Environmental category: 9736 books
Ecological Economics
Sustainability in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
In a concise and crisp manner, this book presents the state of the art in ecological economics, an interdisciplinary field focused on the analysis of sustainability of global, national and regional economic systems. An elegant guide, the book offers a range of cutting edge methods used in sustainability...
Sustainability Assessment
Context of Resource and Environmental Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
Sustainability Assessment is a comprehensive compilation of all the known policy factors related to sustainability. This book outlines all of the elements and considerations of community aspects of policy evaluation in an effort to reduce the future consequences on resources and environmental sustainability....
Assessing Schools for Generation R (Responsibility)
A Guide for Legislation and School Policy in Science Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Today’s youth will face global environmental changes, as well as complex personal and social challenges. To address these issues this collection of essays provides vital insights on how science education can be designed to better engage students and help them solve important problems in the...
Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government
A Balanced Scorecard Approach Towards Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, makes a conceptual...
Crossing the Energy Divide
Moving from Fossil Fuel Dependence to a Clean-Energy Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
If we continue our highly inefficient, dangerous energy usage, we’re headed for both economic and environmental catastrophe. However, the hard truth is that alternative fuels can’t fully replace fossil fuels for decades. What’s more, new research indicates that energy inefficiencies are retarding...
Project Management for Environmental, Construction and Manufacturing Engineers
A Manual for Putting Theory into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
As a companion to books on project-management theory, this book illustrates, in a down-to-earth, comprehensive style, how to put that theory into practice. In addition to the many examples that illustrate procedures, the book includes over 25 case studies, each one addressing a specific theme. Key...
Too Many People?
Population, Immigration, and the Environmental Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Taps interest in environmental issues following wide spread disappointment stemming from the recent string of Global Climate Change summits
Written in accessible language by experts on the science and social content of the topic
Interest in the subject has been spurred by Al Gore's An...
State of the World 2013
Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Every day, we are presented with a range of “sustainable” products and activities—from “green” cleaning supplies to carbon offsets—but with so much labeled as “sustainable,” the term has become essentially sustainababble, at best indicating a practice or product slightly less damaging...
by James Gustave Speth
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book will change the way we understand the future of our planet. It is both alarming and hopeful. James Gustave Speth, renowned as a visionary environmentalist leader, warns that in spite of all the international negotiations and agreements of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth’s environment...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2002
Comforting terms such as "sustainable development" and "green production" frame environmental debate by stressing technology (not green enough), economic growth (not enough in the right places), and population (too large). Concern about consumption emerges, if at all, in benign ways; as calls for...
Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development (Routledge Revivals)
Conventional and Alternative Views
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Global warming is an increasing problem, tropical forests are being wiped out and major upper watersheds are being degraded. Using insights provided by environmentalism, ecology and thermo-dynamics, this book – first published in 1989 – outlines an economic approach to the use of natural resources...
Quantified
Redefining Conservation for the Next Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Google, Apple, Amazon, Uber: companies like these have come to embody innovation, efficiency, and success. How often is the environmental movement characterized in the same terms? Sadly, conservation is frequently seen as a losing battle, waged by well-meaning, but ultimately ineffective idealists. Joe...
by Prasad Modak
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book is about understanding challenges in managing our environment and ensuring sustainability of this planet. It presents the critical state of our resources and threats to resource security due to overconsumption, pollution and poor and uneven governance. Role of key stakeholders such as the...
Mid-Course Correction Revisited
The Story and Legacy of a Radical Industrialist and his Quest for Authentic Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The original Mid-Course Correction, published 20 years ago, became a classic in the sustainability field. It put forth a new vision for what its author, Ray C. Anderson, called the “prototypical company of the 21st century”—a restorative company that does no harm to society or the environment....