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Introduction to Global Sustainable Management

Author : Colin Combe

Publisher : SAGE

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 10,65 MB

Release : 2022-02-23

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1529786215

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Book Description

At a time when the effects of climate change are becoming all too real for ordinary citizens around the world, this essential textbook offers insight into how managers can shape and influence the development of sustainability practices as a means of tackling some of the most pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges. Featuring a distinctly international array of case studies and examples, as well as learning outcomes, definitions, questions, tasks and further reading, Introduction to Global Sustainable Management provides readers with a valuable understanding of how sustainable management practices can be implemented in different industry sectors across the globe. Suitable for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of sustainable management-related courses. A Tutor’s Guide, PowerPoint slides and selected SAGE Business Cases are available to instructors via the companion website. Colin Combe is a senior lecturer in strategic management at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.



Global Sustainable Communities Handbook

Author : Woodrow W. Clark II

Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann

Page : 609 pages

File Size : 21,60 MB

Release : 2014-02-10

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 0123979293

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Global Sustainable Communities Handbook is a guide for understanding and complying with the various international codes, methods, and legal hurtles surrounding the creation of sustainable communities all over the world. The book provides an introduction to sustainable development, technology and infrastructure outlines, codes, standards, and guidelines written by experts from across the globe. - Includes methods for the green use of natural resources in built communities - Clearly explains the most cutting edge green technologies - Provides a common approach to building green communities - Covers green practices from architecture to construction



An Introduction to Sustainable Development

Author : Peter P. Rogers

Publisher : Earthscan

Page : 417 pages

File Size : 39,59 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1849770476

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This volume is the most comprehensive textbook on sustainable development. It has been developed with students and professionals from around the world specifically for those who need a thorough grounding in the subject. Coverage includes: background to sustainable development and global environmental issues; measurement and sustainability indicators; environmental assessment, management and policy; approaches and linkages to poverty reduction; impacts and infrastructure development; economics, consumption, production and market failures; governance; participation; disaster management; international financial institutions; international environmental agreements; and the role of civil society.



The Age of Sustainable Development

Author : Jeffrey D. Sachs

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 564 pages

File Size : 44,16 MB

Release : 2015-03-03

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0231539002

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Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development. Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.



Putting Water Security to Work

Author : Chad Staddon

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 50,10 MB

Release : 2021-09-09

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1000433528

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Book Description

Over the last decade, water security has replaced sustainability as the key optic for thinking about how we manage water. This reframing has offered benefits (including clear recognition of the link between humans, the environment and the right to water) and also posed challenges (the tendency in some quarters to interpret “security” solely in terms of geopolitical or economic “securitisation”). In this collection, the authors offer a radical repositioning of these debates updated to reflect the concerns of our post-pandemic world. The chapters in this volume examine several different themes including how water security articulates with locality and culture, how it operates across spatial scales and its moral/ethical resonances. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journals Water International and International Journal of Water Resources Development.



Just Sustainabilities

Author : Robert Doyle Bullard

Publisher : Earthscan

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 31,9 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1849771774

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Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked to questions of human equality and quality of life. Throughout the world, those segments of the population that have the least political power and are the most marginalized are selectively victimized by environmental crises. This book argues that social and environmental justice within and between nations should be an integral part of the policies and agreements that promote sustainable development. The book addresses the links between environmental quality and human equality and between sustainability and environmental justice.



An Introduction to Sustainable Development

Author : Jennifer Elliott

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 302 pages

File Size : 29,31 MB

Release : 2006-09-27

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1134308957

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Book Description

This third edition of a successful, established text provides a concise and well-illustrated introduction to the ideas behind, and the practices flowing from the notion of sustainable development.



Handbook of Research on International Business and Models for Global Purpose-Driven Companies

Author : Perez-Uribe, Rafael Ignacio

Publisher : IGI Global

Page : 589 pages

File Size : 36,55 MB

Release : 2020-11-20

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1799849104

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Book Description

International businesses struggle to be competitive and influential at the global market level. With the new ideas in the management and leadership disciplines, hard skills are losing or are believed to be losing their strategic relevance while soft skills are praised and highly sought after. The Handbook of Research on International Business and Models for Global Purpose-Driven Companies, a pivotal reference source, provides vital research on international business management strategies and applications within internal organizations that allow companies to strategically position themselves for increased success in the global economy. While highlighting topics such as organizational culture, internal communication, and generational workforce, this publication explores leadership disciplines as well as the methods of handling multicultural organizations. This book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, executives, managers, business professionals, human resource officials, researchers, academicians, and students.



Organizing for Sustainable Development

Author : Federica Angeli

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 314 pages

File Size : 10,98 MB

Release : 2022-04-25

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0429516312

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business. Tackling such "grand challenges" requires the concerted action of a multitude of organizations and multiple stakeholders at different levels in the public, private, and non-profit sector. Organizing for Sustainable Development provides an integrated and comparative overview of the successes and failures of organizational efforts to tackle global societal issues and achieve sustainable development. Summarizing years of study by an interdisciplinary board of authors and contributors, this book provides readers with an in-depth understanding of how existing businesses and new hybrid organizations can achieve sustainable development to bring about an improved society, marking a key contribution to the literature in this field. Combining theoretical views with empirical approaches, the chapters in this book are highly relevant to graduate and undergraduate (multidisciplinary) programs in sustainable development, organization studies, development economics, development studies, international management, and social entrepreneurship.



The Past, Present and Future of Sustainable Management

Author : Stephen Cummings

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 50,36 MB

Release : 2021-06-05

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3030710769

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We might think sustainable management is a new idea, created in the 1960s by enlightened modern scientists. We might think that it puts us on a new path, beyond what management was originally about. But this is not true. Sustainable management is as old as civilization and was a foundation stone of management science as it was formed in the first decade of the 20th century. Recovering this forgotten past provides deeper roots and greater traction to advance sustainable management in our own times. This book charts a history of sustainable management from premodern times, through the birth of management science as an offshoot of the conservation movement, to the present day. The authors argue that modern tools like Triple Bottom Line reporting and multiple Sustainable Development Goals may be less useful than a return to a more fundamental and holistic view of management.