Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
by John R. Ehrenfeld
Mike Hulme has been studying climate change for over thirty years and is today one of the most distinctive and recognisable voices speaking internationally about climate change in the academy, in public and in the media. The argument that he has made powerfully over the last few years is that climate change has to be understood as much as an idea situated in different cultural contexts as it is as a physical phenomenon to be studied through universal scientific practices. Climate change at its c...
Challenging conventional wisdom on the virtues of a consumer economy, this provocative book explores the nexus between growth and environment sustainability. The miracle of the modern affluent economy is an ever-swelling cornucopia of consumer goods, leading to expanding consumption as the essential underpinning of economic growth in more and more parts of the globe. Douglas Booth contends that expansion in this form amounts to an addiction. Are we as a society hooked on economic growth of a kin...
Governance Reform in Africa (Routledge Explorations in Development Studies)
by Jerome Bachelard
Poor governance is increasingly recognized as the greatest impediment to economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, some impressive governance reforms are underway in many countries. This includes cases such as Nigeria - formerly the most corrupt country in the world according to Transparency International. Yet other countries such as Chad are still in reform deadlock. To account for these differences, this book examines governance reform in Sub-Saharan Africa based on an analysis of...
Fundamentals of Environmentalism and Sustainability
We live in a modern, consumerist, and largely urban existence throughout the developed world where we consume a lot of natural resources every day. In our urban centers, we consume more power than those who live in rural settings. Urban centers need to keep streets and civic buildings lit, power our appliances and heating, and other public and household requirements. However, this does not mean that sustainable living should only focus in urban centers, as improvement can be made everywhere. It...
1.2 billion people on Earth still don't have electricity. Even where cell phones are now common, like sub-Saharan Africa and parts of India, villagers still walk miles to charge them. But new large-scale, sustainable solutions will not only usher in a new era of light, but be an important first step in lifting people from poverty and putting them on a road of sustainable economic development. Also, a unique, transforming opportunity for Western thinkers and practitioners will be created. These a...
The Sustainable MBA provides the knowledge and tools to help you "green" your job and organization, to turn sustainability talk into action for the benefit of your bottom line and society as a whole. Based on more than 100 interviews with experts in business, international organizations, NGOs and universities from around the world, this first of its kind guide brings together all the pieces of the business and sustainability puzzle including: The basics on what sustainability is, why you...
Fifteen Years Implementing the Right to Food Guidelines (Spanish Edition)
The Right to Food Guidelines provide practical guidance on ways to implement the right to adequate food in a wide range of policy and programmes areas through a human rights-based approach. Since the adoption of the Right to Food Guidelines, FAO and its partners have produced a wealth of tools, strengthened capacity, and facilitated multi-stakeholder dialogues worldwide. However, the goal of realizing the right to food of everyone has not been accomplished yet. Currently, over 820 million peopl...
We are squandering our planet's natural capital-its biodiversity, water and soil, and energy sources-at a blistering pace. Major changes must be made to steer our planet and people away from our current, doomed course. Though technology has been one of the drivers of the current trend of unsustainable development, it is also one of the essential tools for remedying it. Earth at Risk maps out the necessary transition to sustainability, detailing the innovations in technology, along with law, scie...
Local Action on Climate Change (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)
There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. However, while accounts of urban climate change governance are growing, there is now a real need for further conceptual and empirical work to better understand processes of change and uptake across a range of climate change actions. Local Action on Climate Change examines how local climate change responses are emerging, being operationalized and evaluate...
Dieser Band enthalt alle neuen Erkenntnisse zu den Kafergruppen der Bande 9 bis 11, die nach deren Veroeffentlichung erschienen sind. Der Forschungsstand ist somit das Jahr 1998.
Insigne des sols (YUNGA Learning and Action Series - Challenge Badges)
L'Insigne des Sols est concu pour aider a eduquer les enfants et les jeunes sur le role vital que les sols jouent pour soutenir la vie sur Terre. L'insigne examine comment les sols sont crees, les utilisations des sols et comment les sols sont affectes par les pressions humaines et climatiques. Il comprend un large eventail d'activites et d'idees pour stimuler l'apprentissage sur les sols et la facon dont nous pouvons mieux gerer les ressources des sols pour assurer un avenir durable. La serie Y...
Understanding Cities: Advances in Integrated Assessment of Urban Sustainability
Well-being, Sustainability and Social Development
by Harry Lintsen, Frank Veraart, Jan-Pieter Smits, and John Grin
This open access book examines more than two centuries of societal development using novel historical and statistical approaches. It applies the well-being monitor developed by Statistics Netherlands that has been endorsed by a significant part of the international, statistical community. It features The Netherlands as a case study, which is an especially interesting example; although it was one of the world's richest countries around 1850, extreme poverty and inequality were significant probl...
Design for Social Sustainability
by Saffron Woodcraft, Nicola Bacon, Lucia Caistor-Arenda, and Tricia Hacket
This proceedings volume examines the effects of transport on socio-economic development including innovation, public health and cultural behavior. Featuring contributions presented at the 2017 TranSopot Conference in Sopot, Poland, the enclosed papers are divided to provide emerging research in transport sustainability, innovation, structure, and in municipal transport economics. Collectively, the contributions provide not only the theoretical background for transport analysis but also empirical...
Wellbeing, Resilience and Sustainability (Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy)
by Jonathan Joseph and J. Allister McGregor
Wellbeing, resilience and sustainability are three of the most popular ideas in current usage and are said to represent a much-needed paradigm shift in political and policy thinking. This book is unique in bringing the three concepts together as representing a new trinity of governance. Here we introduce some of the commonalities between the ideas, particularly their concern with distinctive human capacities that shape who we are and that imply a particular relationship to our wider social and n...
Regional Development Agencies: The Next Generation?: Networking, Knowledge and Regional Policies (Regions and Cities)