Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
The Imperatives of Sustainable Development
Needs, Justice, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
While sustainability has become a buzzword in discussions about the environment and development, work on theories of sustainable development has received much less attention. However, theory is vital as understanding the origins and development of the concept is the key to achieving successful implementation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Managing Organizations for Sustainable Development in Emerging Countries focuses on the main challenges and opportunities of managing firms and emerging economies in the light of sustainable development. One of the key questions of sustainable development is how organizations from developing countries...
Governance and Sustainability
New Challenges for States, Companies and Civil Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Sustainability cannot be achieved without good governance. The Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 stated that governance and sustainable development are intimately tied together and the future role and architecture of institutions, from local to international levels, will...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical...
Sustainable Development in Amazonia
Paradise in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses the...
by Beth Osnes
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Though development researchers have proven that the participation of women is necessary for effective sustainable development, development practitioners still largely lack culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive tools for including women, especially women living in poverty. Current tools used...
Sustainability and Development in Asia and the Pacific
Emerging Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a common global agenda for development. However, the emerging policy issues vary greatly across the world.
With 32 contributors, this volume provides a timely, research-based overview for the need for policy interventions to improve the sustainability...
Advanced Analytics for Green and Sustainable Economic Development
Supply Chain Models and Financial Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Trends in green and sustainable development have and will continue to influence all major economies. Identifying the risks and opportunities associated with sustainable economic development and green analysis for sustainability warrants the use and study of advanced analytics. Advanced Analytics for...
Strategies for National Sustainable Development
A handbook for their planning and implementation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series
This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series...
Sustainable Development Policy
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Sustainable Development Policy: A European Perspective uses a variety of multidisciplinary perspectives to explore the ways in which sustainable infrastructures can play a more prominent and effective role in international development policy. Building on a solid introduction to sustainability and...
Transformative Sustainable Development
Participation, reflection and change
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more fundamental changes in social-political processes and relations. In this context, participation is a genuinely transformative approach to sustainable...
Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment to 2050
A Foresight Approach to Construction and Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Brings together leading thinking on issues of new professional practice and on the future of a sustainable built environment
This book focuses on both construction and development issues, and examines how we can transition to a sustainable future by the year 2050—bringing together leading...
Sustainable Development
Capabilities, Needs, and Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection’s argument...