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  • Cow up a Tree

    Knowing and Learning for Change in Agriculture. Case Studies from Industrialised Countries

    by Niels Röling, Marianne Cerf, David Gibbon, Ray Ison, Janice Jiggins, Jet Proost, Hubert Bernard, Mark Paine ...
    Western societies are calling for speedy change in agriculture and the agrifood industries to incorporate new quality criteria into the goods they produce. To promote these changes what scientists must develop are not universally implementable technical solutions, but self-diagnosis methods to be used by agricultural producers and their advisors. They also need to evolve new procedures for ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Changing the Boundaries

    Women-Centered Perspectives On Population And The Environment

    by Janice Jiggins ...
    Changing the Boundaries explores gender relations with respect to education, reproductive health services, and agricultural resources -- three factors that are widely recognized as being central to the struggle for gender equity, population control, and environmental sustainability. As well as defining the role of women in the population-environment quandary, author Janice Jiggins explains how ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Creating Food Futures

    Trade, Ethics and the Environment

    by Janice Jiggins ...
    Series series Corporate Social Responsibility
    A global transformation in food supply and consumption is placing our food security at risk. What changes need to be made to the ways we trade, process and purchase our food if everyone in the world is going to have enough wholesome food to eat? Is there genuine scope for creating food futures that embrace considerations such as ecological sustainability and social equity as well as placing good ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

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  • Wellbeing Economy

    Success in a World Without Growth

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Economic growth is a constant mantra of politicians, economists and the media. Few understand what it is, but they love and follow it blindly. The reality is that since the global financial crisis, growth has vanished in the more industrialised economies and in the so-called developing countries. Politicians may be panicking, but is this really a bad thing?Using real-life examples and innovative ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Some Small Countries Do It Better: Rapid Growth and Its Causes in Singapore, Finland, and Ireland

    by Shahid Yusuf, Kaoru Nabeshima ...
    Countries worldwide are struggling to imitate the industrial prowess of the East Asian pacesetters, but growth accelerations have proven remarkably transient. Building a portfolio of tradable goods and services and steadily raising the level of investment in these activities, has generally defied the best policy efforts - in particular, bringing investment ratios on par with East Asian averages ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Pursuing Sustainability

    A Guide to the Science and Practice

    by Pamela Matson, William C. Clark, Krister Par Andersson ...
    An essential guide to sustainable development for students and practitionersSustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility

    by Wayne Visser, Dirk Matten, Manfred Pohl, Nick Tolhurst ...
    CSR has now moved beyond the stage of specialist or niche subject to become an integral part of global business and society. This timely edition is destined to become the definitive guide to CSR, Sustainability, Business Ethics and the organizations and standards in the field.The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility is a unique publication and is the culmination of over a hundred of the world ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Will Big Business Destroy Our Planet?

    by Peter Dauvergne ...
    Walmart. Coca-Cola. BP. Toyota. The world economy runs on the profits of transnational corporations. Politicians need their backing. Non-profit organizations rely on their philanthropy. People look to their brands for meaning. And their power continues to rise.Can these companies, as so many are now hoping, provide the solutions to end the mounting global environmental crisis? Absolutely, the CEOs ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

    Design and Improvisation in Development Practice

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how practice can make space for big and lasting change and for new opportunities to be discovered. It points to ways of building synergy and negotiating our way in the social and political spaces ‘in between’ conventional and often competing ideals – public ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Innovation in Construction

    An International Review of Public Policies

    Edited by Andre Manseau, George Seaden ...
    Series series CIB
    How can innovation in the construction industry be strengthened? What instruments and approaches are being used by governments to promote it? What works and under what circumstances? These key questions have profound implications. This book presents a framework for the analysis of innovation models and systems in construction and an international comparison of these systems, with a focus on their ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Unlocking Sustainable Cities

    A Manifesto for Real Change

    by Paul Chatterton ...
    Series series Radical Geography
    This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change.Across the world, city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice - from transforming ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strategic management of agricultural and life sciences research organisations

    Interfaces, processes and contents

    by Bettina Heimann, Lance O'Brien ...
    Series series Matière à débattre et décider
    Produced by EURAGRI, this book deals with the business of doing research in Europe's public research and development organisations, with a particular focus on their strategic management challenges. ... Read more

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