Education for Sustainable Development Goals
Author : Rieckmann, Marco
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2017-03-20
Category :
ISBN : 9231002090
Productivity, Growth and Poverty in Mexico
Author : Santiago Levy Algazi
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 31,82 MB
Release : 2007-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Book Description
Conditional cash transfer programs are based on a simple, yet powerful premise: creating adequate incentives today to stimulate the accumulation of human capital in poor families can provide future generations with the opportunity to generate their own higher incomes. Looking at the experience of Progresa-Oportunidades--the oldest such program whose results after 10 years provide valuable lessons--offers the opportunity to examine whether the youth of Progresa-Oportunidades, in a not too distant future, will be able to find productive jobs that allow them to escape the poverty that has trapped their parents. In this study, Santiago Levy looks at this question from an innovative perspective, analyzing how the intrinsic structure of incentives created by a set of social policies can aid or inhibit the achievement of the principal objective of Progresa-Oportunidades: to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. This study can help spark a discussion in many countries on the links between social policy, productivity growth and, in turn, poverty reduction.
Engaging People in Sustainability
Author : Daniella Tilbury
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782831708232
Book Description
The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].
Cities of Tomorrow
Author : Peter Hall
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 21,90 MB
Release : 1997-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780631199434
Book Description
Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.
Great Transition
Author : Paul Raskin
Publisher :
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9780971241817
Book Description
A New roadmap for the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme and its World Network of Biosphere Reserves
Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 27,8 MB
Release : 2017-03-20
Category :
ISBN : 9231002066
Book Description
Engineering Education for Sustainability
Author : João Paulo Davim
Publisher : River Publishers Management Sc
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788770221047
Book Description
Understood to be a key issue in modern society, sustainability is characterized by its three essential pillars, namely: the environment, society and the economy. Education plays an important role in how people understand and accept sustainability. The integration of sustainability in engineering education is a relatively new phenomenon, and presenting information about engineering education for sustainability is of great interest to improve communication between professors, researchers and students at universities, institutes and research laboratories. Topics discussed in the book include: Experiences from 5 years of educating sustainability to computer science students Review of decision support methods in green and sustainable supply chains Analyzing the drivers of engineering education for sustainability using the MCDM approach Visualization technologies in construction education: a comprehensive review of recent advances A legal framework and compliance with construction safety laws and regulations.
Knowledge Economies
Author : Philip Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2002-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 113471257X
Book Description
This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples, who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources. Initially, natural resource endowments explained the formation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century industrial districts. Today, geographical concentrations of scientific and creative knowledge are the key resource. But these require a support system, ranging from major injections of basic research funding, to varieties of financial investment and management, tothe provision of specialist incubators, for economic value to be realised. These are also specialised forms of knowledge that contribute to a serious imbalance in the distribution of economic opportunity.
Agroecology
Author : Stephen R. Gliessman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781575040431
Book Description
Presents powerful arguments against "Environmental Racism", "Incrementalism" and the "Impotence of Planning." Explores case studies of urban planning, county policies, residential development and more. Submits the authors recommendations for preserving the delicate balance of Floridas ecosystem.
VOLUNTARY GUIDELINES ON NATIONAL FOREST MONITORING
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9251096198
Book Description
National information needs on forests have grown considerably in recent years, evolving from forest area and growing stock information to key aspects of sustainable forest management, such as the role of forests in the conservation of biodiversity and the provision of other ecosystem services. More recently, information on changes in carbon stocks, socio-economic aspects including the contribution to livelihoods and poverty reduction, governance and broader land use issues has become critical for national planning.
