Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
If I Had A Water Buffalo
How To Microfinance Sustainable Futures
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
"If I Had a Water Buffalo" poignantly explores the critical difference in outcomes when offering a hand up rather than giving a handout. A seemingly simple request for a water buffalo by an impoverished rice farmer proves to be the catalyst for Dr. Fitzgerald’s global and unending journey in search...
Green Scorecard
Measuring the Return on Investment in Sustainability Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
Is sustainability sustainable?
Too many organizations are currently caught in a "green slump," struggling to engage in sustainability projects and making far less progress than they should be. Some businesses are striving to lead the way by equipping their facilities with new, energy-saving...
by Chris Goodall
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Building a sustainable society is perhaps the greatest test that the world has ever faced. Prosperity has been created by ruthless and ill-disciplined mining of the world's resources, compounded by a cavalier disregard for the implications of pollution from industrial and agricultural processes. Today's...
Worlds Apart
Globalization And The Environment
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2003
Worlds Apart presents a cohesive set of essays by leading thinkers on the subject of globalization, offering a thoughtful overview of the major environmental issues related to globalization in a clear, reasoned style. Framed by Gus Speth’s introduction and conclusion, essays range from Jane Lubchenco’s...
Understanding Climate Change
Science, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Conversations about climate change are filled with challenges involving complex data, deeply held values, and political issues. Understanding Climate Change provides readers with a concise, accessible, and holistic picture of the climate change problem, including both the scientific and human dimensions.
Understanding...
The Food Sharing Revolution
How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Marvin is a contract hog farmer in Iowa. He owns his land, his barn, his tractor, and his animal crates. He has seen profits drop steadily for the last twenty years and feels trapped. Josh is a dairy farmer on a cooperative in Massachusetts. He doesn't own his cows, his land, his seed, or even all...
Making DevelopmSustainable
Redefining Institutions Policy And Economics
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Making DevelopmSustainable is an integrated series of essays on the policies for sustainable developmfrom one of the leading policy research institutes for environmental and developmissues.
Industrial Ecology and Industry Symbiosis for Environmental Sustainability
Definitions, Frameworks and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book opens up a critical dimension to the interdisciplinary field of Industrial Ecology (IE) and one of its four areas - Industrial Symbiosis (IS). Presenting the concept of closed-loop thinking, this timely book explains how industries and societies can achieve environmental sustainability,...
Food and Fuel
Solutions for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
The twenty-first century has been dominated by two major global crises: a scarcity of food and fuel. Both have had detrimental effects on the environment and both are at the root of the fragile health of the global economy.
Combining the best of the critically acclaimed Fuelling the Future...
by Wayne Visser
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social and environmental challenges we face as a society. These are the Top 50 Sustainability Books as voted for by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership's alumni network...
Green Capital
A New Perspective on Growth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Many believe economic growth is incompatible with ecological preservation. Green Capital challenges this argument by shifting our focus away from the scarcity of raw materials and toward the deterioration of the great natural regulatory functions (such as the climate system, the water cycle, and biodiversity).
Although...
Beyond Flying
Rethinking Air Travel in a Globally Connected World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Fourteen authors from around the world—including lawyers, journalists, scientists, and architects—share their travel stories about life and work “beyond flying,” offering an inspiring catalog of reasons to fly less, some great ways of switching to sustainable choices, and the delights of richer...
Can Business Save the Earth?
Innovating Our Way to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Increasingly, business leaders are tasked with developing new products, services, and business models that minimize environmental impact while driving economic growth. It's a tall order—and a call that is only getting louder.
In Can Business Save the Earth?, Michael Lenox and Aaron Chatterji...
Creating a Green and Cultural Economy
A Story from India That Integrates the Best in East & West
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
A unique book that takes the reader into the depths and mysteries of creating a wondrous people-initiated economic plan grounded in centuries of cultural and ecological wisdom. In a tapestry of factual and everyday events, the author makes a well-reasoned argument that we first need to address culture,...