Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
by Harold Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Taking Responsibility for Tourism is about the globally vital necessity of realising sustainable tourism. It is a hugely important challenge to those who organise and sell travel and tourism, and those who consume it. Taking Responsibility for Tourism is not a book about a niche product; major trade...
To Be of Use
The Seven Seeds of Meaningful Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
As a pioneer in the sustainable business movement, Smith & Hawken co-founder Dave Smith is on a mission to inspire people everywhere to reconcile compassionate values with capitalism. To Be of Use shows that business can be a force for radical change and paints a picture of how those driven by...
Energy, Cities and Sustainability
An historical approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
According to some estimates, humanity has now passed the point at which city dwellers outnumber country dwellers. This simple fact encapsulates a multitude of historical trends and contentions, not the least being "is this sustainable"?
Energy, Cities and Sustainability aims to illuminate...
Sustainability
Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A critical resource for approaching sustainability across the disciplines
Sustainability and social justice remain elusive even though each is unattainable without the other. Across the industrialized West and the Global South, unsustainable practices and social inequities exacerbate one another....
Conflict, Peace, Security and Development
Theories and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Whilst classical approaches linked development with peace, security has become central to understandings of both war and peacetime. This book uniquely reflects on how to deal with the convergence of war and peace in the context of global economic and geo-political development. It addresses methodological...
Promoting Innovation and Inclusion for a Prosperous Asia
Proceedings of the ADB-Asian Think Tank Development Forum 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Partnering with the Korea Development Institute, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held the forum on 20-21 November 2014 at Seoul, Republic of Korea. The forum featured research papers that tackled issues on globalization and regional integration, innovation, middle-income trap, inclusive growth and...
International Energy and Poverty
The emerging contours
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Around 2.8 billion people globally, also known as the "Other Third" or "energy poor", have little or no access to beneficial energy that meets their needs for cooking, heating, water, sanitation, illumination, transportation, or basic mechanical power.This book uniquely integrates...
Promoting walking and cycling
New perspectives on sustainable travel
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Promoting walking and cycling proposes solutions to one of the most pressing problems in contemporary British transport planning. The need to develop more sustainable urban mobility lies at the heart of energy and environmental policies and has major implications for the planning of cities and for...
Making Electricity Resilient
Risk and Security in a Liberalized Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Energy risk and security have become topical matters in Western and international policy discussions; ranging from international climate change mitigation to investment in energy infrastructures to support economic growth and more sustainable energy provisions. As such, ensuring the resilience of...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This publication examines the performance of the Asian Development Bank in achieving the goals of Strategy 2020, one of the institution's long-term planning documents. It tracks recent development progress in Asia and the Pacific, assesses ADB's development effectiveness, and identifies areas where...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The Asian Development Review is the professional journal of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that aims to disseminate the results of economic and development research carried out by ADB staff and resource persons. The Review seeks high-quality papers with relevance to policy issues and operational matters...
Political Transition and Inclusive Development in Malawi
The democratic dividend
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Malawi is among the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa that has witnessed significant improvements in relation to meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. It exhibits some of the main challenges facing African democracies while they attempt to consolidate the benefits of democratisation.
Political...
Climate-Resilient Development
Participatory solutions from developing countries
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks.
This book critically discusses climate-resilient development in the context of current...
The Responsible Fashion Company
Integrating Ethics and Aesthetics in the Value Chain
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
In The Responsible Fashion Company, Rinaldi and Testa argue that the fashion industry is at a crossroads: the need for a global shift to a sustainable model has never been more urgent. Yet, they demonstrate that we are witnessing a revolution led by conscious consumers and enlightened companies, who...