The Sustainable World

Author : C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845645045

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The Sustainable World by C. A. Brebbia Pdf

This book contains a collection of papers presented at a series of meetings organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) dealing with sustainability, the environment and ecological issues. The complexity of the modern world presents new challenges to scientists and engineers that requires finding interdisciplinary solutions. Any problem solving carried out in the isolation of a particular field of expertise may give rise to a series of damaging effects which can create new and unintentional environmental and ecological problems. Specialisation, while required in our culture, needs to be kept under control by the understanding of the whole, which leads to the need of relying on interdisciplinary teams. Nowadays this can be easily achieved thanks to the massive advances in information technology which ensure continuous and immediate contact between all partners. This collaboration needs to be effective and to produce results that will lead to a better world. For this to happen, it is necessary that different groups of scientists and engineers acquire the necessary skills to be able to talk to each other. Furthermore, they need to understand the social and economic aspects of a given problem, in addition to the scientific and engineering issues involved. The Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT) has a long and very successful record in organising interdisciplinary conferences. The papers in this book are a reflection of the proceedings of some of those meetings.

Author : Claude Henry,Johan Rockström,Nicholas Stern
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800371781

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Standing up for a Sustainable World by Claude Henry,Johan Rockström,Nicholas Stern Pdf

The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.

Author : Sonya Remington-Doucette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 1524912360

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Sustainable World: Approaches to Analyzing and Resolving Wicked Problems by Sonya Remington-Doucette Pdf

Offers a comprehensive overview of the problem solving methods used by sustainability scientists to resolve real-world sustainability problems. The book's content is based on an undergraduate sustainability course taught by the author in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University.

Author : Trent Schroyer,Tom Golodik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sustainable development
ISBN : 1891843370

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Creating a Sustainable World by Trent Schroyer,Tom Golodik Pdf

Author : Martin W. Holdgate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1560325593

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From Care to Action by Martin W. Holdgate Pdf

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Narinder Kakar,Vesselin Popovski,Nicholas A. Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000421286

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Fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals by Narinder Kakar,Vesselin Popovski,Nicholas A. Robinson Pdf

This book contains assessment of the progress, or the lack of it, in implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through review of the assessments and of case studies, readers can draw lessons from the actions that could work to positively address the goals. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is designed to catalyze action in critical areas of importance to humanity and the planet. The effort to implement the SDGs, however, demands a sense of urgency in the face of environmental degradation, climate change, emerging conflicts, and growing inequality, among a number of other socio-economic problems. Five years after the launch of the 2030 Agenda, this book takes stock of how far the world has come and how we can position ourselves to achieve the global targets. The book is one of the first to assess how the implementation is impeded by the onset of COVID-19. It contains a special chapter on COVID-19 and the SDGs, while many thematic chapters on different SDGs also assess how COVID-19 adversely affects implementation, and what measures could be taken to minimize the adverse effects. This publication thus provides a fresh look at implementation of the SDGs highlighting impactful and creative actions that go beyond the business-as-usual development efforts. The volume reinforces this analysis with expert recommendations on how to support implementation efforts and achieve the SDGs through international and national strategies and the involvement of both the public and private sectors. The result is an indispensable textual tool for policy makers, academia, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as the public, as we march toward the 2030 deadline.

Author : Vincenzo Balzani,Nicola Armaroli
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527633616

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Energy for a Sustainable World by Vincenzo Balzani,Nicola Armaroli Pdf

An easy read, balancing the pros and cons, this book surveys the energy issue from a broad scientific perspective while considering environmental, economic, and social factors. It explains the basic concepts, provides a historical overview of energy resources, assesses our unsustainable energy system based on fossil fuels, and shows that the energy crisis is not only a tough challenge, but also an unprecedented opportunity to become more concerned about the world in which we live and the society we have built up. By outlining the alternatives for today and the future, it gives an extensive overview on nuclear energy, solar thermal and photovoltaics, solar fuels, wind power, ocean energies and other renewables, highlighting the increasing importance of electricity and the long-term perspectives of a hydrogen-based economy. An excellent source of updated and carefully documented information on the entangled aspects of the energy issue, this book is a guide for scientists, students and teachers looking for ways out of the energy and climate crisis, and the problems and disparities generated during the fossil fuel era.

Author : Jan Jaap Bouma,Teun Wolters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317273264

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Corporate Sustainability by Jan Jaap Bouma,Teun Wolters Pdf

This book focuses on corporate sustainability and how it evolves through innovation and new business models. Despite what has been accomplished to date, there is an urgent need for further steps to be taken and this book presents a nuanced but compelling plea for collaboration between businesses, government and civil society. Drawing upon empirical research, the authors look at recent approaches to corporate sustainability, the circular economy and strategic corporate social responsibility. The book examines these issues from multiple viewpoints, including cultural, social and religious. More specifically, the book explores the freight sector (smart freight leadership), the banking sector (sustainable banking) and Islamic finance and sustainability, detailing the contribution of faith-based organizations to promoting sustainability and the greening of church buildings. Overall, this book captures the emerging new business models and capabilities firms need to implement sustainability. This book will be of great relevance to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in corporate sustainability, social responsibility, environmental management and eco-innovation.

Author : Arjen E.J. Wals
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789086865949

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Social learning towards a sustainable world by Arjen E.J. Wals Pdf

"This comprehensive volume - containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents - presents and discusses key principles, perspectives, and practices of social learning in the context of sustainability. Social learning is explored from a range of fields challenged by sustainability including: organizational learning, environmental management and corporate social responsibility; multi-stakeholder governance; education, learning and educational psychology; multiple land-use and integrated rural development; and consumerism and critical consumer education. An entire section of the book is devoted to a number of reflective case studies of people, organizations and communities using forms of social learning in moving towards sustainability. 'This book brings together a range of ideas, stories, and discussions about purposeful learning in communities aimed at creating a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect. ...The book is designed to expand the network of conversations through which our society can confront various perspectives, discover emerging patterns, and apply learning to a variety of emotional and social contexts.' From the Foreword by Fritjof Capra, co-founder of the Center of Ecoliteracy. 'Joining what is so clear and refreshing in this book with the larger movements toward a critically democratic and activist education that is worthy of its name, is but one step in the struggle for sustainability. But it is an essential step if we are to use the insights that are included in this book.' From the Afterword by Michael Apple, author of 'Educating the ""Right"" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality'."

Author : Jared Green
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616894238

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Designed for the Future by Jared Green Pdf

In Designed for the Future, author Jared Green asks eighty of today's most innovative architects, urban planners, landscape architects, journalists, artists, and environmental leaders the same question: what gives you the hope that a sustainable future is possible? Their imaginative answers—covering everything from the cooling strategies employed at Cambodia's ancient temple city of Angkor Wat to the use of cutting-edge eco-friendly mushroom board as a replacement for Styrofoam—show the way to our future success on earth and begin a much-needed dialogue about what we can realistically accomplish in the decades ahead. Featuring an international roster of leading design thinkers including: • Biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus • Curator Barry Bergdoll • Educator and author Alan Berger • Environmentalist and author Lester Brown • Architect Rick Cook • Urban Planner Paul Farmer • Critic Christopher Hume • Architect Bjarke Ingels • Landscape designer Mia Lehrer • Architect Rob Rogers • Critic Inga Saffron • Artist Janet Echelman

Author : Peter Blaze Corcoran,Mirian Vilela,Alide Roerink
Publisher : Kit Pub
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000116076104

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The Earth Charter in Action by Peter Blaze Corcoran,Mirian Vilela,Alide Roerink Pdf

Essays by Mikhail Gorbachev, Wangari Maathai, Leonardo Boff, Jane Goodall, Ruud Lubbers, and other authors on various aspects of the Earth Charter.

Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030692841

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COVID-19: Paving the Way for a More Sustainable World by Walter Leal Filho Pdf

This book gathers and disseminates opinions, viewpoints, studies, forecasts, and practical projects which illustrate the various pathways sustainability research and practice may follow in the future, as the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepares itself to the possibilities of having to cope with similar crisis, a product of the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/programmes/iusdrp.html and the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (ESSSR) https://esssr.eu/. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to severe human suffering, and to substantial damages to economies around the globe, affecting both rich countries and developing ones. The aftermath of the epidemic is also expected to be felt for sometime. This will also include a wide range of impacts in the ways sustainable development is perceived, and how the principles of sustainability are practised. There is now a pressing need to generate new literature on the connections between COVID-19 and sustainability. This is so for two main reasons. Firstly, the world crisis triggered by COVID-19 has severely damaged the world economy, worsening poverty, causing hardships, and endangering livelihoods. Together, these impacts may negatively influence the implementation of sustainable development as a whole, and of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in particular. These potential and expected impacts need to be better understood and quantified, hence providing a support basis for future recovery efforts. Secondly, the shutdown caused by COVID-19 has also been having a severe impact on teaching and research, especially –but not only – on matters related to sustainability. This may also open new opportunities (e.g. less travel, more Internet-based learning), which should be explored further, especially in the case of future pandemics, a scenario which cannot be excluded. The book meets these perceived needs.

Author : Jeremy Richards
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642011030

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Mining, Society, and a Sustainable World by Jeremy Richards Pdf

This is the first book of peer-reviewed, edited papers that examines the minerals industry in relation to sustainable development. The book takes a proactive, positivist, and solution-oriented approach, while not shying away from the fundamental problems.

Author : Richard C. Dorf
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780122210907

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Technology, Humans, and Society by Richard C. Dorf Pdf

The book is written for the reader who wishes to address the issues of sustainability with consideration of the environmental, social, and economic issues.It addresses a broad array of matters and provide a framework that could lead to a sustainable world.

Author : Matthew J. KIERNAN
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814410929

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Investing in a Sustainable World by Matthew J. KIERNAN Pdf

For business and investors, there's no doubt about it: The smart money is going green...and the growing movement toward ecologically forward-thinking companies is quickly becoming bigger and bigger. What may be surprising to some is that socially responsible organizations aren't just doing the right thing for the environment, they are also paying off financially, making their investors money and increasing the bottom line. Investing in a Sustainable World offers clear proof, through facts, figures, and hard documentation, that “going green” leads directly to better stock market performance...and that investors and companies who ignore it will, in fact, lose money. The book reveals the most powerful global mega­trends—from the ongoing focus on emerging markets to natural resource depletion—which are transforming the very basis on which companies will compete, and offers an approach to sustainability-enhanced investing beneficial to both investors and companies. Revolutionary and backed by undeniable statistics, this book shows the clear link between sustainability initiatives and clear-cut profitability.