Written for floral professionals and floral enthusiasts, this book elevates the "eco" conversation by disrupting established assumptions about what is beauty and sharing earth-friendly alternatives to otherwise tried and true industry mechanics. Tobey Nelson invites readers to adopt her "better than" philosophy, based on floral design done with care and intention, while offering encouraging steps toward preserving the splendor and health of the planet. Ecoblooms features an extensive gallery of...
Smes as the Unknown Stakeholder: Entrepreneurship in the Political Arena
Sustainable Product Development
This book offers a comprehensive review of sustainability and product design, providing useful information on the relevant regulations and standards for industries to meet increasing market demands for eco-products, while reducing their impact on the environment. The examples and methods presented allow readers to gain insights into sustainable products. The authors also explain how to develop products with sustainability features by applying tools and methods for sustainable design and manufact...
Statistical Models for Business Planning and Sustainable Development
by Abdulhameed Jasim
Transition Starts Here, Now and Together
by Rob Hopkins and Lionel Astruc
Ogallala (Our Sustainable Future)
by John Opie, Char Miller, and Kenna Lang Archer
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title The Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet thick. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land is an environmental history and historical geography that tells the story of human defiance and human commitment within the Ogallala region. It describes the Gre...
Waste Management and the Circular Economy in Selected OECD Countries
by Oecd
Report on Operational Programmes
Fostering transformation and growth in Niger's agricultural sector
For Niger, the development of agriculture is essential to strategies to raise incomes and eradicate poverty in a sustainable manner, without further depleting its natural resource base. While traditional approaches to agricultural development have emphasized food security and have been rather technology focused, African countries are increasingly emphasizing the role of innovation in development. 'Fostering transformation and growth in Niger's agricultural sector' seeks to further the understand...
Results and Performance of the World Bank Group (Independent Evaluation Group Studies)
by World Bank
The global economy is passing through a period of relative calm, but the situation remains fragile in many areas. Developed economies are gradually strengthening, but growth in developing economies has slowed. Successful implementation of World Bank Group operations in this demanding environment will require more effective & efficiency with limited resources.
Fruits et legumes
Cette publication decrit les options a envisager pour garantir la durabilite de la production de fruits et de legumes, tant au niveau de l'exploitation qu'en termes d'orientations politiques, en abordant des thematiques telles que les ressources genetiques, les systemes de semences, l'eau, les sols, la lutte contre les ravageurs et la reduction des pertes et du gaspillage alimentaires. Elle examine comment integrer les petits producteurs dans des chaines de valeur socialement inclusives, notamme...
Participatory Planning for Sustainable Communities: International Experience
Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up (Culture of the Land)
by Anthony Flaccavento and Bill McKibben
The global economy has witnessed important changes in recent years. In the United States, enterprising communities have transitioned from tobacco farming to growing organic produce, from extractive fishing to vertical farming, from nonrenewable energy consumption to the implementation of solar cooperatives -- and have transformed from impoverished neighborhoods into green development zones. Yet these promising achievements remain a small part of the total economy and are largely ignored by polic...
Inspired by years of talking with farmers, foragers, loggers, tribal activists, seed savers, fishers, railroaders, and nature lovers of all stripes, Dennis Boyer has created in ""Listen to the Land"", a fascinating communal conversation that invites readers to ponder their own roles in grassroots environmentalism. The nearly fifty voices that Boyer recreates here cross genders, generations, and geography. They include an Ojibwe leader contemplating nuclear waste, a houseboat dweller, a woman sha...
Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan present a vision of how the living world and the human world can be rejoined by taking ecology as the basis for design. Ecological design intelligence -- effective adaptation to and integration with nature's processes -- can be applied at all levels of scale, creating revolutionary forms of buildings, landscapes, cities, and technologies.The authors weave together case studies, personal anecdotes, images, and theory to provide a thorough treatment of the concept...
Based on years of research, consulting, teaching, and first hand experience working in sustainable businesses, Sustainable Small Business Management outlines a proven process to craft and implement a profit driven strategy for sustainability, targeted primarily at the substantial market of small to medium enterprises (SMEs). With SMEs now representing 50% of business revenue and employment in the United States, this book has been written to provide a practical and proven resource to guide the d...
Francis O’ Donnell is an ecologist and business graduate from the Republic of Ireland. His current area of interest is the development of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). He considers culture a serious impediment to CSR’s potential to reduce social and environmental conflict in an Irish context. He is acutely aware that Multinational Corporations and national Governments often overlook stakeholder inclusiveness due to self interest. However, he argues that CSR offers those with business in...
Geographies of the New Economy: Critical Reflections (Regions and Cities)
by Peter W. Daniels, Professor of Economic Geography Andrew Leyshon, Michael J Bradshaw, and Jonathan Beaverstock
Origins of Economic Inequality Between Nations (Routledge Library Editions: Development)
by Carlos Ramirez-Faria
If it is assumed that the "end of history" has not arrived, then this book could not be more opportune, for at a time of radical and impatient re-appraisal of ideologies, it offers the means for inventorizing and criticizing what has been said and claimed about the Third World since World War Two. In offering the reader the instruments with which to dissect, pitilessly if needs be, both Marxist and capitalist dogmas, it does not pretend that political choices are no longer valid but only that th...