Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
The Green to Gold Business Playbook
How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line Results in Every Business Function
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
"Implement the green strategies outlined in Dan Esty's and Andrew Winston’s bestseller Green to Gold"
Hard-nosed business advice for gaining competitive advantage through sustainability action in buildings and operations, information technology, product design, sourcing, manufacturing,...
Green Recovery
Get Lean, Get Smart, and Emerge from the Downturn on Top
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green.
Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency,...
The Labyrinth of Sustainability
Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ offers the first comprehensive effort to analyze corporate sustainability systematically in the Latin American context—and to extract lessons for companies across the developing world. Featuring an introduction by the prizewinning author and Yale professor Daniel...
Great to Excellent; It's the Execution! Overcoming the Natural Barriers to Profitable Company Growth
Great to Excellent; It's the Execution! Overcoming the Natural Barriers to Profitable Company Growth
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Roadblocks to corporate growth don’t just “happen.” They’re a natural part of the process. All the vision and determination in the world can’t prevent them. If you aren’t properly prepared, these barriers will slow corporate growth or bring it to a screeching halt altogether. They could...
Better World Shopping Guide
Every Dollar Makes a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
According to the latest research, the average American family spends nearly 22,000 a year on goods and services thats 22,000 votes for the world you want to live in. Do you want to ensure your money is supporting companies who work to make the world a better place, or risk it going to corporations who...
Making Sustainability Work
Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
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by Y V Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The worst of the economic crisis has passed, and the global financial system is picking through the wreckage of its reckless ambition. Recovery has started at different paces in different places, but it promises everywhere to be prolonged and uneven. What has the world learnt from the most severe financial...
Corporate Social Responsibility in India
Cases and Developments After the Legal Mandate
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Indian corporations following the 2013 legal mandate on corporate spending of profits for CSR. Bringing together authors hailing from diverse walks of life, the book pursues a 'hands-on' approach, with real-world...
by Robert A. Campbell, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Governance and Social Leadership examines the inadequacies of current theories on leadership in order to help us better understand the process of leadership and to suggest mechanisms for change. The proliferation of examples of poor political, religious, corporate and even grass roots leadership is...
The Nature of Business
Redesigning for resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
This book sets out a new business paradigm.Author Giles Hutchins presents the challenges to the prevailing ‘business as usual' model, explains the pressing need for transformational change, and reveals the concepts and mindsets necessary to inspire the businesses of tomorrow.Going beyond current...
Business Strategy for Water Challenges
From Risk to Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Water is a resource under increased stress, with its management now cited as one of the greatest risks to business continuity and growth.
This concise guide for professionals offers strategic steps for developing a corporate water stewardship strategy. It will enable you to: define business...
by Otto Scharmer, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
The American dream is confronted with three “shadows” that threaten its fulfillment: resource depletion, political paralysis, and cultural...
Land Access and Resettlement
A Guide to Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book is an up-to-date, accessible and practical guide on how to optimally plan for, implement and review land access and resettlement. It provides step-by-step information on how to avoid pitfalls, ensure that best practice is being employed and the correct standards are being applied. With useful...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity. Scholars...