Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
The Idealist
Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Bloomberg • Forbes • The Spectator
Recipient of Foreign Policy's 2013 Albie Award**
A powerful portrayal of Jeffrey Sachs's ambitious quest to end global poverty
"The poor you will always have with you," to cite the Gospel of Matthew...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security. Despite advances in policy, carbon management and continuing development of clean technology, fundamental business transformation has not occurred...
by David Gibbs
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
This book focuses upon the potential to integrate economic and environmental policies at the local and regional scale. Local initiatives are investigated within their wider economic and environmental policy contexts in order to illustrate both the constraints and opportunities for local policy makers....
by Stewart Wallis, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 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.
Stewart Wallis identifies overconsumption as a primary source of inequality and natural destruction. He outlines a new economic model that...
ISO 26000
The Business Guide to the New Standard on Social Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Over the last ten years, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has grown from being criticised as a management fad to being endorsed as good business practice by the majority of the world's leading companies. It has also become ever more complex; and the majority of companies are now in need of clarity...
The Political Economy of Global Warming
The Terminal Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing...
Tourism in Peripheral Areas
Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2000
There has been little research on tourism in those European countries or regions which lie outside the continent’s main centres of production and population, even though tourism may be one of the few economic options open to them. This volume aims to fill a gap by presenting a range of case studies...
Vanishing America
In Pursuit of Our Elusive Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2008
A look at how development affects places from national parks to Napa Valley, and “an enthralling, lovely tribute to a lot of what is precious in America” (Tracy Kidder).
Vanishing America recounts the author’s journeys between Washington, D.C., and Big Sur, California, as he tries to...
Fair Trade Organizations and Social Enterprise
Social Innovation through Hybrid Organization Models
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
For several decades, social enterprises have been pioneers in the conception and implementation of a pathbreaking social innovation: Fair Trade (FT). Fair Trade Social Enterprises have created a movement which has challenged mainstream trading practices and offered development opportunities for disadvantaged...
Africa's Demographic Transition
Dividend or Disaster?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in population age structure. Declines in child mortality, followed by declines in fertility, produce a 'bulge' generation and a large number of working...
Migrants, Borders and Global Capitalism
West African Labour Mobility and EU Borders
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
People from West Africa are risking their lives and surrendering their citizenship rights to enter exploitative labour markets in Europe. This book offers an explanation for this phenomenon that is based on close analysis of the contradictory economic and political agendas that create and constrain...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Various theories have been put forward as to why business and industry develops in clusters and despite good work being carried out on path dependence and dynamics, this is still very much an emerging topic in the social sciences. To date, no overarching theoretical framework has been developed to...
The Urban Transformation
Health, Shelter and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
For the first time in history, half of the world's population lives in urban areas and it is expected that, by 2050, that figure will rise to above two-thirds. A large proportion of this urban growth will be taking place in the cities of the developing world, where the provision of adequate health,...
South Asia's Turn
Policies to Boost Competitiveness and Create the Next Export Powerhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
South Asia has a huge need to create more and better jobs for a growing population †“ especially in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming as compared to East Asia. The report examines three critical and relatively understudied drivers of competitiveness: -Economies of agglomeration:...