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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.

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...

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...

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...

Veld is 'n lewensbelangrike natuurlike hulpbron vir ons aardse bestaan. Sowat 80% van ons mooi land bestaan uit veld. Die grootste deel daarvan word vir vee- en wildboerdery asook vir bewaring van biodiversiteit en vir ontspanning gebruik. Goeie veldbestuur is nodig om grondagteruitgang te stuit en om volhoubare voedselproduksie en bewaring van biodiversiteit te verseker. Maar goeie veldbestuur berus op 'n goeie kennis van ekologiese beginsels en veldbestuurspraktyke, iets wat baie grondgebruike...

For nearly four decades, China's manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers, who travel seasonally between villages where they farm for subsistence and cities where they work. Yet recently local governments have moved away from manufacturing and toward urban expansion and construction as a development strategy. As a result, at least 88 million rural people to date have lost rights to village land. In Beneath the China Boom, Julia Chuang follows the traj...

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia there are significant pressures for residential energy tariffs to rise, as government budgets are increasingly stretched and cannot afford to pay large energy subsidies. Further pressures for tariffs to rise come from environmental concerns, as the tariff levels that households now face do not cover the social costs of energy production. Because reforms that would increase energy tariffs are likely to affect significantly the poor and the middle class, their po...

This book brings together all the latest methodologies, tools and techniques related to the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence in a single volume to build insight into their use in the sustainable living. The applications include areas such as agriculture, smart farming, healthcare, bioinformatics, self-diagnosis system, body sensor network, multimedia mining, multimedia in forensics and security. It provides a comprehensive discussion of modeling and implementation in water resourc...

More than one billion people still live below the poverty line - most of them in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Financial inclusion is a major issue, as more than three-quarters of the numbers of poor and disadvantaged women and men do not have access to financial products and services, such as bank accounts, affordable and suitable loans, and insurance. The key objective of this book is to provide practical case studies of financial inclusion, rather than focus on academic debates such as...

Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities explores the growing convergences between urban sustainability policy, planning practices and gentrification in cities. Via a study of governmental policy and planning initiatives and informal, community-based forms of sustainability planning, the book examines the assemblages of actors and interests that are involved in the production of sustainability policy and planning and their connection with neighbourhood-level and wider process...

This unique sourcebook provides a global, state-of-the-art review of the rapidly evolving field of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) that is intended to serve as a baseline for the work of an OECD Task Team on SEA and a UNEP initiative on integrated planning and assessment. It describes trends in application and experience in different contexts worldwide, providing in-depth coverage of the status of SEA systems, and practice in developed, transitional and developing countries by a range o...

Focusing on the role entrepreneurship centres can play within the UK and other countries; this edited volume explores the effective construction of viable and sustainable entrepreneurship centres. It questions how these Higher Education Centres contribute to enterprise and entrepreneurship curriculum enhancement, research, and support to entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Centres responds to the renewed focus on Higher Education Institutions to play a meaningful role in socio-economic development a...

Over the last two decades, the field of public administration has witnessed theoretical and practical changes that have innovated the relationships between public administration and performance management.Dealing with the rising complexity of performance regimes in contemporary public administration requires that policy-makers and their organizations are able to face unpredictable problems impacting on a community’s quality of life. Complex policy issues – such as immigration, pandemics, societa...

From the beginning of his career, Peter Calthorpe has been a leading innovator in sustainable building projects, sustainable development, and walkable communities. A leader in the New Urbanism Movement, he is an important resource for solutions to current problems of urban sprawl, suburban isolation, and the related problems of outsized energy consumption and an outsized share of world emissions. According to 'Ecological Urbanism', relentless and thoughtless development have created a way of liv...

Designed to equip students with the skill sets they need to move confidently into the adult world and achieve success in the workplace. Supports and reinforces core curriculum skills and project-based learning. Promotes practical skills and emotional intelligence.