Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Green Gentrification
Urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "greening" from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive...
by Dr Charu Jain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Corporations are slowly realizing the impact of their business on the environment and society. They are also facing increasing pressure from their stakeholders to follow responsible business practices. Many companies are looking to incorporate and manage a sustainable business. However, they are unaware...
by Beba Rakic, Mira Rakic
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Sustainability is imperative. This book is “software” (the sustainability-oriented mindset) for “hardware”:
Organizations – the sustainability of organizations
Governments – the sustainability of governments
Individuals – the sustainability of individuals
Academics – the understanding...
Toward Sustainable and Balanced Development
Strategy and Action Plan for the Greater Mekong Subregion North-South Economic Corridor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The North-South Economic Corridor (NSEC), one of the priority economic corridors under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program, was designated as a GMS flagship initiative in 2002. Efforts have been taken since then to develop NSEC but these were pursued mainly on a project-by-project...
Strongly Sustainable Societies
Organising Human Activities on a Hot and Full Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
The response of the international community to the pressing socio-ecological problems has been framed around the concept of ‘sustainable development’. The ecological pressure, however, has continued to rise and mainstream sustainability discourse has proven to be problematic. It contains an instrumental...
CAREC 2030
Connecting the Region for Shared and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program, now 16 years in operation, has recorded impressive achievements in regional economic cooperation, particularly in the areas of transport, energy, trade facilitation, and trade policy. From 2001 to end September 2017, investments in member...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
The concept of green growth, coupled with one of green economy and low carbon development, is a global concern especially in the face of the multiple crises that the world has faced in recent years - climate, oil, food, and financial crises. In East Asia, this concept is regarded as the key in transforming...
Cultural Sustainability and Regional Development
Theories and practices of territorialisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Meeting the aims of sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult; at the same time, the call for culture is becoming more powerful. This book explores the relationships between culture, sustainability and regional change through the concept of ‘territorialisation’. This new concept describes...
Systemic Structural Constellations and Sustainability in Academia
A New Method for Sustainable Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
In order to create truly sustainable universities, we require new methods of visualising and interpreting them holistically as institutions built on complex relationships and systems, rather than as individual departments and people operating independently. This book uses a systemic structural constellations...
Green Urbanism
Learning From European Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
As the need to confront unplanned growth increases, planners and policymakers scramble for practical tools and examples of successful and workable approaches. Growth manageminitiatives are underway in the US, but many American "success stories" provide only one piece of the puzzle. To find examples...
Sustainable Innovation
Build Your Company’s Capacity to Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2015
If we can carry in our pockets more computing power than the Apollo program needed to put a man on the moon, why can't we solve problems like climate change, famine, or poverty? The answer lies, in part, in the distinctive challenges of creating innovations that address today's pressing environmental...
Spirituality and Sustainability
New Horizons and Exemplary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
This book aims to examine sustainability and spirituality philosophically with ethics as the balancing force. The goal is to reveal the important intersection between sustainability and spirituality by using spirituality as the invisible guiding hand in the quest for sustainability. The editors and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Over the years, irresponsible business practices have resulted in industrial waste, which is negatively impacting the environment. As a result, it is imperative to develop new solutions to reverse the damage. Collective Creativity for Responsible and Sustainable Business Practice is an authoritative...
Promoting Sustainable Living
Sustainability as an Object of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Current images of sustainability are often designed to instil fear and force change, not because we believe in it, but because we fear the consequences of inaction.
Moving away from negative portrayals of sustainability, this book identifies the factors that motivate people to aspire towards...