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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : IND:30000087892950
Author : Diane Barthel-Bouchier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315431031
For cultural and heritage institutions around the world, sustainability is the major challenge of the twenty-first century. In the first major work to analyze this critical issue, Barthel-Bouchier argues that programmatic commitments to sustainability arose both from direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage, and from social and economic contradictions as heritage developed into a truly global organizational field. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews over many years, as well as detailed coverage of primary documents and secondary literature, she examines key international organizations including UNESCO, ICOMOS, and the World Monuments Fund, and national trust organizations of Great Britain, the United States, and Australia, and many others. This wide-ranging study establishes a foundation for critical analysis and programmatic advances as heritage professionals encounter the growing challenge of sustainability.
Author : Atkinson, Hugh,Wade, Ros
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447306474
This timely and accessible book explores the links between politics, learning and sustainability. Its central focus is the future of people and the planet itself. The challenges that we face in combatting climate change and building a more sustainable world are complex and the book argues that if we are to successfully meet these challenges we need a fundamental change in the way we do politics and economics, embedding a lifelong commitment to sustainability in all learning. We have no option but to make things work for the better. After all, planet earth is the only home we have! The book will be important reading for academics and students in a variety of related subjects, including politics, public policy, education, sustainable development, geography, media, international relations and development studies. It will also be a valuable resource for NGOs and policy makers.
Author : Julian Agyeman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814707111
Julian Agyeman once again pushes us all to think more critically about how to integrate two important political and intellectual projects.
Author : United Nations Development Programme
Publisher : UN
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015054163228
The report discusses the linkages between energy and economic, social, environmental, and security issues, and analyses the contradictions between current patterns of use and objectives in these areas. The WEA also reviews energy resources and technology options from the point of view of sustainability including better end-use efficiency, greater reliance on renewable sources of energy, and next-generation nuclear and fossil-fuel technologies. Further, the report examines plausible scenarios for combining various options to achieve a sustainable and relatively prosperous future. The report concludes by examining policy options for producing and using energy in ways that are compatible with sustainable development.
Author : John J. Pigram,Salah Wahab
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134721535
Distinguishing between sustainable development and sustainable tourism, the authors examine whether, and in what form, tourism can contribute to sustainable development and growth. Focusing on different types of tourism appropriate to particular situations, the team of leading contributors draws on examples from around the world - Canada, USA, Spain, Belgium, UK, Australia - to explore tourism's contribution to the economic, social, political and environmental advancement of developing countries and the importance of tourism in industrialised nations. This book examines the new policies and initiatives established by both the private sector and the state to pursue sustainable tourism growth and identifies the opportunities and challenges inherent in achieving it.
Author : Alessia Falsarone
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000562859
This book explores the role of businesses in delivering positive societal and financial outcomes as they seek to bridge the gap between short-term organizational behaviors and long-range sustainability commitments. By addressing the inevitable data challenges associated with the strategic integration of a sustainability mindset, it enables faster adoption of social, environmental and governance metrics that generate lasting enterprise value. Inspired by the experience of practitioners that have successfully influenced the learning behaviors of complex organizations, this book helps readers drive systemic innovations as they leverage sustainability initiatives in a programmatic and intentional manner. Features: Defines a toolkit to generate sustainable business value by focusing on the organizational design underpinning sustainability-oriented initiatives. Provides a multidisciplinary lens on shaping the impact dialogue through applied frameworks. Discusses the need to analytically identify an organizational learning curve before developing impact targets and framing sustainability commitments around them. Combines theory and practice in a practical style by presenting a variety of real-life applications at a global level. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author : John Zinkin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110670608
The Challenge of Sustainability: Corporate Governance in a Complicated World reviews the evolution of five types of corporate governance and their different sustainability objectives. It discusses the challenges for boards in achieving sustainability from an environmental, economic, employment, and social perspective and introduces the concept of a political tragedy of the commons if boards do what is in the best interests of their profitability only, without considering their responsibilities and unintended consequences for their stakeholders. It explains how volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity complicate making sustainable decisions. This book explores ways of helping prevent such negative outcomes. John Zinkin asserts the director’s need to reconcile volatility with vision, uncertainty with understanding, complexity with courage and commitment, and ambiguity with adaptability. To prevent a potential political tragedy of the commons, the book suggests new decision-making processes; treating employees differently; and makes the case for reforming capitalism. It is aimed at managers, board members and all those who influence them, including shareholder activists, corporate legal personnel, politicians, activists and general readers interested in applying some of these suggestions in their roles as stakeholders, managers and directors.
Author : Peter Blaze Corcoran,Arjen E.J. Wals
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780306485152
This book challenges universities to rethink their missions and to re-structure courses, research programs, and campus life in terms of sustainability. The author offers valuable theoretical and practical resources for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators who seek sustainability in higher education. Sustainability is explored as an outcome and a process of learning, and also as a catalyst for educational change and institutional innovation.
Author : Peter N. Nemetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136262180
It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science. This integrated textbook for MBA and senior-level undergraduates offers a comprehensive overview of the issues of sustainability as they relate to business and influence corporate strategy. It also features a wide range of cases and an extensive discussion of tools to incorporate sustainability issues into strategic decision making, helping instructors and students to build and then apply a solid understanding of sustainability in business.
Author : John R. McIntyre,Silvester Ivanaj,Vera Ivanaj
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849802215
Transnational corporations play a role in the design, diffusion, and consolidation of sustainable development in the context of globalization and multinational firms. In this timely book European and American contributors analyze this role and explore the complex and dynamic phenomena of economic, political, cultural and legal interactions involved. In order to understand this interplay, the authors examine the practices and organizational behaviors used by multinationals in sustainable development. They also discuss the evolving concepts that multinationals hold about sustainable development and corporate social responsibility and how companies reaffirm these philosophies through their strategy and organizational practices such as human resource development, marketing, supply chain, information technology, law, and communications. The authors outline an approach to help identify the key details and motivating factors in decision making. Scholars, students and policy analysts in the fields of business, ecology, economic development and developmental economics and consultants focusing in corporate planning and strategic analysis will find this original collection of great value.
Author : Bill Scott,Paul Vare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 1783537736
It is now clear that human activity has influenced how the biosphere supports life on Earth, and given rise to a set of connected environmental and social problems. In response to the challenge that these problems present, a series of international conferences and summits led to discussions of sustainable development and the core dilemma of our time: How can we all live well, now and in the future, without compromising the ability of the planet to enable us all to live well? This book identifies the main issues and challenges we now face; it explains the ideas that underpin them and their interconnection, and discusses a range of strategies through which they might be addressed and possibly resolved. These cover things that governments might do, what businesses and large organisations can contribute, and the scope for individuals, families and communities to get involved. This book is for everyone who cares about such challenges, and wants to know more about them.
Author : Gerard Magill,James Benedict
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527549500
This collection of essays is based on presentations given at the 4th conference in an annual endowed series held at Duquesne University, USA. It addresses emerging concerns and pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. The contributions gathered here highlight the inter-relation of topics and expertise regarding science and philosophy, ethics, religion, global issues, and generational perspectives. The book concludes with an ethical analysis of the multiple and over-lapping challenges that require urgent attention and long-term resolution. It will appeal to scholars and students in a variety of disciplines and fields that deal with the earth’s survival and flourishing.
Author : L. Anders Sandberg,Sverker Sörlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023465052
The pursuit of sustainable development must not only promote environmental integrity and biodiversity, but also human equity.
Author : Atkinson, Hugh,Wade, Ros
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447306467
This timely and accessible book explores the links between politics, learning and sustainability. Its central focus is the future of people and the planet itself. The challenges that we face in combatting climate change and building a more sustainable world are complex and the book argues that if we are to successfully meet these challenges we need a fundamental change in the way we do politics and economics, embedding a lifelong commitment to sustainability in all learning. We have no option but to make things work for the better. After all, planet earth is the only home we have! The book will be important reading for academics and students in a variety of related subjects, including politics, public policy, education, sustainable development, geography, media, international relations and development studies. It will also be a valuable resource for NGOs and policy makers.