Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Higher Education and Capacity Building in Africa
The geography and power of knowledge under changing conditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Higher education has recently been recognized as a key driver for societal growth in the Global South and capacity building of African universities is now widely included in donor policies. The question is; how do capacity building projects affect African universities, researchers and students? Universities...
by Llewelyn Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
VSO Labrador Clues
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 1960-70
Series Title: Voluntary Service Overseas Vol. 1 By Llewelyn Pritchard Copyright 2010 Llewelyn Pritchard Smashwords Edition
Have you ever thought about helping other people not as fortunate as yourself?
Well,...
Beyond Fair Trade
How One Small Coffee Company Helped Transform a Hillside Village in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
“A rich and resonantly detailed account of an unlikely partnership that enabled the hard-working tribespeople of a remote coffee-growing village in Thailand to emerge from poverty and obscurity to success in the refined new world of fine coffee.” —Coffee Review
A multi-faceted, inspiring...
Globalising the Climate
COP21 and the climatisation of global debates
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Frequently presented as a historic last chance to set the world on a course to prevent catastrophic climate change, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the Climate convention (COP21) was a global summit of exceptional proportions. Bringing together negotiators, scientists, journalists and representatives...
After Sustainability
Denial, Hope, Retrieval
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Dangerous climate change is coming.
Some people still deny that it is happening. Others refuse to recognise that it is now too late to prevent it. But both these reactions spring from the same source: our pathological attachment to ‘progress’, of which sustainability has been one more version.
After...
by Ralph Horne
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Housing affordability, urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined, yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed.
Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities addresses this gap by developing an interdisciplinary approach...
Investing in Water for a Green Economy
Services, Infrastructure, Policies and Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world’s water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it. It focuses on current social and economic costs of water provision, needs and opportunities...
A Million Missions
The Non Profit Sector in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
After the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi on 30 January 1948, there was a major thrust in favour of voluntary action in India. Six weeks later a few men and women met at Sewagram near Wardha in Maharashtra. They were seeking answers to various questions, including the role that...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Globalization has significantly redefined the nature of governance in the water sector. Non-state actors—multilateral and transnational donor agencies and corporations, non-government organizations, markets, and civil society at large—are assuming a bigger role in public policy-making for water...
Climate Change Adaptation Manual
Lessons learned from European and other industrialised countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Due to the lack of success in climate change mitigation efforts, the importance of adaptation is becoming more and more apparent and is now one of the main imperatives of international research and action. However, research on adaptation is mostly not directly applicable to adaptation policy or practice,...
Organizational Transformation for Sustainability
An Integral Metatheory
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
During the 21st century organizations will undergo a level of radical and global change that has rarely been seen before. This transformation will come as a result of the environmental, social and economic challenges that now confront organisations in all their activities. But are our understandings...
Regenerating Urban Land
A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements....
by Llewelyn Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Tombstone
[The British Government’s Cover-Up]
Port Hope Simpson, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada [Part 2/3]
Series Title: Port Hope Simpson Mysteries [Vol 5b]
Copyright 2012 by Llewelyn Pritchard
Smashwords Edition
Declassified official British Government papers shine new light on amongst other...
Human Rights and Sustainability
Moral responsibilities for the future
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The history of human rights suggests that individuals should be empowered in their natural, political, political, social and economic vulnerabilities. States within the international arena hold each other responsible for doing just that and support or interfere where necessary. States are to protect...