Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
by Frank Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficiinteraction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal consumer" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social optimum the same as human well-being? Human Well-Being...
by Leonardo Becchetti
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
The proposal for a new socio-economic model which today is widely sought for, outlined by one of the Italian economists at the forefront for the change of our economic system. The language is purposely simple and accessible to every reader, as the book is aimed at sensitizing public opinion worldwide....
Empowering Green Initiatives with IT
A Strategy and Implementation Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
A straightforward guide to the role of IT departments and vendor's in assisting organizations in going green with the aid of IT-related resources and offerings.
This book provides organizations with strategy, planning, implementation, assessment guidance for their Green initiatives. It discusses...
Toward a Binding Climate Change Adaptation Regime
A Proposed Framework
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Social Partnerships and Responsible Business
A Research Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Cross-sector partnerships are widely hailed as a critical means for addressing a wide array of social challenges such as climate change, poverty, education, corruption, and health. Amid all the positive rhetoric of cross-sector partnerships though, critical voices point to the limited success of various...
Reanimating Regions
Culture, Politics, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Writing regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique. This was until the quantitative revolution in the middle of the previous century and more definitively the critical turn in human geography towards the end of the twentieth century. From...
Nationalism, Law and Statelessness
Grand Illusions in the Horn of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In 1998 a bloody war erupted in The Horn of Africa between Ethiopia and Eritrea. During the war Ethiopia arrested and expelled 70,000 of its citizens, and stripped another 50,000-plus of their citzenship on the basis of their presumed ethnicity. Nationalism, Law and Statelessness: Grand Illusions...
Improving Global Environmental Governance
Best Practices for Architecture and Agency
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The experience of environmental governance is approached in Improving Global Environmental Governance from the unique perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors, which are areas of emerging importance. The chapters look at existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)...
Competitiveness and Knowledge
An International Comparison of Traditional Firms
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The ‘traditional firm’ has a need for innovation and depends on efficient knowledge management to improve productivity.
This book examines five firms that produce the same commodity,...
Growth and Policy in Developing Countries
A Structuralist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries have failed to grow at 2 percent or more since 1960. Sensitive to the wide range of factors that affect...
Exploring Climate Change through Science and in Society
An anthology of Mike Hulme's essays, interviews and speeches
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media. The argument that he has made powerfully over the last few years is that climate...
Explorations in Urban and Regional Dynamics
A case study in complexity science
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The task of modelling the evolution of cities – the dynamics – is one of the major challenges of the social sciences. This book presents mathematical and computer models of urban and regional dynamics and shows how advances in computer visualisation provide new insights. Models of non-linear...
Regional Disparities in the Enlarged European Union
Geography, innovation and structural change
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The last twenty years have seen an increase in European integration and the emergence of the technological revolution. Although tighter integration coupled with technological innovation should facilitate cross-regional convergence, some European regions have managed to jump ahead while others have...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the unpredictable climatic changes of our time have introduced new dimensions and hazards...