The Mediation Of Sustainability

Author : Ben Harbisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538161128

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The Mediation of Sustainability by Ben Harbisher Pdf

In 2015 the United Nations set out an ambitious plan under UN Resolution 70/1 to prioritize seventeen separate goals over a fifteen-year period to promote health, life, equality, and the environment. The Sustainable Development Goals include ending poverty and hunger; reducing inequality; promoting good health and well-being; quality education; gender equality; clean water and sanitation; affordable and clean energy; decent work and economic growth; industry, innovation, and infrastructure; sustainable cities and communities; responsible consumption and production; climate action; life under water; life on land; peace, justice, and strong institutions; and developing partnerships to achieve these goals. This book examines the way in which SDG initiatives have been disseminated by mainstream media, in government discourse and by NGO’s, charitable organisations, and campaign groups. It questions to what extent sustainability narratives are being supported and how they are represented; how saving the environment can be made pertinent to someone who has no access to clean food or running water; and why local initiatives (in which indigenous populations are making a real difference) are overshadowed by multinationals whose attempts to rectify the damage their goods have done gains more credible reportage. Contributors: Mariana Abreau, Rhys Davies, Jenifer Ere, Shiv Ganesh, Steven Graham, Ben Harbisher, Delayney Harness, Candy Marisol Hernandez, Richard Irwin, Julius Klingelhoefer, Jason Lee, Michel Leroy, Bárbara Lima, and Stuart Price

Author : Catherine Choquette,Véronique Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351691741

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Environmental Mediation by Catherine Choquette,Véronique Fraser Pdf

Environmental mediation continues to develop and evolve in different jurisdictions across the world in order to prevent potential environmental conflicts or to resolve the conflicts while avoiding the inherent drawbacks of an adjudicated solution. This book takes a comparative approach to explore the legal framework of environmental mediation with a focus on the judicial, administrative and private procedures and the criteria for accrediting mediators in a range of jurisdictions across the world. It also examines practical considerations for environmental mediators while analysing the effectiveness of different mediation processes.

Author : Chris Maser,Carol A. Pollio
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1574440071

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Resolving Environmental Conflict Towards Sustainable Community Development by Chris Maser,Carol A. Pollio Pdf

One of the most important challenges facing civilization is how its natural resources will be used and protected. Too often polarization and litigation cause results with which no one is truly satisfied. Enemies are made, lines are drawn and both people and the environment are degraded. Resolving Environmental Conflict explains the transformative approach toward facilitation. It shows how to help parties empower themselves to define the issues and decide the settlement on their own terms and on their own time through better understanding of one another's perspectives. The transformative approach allows a conflict's outcome to be decided solely by the participants even though resolution may not take place for some months after facilitation is complete. Inherent in the solution is a shared vision for the community without which sustainability is not possible. Beyond shared vision, this book examines notions of development, sustainability, and community and the synergism of ecology, culture and economic needs that promote a healthy environment enriching the lives of all its inhabitants.

Author : Chris Maser
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781439856499

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Resolving Environmental Conflicts by Chris Maser Pdf

True progress toward an ecologically sound environment and a socially just culture will be initially expensive in money and effort. The longer we wait, however, the more disastrous the environmental condition will become, the more disputes will arise as a result of our declining quality of life, and the more expensive and difficult the necessary so

Author : Peter Brand,Michael Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134407156

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Urban Environmentalism by Peter Brand,Michael Thomas Pdf

A critical examination of urban policies and management practices used to make cities sustainable. With an international perspective, the book describes urban environmental agendas and how they arose in the context of globalization, urban economic restructuring, and the need to make cities competitive. It argues that the environment became an integral part of city development policy, turning attention not only to physical and ecological issues but also to improving the economic performance of cities and the lives of citizens. The authors also go beyond the technical issues to explore the political importance of urban environmentalism, using case studies to illustrate both its international scope and place-specific characteristics which are inexorably influencing city development throughout the world. In connecting the concept to its political effects, the book raises issues such as local democracy, equality and social regulation, all of which are increasingly concerning academics, professionals, environmentalists and city authorities alike.

Author : Roy Bendor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319703831

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Interactive Media for Sustainability by Roy Bendor Pdf

Interactive Media for Sustainability presents a conceptually rich, critical account of the design and use of interactive technologies to engage the public with sustainability. Treating interactive technologies as forms of mediation, the book argues that these technologies advance multiple understandings of sustainability. At stake are the ways sustainability encodes the complexity of interrelated social and natural systems, and how it conveys the malleability of the future. The book’s argument is anchored in a diverse set of theoretical resources that include contemporary work in human-computer interaction (HCI), social theory, media studies, and the philosophy of technology, and is animated by a variety of examples, including interactive simulations, persuasive apps, digital games, art installations, and decision-support tools.

Author : Chris Maser,Lynette de Silva
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429575969

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Resolving Environmental Conflicts by Chris Maser,Lynette de Silva Pdf

Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath their weapons, and listen to one another for their common good, which ultimately translates into social-environmental sustainability for all generations. Written in a clear, concise style, Resolving Environmental Conflicts: Principles and Concepts, Third Edition is a valuable, solution-oriented contribution that explains environmental conflict management. This book provides an overview of environmental conflicts, collaborative skills, and universal principles to assist in re-thinking and acting toward the common good, integrates a variety of new real-world conflicts as a foundation for building trust, skills, consensus, and capacity, and explains pathways to collectively construct a relationship-centric future, fostering healthier interactions with one another and the planet. The new edition illustrates how to successfully mediate actual environmental disputes and how to teach conflict resolution at any level for a wide variety of social-environmental situations. It adds a new chapter on water conflicts and resolutions, providing avenues to healthy, sustainable, and effective outcomes and provides new examples of conflicts caused by climate change with discussion questions for clear understanding. Land-use planners, urban planners, field biologists, and leaders and participants in collaborative environmental projects and initiatives will find this book to be an invaluable resource. University students in related courses will also benefit, as will anyone interested in achieving greater social-environmental sustainability and a more responsible use of our common natural resources for themselves and their children.

Author : Naresh Singh,Divya Bhatnagar
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781837533800

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Applied Spirituality and Sustainable Development Policy by Naresh Singh,Divya Bhatnagar Pdf

Rooted in both secular spirituality and scientific evidence, this book articulates a new model of sustainable development that is not just based on narrow definitions of GDP and economic growth, but that includes and even forefronts the social, environmental, and internal development of human beings.

Author : Roger Sidaway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136558467

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Resolving Environmental Disputes by Roger Sidaway Pdf

Resolving Environmental Disputes presents detailed case studies from the key contemporary themes in resource management and environmental protection, such as: access to the countryside for recreation, sustainable forestry, pollution and risks to health, and coastal zone management. The book spans both theory and practice in assessing the relationship between public participation and mediation. It is structured around detailed case studies from Britain, the USA and the Netherlands, which are interspersed with chapters providing explanation and interpretation of the theoretical and practical issues involved. In reviewing the state of environmental conflict resolution, the author examines how and why conflicts occur and whether approaches to conflict resolution based on consensus building could be more widely applied.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : OCLC:711888824

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National Mediation Board sustainability plan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jutta Blauert,Simon Zadek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020182445

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Mediating Sustainability by Jutta Blauert,Simon Zadek Pdf

Focusing on efforts in Latin America aimed at achieving sustainable agricultural and rural development, the authors describe successful initiatives that seek to distill and articulate knowledge from the realm of practice in a manner than can influence the realm of policy.

Author : Viorel Ungureanu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031578007

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4th International Conference “Coordinating Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience” & Midterm Conference of CircularB “Implementation of Circular Economy in the Built Environment” by Viorel Ungureanu Pdf

Author : Sara Valaguzza,Mark Alan Hughes
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030875640

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change for Sustainable Growth by Sara Valaguzza,Mark Alan Hughes Pdf

The book is an edited collection of contributions by a distinguished international panel of academics on the main scientific, juridical, and economic aspects involved in the mitigation and adaptation processes imposed by climate change. Explicitly interdisciplinary, the book transversally cuts through different disciplines offering an outline of a phenomenon that is too often left to specific and sectorial insights. The volume is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the main concepts of the book: climate change and sustainability, wellbeing, and mitigation and adaptation. The second part presents the scientific understanding of climate change and explores some of the more pressing issues driving policy development, such as the melting of the glaciers and the impact on coastal areas. The third part discusses significant experiences in the environmental policies both in the European Union and in the United States of America. The last section explains possible approaches to climate change, by exploring the legal and economic aspects of both adversarial and more lenient approaches towards a more sustainable world. It faces four main issues in the economic and juridical context: consumer behaviors, climate litigations, environmental litigations and the alternative forms of dispute resolution on environmental matters, with particular regard to environmental mediation. Offering a new vision of sustainable policies, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of environmental policy, resource economics, environmental law, sustainable development, and public administration, as well as practitioners and policy makers working in related areas.

Author : Mark Edwards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135271695

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Organizational Transformation for Sustainability by Mark Edwards Pdf

Organizational Transformation for Sustainability: An Integral Metatheory offers some innovative answers to the big questions involved in organizational sustainability and the radical changes that organizations will need to undergo as we move into the third millennium. This new approach comes from the new field of integral metatheory.

Author : Khai Ern Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030345686

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Concepts and Approaches for Sustainability Management by Khai Ern Lee Pdf

With the introduction of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations General Assembly in 25 September 2015, UN agencies, member states and stakeholders have begun to focus on the adoption and implementation of these strategies in realization of 17 Sustainable Development Goals. To work toward sustainability, strategic measures to encourage stakeholders to contribute to the goals of the 2030 agenda are needed. In recognition of these efforts, this book is produced to compile research concepts and approaches for the area of sustainability management of industry, technology development, community, education and the environment. The objective of this book is to deliberate concepts and approaches of sustainability management taking place in Malaysia whereby case studies will be revealed to provide way forward of sustainability management toward achieving sustainable development. The insights provided can be applied to advanced and developing countries by sustainable development practitioners, encompassing government agencies, academia, industries, NGOs and community, who would like to adopt the concept of approach of sustainability into their area of management.