Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
by Dr. Joji Valli
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
*Increasing impact of the global corporations in all aspects of social life and in the environment has been the catalyst in the emergence of a new diversity of stakeholders demanding accountability about the impact of corporate activity in the life of the planet. * Thus, these significant waves of...
International Policy Rules and Inequality
Implications for Global Economic Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Over the past decades, the world has seen a dramatic increase in inequality. To what extent have the rules that govern the global economy, formally or informally, affected this trend? How can global governance arrangements be reformed to counteract them?
In this book, an interdisciplinary group...
The Conscience Economy
How a Mass Movement for Good is Great for Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
A generation of people around the world, from Boston to Bangkok, from New York to New Delhi, are making everyday choices in ways that defy traditional logic. They are judging where and how their clothes were made, not just how they fit. They are thinking global but buying local. They are spending their...
Food Security in a Food Abundant World
An Individual Country Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Food insecurity can result from various events. When food is abundant, the entitlement to food is limited by endowments, the ability to trade, and potential transfers from family or the government. This volume utilizes a country and regional perspective to examine food insecurity. We consider the...
Four Degrees of Global Warming
Australia in a Hot World
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international community agreed to limit global warming to below two degrees Celsius to avoid the worst impacts of human-induced climate change. However climate scientists agree that current national emissions targets collectively will still not achieve this goal....
Wellbeing Economics
Future Directions for New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
New Zealand is recognised as having been a pioneer in creating in 1938 what was arguably the Western world’s first comprehensive welfare state … we argue in this book that more than seventy-five years later there is a new opportunity for New Zealand to pioneer a further transformation in how a...
Human Security and Japan's Triple Disaster
Responding to the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Japan has been one of the most important international sponsors of human security, yet the concept has hitherto not been considered relevant to the Japanese domestic context. This book applies the human security approach to the specific case of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident that struck...
Greener Purchasing
Opportunities and Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Every organization, public and private, no matter what its size, purchases goods and services. Large organizations also have considerable influence over the practices of their suppliers. As greener purchasing practices have become more common in large organisations, the implications for companies...
by Mauro Parilli
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 13, 2013
MAURO PARILLI (mauro.parilli@gmail.com).
Esperto in macrosistemi economici complessi, ovvero competitività fra i territori, è conosciuto a livello internazionale per l'esperienza sul Turismo. Negli anni '70 ha "inventato" il: "Marketing Territoriale" registrandolo nell'American...
Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment
Further Developments and Policy Use
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
This book explores recent developments in environmental cost-benefit analysis (CBA). This is defined as the application of CBA to projects or policies that have the deliberate aim of environmental improvement or are actions that affect, in some way, the natural environment as an indirect consequence....
From Oil to Knowledge
Transforming the United Arab Emirates into a Knowledge-Based Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Over-reliance on oil challenges the long-term sustainability of an economy. The UAE’s government has placed considerable focus on a comprehensive strategic planning exercise to transform the country’s economic structure from relying heavily on hydrocarbon resources to becoming a knowledge-based...
Green Technologies and Business Practices
An IT Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Green technology plays an important role in the achievement of environmental sustainability. Tax incentives, carbon taxes, and rising fossil fuel costs are motivating increased growth and development of 'green' products and services, many of which are the result of innovative discoveries in biotechnology...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
The world’s population is currently undergoing a significant transition towards urbanisation, with the UN expecting that 70% of people globally will live in cities by 2050. Urbanisation has multiple political, cultural, environmental and economic dimensions that profoundly influence social development...
The Economic Impact of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic
Short- and Medium-Term Estimates for West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Beyond its terrible toll in human lives and suffering, the Ebola epidemic has inflicted a measurable economic impact on West Africa in terms of forgone output, higher fiscal deficits, rising prices, lower real household incomes, and greater poverty. This impact results partly from the health-care costs...