Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Sustainable Development Law in the UK
From Rhetoric to Reality?
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Sustainable development is now widely accepted as a political objective in the UK and elsewhere but to what extent has the UK’s rhetoric on sustainable development become a reality? The aim of this book is to critically examine the UK’s approach to promoting and delivering sustainable development....
Technological, Managerial and Organizational Core Competencies
Dynamic Innovation and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Innovation involves a set of processes which support the production and transformation of knowledge into new processes, technologies and products, goods and services, and provide an organization with particular strengths and value relative to other firms. In such a view, innovation is a key source of...
What is Sustainable Technology?
Perceptions, Paradoxes and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Designers of technology have a major responsibility in the current age. Their designs can have tremendous effects on society, in both the short and the long term. In fact, sustainable development itself has all the characteristics of a design project, albeit a vast one. But a failed product design...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development. It integrates the key imperatives of sustainable development, namely institutional, environmental, social and economic, and calls for greater participation, social cohesion, justice and democracy...
Intrinsic Sustainable Development
Epistemes, Science, Business and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Sustainable development sets the agenda for the 21st century. Human technological capability and needs mean that nature is and will be challenged and damaged in many ways. Whilst many social and technological innovations are being made to improve our survival prospects, they are likely to be insufficient...
Integrating Sustainable Development in International Investment Law
Normative Incompatibility, System Integration and Governance Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The current international investment law system is insufficiently compatible with sustainable development. To better address sustainable development concerns associated with transnational investment activities, international investment agreements should be made more compatible with sustainable development.
Integrating...
Sustainable Development for Engineers
A Handbook and Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
It is crucial that engineers – from students to those already practising – have a deep understanding of the environmental threats facing the world, if they are to become part of the solution and not the problem. Is there a way to reconcile modern lifestyles with the compelling need for change?...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development gives a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming research approaches for higher education for sustainable development. It provides a unique resource for researchers engaged in the field of higher...
by Alisha Ali, Andrew J. Frew
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Sustainable development is a highly topical issue and is of critical importance to tourism as the environment is of utmost importance for the continued development and prosperity of the industry. There have been numerous texts written on sustainable tourism and the measures to mitigate and manage...
Universities and the Sustainable Development Future
Evaluating Higher-Education Contributions to the 2030 Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Since the mid-1970s, a series of international declarations that link environment and sustainable development to all aspects of higher learning have been endorsed and signed by universities around the world. Although university involvement in sustainable-development research and outreach has increased...
by Stephen Morse, Dongyong Zhang, Uma Kambhampati
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important concept in the last few decades. Although it originated in the developed countries of the West, the concept has been embraced and adapted by corporations and policy-making agencies in many developing countries. Not surprisingly, given the...
Sustainable Development in Practice
Case Studies for Engineers and Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Sustainable Development in Practice: Case Studies for Engineers and Scientists, Second Edition explores the concept of sustainable development and its implications for science and engineering. It looks at how sustainability criteria can be combined with traditional scientific and engineering considerations...
A Survey of Sustainable Development
Social And Economic Dimensions
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Perpetual economic growth is physically impossible on a planet with finite resources. Many concerned with humanity's future have focused on the concept of "sustainable development" as an alternative. Sustainable developmbrings together elements of economics, public policy, sociology, ecology, resource...
Sustainability and Wellbeing
Human-Scale Development in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The idea that we can meet human needs and simultaneously conserve and even enhance the natural environment is an attractive one. Since the Brundtland report popularised a definition of sustainable development based on the concept of needs, there has been a widespread belief that it should be possible...