Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
by Margaret Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The Dictionary of Sustainability provides clear and accurate definitions of the extensive vocabulary that has developed in this emerging and interdisciplinary field, saving considerable time from searching through the massive quantity of information of differing degrees of quality that is available...
Rethinking the Green State
Environmental governance towards climate and sustainability transitions
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This innovative book is one of the first to conduct a systematic comprehensive analysis of the ideals and practices of the evolving green state. It draws on elements of political theory, feminist theory, post-structuralism, governance and institutional theory to conceptualise the green state and advances...
Non-governemental Organizations
The new mechanisms for funds mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
This research is a look at the basics of fundraising for Solidarity International Organizations and national. This is an action research which puts light on the role and approach fundraising for to maintain their existence and sustain their field actions. Thus, this document provides essential elements to make NGOs effective fundraising, sustainable and relevant...
Fair Trade from the Ground Up
New Markets for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Fair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through:
- worldwide minimum prices for commodities
- support for democratically governed cooperatives
- requirement of minimum wages and safety standards for workers
- training to help producers improved...
The Politics of Sustainability
Philosophical perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Responsibility for future generations is easily postulated in the abstract but it is much more difficult to set it to work in the concrete. It requires some changes in individual and institutional attitudes that are in opposition to what has been called the "systems variables" of industrial...
A Region at Risk
The Third Regional Plan For The New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Area
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Regional Plan Association, the nation's oldest regional planning organization, has worked since 1929 to improve the quality of life in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut metropolitan area. The Association has crafted two long-term plans and successfully promoted their implementation through advocacy...
From Walden to Wall Street
Frontiers of Conservation Finance
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
"From Walden to Wall Street makes clear that a system of market-based conservation finance is vital to the future of environmental conservation." -Henry M. Paulson, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Nature Conservancy In the absence of innovation...
Improving Urban Access
New Approaches to Funding Transport Investment
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. To thrive, they will need efficient and sustainable forms of transport, but to achieve this, the financial incentives guiding urban transport operation must change – and change rapidly.
Urban transport plays a critical role...
Profits and Sustainability
A History of Green Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018
Are profits and sustainability compatible? This book brings unique perspectives to this key debate by exploring the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, and its spread globally in industries including renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, ecotourism, recycling,...
Green Urbanism Down Under
Learning from Sustainable Communities in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In this immensely practical book, Timothy Beatley sets out to answer a simple question: what can Americans learn from Australians about “greening” city life? Green Urbanism Down Under reports on the currstate of “sustainability practice” in Australia and the many lessons that U.S. residents...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
The decisions a corporation makes affect more than just its stakeholders and can have wide social, environmental, and economic consequences. The notion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) describes the relationship between a business and society as a whole, considering all tangential effects of...
by Benjamin Franks, Stuart Hanscomb, Sean F Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Environmental Ethics and Behavioural Change takes a practical approach to environmental ethics with a focus on its transformative potential for students, professionals, policy makers, activists, and concerned citizens. Proposed solutions to issues such as climate change, resource depletion and accelerating...
Global Green Shift
When Ceres Meets Gaia
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The world that created modern industry, pioneered in the West, is in decline. It is being transformed by a global green shift, creating new industries based on clean energy, clean water and clean food – all produced in a safe, clean and sustainable way, in abundance, at low (and diminishing) cost...
Jainism and Environmental Philosophy
Karma and the Web of Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
Environmental policy agendas, activism and academic research into ecological questions are all predominantly derived from the philosophical perspectives of the West. At national and global levels, environmental policy-makers tend to work according to Western-based methodologies. At the same time,...