Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Sustainagility
How Smart Innovation and Agile Companies will Help Protect our Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Sustainagility is about the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges with rapidly evolving business innovations, applications, methods, products and processes, adapted to changing situations. The book looks at how innovation and agility can save the world from the...
The Cooperative Society
The next stage of human history
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In this book, we present the hypothesis that humans may be on the threshold of a new historical stage, one characterized by cooperation, democracy, the equitable distribution of resources and a sustainable relationship with nature. Our history for more than 200,000 years has included cooperation with...
Spiritual-Busyness
From Surviving to Thriving
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The only way humanity can ease its collective pain and suffering is through cooperation, but can you imagine our politicians standing for unconditional love in their daily political busyness of representing us, the people, who elected them to office? Chances are you cant, which is why we need a new...
Managing the Water-Energy-Land-Food Nexus in Korea
Policies and Governance Options
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
This report assesses the key bottlenecks within the water-energy-land-food nexus in Korea, and proposes policy recommendations and governance arrangements to future-proof environmental integrity and enhance sustainable growth. The increasing pressure caused by urbanisation, industrialisation, population...
The Low Carbon Economy
Understanding and Supporting a Sustainable Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2017
This edited collection explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the transition to a low carbon economy, and outlines the different approaches taken to ensure the sustainability of such a transition. Chapters explore the nature of the transformation from a ‘brown’ to ‘green’ economy,...
Global Sustainability
21 Leading CEOs Show How to Do Well by Doing Good
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Smart business leaders care about Sustainability. It’s not just good PR—it’s good business, and a growing number of leading CEOs are embracing it.
Mark Lefko’s Global Sustainability examines this vital subject from the perspective of today’s most influential business leaders. Global...
Green Organizations
Driving Change with I-O Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
This book is a landmark in showing how industrial-organizational psychology and related fields contribute to environmental sustainability in organizations. Industrial-organizational psychology embraces a scientist/practitioner model: evidence-based best practice to solve real-world issues. The contributors...
Paying for Biodiversity
Enhancing the Cost-Effectiveness of Payments for Ecosystem Services
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Biodiversity and ecosystem services provide tangible benefits for society, such as food provisioning, water purification, genetic resources or climate regulation. These services provide critical life support functions and contribute to human health, well being and economic growth. Yet biodiversity...
Street Smart Sustainability
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Profitably Greening Your Organization's DNA
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Go Green While Making Green You already know why your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process—from getting employee buy-in and conducting a current sustainability audit to developing a plan of action and measuring...
The Green Guide
For a Sustainable and Profitable Economy in Hospitality, Retail, and Home Businesses
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Any business can take steps to be friendlier to the environment, but how do you do it while maintaining and actually boosting profits? Find out how moving from a light green to a dark green approach pays off for hospitality, retail, and home-based businesses. Your business can conserve energy and...
Corporation 2020
Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today’s market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many unemployed, creates ecological scarcities and environmental risks,...
by Emanuela Delbufalo
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This book analyzes how and under what conditions collaborating corporations can effectively manage relationships with their suppliers in order to decrease the risk of suppliers’ noncompliance with codes of conduct and standards. In so doing, it represents an important addition to the management...
The New Rules of Green Marketing
Strategies, Tools, and Inspiration for Sustainable Branding
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Green products have been around since the 1970s, but it’s only in recent years that they’ve become ubiquitous. It’s not because consumers suddenly prize sustainability above all. It’s because savvy green marketers are no longer trying to “sell the earth”—instead they’re promoting the...
Earth, Inc.
Using Nature's Rules to Build Sustainable Profits
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Having trouble reconciling your desire to do good by the environment while also moving your company forward? In Earth, Inc., Gregory Unruh shows you how to embed sustainability into everything your company does - profitably. Providing prescriptive steps that will inform your business decisions, Unruh...