Foundations Of Sustainable Development

Author : Daniel A. Fiscus,Brian D. Fath
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128116449

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Foundations for Sustainability by Daniel A. Fiscus,Brian D. Fath Pdf

Foundations for Sustainability: A Coherent Framework of Life-Environment Relations challenges existing assumptions on environmental issues and lays the groundwork for a new paradigm, bringing a greater understanding of what is needed to help create an environmentally and economically sustainable future, which to date has been an uphill battle and not an obvious choice. The book presents the case for a paradigm based on a multi-model of life as organism, life as ecosystem, and life as biosphere, as opposed to the singular assumption that life can be viewed solely as an organism. All backed with well-cited research from top investigators from around the world, this book is a must-have resource for anyone working in ecology, environmental science or sustainability. Introduces a holistic, systemic approach and a synthesis of the systemic root cause that underlies many surface symptoms that are part of individual environmental problems (climate, water, energy, etc.) Complements current piecemeal approaches in order to solve many interconnected environmental problems which share root causes Provides tests and thought experiments to challenge current views on sustainability, leveraging the power of critical thinking to find new solutions Gives insights on how to find solutions by blending interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary focuses with disciplinary specialization in ecology and ecosystem science Bridges concepts and methods from math to ecology to human development

Author : Umar Burki,Toseef Azid,Robert Francis Dahlstrom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000421507

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Foundations of a Sustainable Economy by Umar Burki,Toseef Azid,Robert Francis Dahlstrom Pdf

This book addresses current practices related to sustainable development, its challenges and the future. People belonging to different genders regardless of their age, social class and education should be equal as citizens and individuals, and identical in their rights and responsibilities. The business sector, authorities, societies and religious circles have the potential to play a fundamental role in curbing social ills and the degradation of the environment in this modern world. The authors of this book argue that without good governance, the status of a human being is unlikely to improve. They make the case that to achieve sustainability, government, society and the economy must ensure a platform for people to participate in decision-making and benefit from the rights they are accorded. By covering a range of perspectives across economic, social and moral life, the book will shed light on the problems and possible solutions to sustainable development and the triple bottom line, of people, planet and profit, under the umbrella of morals and divine law. This will be a useful guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students across multiple disciplines, such as economics, religious studies, business studies, political science, anthropology and sociology.

Author : Nada R. Sanders,John D. Wood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119577553

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Foundations of Sustainable Business by Nada R. Sanders,John D. Wood Pdf

The second edition of Sustainable Business prepares future business leaders to tackle the most crucial social and environmental issues of our time. This engaging textbook provides students with a comprehensive, balanced introduction to integrating sustainable business policies into all core business functions and processes. The text employs a qualitative-based learning process to help students understand how leadership, finance, accounting, risk management, marketing, supply chain management, and operations can be adapted to meet the sustainability goals of the 21st century. Looking at sustainable business from the managerial viewpoint, the fully-updated new edition explains how and why business is evolving due to increased consumer and regulatory pressure for sustainable performance. Business topics are first introduced in the same manner as traditional MBA programs, and then examined through the lens of sustainably. The text incorporates real-life examples of social and environmental leadership to demonstrate the efficacy of good sustainable business decisions, and illustrates the negative ramifications of outdated, purely economic-driven managerial decision-making. Influential concepts based on interdisciplinary research in sustainability are discussed in detail, and practical insights address how to turn policy into practice in the workplace.

Author : Niko Roorda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000200676

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Fundamentals of Sustainable Development by Niko Roorda Pdf

Fundamentals of Sustainable Development is an accessible and interdisciplinary textbook that introduces the concept of sustainable development to students from across the disciplines from economics, management, teacher education, arts and humanities to the natural and social sciences. The impact of development needs to be considered beyond the narrow focus of economic, ecological or social concerns. This new edition builds upon the second edition’s user-friendly and comprehensive overview of the challenges linked to striving for a sustainable, holistic approach to development. Providing a multifaceted approach to the subject in order to encompass what is referred to as ‘people, planet and profit’, this third edition provides a complete update of the text, with an emphasis on topics including the Sustainable Development Goals, the circular economy, climate and energy, and sustainable and future-focused entrepreneurship. This stimulating book is an invaluable resource for students and lecturers in all disciplines who have an interest in the sustainability of our planet, and our human society and economy.

Author : Urs Wiesmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 3905835312

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Research for sustainable development : foundations, experiences, and perspectives by Urs Wiesmann Pdf

Author : Edited By Georgina Ayre And Rosalie Callway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6000000871

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Governance for Sustainable Development by Edited By Georgina Ayre And Rosalie Callway Pdf

Author : Dean Frieders
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Building laws
ISBN : 1614383251

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Foundations of Sustainable Development by Dean Frieders Pdf

Sustainable development helps prevent permanent damage to the environment while incorporating methods that reduce the rate of consumption of resources. Helping meet the need for accessible information on this growing area of law and practice, this hands-on explanation of sustainable development concepts and projects is written for both public and private entities embarking upon these projects. It shows how to identify and explain legal and nonlegal tools available for using sustainable development practices, providing easily understandable descriptions of the techniques and identifying common pitfalls.

Author : Arsenio Balisacan,Ujjayant Chakravorty,Majah-Leah Ravago
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128004166

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Sustainable Economic Development by Arsenio Balisacan,Ujjayant Chakravorty,Majah-Leah Ravago Pdf

Sustainable Economic Development: Resources, Environment, and Institutions presents 25 articles that lay the foundations of sustainable development in a way that facilitates effective policy design. The editors mix broad thematic papers with focused micro-papers, balancing theories with policy designs.The book begins with two sections on sustainable development principles and practice and on specific settings where sustainable development is practiced. Two more sections illuminate institutions, governance, and political economy. Additional sections cover sustainable development and agriculture, and risk and economic security, including disaster management. This rich source of information should appeal to any institution involved in development work, and to development practitioners grappling with an array of difficult on-the-ground developmental challenges. Analyzes policies that move markets and resource use patterns towards achieving sustainability Articles are kaleidoscopic in scope and creativity Authors embody extraordinary diversity and qualifications

Author : Tom Theis,Jonathan Tomkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1680921533

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Sustainability by Tom Theis,Jonathan Tomkin Pdf

With "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation," first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowldege - including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by a recognized expert in the field.

Author : Erling Holden,Kristin Linnerud,David Banister,Valeria Jana Schwanitz,August Wierling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134338481

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The Imperatives of Sustainable Development by Erling Holden,Kristin Linnerud,David Banister,Valeria Jana Schwanitz,August Wierling Pdf

Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This model suggests sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, thereby defining the space within which sustainable development can be achieved. The authors accept that there is no single pathway to the sustainable development space. Different countries face different challenges and must follow different pathways. This perspective is applied to all countries to determine whether the thresholds of the sustainability themes selected have been met, now and in the past. The authors build on the extensive literature on needs, equity, justice, environmental science, ecology, and economics, and show how the three moral imperatives can guide policymaking. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development synthesizes past reasoning, summarizes the present debate, and provides a clear direction for future thinking. This book will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future of sustainable development and in the complex environmental and social issues involved.

Author : Georgina Ayre,Rosalie Callway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136564703

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Governance for Sustainable Development by Georgina Ayre,Rosalie Callway Pdf

As the process of globalization continues and power imbalances between decision-making institutions become increasingly apparent, the need for a critical assessment of the way in which we manage our interaction with the natural environment becomes ever more urgent. Good governance was identified at the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a critical factor for ensuring successful sustainable development. This book builds on the briefing papers that were presented at the Summit, taking further the discussions of the WEHAB agenda (Water, Energy, Health, Agriculture and food, and Biodiversity - the five international priority sectors highlighted by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan). This is a unique offering on the role and reform of global institutions and processes, raising issues that have previously been neglected in international discussions.

Author : United Nations Development Programme
Publisher : United Nations Development Programme Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (UNDP IICPSD)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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UNDP's Private Sector and Foundations Strategy for the Sustainable Development Goals 2016-2020 by United Nations Development Programme Pdf

UNDP’s Private Sector and Foundations Strategy for the Sustainable Development Goals 2016–2020 defines how UNDP plans to engage with – and work on – sustainable development issues with the private sector and philanthropic foundations. The goal is to enable these actors to become transformative partners in implementing all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to achieve UNDP’s vision of poverty eradication and a reduction in inequalities. The strategy aims to position UNDP as a partner of choice for the private sector and foundations in SDG implementation, while maximizing the impact of the private sector and philanthropy on sustainable development. The target audience for this strategy includes our partners in the private sector and philanthropy as well as UNDP Headquarters units, regional bureaux, regional hubs and country offices that work with the private sector and foundations on development issues. It explains UNDP’s programmatic approach in working directly with the private sector and foundations as well as with other partners involved in development. By engaging the private sector and foundations through this strategy, UNDP can support governments to establish an enabling environment for aligning these stakeholders’ core operations with the SDGs. This strategy is complementary to UNDP’s Green Commodities and Trade Guidance Note, UNDP Guidance Note on Jobs and Livelihoods, UNDP’s Strategy for Supporting Sustainable and Equitable Management of the Extractive Sector for Human Development, International Financial Institutions Partnership Strategy 2016-2020, the Recovery Strategy, UNDP support to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Policy and Programme brief and the Mainstreaming, Acceleration, Policy Support Approach (MAPS) enabling responsive, coherent and inclusive support to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Author : Lars Rydén (biochemia),Ann Crossley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9170051321

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Foundations of sustainable development by Lars Rydén (biochemia),Ann Crossley Pdf

Author : Sigrun M. Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351803151

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Business and Environmental Sustainability by Sigrun M. Wagner Pdf

Environmental sustainability is increasingly important to organisations, whether for regulatory, financial or ethical reasons. Business and Environmental Sustainability looks at the environmental aspect of sustainability for all organisations pursuing competitive advantage. The book provides theoretical foundations from science, economics, policy and strategy, introduces three environmental challenges (climate change, pollution and waste) and looks at how corporate functions can address these. This textbook provides a thorough foundation by introducing readers to the science, reasoning and theory behind environmental sustainability and then delves into how these ideas translate into principles and business models for organisations to use. Next, it covers environmental challenges from climate change, pollution and waste, and then goes on to examine the different corporate functions (from supply chain management to human resources) to illustrate how environmental sustainability is managed and put into practice in organisations. Finally, a set of integrative case studies draws everything together and enables the reader to apply various analytical tools, with the aim of understanding how companies can not only reduce their environmental footprint but can positively contribute to environmental sustainability. Written by an award-winning lecturer, Business and Environmental Sustainability boasts a wealth of pedagogical features, including examples from a range of industries and countries, plus a companion website with slides, quiz questions and instructor material. This will be a valuable text for students of business, management and environmental sustainability and will also be suitable for broader courses on corporate responsibility and sustainability across environmental studies, political science and engineering.

Author : Larry Rockwood,Ronald Stewart,Thomas Dietz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195309454

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Foundations of Environmental Sustainability by Larry Rockwood,Ronald Stewart,Thomas Dietz Pdf

This book reviews and analyzes the period in the last half century where "the environment" became an issue as important as economic growth to many people; to assess the current situation and begin planning for the challenges that lie ahead. The authors are a distinguished group of individuals who have played important roles in conservation and the development of environmental policy throught out much of the world.