Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Crisis Spaces
Structures, Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe – Spain, Portugal, Italy and, in its most extreme case, Greece – has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations.
This book shifts the emphasis from macroeconomics to the relationship...
by Joe Bolger
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The study contains analyses and recommendations on the approaches to capacity development that work best and the conditions that have been conducive to their success, the unique challenges faced by Pacific developing member countries in addressing capacity constraints, and the implications for future interventions at both the strategic and operational levels.
Nachhaltiges Business Development Management
Strategien für die Transformation
Language: German
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Lutz Becker stellt in diesem essential sowohl Strategien und Organisation als auch Rolle und Aufgaben des Business Development Managements strukturiert und verständlich vor. Zudem vermittelt der Autor praxiserprobte Methoden des Business Developments. Dabei lenkt er insbesondere den Blick auf Strategien...
by Sanja Tišma, Ana Marija Boromisa, Ana Pavičić Kaselj
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book focuses on environmental financing in the process of alignment with the EU.
Based on comparative analysis of national environmental strategies and financial needs, and their links with strategic development documents in five selected countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
South-South cooperation is becoming ever more important to states, policy-makers and academics. Many Northern states, international agencies and NGOs are promoting South-South partnerships as a means of ‘sharing the burden’ in funding and undertaking development, assistance and protection activities,...
by Andrés R. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the fastest and most profound social transformation of our...
by Johan Rockström, Mattias Klum, Peter Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Big World, Small Planet probes the urgent predicament of our times: how is it possible to create a positive future for both humanity and Earth? We have entered the Anthropocene—the era of massive human impacts on the planet—and the actions of over seven billion residents threaten to destabilize...
Powering Forward
What Everyone Should Know About America's Energy Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A historic energy revolution is underway in the United States. Wind, sunlight, and other sustainable resources are now the fastest growing sources of energy in the U.S. and worldwide. American families are installing power plants on their roofs and entire communities are switching to 100 percent renewable...
A Good Disruption
Redefining Growth in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Disruptive technology is one of the defining economic trends of our age, transforming one major industry after another. But what is the true impact of such disruption on the world's economies, and does it really have the potential to solve global problems such as low growth, inequality and environmental...
Financing our Foodshed
Growing Local Food with Slow Money
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In towns and cities across North America, a quiet revolution is underway. Fed up with sending their money off to make a fast buck in faraway markets, people are putting their money to work where they live, in markets they trust and understand - starting with food.Financing Our Foodshed is a collection...
Power of Just Doing Stuff
How Local Action Can Change the World
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Packed with real-life examples and the voices of people who have created innovative local businesses and invested in all manner of new enterprises, this call for local action argues that the seed of a new economy—and the answer to the desperate search for a new way forward in an increasingly economically...
From Aid to Trade
How Aid Organizations, Businesses, and Governments Can Work Together: Lessons Learned from Haiti
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Why do poor countries remain poor? Why, after receiving billions of dollars, do poor countries remain poor? Why are failing foreign aid models utilized over and over again? After the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, authors Daniel Jean-Louis and Jacqueline Klamer observed first-hand the negative...
by John Thackara
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A visionary yet practical guide to building a more sustainable future, by one of the most important voices in environmentally aware design
Are there practical solutions to the many global challenges—climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare—that threaten our way of life? Author John...
Fixing Fashion
Rethinking the Way We Make, Market and Buy Our Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
With sales of more than five hundred billion US dollars a year, the fashion industry is one of the most important sectors of the global economy, employing millions of men, women, and often children in the developing world. And yet its record is far from pretty. The collapse of Bangladesh's Rana Plaza...