Sustainable Development

This book offers both marketing and sales professionals a rare combined insight into both worlds to continuously capture customer intelligence and create value, by blending detailed research with academic rigor and commercial experience of the authors in...

Business leaders need to embrace sustainability in order to ensure the lasting success of their organizations. Co-authors Suhas Apte and Jagdish Sheth bring their expertise from practice and from academia to illustrate how business leaders can embed...

What would it take to achieve a genuinely food-secure world-one without hunger or malnutrition, where everyone gets to consume the right quantity and quality of food to live a healthy, active, and productive life? Bringing about such a future requires...

Named one of the best gardening books for 2023 by Gardens Illustrated An Irish Times Best Gardening Book 2023 2023 GardenComm Media Awards Silver Laurel Medal of Achievement The ideal, easy-to-use resource for growing healthy, resilient,...

The current industrial food system comes at a tremendous economic cost. Dealing with malnutrition, diseases, and environmental degradation costs trillions of dollars, but because that price tag does not show up at the grocery store, it is too often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632202970Author James GlaveFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

A food-choice toolkit and recipe book perfect for fans of the Low Tox Life podcast, Cornersmith, Anna Jones, War on Waste, Matthew Evans.What are the best foods to put in your shopping basket for your health and for the planet? Is it necessary to cut out...

This new textbook provides a comprehensive overview of sustainable tourism framed around the UN's sustainable development goals. It examines the origins and dimensions of sustainable tourism and offers a detailed account of sustainable initiatives and...

Beyond the principles of reduce, reuse, recycle, this book looks at the way that every department on a production can contribute to reducing waste and making a smaller footprint. Are you making a green film? Is your filmmaking contributing to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641609388Author Elizabeth D HilbornFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams)...

In January 2010, author, academic and social entrepreneur Dr Wayne Visser set off on a nine-month, 20-country "quest" to talk to entrepreneurs, business leaders and innovators and learn about how companies in all parts of the world can and are helping to...

Rethinking Supply Chain outlines how organizations can close the gap between the supply chain capabilities they have and the supply chain capabilities they want. The supply chains built pre-covid are no longer suitable in the current volatile business...

All businesses today face increasing pressure from customers and legislation to improve their sustainability credentials. Moreover, companies' employees and shareholders are demanding the same. Yet, many companies are playing catch-up and urgently need...

Water is central to all life, but we use it to destroy. Water can nourish, but we use it to starve. It can cleanse and unify, but we ensure it contaminates and divides. The consequences of continuing to desecrate or beginning to restore water's inner...

The global food production system is responsible for a quarter of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans. The food we waste accounts for 8 to 10% of those emissions, and we could feed an extra 2.4 billion people with everything that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956955811Author Shashank NigamFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Legacy Launch Pad PublishingPublisher Legacy Launch Pad PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593300473Author Will HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Compelling, fascinating, sometimes unexpectedly moving, this vitally important book is, above all, a springboard for hope and transformation.' -Isabella Tree, author of Wilding 'Do your imagination, your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767929424Author Nina MunkFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Hard-hitting recommendations for what must be done to manage global natural capital and reverse environmental destruction Natural capital is what nature provides to us for free. Renewables-like species-keep on coming, provided we do not drive them...

You will never look at your cell phone, TV, or computer the same way after reading this book. Maxwell and Miller not only reveal the dirty secrets that hide inside our beloved electronics; they also take apart the myths that have pushed these gadgets to...

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.It discusses how Greenland's resources have been extracted at different points in its history, shows how acquiring knowledge of subsurface...

Energy Systems and Sustainability provides an exploration of the economic, social, environmental, and policy issues raised by current systems of energy use, as well as describing their key physical and engineering features. From an overview of the...

Winner of the 2020 Book Award for the Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE) Division of the Academy of Management.Climate change, and the resultant impact on resource management and societal wellbeing, is one of the greatest challenges facing...

Creation is in crisis. Why then do we continue in activities that are manifestly harmful to ourselves and to others? Part of the answer is undoubtedly ignorance about what we are actually doing. But part is also that we do not want to face up to the fact...

Examines the political and economic factors that determine how climate change is portrayed and perceived, and frames environmental problems in a social and behavioural context.About the AuthorRichard Joy is an expert in organizational transformation and...

This volume assesses the nexus of gender and transboundary water governance, containing empirical case studies, discourse analyses, practitioners' accounts, and theoretical reflections.Transboundary water governance exists at the intersection of two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735338804Author Yonatan NerilFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Interfaith Center for Sustainable DevelopmentPublisher Interfaith Center for...

Millions of people in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. ...

This book showcases strategic policies for and processes of societal transformation, which are required to address the challenge of sustainability. Based on the latest thinking at the interface of social innovation, sustainable consumption and the...

A holistic view of ESG goes beyond environmental issues, which are closely linked to social issues. Both come from the governance of an organization: the integrity with which decisions are made and implemented, ultimately defining corporate culture. ...

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...

Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid,...

Grow your audience, shrink your footprint, change the world Events can help educate, inspire, and connect us to our community, but all too often they escalate into resource-intensive glorifications of excess and exclusivity. How We Gather Matters is an...

Research shows that CSR improves long-term business performance and that consumers prefer to patronise organizations with strong histories of social responsibility. Customers and employees are speaking with their values as well as their wallets! But...

The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, transformations within the arts, sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture, innovative policies and laws, and historic international agreements...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532678615Author David AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Since the spread of classical design and construction amongst the upper echolons of British society in the late seventeenth century, traditional construction methods have largely fallen by the wayside. Centuries later, as the construction industry faces...

It's time for a new kind of economy We're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual...

In this unique and comprehensive book Bart van Olphen travels around the world to visit the most sustainable fisheries. Along with the world-renowned photographer David Loftus, Bart recounts his journey where he lived, fished and cooked with the men,...