Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Sustainability at Work
Careers that make a difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to have both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.
Containing career advice of great value to students of sustainability, and explaining how they can apply their knowledge to their future...
Sustainability Citizenship in Cities
Theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake in living sustainably with the rest of Earth. Such citizens not only engage in sustainable household practices but respect the importance of awareness raising, discussion and debates...
Domestic Environmental Labour
An Ecofeminist Perspective on Making Homes Greener
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
This book addresses the question of domestic environmental labour from an ecofeminist perspective. A work of cultural geography, it explores the proposition that the practice and politics of domestic labour being undertaken in the name of ‘the environment’ needs to be better recognized, understood...
The Global Supply Chain
How Technology and Circular Thinking Transform Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2017
This book provides readers an in-depth understanding of the inner mechanisms and principles of the global supply chain. Authored by the Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at the World Economic Forum, it draws on a wealth of operational and managerial expertise in the global supply chain...
by Ahmed Kulsum; Sanchez-Triana Ernesto
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Environmentally and socially sustainable policies are essential for good governance. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the key tool for integrating environmental considerations into policies, programs and plans. This book focuses on SEA applied to policies. Through lessons learned from previous...
Green Supply Chain Management
A Concise Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book gives students a thorough overview of the environmental issues that impact the supply chain and details strategic methods of addressing the political, social, technological, market, and economic concerns that have caused organizations to reconsider their impact. Readers will learn how to...
Financing the Green Transformation
How to Make Green Finance Work in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Explores challenges for developing and emerging economies for enhancing green financing for sustainable, low-carbon investment, looking at Indonesia. Based on surveys in the Indonesian banking and corporate sectors and expert interviews, it devises innovative policy recommendations to develop a framework conducive to fostering green investments.
Business Sustainability in Asia
Compliance, Performance, and Integrated Reporting and Assurance
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Get familiar with business sustainability in Asia
Business Sustainability in Asia offers 12 chapters that cover different aspects of business sustainability with a keen focus on its implications in Asia. Anyone who is involved with business sustainability and corporate governance, the financial...
World at the Crossroads
Towards a sustainable, equitable and liveable world
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war.In the spirit of that Manifesto, we now call on all scientists to expand our concerns to a broader set of interrelated dangers: destruction of the environment on a global scale,...
Lessons from the Great Recession
At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery examines global cases of environmental sustainability and economics in the context of nations from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The book discusses the high costs of decisions taken in response to the recent economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The physical upgrading of the existing domestic and industrial building stock to improve energy performance is an essential part of a transition to a low carbon society. Successfully retrofitting buildings to improve energy performance is not simply a technological challenge, it is a complex socio-technical...
The Green Bundle
Pairing the Market with the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
The market for green products has expanded rapidly over the last decade, but most consumers need something more than eco-benefits to motivate their purchases. Magali A. Delmas and David Colgan argue that many green products now offer the total package—a "green bundle" that checks the environmental...
A Roadmap to Green Supply Chains
Using Supply Chain Archaeology and Big Data Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
This book shows the relationship between the sustainability movement and supply chains. It provides a guide for supply chain professionals, as well as government officials, corporate executives, and institutional leaders on how to direct their purchasing power so that they source products that not...
by Christopher J. Tipler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This book will introduce you to a completely new way of thinking about business srategy and set your organisation on the path to sustainable business.