Sustainable Development Policy Directory

Author : W. Alan Strong,Lesley Hemphill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781405173391

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Sustainable Development Policy Directory by W. Alan Strong,Lesley Hemphill Pdf

This Directory means that a whole range of built environment professionals need never be caught out by the perversities of policy – in its formulation or on its journey into the real life of you and me. To have in one place the means of not only burrowing down into any one policy, but also of exploring the interconnections is a precious resource for any professional - ‘sustainability literate’ or not. Today, nobody who delivers our built environment can be excused from taking responsibility for the future. Armed with this Directory their contribution can only be made more effective. Sara Parkin OBE Forum for the Future This desk-top reference on sustainable development provides essential information for all who need to be up-to-date and familiar with the implications of the legal, fiscal and planning frameworks around the global and local sustainability agenda. It is relevant to a range of organisations and individuals - from national and local authorities, professional bodies, built environment professions, academia, environmental consultancies, non-governmental organisations and others. Carefully designed to facilitate access for a diverse range of stakeholders, it covers international, European, British and local policies in key built environment themes, and develops their inter-relationship to sustainable development. The Directory addresses each theme in a series of tables which summarise the policy purpose and also provide web-links to view the specific policy documents. The themes covered are: · Biodiversity · Climate Change · Construction · Energy · Environment · Planning · Pollution · Social Issues · Sustainable Development Policy and Practice · Transport · Urban Development · Waste Management · Water Other books of interest: The Green Guide to Specification Anderson ISBN: 1405119616 Smart & Sustainable Built Environments Yang Hardback ISBN: 1405124229 Sustainable Property Development Keeping Paperback ISBN: 0632058048 Previously Developed Land Syms Paperback 1405106972 Evaluating Sustainable Development Brandon 0632064862 Cover design by Garth Stewart www.thatconstructionsite.com

Author : Gedeon M. Mudacumura,Desta Mebratu,M. Shamsul Haque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351547390

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Sustainable Development Policy and Administration by Gedeon M. Mudacumura,Desta Mebratu,M. Shamsul Haque Pdf

Sustainable Development Policy and Administration provides a learning resource describing the major issues that are critical to understanding the multiple dimensions of sustainable development. The overall theme of each contributed chapter in this book is the urgent need to promote global sustainability while adding insights into the challenges facing the current and future generations. This volume brings together diverse contributions that cover the multiple facets of development, resulting in a rich reference for students, development managers, and others interested in this emerging field.

Author : H. Bruyninckx,S. Happaerts,K. van den Brande,Karoline van den Brande
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137005427

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Sustainable Development and Subnational Governments by H. Bruyninckx,S. Happaerts,K. van den Brande,Karoline van den Brande Pdf

This book highlights the importance of the subnational level of governance in relation to sustainable development, exploring how subnational governments have taken up the challenge to design sustainable development policies and their involvement in international decision-making on sustainable development.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264256996

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Better Policies for Sustainable Development 2016 A New Framework for Policy Coherence by OECD Pdf

This report introduces the Framework for Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD) - a screening tool that aims to support governments in designing and implementing coherent policies.

Author : Natalia Mirovitskaya,William L. Ascher
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110431082

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Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy by Natalia Mirovitskaya,William L. Ascher Pdf

DIVA compilation of definitions, terms, and critical commentary on aspects of sustainable development and environmental policy, with a strong emphasis on policy tools, policy practices, and systems of international environmental governance./div

Author : Thaddeus C. Trzyna,Julie Didion
Publisher : Earthscan Publications
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 9781853837944

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World Directory of Environmental Organizations by Thaddeus C. Trzyna,Julie Didion Pdf

This is a comprehensive guide to organisations worldwide concerned with conservation and natural resources. It features descriptions of over 2600 organisations in over 200 countries and profiles of over 170 agencies and UN programmes.

Author : Phillip J. Cooper,Claudia Maria Vargas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781461637677

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Implementing Sustainable Development by Phillip J. Cooper,Claudia Maria Vargas Pdf

Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenge of turning international commitments and policy promises into action. Using examples and cases from around the U.S. and around the world, it examines the successful and failed efforts designed to address the social, environmental, and economic dimensions of sustainable development. Based on broad research that started before the Earth Summit, Implementing Sustainable Development offers a practical and useful approach to identifying and addressing policy implementation challenges.

Author : Vinod Thomas,Namrata Chindarkar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811363894

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Economic Evaluation of Sustainable Development by Vinod Thomas,Namrata Chindarkar Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book presents methods to evaluate sustainable development using economic tools. The focus on sustainable development takes the reader beyond economic growth to encompass inclusion, environmental stewardship and good governance. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a framework for outcomes. In illustrating the SDGs, the book employs three evaluation approaches: impact evaluation, cost-benefit analysis and objectives-based evaluation. The innovation lies in connecting evaluation tools with economics. Inclusion, environmental care and good governance, thought of as “wicked problems”, are given centre stage. The book uses case studies to show the application of evaluation tools. It offers guidance to evaluation practitioners, students of development and policymakers. The basic message is that evaluation comes to life when its links with socio-economic, environmental, and governance policies are capitalized on.

Author : Johan Holmberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429577758

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Policies for a Small Planet by Johan Holmberg Pdf

First published in 1992. The world is not living within its means. Current development policies, in both industrial and developing countries, are wasting resources and destroying the commons on which we all depend. The world is set on a path of deepening poverty and a deteriorating environment. New policies are needed to achieve sustainable development. This book presents an integrated series of essays on the policies for sustainable development from one of the leading policy research institutes on environment and development issues. It concentrates on the developing world and looks at the specific sectors to which the policies have to be applied. Beginning with a discussion of what constitutes sustainable development, it goes on to deal with the institutional arrangements needed to mobilise human resources for change and the economic policies for sustainable natural resource management. It then examines the policies needed in agriculture, urban development, industry, forests, drylands, energy use, finance, population and consumption. Throughout it demonstrates how those directly involved are best placed to manage their environments and resources. Policies must support the experience and resourcefulness of local people. Sustainable development requires that they control their own futures. This title will be of great interest to students of Environmental Studies.

Author : Guo Xiumei,Marinova Dora
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813236011

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Sustainability and Development in Asia and the Pacific by Guo Xiumei,Marinova Dora Pdf

The UN Sustainable Development Goals provide a common global agenda for development. However, the emerging policy issues vary greatly across the world. With 32 contributors, this volume provides a timely, research-based overview for the need for policy interventions to improve the sustainability and development models of the ten selected countries in Asia and the Pacific. The volume is firmly positioned at the cusp between research, policy and practice.

Author : Susan Baker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134772773

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Politics of Sustainable Development by Susan Baker Pdf

The concept of sustainable development was popularised by the 1987 Brundtland Report and became a central theme in the EU's Fifth Environmental Action Programme. It dominated the Rio Earth Summit and its promotion has been much in evidence in the subseque

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Development Centre, OECD = Centre de développement, OCDE
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Non-governmental organizations
ISBN : UOM:39015045987065

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Directory of Non-governmental Organisations Active in Sustainable Development: Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Bass,Barry Dalal-Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136555749

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Sustainable Development Strategies by Stephen Bass,Barry Dalal-Clayton Pdf

This book is a cornerstone resource for a wide range of organizations and individuals concerned with sustainable development at national or local levels, as well as for international organizations concerned with supporting such development. Whilst the focus is on integrated strategies for sustainable development, the approaches and methods covered are equally relevant to poverty reduction, environmental and sectoral strategies, programme development and review. Agenda 21 called for all countries to develop sustainable development strategies. For such strategies to be effective there needs to be a real commitment. In every country, government at all levels, the private sector, and civil society, must work together in a true partnership, in transparent ways which enable genuine stakeholder participation. The necessary mechanisms and processes need to be coordinated to enable continuous learning and improvement. This resource book provides flexible, non-prescriptive guidance on how to develop, assess and implement national sustainable development strategies. It sets out principles and ideas on process and methods, and suggests how these can be used. It is based on an analysis of past and current practice, drawing directly from experience in both developed and developing countries. Following a discussion of the nature and challenges of sustainable development and the need for strategic responses to them, the heart of the book covers the main tasks in strategy processes. Individual chapters offer a rich range of guidance, ideas and case studies.

Author : Stefan Sjöblom,Kjell Andersson,Sarah Skerratt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317047988

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Sustainability and Short-term Policies by Stefan Sjöblom,Kjell Andersson,Sarah Skerratt Pdf

There has been a profound change within the sphere of government and societal regulation in recent years. Traditional hierarchical government has been challenged by new governance instruments relying on negotiations instead of command and control. Alongside this development there has been a change in the time-framing of politics and steering. Traditional politics implicitly has been based on stability and permanence while new forms of governance explicitly are based on just-in-time actions such as projects and issue-based collaborations in networks and programs. This book analyses the implications of this shortening of time frames, focusing particularly on spatial policy interventions. Spatial policies have a special relevance when it comes to governance and new forms of societal steering. On the one hand, the local (geographical) level in politics is the principal battleground for the struggle between top down and bottom up approaches and aspirations. On the other hand, many of the most burning issues of our time require a global, strategic approach, for example, climate change, resource depletion, population growth are anchored in space and the physical world. Whether and how short-term spatial approaches can achieve sustainable development outcomes is thus a critical question, and forms the focus of this volume. The book examines the characteristics of temporary policy measures across a range of rural, urban and regional contexts, in four continents: Europe, North America, Oceania and Africa. The outcomes and effects of these policies and interventions are analysed, particularly focusing on the tension between short-term interventions and long-term effects.

Author : Janet R. Strachan,Rosalie Callway,Jan McHarry
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781853839283

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The Plain Language Guide to the World Summit on Sustainable Development by Janet R. Strachan,Rosalie Callway,Jan McHarry Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.