Sustainability

As the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) pass their 2015 deadline and the international community begins to discuss the future of UN development policy, Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals brings together leading economists from both the global North and South to provide a much needed critique of the prevailing development agenda.

This volume advances the state-of-the-art in the study of the interplay among financial crises, poverty dynamics and environmental sustainability.

This book provides a unique insight into the research and recent developments undertaken among the African Remote Sensing community in regard to the environment.

This book highlights the untapped potential of underground spaces as a pivotal resource for climate resilience and sustainable urban development.

What if climate change isn t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge?

This book contains selected papers from the 22nd World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC 2023) in Kuala Lumpur.

What if you could challenge your kindergartners to come up with a way to reduce human impact on the environment?

Circularity is one of the most promising innovative business models for tackling the challenges posed by climate protection, resource conservation and biodiversity conservation.

This book's purpose is to highlight the development challenges and successes of implementing the Youth Climate Change Adaptation Development Framework in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

An exploration of Arctic tourism, focusing on tourist experiences and industry provision of those experiences; this is the first compilation to concentrate on the fundamental essence of the Arctic as being a geographical periphery, but also an experiential core that offers peak tourism experiences.

This book provides an overview of cleaner production, including how regulations have evolved, and presents a broad perspective on how it is being developed.

Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making.

After WWII, the United States of America proposed their way of life, based on an unlimited consumption of land, goods, and energy, as a model for the entire world.

In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Read this book, then look and wonder' Sunday Times *A TLS Book of the Year*We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it.

Winner of the EDRA 2015 Book Award!

Gale explains why international negotiations have not produced a sustainable solution to tropical rainforest degradation.

Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head concerns the emotional and psychological experience of school leadership-in particular, the felt experience of life as a headteacher.

According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth's capacity to supply humanity's needs.

The Environmental Impact of Cities assesses the environmental impact that comes from cities and their inhabitants, demonstrating that our current political and economic systems are not environmentally sustainable because they are designed for endless growth in a system which is finite.

This comprehensive book reveals the intricate interplay between entrepreneurship, strategy, and marketing management in the context of sustainability.

This book presents specific key natural and artificial systems that are promising biocatalysts in the areas of health, agriculture, environment and energy.

Achieving sustainability is perhaps the single-most important task for our generation.

This book covers multifaceted aspects of sustainable energy solutions for remote areas in the tropics, particularly focusing on Southeast Asia.

First published in 1999, this book presents a fresh and diverse set of perspectives representing key directions of research and practice in the field of environmental design research.

This edited volume draws together educators and scholars to engage with the difficulties and benefits of teaching place-based education in a distinctive culture-laden area in North America: the United States South.

Against this background, and in order to facilitate a broad discussion on the contribution of IT toward implementing the UN SDGs, this book is being produced.

Resetting the Compass: Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability Updated Edition sets out Australia's environmental problems in their global context and explains what is now needed to fix them.

This second edition brings together the views of expert academics and practitioners on the latest regulatory developments in sustainable finance in Europe and includes 5 new chapters on sustainable remuneration, reporting, lending, green monetary policy and ESG.

Protected areas are at the centre of nature-based tourism, which is increasingly popular across the world.

This book presents select proceedings of the 7th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (7th CTRG, 2023), provides an opportunity for discussion of state-of-the-art research and practice in the developing world for achieving equitable, efficient, and resilient infrastructure, and opens pathways to sustainable transportation.

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.

Introduction to Sustainability is the first major textbook to review major themes in the cutting-edge field of sustainability.

This book deals with climate finance and presents a balance between the theoretical framework—as drawn by the most widely cited practitioner-oriented and academic journals in environmental management—and experimental finance.

Current and expanding human activities are moving us towards ever deeper unsustainability.

This insightful book employs high-profile company cases to focus on two major challenges for sustainable innovation: fuel and food.

Dead zones are on the rise.

This book addresses the overarching theme of promoting inclusive and sustainable development through twelve contributions that discuss perspectives from emerging economies and policies for a better world.

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout.

The promises, dreams and hopes of architects for future cities are now inextricably linked to climate change.

The future of Brazilian Amazonia, the world's largest remaining tropical rainforest, hangs in the balance.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics.

How to research, visit, evaluate, and join the ecovillage or sustainable community of your dreams.

This book addresses the underexposed political dimensions of bioeconomy promotion.

An authoritative analysis of [a decade of] research on institutional architectures in earth system governance, covering key elements, structures and policy options.

Teachers Leading Educational Reform explores the ways in which teachers across the world are currently working together in professional learning communities (PLCs) to generate meaningful change and innovation in order to transform pedagogy and practice.

A concise and accessible examination of sustainability in a range of contemporary contexts, from economic development to government policy.