Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
by Daniel Wahl
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Daniel Wahl explores ways of relating to the many converging crises and opportunities faced by humanity at a local, regional and global scale. He invites us to step back from our tendency to want quick-fix solutions. Will they - rather than systemic transformation - offer the culture change needed?...
Recycling and Incineration
Evaluating The Choices
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Recycling and Incineration presents information on the technology, economics, environmental concerns, and legal intricacies behind recycling and incineration programs.
Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS)
Improving Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Agri-Food Chain with Innovative Environmental Management Tools
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Representing the coordinated work of a research group from four different Italian University departments which conducted the Eco-Management for Food (EMAF) Project, this book offers a systematic approach for managing and improving the environmental aspects of agri-food processes and products using Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS).
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The use of environmentally safe products is an emerging and popular trend throughout various industries. Product manufacturing and sales has changed in order to incorporate green initiatives that will appeal to this fast-growing market. Driving Green Consumerism Through Strategic Sustainability Marketing...
Green Is Good
Save Money, Make Money, and Help Your Community Profit from Clean Energy
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Here is a no-nonsense guide to how you, the average American, can easily make clean energy and energy efficiency part of your daily life, saving money, making money, and weaning your community off fossil fuels in the process. Energy guru Brian F. Keane walks you through the cost-benefit trade-offs...
Plastics
America's Packaging Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Plastics explains what plastics are, how they are made, how they are used, and the problems and opportunities they bring.
by Wayne Ellwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
This guide explores the idea of economic growth, tracing its history and questioning why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful when unlimited growth in a finite world is ultimately impossible. It illustrates how economics based on degrowth can be turned into a positive and how we can arrive...
Reinventing Prosperity
Managing Economic Growth to Reduce Unemployment, Inequality and Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
A persuasive economic argument that proves we can all live better lives in this finite world.
In Reinventing Prosperity, Graeme Maxton and Jorgen Randers offer a new approach with thirteen recommendations that should be possible to implement around the world. This book addresses the forty-year-old...
Rationing Earth
Economic Strategy by Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Our economy has spiralled out of control with too much focus on the quantity of production. The way to reduce this wasteful overproduction of goods and services is to increase their quality. In this groundbreaking book, industrial designer Herb Bentz explains how to fix the economy and break the environment...
by Jennifer Wells
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Complex dynamic system studies have been studied explicitly in the natural sciences, and most only implicitly throughout other fields. Yet much great social theory and philosophy is in fact based in complexity, and important concepts like postmodernism, risk, and collapse all stem from complexity....
Endangered Economies
How the Neglect of Nature Threatens Our Prosperity
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
In the decades since Geoffrey Heal began his field-defining work in environmental economics, one central question has animated his research: "Can we save our environment and grow our economy?" This issue has become only more urgent in recent years with the threat of climate change, the accelerating...
by Anita Girvan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Through an examination of carbon footprint metaphors, this books demonstrates the ways in which climate change and other ecological issues are culturally and materially constituted through metaphor.
The carbon footprint metaphor has achieved a ubiquitous presence in Anglo-North American public...
Why Corporation 2020?
The Case for a New Corporation in the Next Decade
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
In Why Corporation 2020?, Pavan Sukhdev examines the many critical planetary boundaries that we are approaching, from greenhouse gas emissions to the nitrogen cycle, freshwater and land use, and food security, and argues that sweeping changes are needed to reform the way we deal with the earth’s resources....
Why Do We Recycle?
Markets, Values, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The earnest warnings of an impending "solid waste crisis" that permeated the 1980s provided the impetus for the widespread adoption of municipal recycling programs, and since that time America has witnessed a remarkable rise in public participation in recycling activities. Recently, however, a backlash...