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Resettling America: Energy, Ecology and Community by Amory Lovins 9781032544892
RRP: £115.00£100.36Nominated for 1982 Transformational Book Award, an international competition sponsored by Renewal Magazine . Book InformationISBN 9781032544892Author Amory LovinsFormat HardbackPage Count 584Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis... -
Environment and Sustainable Development: Perspectives and Issues by Manish K. Verma 9780367554262
RRP: £39.99£35.461) This book presents a comprehensive overview of environment and sustainable development. 2) It has case studies from India, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, U.S.A., Croatia, Italy, Brazil, Japan, and Kenya. 3) It will be of interest to departments... -
Social Licensing and Mining in South Africa by Sethulego Matebesi 9781032570587
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book highlights the role of community trusts in social licencing through the lens of mining and mining disputes in South Africa. Employing elements of trust, acceptance and elite interaction as a framework, this book critically investigates the... -
Sustainability, Technology and Innovation 4.0 by Zbigniew Makieła 9781032025919
RRP: £39.99£35.06Sustainability, Technology and Innovation 4.0 is a holistic perception and analysis of innovation at the level of public organisations, innovation in industry and innovation in HR. Its chapters collectively present a thesis that Innovation 4.0 signals a... -
Sustainability Challenges of Brazilian Agriculture: Governance, Inclusion, and Innovation by Niels Søndergaard 9783031298523
RRP: £49.99£45.37With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture. Assessing existing experiences of governance interventions, implementation of... -
Tech For Good: Imagine Solving the World’s Greatest Challenges by Marga Hoek 9781032490731
RRP: £35.99£32.69Marga Hoek is highly regarded in the field of sustainability and business, and was acknowledged by Thinkers50 as one of the most influential management thinkers in 2019.A very accessible book for business to look at the application of technology to... -
Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality by Naomi Birdthistle 9781804558355
RRP: £20.00£16.98The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number five (SDG#5): ending all forms of discrimination... -
Capacity-Building and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Rethinking Integration in the Asia-Pacific by Maureen Papas 9780367356293
RRP: £135.00£117.28provides an overview of capacity-building and reviews the significance of the Water-Energy-Food nexus, bringing in links to the 2030 Agenda.Climate change is highlighted as a key consideration in any conversation about natural resource use suggests that... -
Research Handbook of Innovation for a Circular Economy by Siri Jakobsen 9781035320332
RRP: £40.95£36.90The transition to a circular economy requires innovation at all levels of society. This insightful Research Handbook is the first comprehensive edited work examining how innovation can contribute to a more circular economy.Illustrating the critical part... -
Social Innovation in the Service of Social and Ecological Transformation: The Rise of the Enabling State by Olivier De Schutter 9781032121987
RRP: £19.99£17.69This book explores how the State can play a role as an enabler of citizens-led social innovations, to accelerate the shift to sustainable and socially just lifestyles.To meet the twin challenges of environmental degradation and the rise of inequalities,... -
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria: Barriers, Prospects and Strategies by Eghosa O. Ekhator 9780367679422
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores Nigeria's progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, presenting key country-specific lessons, as well as providing innovative solutions and practices which are transferrable to other emerging economies. Despite all... -
Sustainable and Democratic Education: Opening Spaces for Complexity, Subjectivity and the Future by Sarah Chave 9780367682316
RRP: £39.99£35.06In a world struggling with environmental and social problems resistant to current solutions, education needs to explore ways to ‘enlarge the space of the possible’ rather than only ‘replicate the existing possible’. To respond to this challenge, this... -
Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Ecuador by Natasha Chassagne 9780367636302
RRP: £39.99£35.06Until recently, the concept of Buen Vivir has only been loosely articulated by practising communities and in progressive policy in countries like Ecuador. What it actually means has been unclear, and in the case of policy, contradictory. As such there... -
Tourism, Land Grabs and Displacement: The Darker Side of the Feel-Good Industry by Andreas Neef 9780367767952
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the global scope of tourism-related grabbing of land and other natural resources. Tourism is often presented as a peaceful and benevolent sector that brings people from different cultural backgrounds together and contributes to... -
Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene by Edward H. Huijbens 9780367566524
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book explores the development and significance of an Earth-oriented progressive approach to fostering global wellbeing and inclusive societies in an era of climate change and uncertainty.Developing Earthly Attachments in the Anthropocene examines... -
Eco and Low-Carbon New Towns in China: Sustainability Transformation in the Making by Yang Fu 9780367681975
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines the sustainability transition theory in the context of urbanization in China, tracing the development of eco and low-carbon cities. It examines how ideas on building eco-cities and low-carbon cities travel from nation to nation, how... -
Man and Natural Resources: An Agricultural Perspective by Cedric Stanton Hicks 9781032473970
£83.60Originally published in 1975, yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man’s ecological destruction in an industrial framework. As well as discussing the destruction of forests by early civilizations the book examines the rate... -
Alliances for Sustainable Futures: Creating and Managing Purpose-Driven Alliances by Jaap Boonstra 9781035308224
£81.61Providing an in-depth exploration of the formation, building, development, and evolutionary phases of sustainable alliances, this book presents a new perspective on organizational change that goes beyond modern institutions and offers practical insights... -
Energy Efficiency Matters by Ajay Mathur Leher V. Thadani 9789394657045
£12.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394657045Author Ajay Mathur Leher V. ThadaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint The Energy and Resources Institute, TERIPublisher The Energy and... -
Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice by Jennifer Foster 9781032410777
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book offers original theoretical and empirical insight into the social, cultural and ecological politics of rapidly changing urban spaces such as old factories, rail yards, verges, dumps and quarries. These environments are often disregarded once... -
Sustainable Energy Branding: Helping to Save the Planet by Fridrik Larsen 9781032396712
RRP: £125.00£107.86The first book to look at how energy companies can develop brands as they move to more sustainable energy solutions. The world is facing climate crisis, and never before has the world been looking at the energy industry to solve the delivery of power in... -
Technologies in Decline: Socio-Technical Approaches to Discontinuation and Destabilisation by Zahar Koretsky 9781032100982
RRP: £35.99£31.69The central questions of this book are how technologies decline, how societies deal with technologies in decline, and how governance may be explicitly oriented towards parting with 'undesirable' technology. Surprisingly, these questions are fairly novel... -
The Sustainable Development Goals: Diffusion and Contestation in Asia and Europe by Paul Bacon 9781032072180
RRP: £125.00£107.86There have been significant efforts to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at multiple levels of governance across all regions of the world. However, the manner in which the global governance norms underlying the SDGs are actually being... -
Digitalizing Sustainability: The Five Forces of Digital Transformation by Kathryn Sforcina 9781032034829
RRP: £125.00£107.86Digitalizing Sustainability outlines why ‘business as usual’ isn't working and sets out five Transformational Forces which can be used to innovate and scale sustainability solutions using digital means.This transformation will be powered by a range of... -
Collaborative Social Design with Mexican Indigenous Communities: Critical Craft and Transformative Practices by Carmen Malvar 9781032420134
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book builds on the work of anthropologists, designers and ethnographers to develop an original methodology and framework for Indigenous engagement and designer/non-designer collaboration in the field of social design. Following a collaborative... -
Transformative Sustainability Education: Reimagining our Future by Elizabeth A Lange 9780367747046
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book lays out the principles and practices of transformative sustainability education using a relational way of thinking and being. Elizabeth Lange advocates for a new approach to environmental and sustainability education, that of rethinking the... -
The Cultural Sector and Sustainable Economic Development: Innovation and the Creative Economy in European Cities by Biljana Mickov 9781032373683
RRP: £35.99£31.69The cultural sector plays an important role in sustainable economic development and creates economic activities, opportunities for entrepreneurship and jobs, adding to the attractiveness of cities and contributing to the development of tourism. This book... -
Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice by Jennifer Foster 9781138093836
RRP: £125.00£107.86This book offers original theoretical and empirical insight into the social, cultural and ecological politics of rapidly changing urban spaces such as old factories, rail yards, verges, dumps and quarries. These environments are often disregarded once... -
Sustainable Work and the Environmental Crisis: The Link between Labour and Climate Change by Chris Baldry 9781032033402
RRP: £37.99£33.38Compared to 20 years ago, the jobs many people do today are increasingly characterised by low pay and insecurity, while countless others cope with workplace stress and ill-health. At the same time the consequences of our current model of economic... -
Green Skills Research in South Africa: Models, Cases and Methods by Eureta Rosenberg 9781032474984
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book proposes transformative, realist methodology for skills research and planning through an analysis of case studies of the changing world of work, new learning pathways and educational system challenges. Studies of the green economy and... -
The Handbook of Carbon Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function by Petra Molthan-Hill 9781032227610
RRP: £125.00£107.86Every manager and every employee in every function can embed climate solutions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This book, written by experts in the field of sustainability in business, shows you how. The climate crisis is one of the greatest... -
Material Matters: Developing Business for a Circular Economy by Thomas Rau 9781032193267
RRP: £125.00£107.86Our planet is a closed system with limited material resources, yet our current economic model is designed in a one-way direction from resource extraction to disposal, leading to resource depletion. This book proposes a new economic model, offering an... -
Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress by Simon Grima 9781801174275
RRP: £83.99£69.85Managing Risk and Decision Making in Times of Economic Distress 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 rationale... -
Higher Education: Progress for Management and Engineering by Carolina Machado 9781032298511
RRP: £58.99£51.08Higher Education assumes a relevant role as it is vital to build the future of the society. This book looks to highlight the most recent issues related to higher education in the field of management and engineering. This book focuses on the latest and... -
SDG11, Sustainable Cities and Communities by Shyama V. Ramani 9781032072258
RRP: £39.99£32.77This book explores Sustainable Development Goal 11, providing insights into viable pathways and policy designs for a transition towards sustainable, inclusive and resilient cities. The volume discusses existing scientific literature on SDG 11 and... -
Rethinking Leadership for a Green World by Andrew Taylor 9781032041834
RRP: £135.00£117.28First James Lovelock, and recently Prince William and David Attenborough believe that we have reached a tipping point in the process of climate change. Whether they are right, or not, it is certainly true that the impact of humankind upon the ecology of... -
The Three Levels of Sustainability by Elena Cavagnaro 9780367726256
RRP: £37.99£33.38Understanding the complexity of sustainability is crucial for the leadership of business organizations, national governments, and non-governmental organizations. This second edition of the bestselling book The Three Levels of Sustainability uses the same... -
Water Governance in Bolivia: Cochabamba since the Water War by Nasya Sara Razavi 9780367770129
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book examines water remunicipalization in Cochabamba since the Water War, offering innovative methodological and theoretical conceptualizations of what it means to be "public," helping to move debates on water services beyond the... -
The Sustainable Manifesto: A Commitment to Individual, Economical, and Political Change by Kersten Reich 9781032232508
RRP: £49.99£43.50In The Sustainable Manifesto, Kersten Reich describes in a concise and memorable way the necessary actions that humans need to take to live sustainably and combat climate change. Are we sufficiently capable of changing our behaviour towards... -
The Sustainable Manifesto: A Commitment to Individual, Economical, and Political Change by Kersten Reich 9781032232492
RRP: £19.99£17.69In The Sustainable Manifesto, Kersten Reich describes in a concise and memorable way the necessary actions that humans need to take to live sustainably and combat climate change. Are we sufficiently capable of changing our behaviour towards...