[PDF] The Age of Sustainable Development

• Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release Date : 2015-03-10
• ISBN : 9780231173155

Jeffrey D. Sachs has shown himself to be one of the worldÕs most perceptive and original analysts of global development in his groundbreaking books, including The End of Poverty and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. Now, in this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice. Sachs outlines the holistic way forward: sustainable development. This

• Author : Tiago A. Santos,C. Guedes Soares
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2020-04-23
• ISBN : 9781000051193

This book provides a thorough understanding of Short Sea Shipping (SSS) and its role in transport chains, presenting a revision of EU policies for SSS. Infrastructure and equipment required for the success of SSS are discussed, including critical features of modern roll-on/roll-off (Ro-Ro) ships and terminals. Models are proposed for the evaluation of transportation demand in SSS, including the potential effects of external costs, and its results are used within the scope of methods for Ro-Ro ship and fleet

• Author : Mohamed El-Kamel Bakari
• Publisher : Lexington Books
• Release Date : 2017-09-05
• ISBN : 9781498551403

This book offers an exhaustive overview of the different political, social, and intellectual circumstances that paved the way for the inception of sustainable development. It offers in-depth analyses of economic globalization, current society–environment relationships, and global trade.

• Author : Naz Rassool
• Publisher : Multilingual Matters
• Release Date : 1999-01-01
• ISBN : 1853594326

This text discusses the complexities that surround literacy in the modern world. It examines prevailing definitions and views of literacy and evaluates these against the technological skills and knowledge demands of the information society. Within a world increasingly concerned about sustainable development, the book highlights the importance of multiliteracies and adequate levels of communicative competence in facilitating effective participation in the democractic process.

• Author : Jeffrey Sachs,Ban Ki-Moon
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2015
• ISBN : OCLC:1012150383

• Author : Ali Cheshmehzangi,Ayotunde Dawodu
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2018-09-28
• ISBN : 9789811313882

This book considers the impact of climate change on cities, advocating that people are the panaceas and antidote to mitigating climate change, by enhancing their involvement in achieving sustainable development Goals (SDGs). This leads to the development of an SDG best practice participation template, which is supported by an extensive checklist of the ‘whats’ and ‘hows’ in participatory processes. Using case studies, extensive literature reviews and meta-analysis to make a case for a people-centric and integrated approach to sustainable urban

• Author : Kem-Laurin Kramer
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release Date : 2012
• ISBN : 9780123877956

Examines the user experience in the economic, sociological, and environmental movement to create sustainable products, and provides a framework for designing sustainable hardware, software, and packaging.

• Author : Robert Mudida
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2021-07-29
• ISBN : 9781000416589

Since the turn of the century, Africa has been emerging economically, politically and socially and striving to assert itself on the global stage. This book provides an interdisciplinary view of Africa’s struggle to find its unique voice and contribute to the dialogue of international affairs. Highlighting both challenges and opportunities, the book explores the multi-faceted economic, political and social debates that surround Africa’s emergence in a complex, increasingly globalised world. The author provides holistic, complementary and policy-oriented advice

• Author : Wayne Visser
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release Date : 2011-03-08
• ISBN : 1119973384

This landmark book shows how the old model of corporate sustainability and responsibility is being replaced by a second generation movement that goes beyond the outmoded approach of CSR as philanthropy or public relations concern to a more authentic, stakeholder-driven model. The author describes the new concept and mission of the new movement and explains its agenda in a succinct guide that will be useful for CSR professionals, including managers, consultants, academics, and non-governmental organizations.

• Author : Mark Swilling
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2019-11-06
• ISBN : 9780429603723

With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment. Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting evidence that deeper transitions are underway that suggest we may be entering another period of great transformation equal in significance

• Author : Ruth Thomas-Pellicer
• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Release Date : 2017-05-11
• ISBN : 9781443893732

In an age of ecological decay, Western ontological and epistemological assumptions have to be revisited. This book offers such a revision. It opens with a critical analysis of the paradigm of sustainable development and problematically situates it within the ecocidal trajectory of Western metaphysics. In search of some tools for examining the ecological conundrum, the book develops a pool of new categories of knowledge called “transpositions”. Though of cross-disciplinary nature, this work must be situated within the tradition of the

• Author : Donat-Peter Häder,IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. Colloquium,Adrian J. Bradbrook,Ruth Hemmersbach,Michael Lebert,Professor of Law and Director of the Research Institute of Environmental Law Wang XI
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 2005-01-24
• ISBN : 0521845254

This 2005 volume presents research on the crucial issues concerning energy law, that are facing the international community.

• Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• Release Date : 2020-06-02
• ISBN : 9780231550482

Today’s most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity’s story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Sachs takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological

• Author : Phillip B. Roös
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release Date : 2020-09-15
• ISBN : 9783030532345

In this book, the author tests a regenerative-adaptive pattern language theory towards investigating the possibilities of a holistic, integrated design and planning method for sustainable development that incorporates the principles of regenerative design, as well as an adaptive pattern language that re-establishes our wholeness with nature, and considers the vulnerabilities of a changing landscape. The book examines an integral approach to contemporary theories of planning and design that explores the human-nature relationship patterns in social and spatial interconnections, between people

• Author : Timothy Cadman,Lauren Eastwood,Federico Lopez-Casero Michaelis,Tek Narayan Maraseni,,Jamie Pittock,Tapan Sarker
• Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Release Date : 2015-11-27
• ISBN : 9781783474844

Since the Rio ‘Earth’ Summit of 1992, sustainable development has become the major policy response to tackling global environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as emissions trading, payments for ecosystem services and timber certification have become the main mechanisms for financing the sustainable management of the earth’s natural resources. Yet how effective are they – and do they help the planet and developing countries, or merely uphold the economic status quo? This book