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An impassioned call for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives. In this manifesto, journalist McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better"--indeed, they have become almost opposites. McKibben puts forward a new way to think about the things we buy, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the...
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We are squandering our planet's natural capital-its biodiversity, water and soil, and energy sources-at a blistering pace. Major changes must be made to steer our planet and people away from our current, doomed course. Though technology has been one of the drivers of the current trend of unsustainable development, it is also one of the essential tools for remedying it. Earth at Risk maps out the necessary transition to sustainability, detailing the...
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When you see or read about excessive corporate profiteering, business malpractices, poor social welfare, and environmental and ecological disasters, do you have an urge to do something?
With so many analysis reports, academic journals, news coverage, and documentaries on the subject, why is there so little action?
Most management gurus and executives recognize that it is possible to achieve a triple bottom line—running a business for the benefit...
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Corporations are slowly realizing the impact of their business on the environment and society. They are also facing increasing pressure from their stakeholders to follow responsible business practices. Many companies are looking to incorporate and manage a sustainable business. However, they are unaware on where and how to start this transition. This book explains the basics on how to incorporate sustainability into any business. It gives the simple...
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In Closing the Gap: Sustainable Infrastructure to Save the World, you'll learn about one of the foremost challenges of our time: the global infrastructure gap. You'll learn about persisting shortfalls in access to energy, water, and transportation services and the ways this continues to drive poverty and inequality all across the world. Readers will discover how investments in sustainable infrastructure can reverse these trends while building resilience...
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"[The authors] argue that with more integration and cooperation between businesses, governments and communities, a more sustainable economy is possible." —The Environmental Magazine
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (social,...
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE (social,...
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Pourquoi les sciences sont-elles inégales?
La complexité et le nombre de variables nécessaires pour décrire un système sont les premiers facteurs de succès d'une théorie. Si en astronomie, la gravitation domine et efface tous les bruits, en économie, le nombre infiniment grand de variables a perdu les économistes dans un chaos dogmatique. L'entropie de l'information condamne le déterminisme newtonien à se soumettre à une expérience unique...
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This special, updated edition includes new bonus material. Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning point in its economic history. The expansionary trajectory of industrial civilization is colliding with non-negotiable natural limits. Richard...
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Existe un nuevo enfoque económico en el mundo. El crecimiento económico sustentable, la innovación, el cuidado del medio ambiente y la inclusión social son las fuerzas impulsoras de la Economía Verde. México se debe constituir en actor clave en la formación de una nueva visión global.
Este libro presenta las bases de una economía verde y describe los pasos necesarios para diseñar e implementar un sistema intrínsecamente equilibrado de tecnologías,...
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The second edition of the Greater Mekong Subregion Atlas of the Environment again champions the environment of this unique part of Asia, an area straddled by rivers great and small, with bountiful watersheds, wetlands, and forests. The Atlas celebrates the peoples of the subregion, and presents the environmental and development challenges they face and their responses. It reminds us that the subregion's peoples and communities are key to maintaining...
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This report presents the results of a stocktake of national responses to Sustainable Development Goals 12, 14, and 15, and selected environment-related targets that have a direct relationship with responsible consumption and production, and sustainable marine and terrestrial ecosystems management, by 15 developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. The report was completed under the first phase of a technical assistance project by the Asian Development...
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The Star Mountain Investment Holding Limited (SMIHL) is a Papua New Guinean (PNG) landowner holding company operating in Western Province, in the shadows of the huge Ok Tedi mine. The initiative drew on a Future Generation Fund and was, for the community, a response to years of frustration with wasted opportunities for economic development which were attributed to a lack of organizational and economic development capacity, capture of benefits by local...
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Moyen de transport pratique et confortable, l'automobile est omniprésente dans notre quotidien au point d'en affecter notre mode de vie. Or, ce choix n'est pas sans conséquences individuelles et collectives, surtout dans le contexte de l'accroissement constant du nombre de véhicules sur nos routes. Ses impacts les plus médiatisés sont sans doute ceux qui ont trait à l'environnement, mais le choix de l'automobile entraîne aussi, directement...
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Ahora contaminamos nosotros utiliza como título un argumento oído a menudo en las negociaciones sobre el cambio climático, donde las naciones menos desarrolladas sugieren que dado que las naciones desarrolladas generaron la mayor parte de la contaminación del pasado, ahora tienen la obligación histórica de satisfacer los costes asociados con la atenuación del cambio climático o la adaptación al mismo. Simultáneamente, argumentan que dado...
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The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a market mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol, has been successful in supporting mitigation actions through carbon finance. With nearly 7,700 projects and 290 Program of Activities registered by the CDM Executive Board, the CDM allows GHG emission reduction projects in developing countries to generate Certified Emission Reductions which can be used to offset mandatory or voluntary emission reduction targets. It...
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), prepared this tool compendium to help address the issues, challenges, and barriers faced by developing countries from Asia and the Pacific in the successful implementation of the environmental dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The tools presented here can help policy makers gain a better understanding of SDG interlinkages,...
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Asia and the Pacific is home to more than 60% of the world's population and 62% of the global economic output. But the region still faces enormous development challenges and with economic growth, it has become a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This has exposed Asia and the Pacific to the impacts of climate change, threatening to undo the development gains from economic prosperity over the past decades. This report reflects how Clean...
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The People's Republic of China (PRC) has experienced stellar economic performance over the last 3 decades. Gross domestic product growth has averaged 10% per year. Per capita income has increased by a factor of 13. Life expectancy at birth increased from 67 to 73 years. Rapid growth, however, has posed eight challenges for the PRC: industrial transformation, balanced rural-urban development, human resource transformation, environmental protection,...
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La science économique ne peut plus ignorer le contexte sociétal et environnemental actuel.
La science économique domine nos sociétés actuelles, et finit par être un moyen et une fin à la fois. L'économisation de nos relations sociales progresse et pénètre des domaines de plus en plus lointains de son champ initial. L'éducation, au lieu de former des citoyens instruits, devient un investissement dans le capital humain; la médecine doit...
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Runaway climate change and rampant inequality are ravaging the world and costing a fortune. Who will help lead us to a better future? Business.
These massive dual challenges-and other profound shifts, such as pandemics, resource pressures, and shrinking biodiversity-threaten our very existence. Other megatrends, such as the push for a clean economy and the unprecedented focus on diversity and inclusion, offer exciting new opportunities to heal the...
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