Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
As the global economy continues to grow and change, issues concerning sustainability practices have become more prevalent. The implementation of efficient sustainability procedures offers significant assistance in the development of modern economies. Economic Modeling, Analysis, and Policy for Sustainability...
by Stavros Afionis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The EU has been portrayed as a leader in international climate change negotiations. Its role in the development of the climate change regime, as well as the adoption of novel policy instruments such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme in 2005, are frequently put forward as indicative of a determination...
Climate Action Upsurge
The Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
In the late 2000s climate action became a defining feature of the international political agenda. Evidence of global warming and accelerating greenhouse gas emissions created a new sense of urgency and, despite consensus on the need for action, the growing failure of international climate policy engendered...
Women and the Environment in the Third World
Alliance for the future
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the first...
Crisis and Migration
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Crisis and migration have a long association, in popular and policy discourse as well as in social scientific analysis. Despite the emergence of more nuanced and even celebratory accounts of mobility in recent years, there remains a persistent emphasis on migration being either a symptom or a cause...
Food Policy and the Environmental Credit Crunch
From Soup to Nuts
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The changing economic environment for the consumer that is emerging from the wreckage of the financial credit crunch plays directly into the importance of food spending. This is certainly true from the perspective of food prices in the short run, but also from the perspective of sustainability and...
Food and Society
A Sociological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1995
The importance of food is undeniable. Yet, because it is so close and obvious, we often fail to pay attention to it. In Food and Society: A Sociological Approach, author William C. Whitt attempts to develop a multi-level, multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between food and the larger world.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Environmental Anthropology studies historic and present human-environment interactions. This volume illustrates the ways in which today's environmental anthropologists are constructing new paradigms for understanding the multiplicity of players, pressures, and ecologies in every environment, and the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The rapid industrialization of societies has resulted in radical changes to the Earth’s biosphere and its local ecosystems. Climate scientists have recorded and forecasted worrying global temperature rises going back to the early twentieth century, while biologists and palaeontologists have suggested...
Sharks in the Arts
From Feared to Revered
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book is the most thorough exploration to date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms. The authors consider not only how the identity of sharks in the natural environment became incorporated into a cultural...
Business, Organized Labour and Climate Policy
Forging a Role at the Negotiating Table
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This impartial study analyses the role of employer’s organisations and trade unions in climate change policy and its impacts on the labour market. The policies of government to manage greenhouse gas emissions will require business to change its product and service delivery arrangements, which in turn...
How Effective Negotiation Management Promotes Multilateral Cooperation
The power of process in climate, trade, and biosafety negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Multilateral negotiations on worldwide challenges have grown in importance with rising global interdependence. Yet, they have recently proven slow to address these challenges successfully. This book discusses the questions which have arisen from the highly varying results of recent multilateral attempts...
Contested Agronomy
Agricultural Research in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agriculture, food production and food security, are key topics within the field of agronomy and agricultural...
Interpreting Rurality
Multidisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The British countryside is a national institution; most people aspire to live there, many people use it for leisure and recreation and we can all watch rural life played out on our television screen, read about it in novels or consume its imagery in art and cinematography. The aim of this book is...