 emissions are now a major concern for radical greens. In turn, the emphasis on connected crises in both natural and social systems has attracted more activists...