Making Development More Sustainable
Author | : Mohan Munasinghe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Economic development |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mohan Munasinghe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Economic development |
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Author | : Ismail Serageldin |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821330425 |
This collection of papers summarizes the World Bank's views of the conceptual, methodological, and technical issues that remain to be resolved after the UNCED meeting, more commonly known as the Rio Earth Summit, in 1992. These papers, written by staff me
Author | : Anna Schwachula |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2019-09-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3839448824 |
New knowledge, created in international cooperation, is essential for global sustainability. Set against this background, this study focuses on German science policy for research cooperation with developing countries and emerging economies in sustainability research. Based on interviews with policy makers and researchers, the book scrutinizes the actors, processes and contents of science policy in Germany. The author argues that science policy mainly aims at German economic benefits and technology development. This, however, negatively influences global sustainability. To counter existing path dependencies, the author provides recommendations for sustainability-oriented scientific practice and science policy.
Author | : Walter Leal Filho |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2014-10-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319106902 |
This book documents and compares the experiences of a wide range of universities across the five continents with regard to sustainable development, making it of special interest to sustainability researchers and practitioners. By showcasing how integrative approaches to sustainable development at the university level can be successfully employed to bridge the gaps between disciplines, the book provides a timely contribution to the literature on sustainability and offers a valuable resource for all those interested in sustainability in a higher education context.
Author | : Ismail Serageldin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1995 |
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Author | : Ismail Serageldin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231539002 |
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.
Author | : World Bank |
Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-05-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0821395521 |
Inclusive Green Growth: The Pathway to Sustainable Development makes the case that greening growth is necessary, efficient, and affordable. Yet spurring growth without ensuring equity will thwart efforts to reduce poverty and improve access to health, education, and infrastructure services.
Author | : Iris Borowy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2013-12-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135961298 |
The UN World Commission on Environment and Development, chaired by former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, alerted the world to the urgency of making progress toward economic development that could be sustained without depleting natural resources or harming the environment. Written by an international group of politicians, civil servants and experts on the environment and development, the Brundtland Report changed sustainable development from a physical notion to one based on social, economic and environmental issues. This book positions the Brundtland Commission as a key event within a longer series of international reactions to pressing problems of global poverty and environmental degradation. It shows that its report, "Our Common Future", published in 1987, covered much more than its definition of sustainable development as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" for which it became best known. It also addressed a long list of issues which remain unresolved today. The book explores how the work of the Commission juggled contradictory expectations and world views, which existed within the Commission and beyond, and drew on the concept of sustainable development as a way to reconcile profound differences. The result was both an immense success and disappointment. Coining an irresistibly simple definition enabled the Brundtland Commission to place sustainability firmly on the international agenda. This definition gained acceptability for a potentially divisive concept, but it also diverted attention from underlying demands for fundamental political and social changes. Meanwhile, the central message of the Commission – the need to make inconvenient sustainability considerations a part of global politics as much as of everyday life – has been side-lined. The book thus assesses to what extent the Brundtland Commission represented an immense step forward or a missed opportunity.
Author | : Turvey, Rosario Adapon |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2019-06-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1522573038 |
Over the last few decades, the new discipline of sustainability science (SS) has evolved with a phenomenal rise in knowledge production, research, and publications, as well as the development of new academic programs and creation of centers and scientific communities, networks, and organizations. With pressing global environmental issues in the 21st century, SS has become an influential discipline and important subject of intellectual inquiry that deserves support from the academy and scientific communities worldwide to find solutions to global problems such as climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss. Intellectual, Scientific, and Educational Influences on Sustainability Research is a concise and authoritative book that fills the crucial and unmet need for educational materials that integrates theoretical foundations, methodological basis, and practice in the science of sustainability. The goal of the book is to increase accessibility and use of educational and scientific knowledge among academic and non-academic audiences as it assembles the wisdom and insights from up-to-date scholarship and advances in this new discipline. Highlighting various topics such as biodiversity, public transportation, and human development, it is ideal for environmentalists, ecologists, technology developers, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.