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Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781853836190 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most underdeveloped areas. Various perspectives are brought to bear on issues from economics and theories of health through to the foundations of sustainability. All the key contemporary developments are dealt with; the growth in international law and agreements on controlling greenhouse gases; the effect of reforms in finance, governance and methods of appraisal on the areas of waste management; and the theoretical advances in the community development...
This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most under...
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149,28 |
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The Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853836596 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of business and sustainable development. It contains contributions on issues rapidly coming to dominate business strategy and organization, including: resource efficiency; clean production; life cycle analysis; social and environmental accountability; corporate reporting; and trade. The contributors include Paul Elkins, John Elkington, Amory Lovins, Landis Gabel, Frank Popoff, Martin Bennett, Peter James, Rob Gray, Simon Zadek, Sharon Beder and Ernst von Weizsaecker
A study of business and sustainable development. It contains contributions on issues rapidly coming to dominate business strategy and organization, in...
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368,29 |
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Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation: International Trade, Poverty and Land Use
ISBN: 9781853836657 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and the public are all tempted by simplistic solutions to complex problems. In order to establish the true causal factors involved in this critical area of environmental decline, the authors of this study present case studies ranging over three continents. Utilizing statistics, it is shown that the focus of analysis of deforestation must be applied as much to the misguided policies of national and regional authorities as to the forces of trade and...
There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and...
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119,41 |
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Agricultural Expansion and Tropical Deforestation : International Trade, Poverty and Land Use
ISBN: 9781853836664 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and the public are all tempted by simplistic solutions to complex problems.
There is no clear-cut causal relationship between international trade, agricultural expansion and tropical deforestation. Academics, policy-makers and...
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194,07 |
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Ecological Economics : Political Economics for Social and Environmental Development
ISBN: 9781853836855 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecological economics seeks to socially construct a political economics which will deal successfully with environmental problems and make the individual more visible in economic analysis. The author describes the principles, strategies and instruments of social change for key players - governmental agencies, business corporations, environmental and religious organizations and universities - and underlines their responsibilities in the market economy.
Ecological economics seeks to socially construct a political economics which will deal successfully with environmental problems and make the individua...
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378,24 |
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Economic Instruments for Environmental Management: A Worldwide Compendium of Case Studies
ISBN: 9781853836909 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents the results of a three-year collaborative effort involving research institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Case studies demonstrate the diversity of environmental problems to which a variety of economic instruments can be applied - air and water pollution, packaging, deforestation, over-grazing, wildlife. They also show what is needed for them to work successfully and the pitfalls to avoid in introducing them, providing guidance for future applications. Written to be accessible to non-economists, the book offers source material for students and academic...
This volume presents the results of a three-year collaborative effort involving research institutions in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Case ...
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243,85 |
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Biodiversity and Traditional Knowledge
ISBN: 9781853836985 / Angielski / Miękka / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical manual demonstrates how to arrive at equitable and successful arrangements over access to, and the commercial development of, genetic resources. Despite much discussion at the international policy level relating to the use of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, to date there has been no such guide on integrating concepts into practice. Many different parties have stakes in the commercial use of biodiversity, from local communities and indigenous peoples to resource managers, NGOs, research institutes and universities, industry and national governments.
This practical manual demonstrates how to arrive at equitable and successful arrangements over access to, and the commercial development of, genetic r...
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328,47 |
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Sharing Nature's Interest : Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability
ISBN: 9781853837388 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness at national, organizational, individual and product levels.
Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small...
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771,52 |
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Sharing Nature's Interest: Ecological Footprints as an Indicator of Sustainability
ISBN: 9781853837395 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small-scale planning and development. This is an introduction to ecological footprint analysis, showing how it can be done, and how to measure the footprints of activities, lifestyles, organizations and regions. Case studies illustrate its effectiveness at national, organizational, individual and product levels.
Ecological footprinting is rapidly being adopted as an effective and practical way to measure our impact on the environment - in both large- and small...
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199,05 |
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Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-Colonial Era
ISBN: 9781853837494 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the enduring influence of the colonial legacy on attitudes about relationships between people and nature in countries that were once part of the British Empire, either at the periphery or the centre. Colonial annexation and government were accompanied by the colonization and exploitation of nature, both for production and even in the name of conservation. At the start of the 21st century, the conservation of nature is still of vital importance in these countries, but what should this conservation look like? What ideas can it be based upon? This work argues that there is a...
An exploration of the enduring influence of the colonial legacy on attitudes about relationships between people and nature in countries that were once...
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233,90 |
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Dynamics and Diversity: Soil Fertility and Farming Livelihoods in Africa
ISBN: 9781853838194 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and to livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion of the population of Africa. Contrary to many claims, soil fertility is improved and managed successfully by small-scale farmers there. Careful studies from a widely different areas reveal how closely bound up soil management is with a whole complex of social, cultural and ecological factors - requiring a far more subtly tuned approach in development policy and practice. This work is a study of how the context of livelihood systems has to inform...
Soils are critical to agriculture and, in turn, to food supply and to livelihoods. Sustainable management of soils is crucial for a large proportion o...
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472,82 |
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Measuring Sustainability: Learning from Doing
ISBN: 9781853838439 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work in real-life development contexts. The book describes and analyzes how to derive, validate and apply indicators in the course of an actual development project - in this case, the Mediterranean Action Plan.
This text presents practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work in real-life development contexts. The book describes and analyzes h...
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243,85 |
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Multi-Stakeholder Processes for Governance and Sustainability: Beyond Deadlock and Conflict
ISBN: 9781853838705 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governments, businesses, international organizations, local groups and numerous other publicly engaged bodies are turning to multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) because conventional party politics is just not working. MSPs involve bringing together all those whose interests are at stake in crucial social, economic, developmental and environmental debates, and finding practical ways forward as well as ways in which these might be implemented. The new politics is about recognizing the rights of, and the risks faced by, all those involved, and about moving beyond conflicts towards a more...
Governments, businesses, international organizations, local groups and numerous other publicly engaged bodies are turning to multi-stakeholder process...
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233,90 |
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Breaking New Ground: Mining, Minerals, and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853839078 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mining is fundamental to our lives - we wear and travel in; build, cook and communicate with its products daily. However, it is also one of the most environmentally damaging industries. This study examines how such a huge and multi-facetted industry can be made sustainable, minimizing its harmful impacts and maximizing its social and economic contribution. It analyses the different needs and risks of those affected, as well as issues of supply and demand of minerals throughout the world.
Mining is fundamental to our lives - we wear and travel in; build, cook and communicate with its products daily. However, it is also one of the most e...
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258,78 |
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Agri-Culture : Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
ISBN: 9781853839207 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. Can nothing be done or is it time for the expansion of another sort of agriculture, founded on more ecological principles, and in harmony with people, their societies and cultures?
Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions ...
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771,52 |
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Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
ISBN: 9781853839252 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. Can nothing be done or is it time for the expansion of another sort of agriculture, founded on more ecological principles, and in harmony with people, their societies and cultures?
Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions ...
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209,00 |
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The Plain Language Guide to World Summit on Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853839283 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates who mapped out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), identifies priorities in the implementation of Agenda 21 and other international agreements, and commitments that will take these priorities forward. This plain language version provides an invaluable reference to the outcomes of the WSSD by explaining the JPOI clearly for the lay person and expert alike.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates who mapped out the future of the gl...
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119,41 |
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The Sustainability Curriculum : The Challenge for Higher Education
ISBN: 9781853839481 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In higher education, sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is embraced by some individuals and departments and perceived by others as a threat to the coherence of particular disciplines. It is not a subject in its own right, although there are signs that this may now be happening. and sustainable development on various academic disciplines, institutional practices, fields of study and methods of enquiry. The authors examine the purpose of the modern university and the nature of sustainable education. They explore links to social movements for sustainability, approaches...
In higher education, sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is embraced by some individuals and departments and perceived by ot...
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771,52 |
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Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia: Eco-Politics, Foreign Policy and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853839719 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An edited collection of concise, hard-hitting essays by a group of international experts and scholars that address the politics and policy of environmental change and sustainable development in East and Southeast Asia. The book pays particular attention to the ways in which foreign policy and international relations theories help explain eco-politics and sustainable development in the region. Case studies cover environmental diplomacy in East Asia and strategies for sustainable development in Southeast Asia, including Japanese environmental policy, China's climate change diplomacy, the role...
An edited collection of concise, hard-hitting essays by a group of international experts and scholars that address the politics and policy of environm...
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622,19 |
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The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development
ISBN: 9781856495646 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as in the past. It highlights the strategic role of Malthusian ideas in the defence of capitalist political economy when confronted by struggles for equality and human progress. The leading historical example the author takes offers a major reassessment of the origins of the Irish Famine. His contemporary case study focuses on the Green Revolution, which the author analyzes in terms of a broad Western strategy of capitalist agricultural development...
This volume represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as i...
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179,14 |
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