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“peter mcmanners”

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  • Resilient Economics

    Finance, Society and the Environment

    by Peter McManners ...
    In good times, growth and profits are welcome, but in bad times we need resilience, and resilience cannot be spirited up overnight.The economic fallout from the 2008-9 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic has been considerable. Each required unprecedented measures to prevent the economy from crashing. We can learn from crisis to move beyond the superficial success of growth-based economics ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Ultra-running into Retirement

    by Peter J McManners ...
    Turbocharge your retirement. Don't wind down - gear up.In this compelling and unconventional account, one retiree swaps the office chair for the open trail. What began as a final adventure transformed into a passion for ultra-running and a complete reinvention of life after sixty. From the scorching sands of the Sahara's Marathon des Sables to the brutal climbs of the Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Essentials of Sustainability for Business

    A Practical Approach

    by Peter McManners ...
    Essentials of Sustainability for Business teaches the core principles of sustainability in a concise format for those new to issues at the intersection of sustainability and business. The book plots a path through the contradictions and confusions in the debates about sustainability, to get to the heart of why it matters, how to respond, and where it leads.The book is structured around three parts ... Read more

    Was $55.99 USD Now $49.99 USD

  • Reframing Economic Policy towards Sustainability

    Explored through a case study into aviation

    by Peter McManners ...
    In a globalized world economy, delivering the aspirations of sustainability is proving to be difficult. Progress is held back by competing objectives within a complex interplay of factors. Finding solutions to the ‘wicked problem’ of sustainability seems to be beyond the reach of policy makers. Even if the political will can be found to deal with the prime challenges of the twenty-first century, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Green Outcomes in the Real World

    Global Forces, Local Circumstances, and Sustainable Solutions

    by Peter McManners ...
    Over the last three decades the world economy has grown strongly on the back of 'globalization' supported by the policies of free-trade, open markets and privatisation. Support has also grown for the concept of 'sustainability', meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. But as the Earth's systems come under increasing strain, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Fly and Be Damned

    What Now for Aviation and Climate Change?

    by Peter McManners ...
    Peter McManners gets underneath the well-known facts about the unsustainable nature of the aviation industry and argues for fundamental change to our travelling habits. The first book to transcend the emotional debate between the entrenched positions of those who are either for, or against, flying, this groundbreaking work argues that aviation is stuck in a stalemate between misguided policy and a ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Corporate Strategy in the Age of Responsibility

    by Peter McManners ...
    As the era of ever expanding markets and ample resources ends, governments and business will have to behave differently. The world is facing weak economic growth, limits to affordable resources and increasing concerns about environmental consequences. During the boom times, governments championed de-regulation and business responded by adopting an anything-goes attitude. In these straitened times, ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Face Up to Climate Change

    Demand change now

    by Peter J McManners ...
    This book is a call for action to face up to climate change. McManners argues that that there is a way out of the world's climate emergency which needs much greater realism than the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).The changing climate is leading to record temperatures and increasing frequency of storms, but this is just the commencement of dangerous consequences to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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

    $8.69 USD

  • Changing the Game

    Sustainable Market Transformation Strategies to Understand and Tackle the Big and Complex Sustainability Challenges of Our Generation

    by Lucas Simons, Andre Nijhof ...
    We are at the beginning of the sustainability era. The biggest challenge of our generation is to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. For this we must be willing to understand and change the root causes that create these challenges in the first place. The system itself needs to change. But how to do that?This ground-breaking book Changing the Game reveals the missing insights and strategies to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Earth for All

    A Survival Guide for Humanity

    by Sandrine Dixson-Decleve, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockstrom, Per Espen Stoknes ...
    The economic operating system keeps crashing. It’s time to upgrade to a new one.Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the cliff edge: Earth has crossed multiple planetary boundaries while widespread inequality is causing deep instabilities in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Take Back the Economy

    An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities

    by J. K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, Stephen Healy ...
    In the wake of economic crisis on a global scale, more and more people are reconsidering their role in the economy and wondering what they can do to make it work better for humanity and the planet. In this innovative book, J. K. Gibson-Graham, Jenny Cameron, and Stephen Healy contribute complex understandings of economics in practical terms: what can we do right now, in our own communities, to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD