Sustainable Development

This title is suitable for organizational developers, management developers, senior to middle managers and consultants.Book InformationISBN 9780077093006Author Mike PedlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint McGraw-Hill ProfessionalPublisher McGraw-Hill...

Historically, agriculture has been crucial to Pakistan's economic growth and development and remains so even today. The sector employs almost half of the country's labor force, supplies key inputs to the country's manufacturing sector, generates a...

A bestseller on Amazon.com within months of its first release, Alan AtKisson's debut book quickly became a modern classic of sustainability literature. Global companies, grassroots groups, university courses, government agencies, and even the US Army...

A bestseller on Amazon.com within months of its first release, Alan AtKisson's debut book quickly became a modern classic of sustainability literature. Global companies, grassroots groups, university courses, government agencies, and even the US Army...

This book reconstructs major paradigms in the history of economic ethics up to, and including, the present day. Asserting that ethics should be integral rather than marginal to economics and management education, Reframing Economic Ethics highlights the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636941370Author Milton P DentchFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint ASQ Quality PressPublisher ASQ Quality PressWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631571442Author Ann GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Business Expert PressPublisher Business Expert PressWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789292627126Author Asian Development BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Asian Development BankPublisher Asian Development BankWeight(grams) 216g

Decision-making conflicts (dilemmas) and conflicts between people and departments are everyday occurrences. • Don’t allow dilemmas and conflicting courses of action to paralyze your decision-making and ability to respond. • Instead, develop solutions...

Tackling the pressing challenges that business schools face as they deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this How To guide provides rich insights into how to create and sustain the business schools of the future.The SDGs are ubiquitous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987261927Author David A BainbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Rio Redondo PressPublisher Rio Redondo PressWeight(grams) 467g

There is growing recognition and awareness that nature can help provide viable solutions to reduce vulnerability and generate value deploying the properties of ecosystems and the services they provide. Investing in nature can lead to substantial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789815050196Author Babu GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams) 354g

Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war... In the spirit of that Manifesto, we now call on all scientists to expand our concerns to a broader set of interrelated dangers:...

Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress: Part B adds much needed scholarly analysis of the fledgling decision/control approach, arguing the merits of its empirical content to shed light on the structure of capital contracts and...

When faced with new global challenges propelled by social, financial, economic, health and environmental crisis, the leaders of today need alternative answers to those posed by traditional policies. In this book, Mercier-Laurent and Edvinsson consider a...

This book explores various aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regimes with regard to plant-variety protection and farmers' rights; traditional knowledge; geographical indications, genetically modified crops; and access to genetic resources...

This book brings together key debates and empirical cases from an international perspective exploring the ways in which more sustainable communities might develop. There is a growing recognition that more effective sustainable development cannot be...

This reader provides information on population and development issues for those seeking the middle ground between technical and non-specialist material. It contains contributions to all the various aspects of the debate from the 1960s to the 1990s from a...

This reader provides information on population and development issues for those seeking the middle ground between technical and non-specialist material. It contains contributions to all the various aspects of the debate from the 1960s to the 1990s from a...

Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people's lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of storms,...

IUCN - The World Conservation Union Founded in 1948 The World Conservation Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse' range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 800 members in all, spread across some...

The world is moving into a new era which will be dominated by a new range of threats and a new range of priorities. Already headlines tell of storms and droughts, mass emigrations, the danger of old Soviet nuclear reactors and the thinning ozone layer,...

'The continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option. Inspired...

A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we...

Afro-Eurasia: Assessing Sustainability focuses on the geographic area where humans originated and first began to make use of the natural world - Earth's largest landmass, stretching from Portugal in the west across the steppes of Russia and south across...

Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people's lives around the world: families are losing their homes, lands and livelihoods as a result of sea level rise, increased frequency and intensity of storms,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798823200592Author Lael GiebelFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Accomplishing Innovation PressPublisher Accomplishing Innovation PressWeight(grams) 277g

"Sustainable Justice and the Community" is an attempt to locate justice in a workable and sustainable way within the community, introducing 'Sustainable Justice' as a key concept for the coming century. This volume is a critical examination of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888475135Author Jack PachutaFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Management Strategies, IncorporatedPublisher Management Strategies,...

Bringing together a diverse collection of authors to examine the concept of One Health – the interlinking of the economy and the health of humans, other living beings, and nature – Piero Formica investigates how transformative enterprises and advanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803820668Author David CrowtherFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Emerald Publishing LimitedPublisher Emerald Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 152g

Environmental Sustainability, Growth Trajectory and Gender focuses on three major issues affecting developing economies: environmental sustainability, growth trajectory and gender. The social, economic and environmental consequences of climate change and...

As global concerns around the environment, climate, and sustainability are moving to the forefront of consumer choices and business values, how organizations report on sustainability has become more crucial than ever before. Business sustainability...

Tourism in the Mediterranean Sea: An Italian Perspective is the product of a collaborative group of experts in the field of tourism. Academics, whose research focuses on regional tourism system governance, alongside several experts from the tourism...

Using an interdisciplinary focus, this book combines the research disciplines of philosophy, business management and sustainability to aid and advance both scholarly and practitioner understanding of sustainability management and the United Nations'...

Using an interdisciplinary focus, this book combines the research disciplines of philosophy, business management and sustainability to aid and advance both scholarly and practitioner understanding of sustainability management and the United Nations'...

Concerns about environmental, social, economic, health, and other impacts in the building industry have led to the development of a number of environmental and sustainability assessment approaches, strategies, models, appraisals, and methodologies. Green...

Lessons from the Great Recession: At the Crossroads of Sustainability and Recovery examines global cases of environmental sustainability and economics in the context of nations from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The book discusses the high costs of...

Development and assistance in disasters is about helping people to help themselves. It is to do with facilitating 'sustainable livelihoods' and addressing the ills of social discrimination. These seem to be self-evident propositions. In fact, they are a...