Sustainable Development

Entrepreneurship is evolving rapidly due to positive phenomena, such as digitalization and the green transition, and negative ones, such as crises and global emergencies. In this fresh approach to the unique role entrepreneurship can play across...

Social innovation is an innovation whose main aim is to benefit society. There is a worldwide need for and interest in conducting innovations and social innovations. Social Innovation Design Cases: A Chronicle of Global Journeys provides an in-depth...

We are in a decisive decade that demands more inspired and informed practitioners who can use positive futures to rebalance the present. The book you hold seeks to be a thought-provoking approach to imagine, create, and lead the journey to a more...

Understanding how to build and manage a sustainability business plan has become a business imperative as investors demand, regulators require, and stakeholders increasingly expect companies to report their financial economic sustainability performance...

A clarion call for marketing to return to its roots and integrate sustainability principles, this book illustrates how the marketing function can drive organizations, delighting customers and impacting positively on society and the environment.Accused of...

This book takes degrowth theorising in the direction of honouring collaboration, creating new dialogues and emphasising growth and human capacities.Traditionally, degrowth theorising has focussed on reduction and non-growth. While the ecological concerns...

This volume employs an urban lens to provide a critical analysis of the North Korean style of sustainable urban development in the face of severe sanctions and a scarcity of vital resources.With a focus on five major areas-population, economics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647254599Author Jamie MasonFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint NY Research PressPublisher NY Research PressWeight(grams) 862gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644507315Author Lael GiebelFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Accomplishing Innovation PressPublisher Accomplishing Innovation PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647266684Author Jamie MasonFormat HardbackPage Count 247Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 866gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464809736Author World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464811555Author The World BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

This collection of 19 articles discusses the impact of changes in Aotearoa New Zealand's natural environment due to factors such as climate change, pollution and degredation of waterways and land, pest control and environmental management policy. It...

This is a book about the future of sustainability. Regenerative Business Voices: Values-based Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Enterprises tells the stories of four regenerative organizations and the people who have founded them and guided them towards...

Decarbonization Strategies and Drivers to Achieve Carbon Neutrality for Sustainability emphasizes the significance of various decarbonization strategies. Sections cover contributions of bioenergy to decarbonization, non-fossil energy targets, the role of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264046030Author Oecd PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)Publisher Organization...

In Kumaon in northern India, villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the early 1920s, protesting the colonial British state's regulations to protect the environment. Yet by the 1990s, they had begun to conserve their forests carefully. In his...

Since 1971, UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme has embraced a number of principles that link the political, scientific and academic spheres. Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 1 presents these areas as privileged spaces for...

Since 1971, UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme has embraced a number of principles that link the political, scientific and academic spheres. Biosphere Reserves and Sustainable Development Goals 2 is a reminder of the fundamental issues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604271478Author Dariush RafinejadFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint J Ross PublishingPublisher J Ross PublishingWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

"The authors make some very critical interventions in this debate and scholars engaged in the environmental 'pollution haven' and 'race to the bottom' debates will need to take the arguments made here seriously, re-evaluating their own preferred theories...

Governments and regional authorities often express the belief that the key to prosperity and economic expansion is related to the ability of countries to sustain regional clusters of competitiveness and innovation. The book reviews the most important...

At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, political leaders from more than a hundred countries made a formal commitment to intensify efforts to resolve global environment and development problems and to strive for sustainable development. This volume examines how...

Fair Trade promises to raise living standards in developing countries through:- worldwide minimum prices for commodities- support for democratically governed cooperatives- requirement of minimum wages and safety standards for workers- training to help...

As we move further into the 21st century, the global challenges and consequences posed by climate change are becoming increasingly apparent. Although organizations are considered significant contributors to climate change, they also have the potential to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604271713Author Suzanne FarverFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint J Ross PublishingPublisher J Ross Publishing

Between 1994 and 2008, American voters approved almost $32 billion for local land conservation. However, there was at that time no resource available to guide officials as they implemented the voters' mandates. "The Conservation Program Handbook" was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634636414Author Brenden ForesterFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 344g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629480763Author Sean C ByrneFormat HardbackPage Count 125Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 388g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558442078Author James N. LevittFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln Institute of Land...

Sustainability of Business in the Context of Environmental Management studies the newly emerged concept of 'sustainable business' in view of the growing Indian economy. It explores the current corporate social responsibility practices adopted with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804671719Author Gavin IrelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 71Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)...

The sustainability discourse and policy paradigm have failed to deliver. In particular, they have failed to avert the dangerously disruptive climate change which is now inevitable. So, if there is still a case for some transformed or revitalised version...

Innovation is often understood exclusively in terms of the economy, but it is definitely a result of human labour and ingenuity, and of the relationships among individuals and social groups. Some societies and governmental structures are clearly more...

Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of the agriculture and food sector in Africa, which is projected to exceed a trillion dollars by 2030. This book is the first practical primer to equip and support entrepreneurs in Africa through the process of starting...

Most, if not all of the global biogeochemical cycles on the earth have been broken or are at dangerous tipping points. These broken cycles have expressed themselves in various forms as soil degradation and depletion, ocean acidification, global warming...

Environmental health involves the assessment and control of environmental factors that can potentially affect human health, such as radiation, toxic chemicals and other hazardous agents. It is less commonly understood that environmental health also...

This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development. The editors have sought to include views from the center ground of SI...

In the mid-2000s it seemed that the global carbon market would take off and spark the worldwide transition to a profitable low carbon economy. A decade on, the experiment in carbon trading is failing. Carbon market schemes have been plagued by problems...

Originally published in 1975, this extensive bibliography has been drawn from archaeological, botanical, geological, meteorological and zoological sources. It covers those studies which deal with periods of time for which modern observational data are...