Environment And Sustainable Development

Author : Manish K. Verma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000486391

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Environment and Sustainable Development by Manish K. Verma Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between environment and sustainable development in society from an interdisciplinary perspective. With its case studies from across the world, including countries such as India, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United States, Croatia, Italy, Brazil, Japan, and Kenya, it explores critical environmental issues concerning energy justice, queer ecology, mountain cultures, incarceration, energy strategies, mining tourism, pollution control mechanisms, social impacts of oil and gas production, contract farming, gender mainstreaming, climate change, and droughts and adaptation strategies along with literacy, leisure, well-being, development, sexuality, sustainability and environmental education. The book examines several dimensions within global environment of the adverse impact of developmental activities, discusses sustainable development activities undertaken in contemporary times, and underscores the importance of a just, people-centric policy framework in promoting sustainable development. Lucid and topical, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of environmental studies, development studies, sustainable development, political studies, sociology, and political economy. It will also interest policymakers, development practitioners, NGOs and think tanks working on environment and sustainable development, climate issues and SDGs.

Author : William Scott,Paul Vare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000208023

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Learning, Environment and Sustainable Development by William Scott,Paul Vare Pdf

This book is an introduction to the long history of human learning, the environment and sustainable development – about our struggles with the natural world: first for survival, then for dominance, currently for self-preservation, and in future perhaps, even for long-term, mutually beneficial co-existence. It charts the long arc of human–environment relationships through the specific lens of human learning, putting on record many of the people, ideas and events that have contributed, often unwittingly, to the global movement for sustainable development. Human learning has always had a focus on the environment. It’s something we’ve been engaged in ever since we began interacting with our surroundings and thinking about the impacts, outcomes and consequences of our actions and interactions. This unique story told by the authors is episodic rather than a connected, linear account; it probes, questions and re-examines familiar issues from novel perspectives, and looks ahead. The book is of particular interest to those studying (and teaching) courses with a focus on socio-economic and environmental sustainability, and non-governmental organisations whose work brings them face-to-face with the general public and social enterprises.

Author : M.H. Fulekar,Bhawana Pathak,R K Kale
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788132211662

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Environment and Sustainable Development by M.H. Fulekar,Bhawana Pathak,R K Kale Pdf

Global society in the 21st century is facing challenges of improving the quality of air, water, soil and the environment and maintaining the ecological balance. Environmental pollution, thus, has become a major global concern. The modern growth of industrialization, urbanization, modern agricultural development and energy generation has resulted in the indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources for fulfilling human desires and needs, which has contributed in disturbing the ecological balance on which the quality of our environment depends. Human beings, in the truest sense, are the product of their environment. The man-environment relationship indicates that pollution and deterioration of the environment have a social origin. The modern technological advancements in chemical processes/operations have generated new products, resulting in new pollutants in such abundant levels that they are above the self-cleaning capacity of the environment. One of the major issues in recent times is the threat tohuman lives due to the progressive deterioration of the environment from various sources. The impact of the pollutants on the environment will be significant when the accumulated pollutants load will exceed the carrying capacity of the receiving environment. Sustainable development envisages the use of natural resources, such as forests, land, water and fisheries, in a sustainable manner without causing changes in our natural world. The Rio de Janeiro-Earth Summit, held in Brazil in 1992, focused on sustainable development to encourage respect and concern for the use of natural resources in a sustainable manner for the protection of the environment. This book will be beneficial as a source of educational material to post-graduate research scholars, teachers and industrial personnel for maintaining the balance in the use of natural sources for sustainable development.

Author : Arnab Banerjee,Manoj Kumar Jhariya,Dhiraj Kumar Yadav,Abhishek Raj
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000000412

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Environmental and Sustainable Development Through Forestry and Other Resources by Arnab Banerjee,Manoj Kumar Jhariya,Dhiraj Kumar Yadav,Abhishek Raj Pdf

This book looks at using forestry and several other innovative measures to facilitate environmental sustainability, covering an important selection of research that focuses on scientific applications and trends. Chapters discuss such diverse topics as using agroforestry for resource management, employing legumes in agroforestry, livestock management for climate change mitigation, introducing higher plants for air pollution mitigation in urban industrial areas, the uses and benefits of sludge, technological assessment of sewage treatment plants, and much more. This book will be a helpful and informative reference for those in the disciplines of forestry, agriculture, ecology, and environmental science and will also be a pathway to addressing new concepts for a sustainable world.

Author : Zbigniew Bochniarz,Gary B. Cohen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845451449

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The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe by Zbigniew Bochniarz,Gary B. Cohen Pdf

The experiences of these countries in wrestling with issues of sustainability may serve also as examples for both developed and developing countries worldwide."--Jacket.

Author : James Heydon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429752285

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Sustainable Development as Environmental Harm by James Heydon Pdf

In this in-depth analysis of First Nations opposition to the oil sands industry, James Heydon offers detailed empirical insight into Canadian oil sands regulation. The environmental consequences of the oil sands industry have been thoroughly explored by scholars from a variety of disciplines. However, less well understood is how and why the provincial energy regulator has repeatedly sanctioned such a harmful pattern of production for almost two decades. This research monograph addresses that shortcoming. Drawing from interviews with government, industry, and First Nation personnel, along with an analysis of almost 20 years of policy, strategy, and regulatory approval documents, Sustainable Development as Environmental Harm offers detailed empirical insight into Canadian oil sands regulation. Providing a thorough account of the ways in which the regulatory process has prioritised economic interests over the land-based cultural interests of First Nations, it addresses a gap in the literature by explaining how environmental harm has been systematically produced over time by a regulatory process tasked with the pursuit of ‘sustainable development’. With an approach emphasizing the importance of understanding how and why the regulatory process has been able to circumvent various protections for the entire duration in which the contemporary oil sands industry has existed, this work complements existing literature and provides a platform from which future investigations into environmental harm may be conducted. It is essential reading for those with an interest in green criminology, environmental harm, indigenous rights, and regulatory controls relating to fossil fuel production.

Author : I. Sundar
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Environmental economics
ISBN : 813130020X

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Environment & Sustainable Development by I. Sundar Pdf

Author : Iris Borowy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135961299

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Defining Sustainable Development for Our Common Future by Iris Borowy Pdf

The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. Written by an international group of politicians, civil servants and experts on the environment and development, the Brundtland Report changed sustainable development from a physical notion to one based on social, economic and environmental issues. This book positions the Brundtland Commission as a key event within a longer series of international reactions to pressing problems of global poverty and environmental degradation. It shows that its report, "Our Common Future", published in 1987, covered much more than its definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" for which it became best known. It also addressed a long list of issues which remain unresolved today. The book explores how the work of the Commission juggled contradictory expectations and world views, which existed within the Commission and beyond, and drew on the concept of sustainable development as a way to reconcile profound differences. The result was both an immense success and disappointment. Coining an irresistibly simple definition enabled the Brundtland Commission to place sustainability firmly on the international agenda. This definition gained acceptability for a potentially divisive concept, but it also diverted attention from underlying demands for fundamental political and social changes. Meanwhile, the central message of the Commission – the need to make inconvenient sustainability considerations a part of global politics as much as of everyday life – has been side-lined. The book thus assesses to what extent the Brundtland Commission represented an immense step forward or a missed opportunity.

Author : Rosi Braidotti,International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856491846

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Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development by Rosi Braidotti,International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women Pdf

"There is a widespread perception that the development process is in a state of multiple crisis. While the notion of sustainable development is supposed to address adequately its environmental dimensions, there is still no agreed framework relating women to this new perspective. This book is an attempt to present and disentangle the various positions put forward by major actors and to clarify the political and theoretical issues that are at stake in the debates on women, the environment and sustainable development. Among the current critiques of the western model of development which the authors review are the feminist analysis of Science itself and the power relations inherent in the production of knowledge; Women, Environment and Development (WED); Alternative Development; Environmental Reformism; and Deep Ecology, Social Ecology and Ecofeminism. In traversing this important landscape of ideas, they show how they criticise the dominant developmental model at the various levels of epistemology, theory and policy. The authors also go further and put forward their own ideas as to the basic elements they consider necessary in constructing a paradigmatic shift -- emphasising such values as holism, mutuality, justice, autonomy, self-reliance, sustainability and peace. This unique work is a signally useful contribution to clarifying thinking on a topic with immense implications for all women."--Publisher's description.

Author : Gordon Wilson,Pamela Furniss,Richard Kimbowa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199560646

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Environment, Development, and Sustainability by Gordon Wilson,Pamela Furniss,Richard Kimbowa Pdf

Case studies from technologists, engineers, natural and social scientists, and practitioners present multiple perspectives on sustainable development. Examples from both developing and developed countries, show how environment, development and sustainability intertwine to form an issue of truly global concern.

Author : Strange Tracey,Bayley Anne
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264055742

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OECD Insights Sustainable Development Linking Economy, Society, Environment by Strange Tracey,Bayley Anne Pdf

A succinct examination of the concept of sustainable development: what it means; how it is impacted by globalisation, production and consumption; how it can be measured; and what can be done to promote it.

Author : Chris Barrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134216062

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Environmental Management for Sustainable Development by Chris Barrow Pdf

Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development. This comprehensively updated second edition explores the nature and role of environmental management, covering key principles, practices, tools, strategies and policies, offers a thorough yet understandable introduction, and points to further in-depth coverage. Among the key themes covered are: sustainable development proactive approaches the precautionary principle the ‘polluter pays’ principle the need for humans to be less vulnerable and more adaptable. Reflecting the expansion and evolution of the field, this revised edition focuses strongly on sustainable development. There has been extensive restructuring to ensure the book is accessible to those unfamiliar with environmental management and it now includes greater coverage of topics including key resources under stress, environmental management tools, climate change and urban environmental management. With rapid expansion and development of the subject it is easy for those embarking on a course of study to become disorientated, but with its well-structured coverage, effective illustrations, and foundation for further, more-focused interest, this book is easily accessible to all.

Author : Adisa Azapagic,Alan Emsley,Ian Hamerton
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470309278

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Polymers by Adisa Azapagic,Alan Emsley,Ian Hamerton Pdf

Recycling von Kunststoffen, Gummi und anderen Polymeren: Wie beeinflussen solche Prozesse unsere Umwelt? Dieser Frage geht der vorliegende Band nach, wobei sich der Autor auf die neue Gesetzgebung in den USA, Japan und der EU bezieht, die Polymerhersteller zum Recycling zwingt. Vor- und Nachteile der Recyclingkreisläufe werden einander gegenübergestellt. Alle Kapitel enthalten Beispielfragen und -antworten.

Author : D. Banister,K. Button
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135155179

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Transport, the Environment and Sustainable Development by D. Banister,K. Button Pdf

This book presents the current thinking from leading authorities worldwide on transport and the environment and focuses on the link between transport supply and use and environmental degradation.

Author : William Mark Adams
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415147654

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Green Development by William Mark Adams Pdf

This new edition has been completely re-written. Giving a valuable analysis of the theory and practice of sustainable development, it suggests that at the start of the new millennium we should think radically about the challenge of sustainability.