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Environment for Development eBook Series

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  • Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 8: Economic Growth and Decent Work For All

    Edited by Lotta Dellve, Sharon Fonn, Gunnar Köhlin, Katrin Skagert ...
    Series series Environment for Development
    This book brings together knowledge on how to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal 8, to bring societal change through sustainable economic growth and decent work for all by 2030.At its core is the great challenge of achieving economic growth without compromising the environment, while ensuring respect for fundamental human rights, and in particular the right to employment with equal and ... Read more

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  • The London Consensus

    Economic Principles for the 21st Century

    Edited by Tim Besley, Irene Bucelli, Andrés Velasco ...
    A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid out a series of dos and don'ts for policymakers around the world. Today, that vision is recognised as having fallen short in a number of ways - particularly in its neglect of the social and institutional factors that are indispensable for achieving sustained growth and for building fairer and more cohesive societies.The immense challenges ... Read more

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  • The Commercial Determinants of Health

    Edited by Nason Maani, Mark Petticrew, Sandro Galea ...
    An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy

    The Innovation Economy and Society Nexus

    by G. Bruce Doern, David Castle, Peter Phillips ...
    Canadian Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy presents new critical analysis about related developments in the field such as significantly changed concepts of peer review, merit review, the emergence of big data in the digital age, and the rise of an economy and society dominated by the internet and information.The authors scrutinize the different ways in which federal and provincial ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Governing through Goals

    Sustainable Development Goals as Governance Innovation

    Edited by Norichika Kanie, Frank Biermann ...
    Series series Earth System Governance
    A detailed examination of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and the shift in governance strategy they represent.In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Sustainable Development Goals built on and broadened the earlier Millennium Development Goals, but they also signaled a larger ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Business and Government

    Edited by David Coen, Wyn Grant, Graham Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Business is one of the major power centres in modern society. The state seeks to check and channel that power so as to serve broader public policy objectives. However, if the way in which business is governed is ineffective or over burdensome, it may become more difficult to achieve desired goals such as economic growth or higher levels of employment. In a period of international economic crisis, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Climate Resilient Organization

    Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes

    by Andrew Griffiths, Martina K. Linnenluecke ...
    Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular focus on building climate-resilient pathways for private sector organizations, the expert authors ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Power Shift

    The Global Political Economy of Energy Transitions

    by Peter Newell ...
    Energy transitions are fundamental to achieving a zero-carbon economy. This book explains the urgently needed transition in energy systems from the perspective of the global political economy. It develops an historical, global, political and ecological account of key features of energy transitions: from their production and financing, to how they are governed and mobilised. Informed by direct ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The World After GDP

    Politics, Business and Society in the Post Growth Era

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our economic system which values GDP above all else as a measure of prosperity and growth.In this provocative and inspiring new book, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Ideas for Development

    by Robert Chambers ...
    Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ignorance, self-deception and denial, with spiralling inequity and injustice. Against a backdrop of climate change, failing ecosystems, poverty, crushing debt and corporate exploitation, the future of our world looks dire and the solutions almost too monumental to consider.Yet all is not lost. Robert Chambers, one of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography

    by Dariusz Wójcik ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The first fifteen years of the 21st century have thrown into sharp relief the challenges of growth, equity, stability, and sustainability facing the world economy. In addition, they have exposed the inadequacies of mainstream economics in providing answers to these challenges. This volume gathers over 50 leading scholars from around the world to offer a forward-looking perspective of economic ... Read more

    $151.99 USD

  • Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development

    Exploring the nexus of private and public interests

    Edited by Lez Rayman-Bacchus, Philip Walsh ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business
    Corporate responsibility and sustainable development are two concepts that may be able to reconcile many of the big challenges facing the world; challenges such as tensions between respect for the natural environment, social justice, and economic development; the long view versus short-term imperatives and the competing priorities between developed and developing economies.This book explores the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD