Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Mining in Africa
Are Local Communities Better Off?
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
This study focuses on the local and regional impact of large-scale gold mining in Africa in the context of a mineral boom in the region since 2000. It contributes to filling a gap in the literature on the welfare effects of mineral resources, which, until now, has concentrated more on the national or...
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up
Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives...
The New Regulation and Governance of Food
Beyond the Food Crisis?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE...
by Luca Lambertini
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious. Following a long period of time where the profit incentives of firms have prevailed over preservation of the environment...
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change
Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change: Adaptation Behaviors, Global Public Goods, Breakthrough Technologies, and Policy-Making shows readers how to understand mitigation strategies emerging from global warming policy discussions and the ways that changing climate conditions can alter these strategies....
Small Stories, Big Changes
Agents of Change on the Frontlines of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A remarkable cast of characters inhabit the pages of this book. Meet Tim Toben, who developed a high rise with the lowest energy consumption of any building in the southeastern United States, was foreclosed upon, and lost millions in the process. Gary Phillips held the line against real estate developers...
Social Practices, Intervention and Sustainability
Beyond behaviour change
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
In an era of dramatic environmental change, social change is desperately needed to curb burgeoning consumption. Many calls to action have focused on individual behaviour or technological innovation, with relative silence from the social sciences on other modes and methods of intervening in social...
Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South
Scarcity, Marketization and Participation
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar—over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural...
by Minqi Li
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
This book studies the limits imposed by the depletion of fossil fuels and the requirements of climate stabilization on economic growth with a focus on China. The book intends to examine the potentials of various energy resources, including oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, and other renewables,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
The book reveals the changing dynamics of the helium industry on both the supply-side and the demand-side. The helium industry has a long-term future and this important gas will have a role to play for many decades to come. Major new users of helium are expected to enter the market, especially in...
How the World's Religions are Responding to Climate Change
Social Scientific Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
A growing chorus of voices has suggested that the world’s religions may become critical actors as the climate crisis unfolds, particularly in light of international paralysis on the issue. In recent years, many faiths have begun to address climate change and its consequences for human societies,...
by Enrique Ochoa Reza, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The electricity sector is one of the most important industries in the country. Based on that, and due to advances in this area around the world it was necessary to enact an energy reform initiative to establish a competitive environment, encourage renewable energy, and to increase the quality of electricity...
One Health
Science, politics and zoonotic disease in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Zoonotic diseases – pathogens transmitted from animals to people – offer particularly challenging problems for global health institutions and actors, given the complex social-ecological dynamics at play. New forms of risk caused by unprecedented global connectivity and rapid social and environmental...
Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics
Nature and Society
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Since becoming formally established with an international academic society in the late 1980s, ecological economics has advanced understanding of the interactions between social and biophysical reality. It initially combined questioning of the basis of mainstream economics with a concern for environmental...