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Author : Tim Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015066788434
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : John Kirkby,Phil O'Keefe,Lloyd Timberlake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000897258
Such a huge number of books, journals and papers have been devoted to defining, assessing and implementing 'sustainable development' that students and other readers face information overload. Earthscan alone has published hundreds of essays and books on the subject. Now, though, the most authoritative writings have been carefully assessed and collected together in the Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Development. The contributions included span five years of the debate, and cover all the principle themes: the history of the concept; the problems in defining it; the issues surrounding it; and national international policies and schemes to implement it. For ease of use, the essays have been split into key subject areas - such as agriculture, population and the commons - and they include practical case studies and examples, together with analyses from a number of different viewpoints from both the North and South. These seminal essays will provide readers with a unique overview of the subject, as well as the long-awaited basic course material for students of environmental studies, economics, geography, politics, planning and the social sciences.
Author : David Satterthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317762614
The last five years have brought an enormous growth in the literature on how urban development can meet human needs and ensure ecological sustainability. This collection brings together the most outstanding contributions from leading experts on the issues surrounding sustainable cities and urban development. The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities is fully international in scope and coverage. It will be the basic introduction to the subject for a wide range of students in urban geography, planning and environmental studies, and is essential reading for professionals involved with the successful running and development of cities.
Author : Anil Markandya
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351225175
Environmental economics may hold the key to the successful management of the world's accelerating environmental problems, from transport and pollution to the wholesale degradation of much of the Third World, climate change and loss of the ozone layer. Increasingly a range of professionals and policy makers as well as environmentalists and the economists themselves are turning to it to show how to arrive at decisions on these complicated and vital issues. This reader brings together the most important contributions to the subject. Sections of it cover the theoretical issues, the different ways of valuing the environment, economic instruments of environmental policy, environment and development and global environmental problems. An extensive introduction by the editors maps out the area and the development of the arguments within it. As a whole the volume makes an indispensable sourcebook for those in any way involved with these questions. Anil markandya is one of the authors of Blueprint for a Green Economy and Blueprint 2: Greening the Global Economy.
Author : Jules N. Pretty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : 1423728408
Author : Richard Welford,Richard Starkey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business
ISBN : 1853836591
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Richard Welford,Richard Starkey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business
ISBN : IND:30000050339286
"This Earthscan Reader includes the most important and innovative chapters and articles on the interaction of business and the environment. The contributions included have been chosen with the help of a large advisory board, to ensure that they represent a broad cross-section of ideas and opinions, and are as useful as possible for both students and researchers. All the main elements of the debate are covered in five clearly structured sections: Perspectives on Business and the Environment; Business Strategy and the Environment; Research, Development and Technology; Techniques for Environmental Improvement; and Business and the Economy. In addition, an editorial commentary provides a helpful guide and outlines the issues, and comprehensive lists of sources and recommended further reading are included. The Reader brings together, in one book, the seminal contributions to the debate - including a previously unpublished article by Michael Porter. An extremely useful source of reference for students in business schools, management studies and environmental courses, it will also be valuable for environmental managers and consultants and those interested in 'greening' the business environment."--Publisher's description.
Author : Karen Lykke Syse,Martin Lee Mueller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317747802
What does it mean to live a good life in a time when the planet is overheating, the human population continues to steadily reach new peaks, oceans are turning more acidic, and fertile soils the world over are eroding at unprecedented rates? These and other simultaneous harms and threats demand creative responses at several levels of consideration and action. Written by an international team of contributors, this book examines in-depth the relationship between sustainability and the good life. Drawing on wealth of theories, from social practice theory to architecture and design theory, and disciplines, such as anthropology and environmental philosophy, this volume promotes participatory action-research based approaches to encourage sustainability and wellbeing at local levels. It covers topical issues such the politics of prosperity, globalization, and indigenous notions of "the good life" and happiness". Finally it places a strong emphasis on food at the heart of the sustainability and good life debate, for instance binding the global south to the north through import and exports, or linking everyday lives to ideals within the dream of the good life, with cookbooks and shows. This interdisciplinary book provides invaluable insights for researchers and postgraduate students interested in the contribution of the environmental humanities to the sustainability debate.
Author : Elizabeth Resnick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781350026032
The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Elizabeth Resnick traces the emergence of the notion of socially responsible design. This volume represents the authentic voices of the thinkers, writers and designers who are helping to build a 'canon' of informed literature which documents the development of the discipline. The Social Design Reader is divided into three parts. Section 1: Making a Stand includes an introduction to the term 'social design' and features papers which explore its historical underpinnings. Section 2: Creating the Future documents the emergence of social design as a concept, as a nascent field of study, and subsequently as a rapidly developing professional discipline, and Section 3: A Sea Change is made up of papers acknowledging social design as a firmly established practice. Contextualising section introductions are provided to aid readers in understanding the original source material, while summary boxes clearly articulate how each text fits with the larger milieu of social design theory, methods, and practice.
Author : G. Seyfang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230234505
This book offers a fresh look at sustainable consumption, exploring how grassroots community action can spread ideas in society. It presents a 'New Economics' approach based on alternative measures of wealth and value, examining how these are put into practice through local organic food systems, low-impact eco-housing, and complementary currencies.
Author : Lucie Middlemiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317239819
Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues provides a concise introduction to the field of sustainable consumption, outlining the contribution of the key disciplines in this multi-disciplinary area, and detailing the way in which both the problem and the potential for solutions are understood. Divided into three parts, the book begins by introducing the concept of sustainable consumption, outlining the environmental impacts of current consumption trends, and placing these impacts in social context. The central section looks at six contrasting explanations of sustainable consumption in the public domain, detailing the stories that are told about why people act in the way they do. This section also explores the theory and evidence around each of these stories, linking them to a range of disciplines and approaches in the social sciences. The final section takes a broader look at the solutions proposed by sustainable consumption scholars and practitioners, outlining the visions of the future that are put forward to counteract damage to environment and society. Each chapter highlights key authors and real-world examples to encourage students to broaden their understanding of the topic and to think critically about how their daily lives intersect with environmental and ethical issues. Exploring the ways in which critical thinking and an understanding of sustainable consumption can be used in daily life as well as in professional practice, this book is essential reading for students, academics, professionals and policy-makers with an interest in this growing field.
Author : H. Herring,S. Sorrell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230583108
This book challenges conventional wisdom by showing how, in some circumstances, improved energy efficiency may increase energy consumption. Relying upon energy efficiency to reduce carbon emissions could therefore be misguided. This book explores the broader implications for climate change and sustainable consumption.
Author : Lucia A. Reisch,John Th_gersen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783471270
This Handbook compiles the state of the art of current research on sustainable consumption from the world�s leading experts in the field. The implementation of sustainable consumption presents one of the greatest challenges and opportunities we are fac
Author : Ruth Thomas-Pellicer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Philosophy
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 post-Kantian critique of reason. To develop its own framework of analysis, it relies heavily upon Nietzsche’s oeuvre and that of part of his entourage (including Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, and Plotnitsky). Major inputs also come from the work of the ecophilosopher of science Patrick Curry and ecofeminism at large. It will appeal to students and established scholars in environmental studies, ecology and philosophy.
Author : Kevin Gallagher,Jacob Werksman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign trade regulation
ISBN : UCSD:31822032124661
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.