The Road To Sustainability
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Author | : Nolberto Munier |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2006-01-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781402035579 |
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This book develops a supporting structure for sustainable development, following a natural set of steps to reach an established goal. It provides the tools to navigate this Road to a Better Future by explaining concepts, giving ideas, proposing methods, and suggesting actions. To illustrate the utilization of techniques there are many examples, applied to a variety of activities, and to wrap up concepts, the last chapter is dedicated to the analysis of a community in search of a sustainable environment. A thematic index has been designed to help a person quickly find information on relevant topics.
Author | : Federico M. Pulselli |
Publisher | : WIT Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 184564140X |
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Is the concept of sustainability strongly founded on solid scientific bases? And can this elusive concept be introduced in the economic framework and embodied in people's behavior as well as public and private institutions' decision making? This book presents a view of sustainability that starts from the acknowledgment of physical conditions and limits that humans can no longer neglect. It also includes some epistemological foundations of the concept of sustainability and historical backgrounds. The view is optimistic to the extent that economics, the compass of our industrial society, is open to inputs and suggestions coming from outside orthodox schemes. Transdisciplinary science is one key element of such a change, and this book is a transdisciplinary project.In the field of the criticism to GDP as an omni-comprehensive instrument, the book also describes the methodology of the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), proposed by H. Daly and John Cobb in 1989. They proposed some revisions to the System of National Accounts and GDP in order to add information for policy makers towards sustainability. Starting with consumption, some adjustments are proposed to allow for inequality of income distribution, environmental problems (such as pollution costs, long term environmental damage, depletion of non-renewable resources) and social issues (such as commuting costs, urbanization costs, public expenditure for health and education). Computations for different nations have shown that ISEW increases together with increasing GDP up to a point, beyond which it stagnates or even decreases, due to the environmental and social pressure of economic growth. The ISEW is a feasible calculation and some experiments at the local level in Italy are presented. Advances in integrating different sustainability indicators (both economic-based and physical-based) are also presented as well as their use under a sustainability viewpoint.
Author | : Conchita San Nicolas Taitano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Zul Hakim Jumat |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2023-01-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 3031133021 |
Download Islamic Finance, FinTech, and the Road to Sustainability Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The recent unprecedented economic downturn and global supply chain disruption by the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the urgency for sustainable financing infrastructure that is agile, adaptable, and transformable. Sustainability and the 4th Industrial Revolution are about more than just technology-driven change; it is an opportunity to help everyone, including leaders, policymakers and people from all income groups and nations, to navigate industry disruptions and transitioning to a new normal by harnessing converging technologies in order to create an inclusive, human-centered future. The edited volume provides critical discussions on reframing the Islamic finance approach to sustainability and socio-economic development in the post-pandemic era. It highlights how selected Islamic finance tools alongside FinTech can not only ensure financial sustainability but also promote socio-economic policies that will aid the much-desired value and impact creation in the economy. The book focuses its analysis on the following three areas: reframing Islamic finance sustainability and socio-economic development; innovative Islamic financial tools for sustainable and socio-economic impact; and the role of FinTech in the road to sustainability. The edited volume will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and students of Islamic finance, sustainability, and financial technology.
Author | : Alexander Gillespie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 019881951X |
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An examination of humanity's quest for sustainable development over the last millennium, Gillespie's well-timed work asks what economic, social, and environmental stars must be aligned for humanity, and its ecosystems, to survive.
Author | : Gabriela Ionescu |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2017-03-03 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1315341662 |
Download Transportation and the Environment Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This new book takes a nuanced look at building a sustainable transportation infrastructure and provides an overview of the harmful effect of various modes of transportation on the environment. The environmental impact of transportation is significant. Transportation is a major user of energy, it burns most of the world's petroleum, and is the fastest-growing contributor to carbon dioxide emissions. Although environmental regulations in many countries have reduced the individual vehicle's emissions, this has been offset by an increase in vehicles on the road and airways.
Author | : Felix Dodds |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-06-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1136261907 |
Download Only One Earth Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the challenges that we face twenty years from the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, "The Earth Summit," in Rio, in particular in the areas of economics and governance and the role of stakeholders. It puts forward a set of recommendations that the international community must address now and in the the future. It reminds us of the planetary boundaries we must all live within and and what needs to be addressed in the next twenty years for democracy, equity and fairness to survive. Finally it proposes through the survival agenda a bare minimum of what needs to be done, arguing for a series of absolute minimum policy changes we need to move forward.
Author | : Takashi Mino |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9811390614 |
Download Framing in Sustainability Science Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This open access book offers both conceptual and empirical descriptions of how to “frame” sustainability challenges. It defines “framing” in the context of sustainability science as the process of identifying subjects, setting boundaries, and defining problems. The chapters are grouped into two sections: a conceptual section and a case section. The conceptual section introduces readers to theories and concepts that can be used to achieve multiple understandings of sustainability; in turn, the case section highlights different ways of comprehending sustainability for researchers, practitioners, and other stakeholders. The book offers diverse illustrations of what sustainability concepts entail, both conceptually and empirically, and will help readers become aware of the implicit framings in sustainability-related discourses. In the extant literature, sustainability challenges such as climate change, sustainable development, and rapid urbanization have largely been treated as “pre-set,” fixed topics, while possible solutions have been discussed intensively. In contrast, this book examines the framings applied to the sustainability challenges themselves, and illustrates the road that led us to the current sustainability discourse.
Author | : Robert Doyle Bullard |
Publisher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1849771774 |
Download Just Sustainabilities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Steve Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-06-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781943359394 |
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