Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Sustainability Demystified!
A Practical Guide for Business Leaders and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Sustainability Demystified! is a practical guide that details the steps necessary to create business success. Christopher removes the speculation and mysteries surrounding applied sustainability best practices, leaves home the politics and instead features actual case studies from within a single geographic...
Governing the Energy Transition
Reality, Illusion or Necessity?
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The Energy Transition, the inevitable shift away from cheap, centralized, largely fossil-based energy systems, is one of the core challenges of our time. This book provides a coherent and novel insight into the nature of this challenge and possible strategies to accelerate and guide such transitions....
Finding Purpose
Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of imagination, perhaps the greatest ever,...
The MultiCapital Scorecard
Rethinking Organizational Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
For decades now, organizations have been struggling to find the best way to address their social and environmental responsibilities alongside their economic obligations. In other words, they want to know how best to effectively manage their operations based on a triple bottom line (3BL)—one that...
by Matt Stinchcomb, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
The entrepreneurial spirit of the Internet in the late 1990s drew Matt Stinchcomb into the Internet-business arena, the "maker movement,”...
by John Fullerton, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
John Fullerton—global financier, impact investor, and founder/president of Capital Institute—invites us to search with an open mind for...
by Carlo Vezzoli, Cindy Kohtala, Amrit Srinivasan
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book, based on a huge European and Asian research project, is a state-of-the-art examination of the theory and practice of system innovation through Product-Service System (PSS) design for sustainability from a trans-cultural viewpoint. PSS design incorporates innovative strategies that shift...
Environmental Certification for Organisations and Products
Management approaches and operational tools
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Environmental certification is an effective tool for managing the environmental impact of companies, leveraging their competitive capabilities and ensuring their compliance with environmental principles. A growing number of countries across the world are adopting this practice and the growth of new...
Fewer, Bigger, Bolder
From Mindless Expansion to Focused Growth
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
“When it comes to growing revenues, not all dollars are equal.”
In company after company that Sanjay Khosla and Mohanbir Sawhney worked for or researched, they saw businesses taking on more products, more markets, more people, more acquisitions—adding more of everything except what really...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In both OECD and non-OECD countries the water sector is facing the challenges of increased competition for water resources, deteriorating water quality, and the effects of climate change and poor management. In this context, how can countries ensure access to adequate, sustainable and affordable water...
Renewable Electricity Generation
Economic Analysis and Outlook
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This volume examines the outlook for renewable energy in electricity generation-particularly wind and solar power-as a substitute for conventional fuels such as coal and natural gas. Economist Benjamin Zycher evaluates the central arguments in favor of policies that would make way for broader use...
A Future Beyond Growth
Towards a steady state economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
There is a fundamental denial at the centre of why we have an environmental crisis – a denial that ignores that endless physical growth on a finite planet is impossible. Nature provides the ecosystem services that support our civilisation, thus making humanity unavoidably dependent upon it. However,...
Business and Communalism
A new paradigm?
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In Business and Communalism, Praeter argues that business can no longer function for its own sake. In an increasingly transparent and connected world, business is more responsible and accountable to society. Globalization and growth have made the business sector a key player in the search for sustainability....
by Gwendolyn Hallsmith and Bernard Lietaer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Communities everywhere are challenged by issues such as health elder and child care housing education food security and the environment. On the surface these problems appear to be rooted in economic crisisfor example budget cuts have triggered reduced public services soaring food prices have created...