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Fresh Strategy Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Why do poor countries remain poor? Why, after receiving billions of dollars, do poor countries remain poor? Why are failing foreign aid models utilized over and over again? After the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, authors Daniel Jean-Louis and Jacqueline Klamer observed first-hand the negative consequences of donations provided with the sincerest of good intentions-donations that ultimately undermined local industries and wiped out jobs. Based...
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Publisher
Project Management Institute, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Illustrated with more than 100 figures and tables, Project Management and Sustainable Development Principles provides practitioners with all the tools they need to understand Sustainable Development and apply its principles to the initiation and management of projects. This comprehensive volume begins by establishing a baseline understanding of Sustainable Development's history, its value to society and its relationship to global project management...
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Abrams
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Suggests solutions to some of the problems of the twenty-first century, looking at how individuals can make changes in their daily lives that will contribute to the goal of creating a world full of prosperous people without destroying the Earth, discussing "stuff," shelter, cities, community, business, politics, and the planet.
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Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this bold, radically hopeful book, a data scientist, drawing on the latest research, practical guidance and eye-opening graphics, gives us the tools for understanding our current environmental crisis and making lifestyle changes that actually have an impact.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial instability and unemployment. There are personal costs too. For the majority of people on the planet, life is becoming increasingly stressful. We have less time for friends and family and we face mounting pressures...
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New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"A sustainability expert goes beyond renewables, calling on us to combat the climate crisis with a new, low-energy way of life. Concerns over climate change and energy depletion are increasing exponentially. Mainstream solutions still assume that some miracle will cure our climate ills without requiring us to change our energy-intensive lifestyle. But switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources isn't enough. We need a Plan C. In response...
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English
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Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people. We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive economy we live with now enables the financial elite to squeeze out maximum gain for themselves, heedless of damage to people or planet....
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Woodhead Publishing India
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Renewable energies are sources of clean, inexhaustible and increasingly competitive energy. They differ from fossil fuels principally in their diversity, abundance and potential for use anywhere on the planet, but above all in that they produce neither greenhouse gases – which cause climate change – nor polluting emissions. There are many forms of renewable energy. Most of these renewable energies depend in one way or another on sunlight. Wind...
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English
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When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green.
Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital-and give precise focus to your innovation efforts and...
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-nine leading scholars and executives provide a visionary look at the future of business, propelling past damaging industrial-age values to uncover the key ingredients of humanistic, ecologically sustainable, and intergenerational prosperity. Through the exploration of robust cases and stories packed with deep insight and vital science, this extraordinary collection explores how we can adapt our notions of value, markets, and models of cooperation...
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English
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When it comes to believing that business can be profitable and environmentally sensitive, cynics abound on both sides. But in Lean and Green, Pamela Gordon proves that capitalism and environmentalism are not mutually exclusive-quite the contrary. She shows how "green" business practices enable organizations to save millions, even billions of dollars each year. Lean and Gree chronicles over one hundred examples of how people in twenty different organizations...
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Deutsch
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Wie kriegen wir endlich wirklich fairen Kaffee? Warum sind Familienunternehmen besser beim nachhaltigen Wirtschaften? Woran hapert es bis heute bei Cradle to Cradle? Wie sieht nachhaltige Architektur aus? Was bringt Mülltrennung? Sollten wir häufiger "Nein!" sagen? Wie lecker ist Insektenschokolade? Was bleibt am Ende übrig? Und überhaupt: warum eigentlich Nachhaltigkeit?
Die besten Geschichten aus mehr als 20 Jahren brand eins zu den großen...
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English
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Humanity has paid a high price for the development model it adopted since the Industrial Revolution. Based on Western notions of linear progress, exploitation of resources, consumerism and equating material prosperity with happiness, it has caused global warming, environmental pollution, decimation of bio-diversity, toxicity of food products and decline of soil fertility. Human society has been left vulnerable to this achievement-oriented and consumerist...
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Español
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Este libro introduce las herramientas de gestión en el análisis de los fenómenos sociales y organizacionales. Se interroga acerca de dónde vienen estos instrumentos, cómo llegan a imponerse, qué cambios experimentan en su aplicación local y cómo afectan las relaciones sociales. Para ello revisa y confronta diferentes teorías que se han interesado en la temática a partir del año 1990, tanto desde la sociología, las ciencias políticas,...
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English
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This book analyzes the importance of maize worldwide and the special importance for Mexico as a center of origin and diversity (COD). By adopting a comparative approach, the analysis focuses on how developed and developing countries handle imports of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's). The book also analyzes the impact that GMO maize imports from the USA might have in Mexico as a COD of maize. This book illustrates the process of economic liberalization...
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Español
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Cómo Prosperar en la Economía Sostenible, Diseñar Hoy en el Mundo del Mañana, es una obra indispensable para comprender la relación entre diseño e innovación social en el necesario empeño por construir un futuro sostenible. A partir de toda una vida de viajes en busca de alternativas reales, Thackara describe cómo todas las comunidades del mundo están cambiando hacia una mejor economía a partir de cero. Cada capítulo trata sobre formas...
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English
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International development is a vibrant, interdisciplinary area of the social sciences. This Short Guide offers a uniquely succinct and balanced account of this politically charged subject. It distils both the classic and newer debates together in a clear framework and illustrates them with contemporary examples. Designed to introduce a wide readership to international development, the book:
• considers how far the field has been reconfigured over...
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