Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Policies that promote green growth need to be founded on a good understanding of the determinants of green growth and need to be supported with appropriate indicators to monitor progress. This book is an update of the 2014 edition. It presents a selection of updated and new indicators that illustrate...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
This books presents the curricula necessary for sustainability in higher education. It shows how the learning process is transforming in order to promote sustainability. It prepares administrators, teachers and students to diffuse the development in the field, showing a curricula based on three interconnected...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
This report examines innovative mechanisms that can help attract new financial resources into water and sanitation services. In particular, it focuses on mobilising market-based repayable financing (such as loans, bonds and equity) as a way of bridging the financial gap to meet the water-related Millennium...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Is the value of reducing environmental risk greater for children than for adults? If so, what does this mean for policy makers? This report, the final output of the Valuation of Environment-Related Health Impacts (VERHI) project, presents new research findings on these key environmental policy questions.
The...
Overfished Ocean Strategy
Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
We all know the proverb about teaching someone to fish, but if there are no fish left, knowing how to catch them won’t do you any good. And that’s the position businesses are in today. Resources are being depleted at an alarming rate and the cost of raw materials is rising dramatically. As a result,...
Corporate Social Responsibility in Times of Crisis
Practices and Cases from Europe, Africa and the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book explores national and transnational companies' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in times and settings in which they are confronted with economic and social challenges and analyzes these situations, ranging from the financial crisis to fourth generation sustainability. Presenting...
Thinking, Fast and Slow
By Daniel Kahneman - Summary
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow: A Complete Summary
If we want to do something in the best possible way, the first thing we need to do is understand what we are dealing with and what we want to do.
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a book in which readers can find much useful advice regarding this...
Stirring It Up
How to Make Money and Save the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
A true force for change, Gary Hirshberg has been at the forefront of movements working for environmental and social transformation for 30 years. From his early days as an educator and activist to his current position as President and CE-Yo of Stonyfield Farm, the world's largest organic yogurt company,...
Sustainability in a Digital World
New Opportunities Through New Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the different emerging concepts in the innovative area of sustainability and digital technology. More than 20 leading thinkers from the fields of digitalization, strategic management, sustainability and organizational development share clearly structured...
by Dr. Beverly Browning
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Real world and commonly understood examples and experiences help the reader identify strengths which underscore a healthy marketing business plan and mistakes to avoid. Rules of Thumb throughout create easy to remember and apply fundamental principles and guideposts along the marketing journey.
The Nature State
Rethinking the History of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This volume brings together case studies from around the globe (including China, Latin America, the Philippines, Namibia, India and Europe) to explore the history of nature conservation in the twentieth century. It seeks to highlight the state, a central actor in these efforts, which is often taken...
Balancing Act
Cutting Energy Subsidies while Protecting Affordability
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In Eastern Europe and Central Asia there are significant pressures for residential energy tariffs to rise, as government budgets are increasingly stretched and cannot afford to pay large energy subsidies. Further pressures for tariffs to rise come from environmental concerns, as the tariff levels that...
by Professor David Crowther, M. Azizul Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
It is now 20 years since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, better known as the Earth Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro. An important achievement of the conference was an agreement on the Climate Change Convention which in turn led to the Kyoto Protocol. Another was agreement...
An Introduction to Sustainability
Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.
The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases out the diverse but intersecting domains...