Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Natural Prophets
From Health Foods to Whole Foods--How the Pioneers of the Industry Changed the Way We Eat and Reshaped American Business
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The e-book edition includes 46 exclusive photos and expanded content!
From a handful of idealistic farmers and local co-ops in the 1960s to the domination of juggernauts like Whole Foods, the wild success of the natural and organic foods industry proves that principled business is not just...
by Michael Shuman, Hildegarde Hannum
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2002
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.
Michael Shuman's lecture to the Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires points to the shift that is occurring from a global economy...
Sviluppo Sostenibile
Una teoria diventata essenziale
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Il mondo non può più permettersi uno sviluppo basato su modelli del secolo scorso. La vita dell'uomo deve tornare ad essere parte della natura senza sconvolgere e senza rinunciare al progresso, anzi!!! Crescere in maniera sostenibile significa rendere possibili i grandi progressi dell'umanità senza...
Cara Ministra Madia
La Riforma della Pubblica Amministrazione - DIGITALE????
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Una lettera alla Ministra Madia in occasione del varo della riforma della Pubblica Amministrazione.Una riforma molto attesa, molto importante ma poco od affatto Digitale.Cara Ministra Maria, il popolo italiano le chiede una risposta a questa semplice domanda.Quando ogni cittadino avrà un codice per...
by Scott Berkun
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How do we know if a hot new technology will succeed or fail? Most of us, even experts, get it wrong all the time. We depend more than we realize on wishful thinking and romanticized ideas of history. In the new paperback edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org,...
by Lewis Evans
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Every business and organization is born out of a spark of inspiration, a passion, a desire to do something better. That's right-brain, creative thinking. Yet traditional business practices are logical and analytical, which is left-brain, linear thinking. Our education promotes the left-brain...
by Augustin Berque
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment,...
by Amos Obi
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
No one in all history has ever risen and biger that his /her own ideas.
Indeed, “Nothing great, according to Albert Einstein has ever been achieved in the world without an element of madness”.
And throughout all history, it is only crazy people that have come out with some crazy...
Culture and the Question of Rights
Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental...
Critical Summary of Guns, Germs, and Steel - The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, grade: 1,0 (A), University of Hamburg (Centre for Sea and Climate Research), course: Seminar Contemporary Environmental Problems, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The starting point of Diamond's...
by Keith Cronin
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Solar Success Principles- How to Make a Difference and a Fortune in the Green Economy.The first book of its kind to combine the business metrics necessary to thrive in the high growth solar industry. This book is for solar integrators and all of their staff. It also reaches venture capitalists and...
International Taxation and the Extractive Industries
Resources without Borders
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
The taxation of extractive industries exploiting oil, gas, or minerals is usually treated as a sovereign, national policy and administration issue.This book offers a uniquely comprehensive overview of the theory and practice involved in designing policies on the international aspects of fiscal regimes...
The Politics and Economics of Britain's Foreign Aid
The Pergau Dam Affair
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The Pergau dam in Malaysia was the most controversial project in the history of British aid. Because of its high cost, it was a poor candidate for aid funding. It was provided in part to honour a highly irregular promise of civil aid in connection with a major arms deal. After two parliamentary inquiries...
Nine visions of capitalism
Unlocking the meanings of wealth creation
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Capitalism has been in a state of crisis for nearly one hundred years. The effects of the stock market crash of 1929 were felt well into the 1950s. The turbulence in international currency markets in the late 1960s, which sparked worldwide street protests in 1968, was unresolved until the middle of...