ilość książek w kategorii: 7727
Against Extinction: The Story of Conservation
ISBN: 9781844070565 / Angielski / Miękka / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of conservation from its origins in 1903, when the Society for the Preservation of Wild Fauna of the Empire was founded in London, to the present day, in which it has become a huge international enterprise. Yet, it is not simply an account of what happened, but rather, why it happened. The book explores the big questions and ideas that have driven conservation for a century. How can the diversity of life be maintained as human demands upon the planet expand, seemingly without end? How can we reconcile preservation with human rights and the development needs of the poor? Is...
The story of conservation from its origins in 1903, when the Society for the Preservation of Wild Fauna of the Empire was founded in London, to the pr...
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196,68 zł |
The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Consumption
ISBN: 9781844071654 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable consumption is a controversial concept: politically, socially and intellectually. Consumption drives our economies and defines our lives; making it sustainable is an enormous and essential challenge. The World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 set in place a 10-year programme of effort by national governments to develop strategies for sustainable consumption and production. The problem of changing consumer behaviour and making our lives more sustainable continues to challenge opinion-formers and policy-makers alike. This book provides a coherent synthesis of key...
Sustainable consumption is a controversial concept: politically, socially and intellectually. Consumption drives our economies and defines our lives; ...
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854,21 zł |
The Earthscan Reader in Environmental Values
ISBN: 9781844071678 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive reader offers in-depth analyses of critical developments in environmental values, bringing together in one volume the most influential scholarship in the field. Each carefully selected contribution assesses some of the most pressing questions of our time, such as: what is the relationship between human values, worldviews and preferences, and the natural world? As the first reader of its kind in a rapidly expanding multidisciplinary field, this text provides students with a valuable framework for understanding the intellectual progress and future development of the study of...
This comprehensive reader offers in-depth analyses of critical developments in environmental values, bringing together in one volume the most influent...
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222,56 zł |
Strategic Environmental Assessment: A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience
ISBN: 9781844071791 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * The only comprehensive international sourcebook of SEA principles, approaches, and instruments with coverage of all major industrialized countries including the U.S., the U.K./Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Korea, and more than 50 transitional and developing countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific * The essential reference for all impact assessment practitioners, researchers, policymakers, aid and development agencies, and funders * Written by two world-renowned practitioners with support from the OECD, UNEP, and IIED * The only comprehensive international sourcebook of SEA principles, approaches, and instruments with coverage of all major industrialized countries i...
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227,73 zł |
Capitalism As If the World Matters
ISBN: 9781844071920 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tackling the most pressing problem of our time - how capitalism, and business, can provide a future of wealth, equity and ecological integrity, this book is destined to be one of the most important business, economics and politics books of the year. Sir Jonathon Porritt, CBE, Co-Founder of Forum for the Future, is a leading influence on business and industry, the UK government's premier adviser on sustainable development and a top author, broadcaster and visionary. As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change and...
Tackling the most pressing problem of our time - how capitalism, and business, can provide a future of wealth, equity and ecological integrity, this b...
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305,39 zł |
Governance for Sustainable Development: A Foundation for the Future
ISBN: 9781844072088 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * A new Stakeholder Forum book that builds on the hugely successful Earth Summit 2002 and How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings
* First book of its kind to provide a "baseline" of information on international governance frameworks for sustainable development and cover the five critical areas of Water, Energy, Health, Agriculture, and Biodiversity * Must-have for all decisionmakers, NGOs, and practitioners working with the Sustainability Agenda As the process of globalization continues, and power imbalances between decisionmaking institutions... * A new Stakeholder Forum book that builds on the hugely successful Earth Summit 2002 and How to Lobby at Intergovernmental Meetings
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217,38 zł |
Politics and the Environment: Risk and the Role of Government and Industry
ISBN: 9781844072125 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'An evenhanded, realistic and thoughtful approach to identifying environmental problems and management goals' Stephen Zavestoski, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, University of San Francisco '...a theoretically advanced yet accessible treatment of environmental governance, drawing on an impressive range of material to investigate the roles of states and industries in addressing environmental problems.' Harriet Bulkeley, Department of Geography, University of Durham 'Written in the vein of critical optimism, this book is pitched at the right level to inspire people...
'An evenhanded, realistic and thoughtful approach to identifying environmental problems and management goals' Stephen Zavestoski, Assistant Professor ...
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196,68 zł |
Blue Revolution: Integrated Land and Water Resources Management
ISBN: 9781844072392 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Blue Revolution upturns some environmental applecarts - not for the hell of it, but so we can manage our environment better.' Fred Pearce, New Scientist This updated and revised edition of The Blue Revolution provides further evidence of the need to integrate land management decision-making into the process of integrated water resources management. It presents the key issues involved in finding the balance between the competing demands for land and water: for food and other forms of economic production, for sustaining livelihoods, and for conservation, amenity, recreation and the...
'Blue Revolution upturns some environmental applecarts - not for the hell of it, but so we can manage our environment better.' Fred Pearce, New Scient...
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217,38 zł |
Governing Technology for Sustainability
ISBN: 9781844073450 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a world of growing complexity and dwindling resources, how we control and regulate technology and its impacts is an increasingly pressing issue of concern at the highest levels. This book examines the relationship between sustainability, technology and governance and is the first to link innovation and technology studies research with governance research, applying them to the problem of sustainability. Included are contributions from internationally known environmental social scientists, with each chapter a report on new research.Drawing on examples such as wave and tidal power, community...
In a world of growing complexity and dwindling resources, how we control and regulate technology and its impacts is an increasingly pressing issue of ...
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465,89 zł |
Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development: Is Business the Solution?
ISBN: 9781844073566 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governments and their international agencies, grouped under the umbrella of the United Nations, have failed in their attempts to rid the planet of underdevelopment and poverty. If development is the objective then it seems that the solution and the responsibility lies with the private sector - particularly through the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes of large corporations, with their tremendous power and economic strength. Written by...
The business of business is business. So why should corporations be involved in development? This groundbreaking new book makes the case that governme...
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698,90 zł |
Environmental Policy Integration in Practice : Shaping Institutions for Learning
ISBN: 9781844073931 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental values and concerns are meant to be reflected through environmental policy, which is then integrated into mainstream economic and social policy and serves to govern society and the economy. Yet effective environmental policy integration (EPI) has proven to be very difficult in actual practice and it remains largely an elusive aspiration. This is particularly the case in core economic sectors such as energy and agriculture, which have enormous environmental impacts but are also sectors in which other priorities typically override environmental concerns in policy creation. This...
Environmental values and concerns are meant to be reflected through environmental policy, which is then integrated into mainstream economic and social...
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595,36 zł |
Surviving the Century: Facing Climate Chaos and Other Global Challenges
ISBN: 9781844074587 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental and human catastrophe looms ever larger for planet Earth. From the need to build sustainable cities to house growing billions to transforming the international trade system to tackling run-away climate change, positive, powerful action is needed now to turn a deepening global crisis into an opportunity for change. This book, the first major output by leading lights from the World Future Council (WFC), a new international lobby for future generations, seeks nothing less than a complete transformation of how humans relate to the world and one another.
Environmental and human catastrophe looms ever larger for planet Earth. From the need to build sustainable cities to house growing billions to transfo...
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698,90 zł |
Enemies of Progress: Dangers of Sustainability
ISBN: 9781845400989 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This polemical book examines the concept of sustainability and presents a critical exploration of its all-pervasive influence on society, arguing that sustainability, manifested in several guises, represents a pernicious and corrosive doctrine that has survived primarily because there seems to be no alternative to its canon: in effect, its bi-partisan appeal has depressed critical engagement and neutered politics. It is a malign philosophy of misanthropy, low aspirations and restraint. This book argues for a destruction of the mantra of sustainability, removing its unthinking status as... This polemical book examines the concept of sustainability and presents a critical exploration of its all-pervasive influence on society, arguing t... |
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54,62 zł |
Rural Energy Services: A Handbook for Sustainable Energy Development
ISBN: 9781853394621 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Rural Energy Services- was written as a resource for a series of workshops commissioned by the British Council and the UK Department for
International Development, and provided the basis for workshops in countries such as Uganda, Brazil and India. It offers a participatory approach to the supply of energy services with a clear emphasis on the need for energy services, putting needs rather than technology first, and advocating that rural people, above all, know what they need and what will work for them. The handbook contains a full survey of energy resources and... -Rural Energy Services- was written as a resource for a series of workshops commissioned by the British Council and the UK Department for
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131,76 zł |
Beating Hunger, the Chivi Experience: A Community-Based Approach to Food Security in Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9781853395246 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People's participation in development has been promoted for over 20 years, yet it is still commonplace for projects to be predesigned, without more than a token consultation with those farmers for whom they are intended. This book describes a project among small-scale farmers in the drought-prone and arid communal lands of Zimbabwe which, within the broad remit of promoting food security, helped the farmers identify their problems and choose their own solutions to them. The aim of the project was participatory technology development: to extend the range of soil-and-water conserving farming...
People's participation in development has been promoted for over 20 years, yet it is still commonplace for projects to be predesigned, without more th...
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131,76 zł |
Economic Development and Environmental Gain: European Environmental Integration and Regional Competitiveness
ISBN: 9781853832956 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains detailed information and assessment of incentives and policy instruments available within Europe to encourage good practice, and how to achieve environmental gain in regional economic programmes. It describes an appropriate methodology for securing improved environmental benefit and explores the potential for achieving regional environmental competitiveness. There are insights based on wide international comparative experience of programme evaluation.
This volume contains detailed information and assessment of incentives and policy instruments available within Europe to encourage good practice, and ...
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450,35 zł |
Economic Development and Environmental Gain: European Environmental Integration and Regional Competitiveness
ISBN: 9781853833007 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains detailed information and assessment of incentives and policy instruments available within Europe to encourage good practice, and how to achieve environmental gain in regional economic programmes. It describes an appropriate methodology for securing improved environmental benefit and explores the potential for achieving regional environmental competitiveness. There are insights based on wide international comparative experience of programme evaluation.
This volume contains detailed information and assessment of incentives and policy instruments available within Europe to encourage good practice, and ...
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134,55 zł |
Hijacking Environmentalism : Corporate Responses to Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853833991 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights the need for participation and social innovation on their part. It asserts that senior executives and middle management in large corporations have often sought, deliberately or unconsciously, to block the advancement of environmentalism. Industry has reconstructed the more radical environmental agenda to suit its own purposes, in effect hijacking it, by taking it out of its traditional discourse and placing it in a liberal-productivist...
This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights...
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134,55 zł |
Future Generations and International Law
ISBN: 9781853835032 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable development requires consideration of the quality of life that future generations will be able to enjoy, and as the adjustment to sustainable lifestyles gathers momentum, the rights of future generations and our responsibility for their wellbeing is becoming a central issue. In this, the first book to address this emerging area of international law, leading experts examine the legal and theoretical frameworks for representing and safeguarding the interests of future generations in current international treaties. This unique volume will be required reading for academics and...
Sustainable development requires consideration of the quality of life that future generations will be able to enjoy, and as the adjustment to sustaina...
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196,68 zł |
ISO 14001: A Missed Opportunity for Sustainable Global Industrial Development
ISBN: 9781853835070 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ISO 14001 is the new international standard for environmental management systems. But what difference will it make to the environmental performance of companies that receive it? Will it do anything to further sustainable industrial development? This edition seeks to argue that it will not and further that it does not have a legitimate practice in discussions of sustainable industrial development.
ISO 14001 is the new international standard for environmental management systems. But what difference will it make to the environmental performance of...
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227,73 zł |