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  • Sustainability Perception Indicators

    Theory and Practice of Perception Indicators in Sustainability

    by Stephen Morse ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the background, practice, potential and challenges associated with developing and using perceptual indicators for assessing sustainability.Sustainability Indicators (SIs) are usually described and portrayed as quantitative metrics that rest above the human realm of subjectivity, opinion and bias. Thus, they are the basis for objectively measuring ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Sustainability

    A Biological Perspective

    by Stephen Morse ...
    Encouraging students to engage in the challenges and complexity of sustainability, this text considers not only the theories underlying sustainability, but more importantly how theories are translated into practice and the difficulties of achieving this in the world in which we live. This pragmatic focus gives students a greater understanding of the practice of sustainability and highlights the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Rise and Rise of Indicators

    Their History and Geography

    by Stephen Morse ...
    This book makes indicators more accessible, in terms of what they are, who created them and how they are used. It examines the subjectivity and human frailty behind these quintessentially ‘hard’ and technical measures of the world.To achieve this goal, The Rise and Rise of Indicators presents the world in terms of a selected set of indicators. The emphasis is upon the origins of the indicators and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Indices and Indicators in Development

    An Unhealthy Obsession with Numbers

    by Stephen Morse ...
    The use of numbers to condense complex systems into easily digested 'bites' of information is very much in fashion. At one level they are intended to enhance transparency, accountability and local democracy, while at another they provide a means of enhancing performance. However, all indicators suffer from the same basic problem that, ironically, is also their biggest advantage - condensing ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Connect Lead Succeed

    CONFERENCE IN A BOOK™, #1

    by Dixie Maria Carlton, Antoni Lacinai, David Gomez, Melitta Campbell, Marta Pardo, Dr Wendy Lee, Dr Stephen Morse, et al ...
    Series Book 1 - CONFERENCE IN A BOOK™
    What if you could attend a global business conference without the flights, fees, or time away from the office?Connect, Lead, Succeed is a groundbreaking CONFERENCE IN A BOOK™ — a carefully curated collection of written keynotes from 16 international experts across five vital areas of business: Leadership, Teams, Artificial Intelligence & Technology, Networking, and Marketing & Business Growth. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visions of Sustainability

    Stakeholders, Change and Indicators

    by Stephen Morse, Nora McNamara, Benjamin Okwoli ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000: Sustainable development has grown to compass cultural, socio-economic, political and environmental issues, and the use of Sustainability indicators (SIs) is seen by many as central to its implementation. After all, how can one ’do’ sustainable development unless one knows when it has been attained? The adoption of SIs in such a context is logical, but does ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility

    by Dongyong Zhang, Stephen Morse, Uma Kambhampati ...
    Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become an important concept in the last few decades. Although it originated in the developed countries of the West, the concept has been embraced and adapted by corporations and policy-making agencies in many developing countries. Not surprisingly, given the importance of growth and development as policy objectives in these countries, CSR has had a ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Resilient Participation

    Saving the Human Project?

    by Simon Bell, Stephen Morse ...
    Stakeholder or public participation has become something of a modern mantra employed in all sorts of contexts to give people a voice. There are many variants on this 'participation' but traditionally they all share a desire to maximise involvement and provide desired 'outputs' of a required quality as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Difference tends to be reduced and compromise encouraged as ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Science Agriculture and Research

    A Compromised Participation

    by Susannah Bolton, Eddie Arthur, William Buhler, Stephen Morse, Judy Mann ...
    Research is never free of pressures and constraints and to understand its results properly these have to be assessed and analyzed. In agriculture, research into biotechnology and GMOs, as well as pesticides and herbicides, is big business - agribusiness. This book looks at the crucial roles of funding and the political context on the research agenda and its results in agricultural development. It ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Social Networks and Food Security in the Urban Fringe

    by Stephen Morse, The Reverend Sister Nora MacNamara, Shuaibu Adamu, Nancy Sabanti Nathan, Yemisi Adedipe, Muhammed Kabir, Augustine Onwuaroh, Nathaniel Otene ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how social groups in the urban fringe of Abuja, Nigeria, engaged with a series of development projects spanning 15 years (2003 to 2018) which focused on the enhancement of food security for farming households. The groups were at the heart of these development projects and the book presents the many insights that were gained by farmers and project agents working within these ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Sustainable Livelihood Approach

    A Critique of Theory and Practice

    by Stephen Morse, Nora McNamara ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    We all view the ubiquitous term ‘sustainability’ as a worthwhile goal. But how can we apply the principles of sustainability in the real world, at the sharp end of communities in developing nations where income insecurity is the troubled norm? This volume provides some practical answers, explaining the precepts of the ‘sustainable livelihood approach’ (SLA) through the case study of a microfinance ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Measuring Sustainability

    Learning From Doing

    by Simon Bell, Stephen Morse ...
    'Measuring the sustainability of development is crucial to achieving it, and is one of the most actively studied issues in the area. To date, most studies of measurements or indicators have been largely theoretical.However, this book, a follow-on to Bell and Morse's highly influential Sustainability Indicators (1999), presents valuable practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work ... Read more

    $68.99 USD