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  • Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles

    A Language for Our Common Future

    Edited by Lewis Akenji, Philip J. Vergragt, Halina Szejnwald Brown, Thomas S.J. Smith, Laura Maria Wallnöfer ...
    Series series Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
    Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: a Language for our Common Future curates a shared vocabulary of concepts that enables a society-wide conversation about sustainable consumption and lifestyles, the future of consumer society, and ways to transcend it.Since the United Nations (UN) Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the global environmental and social consequences of mass ... Read more

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  • Sustainability, Wellbeing and the Posthuman Turn

    by Thomas S. J. Smith ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines how the way we conceive of, or measure, the environment changes the way we interact with it. Thomas Smith posits that environmentalism and sustainable development have become increasingly post-political, characterised by abstraction, and quantification to an unprecedented extent. As such, the book argues that our ways of measuring both the environment, such as through ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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    50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?

    by Ugo Bardi, Carlos Alvarez Pereira ...
    In 1972, a book changed the world.The Club of Rome commissioned a report that shifted how we see what humans are doing to the planet. Looking back five decades later, what happened next, what did we do and not do, what did we learn, and what happens now?In The Limits to Growth, a team from MIT studied the way humans were using the resources of the earth. Using sophisticated computer modelling, the ... Read more

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  • The Locust and the Bee

    Predators and Creators in Capitalism's Future

    by Geoff Mulgan ...
    How to harness capitalism's dynamism to create an economy that promotes well-being and rewards creationThe recent economic crisis was a dramatic reminder that capitalism can both produce and destroy. It's a system that by its very nature encourages predators and creators, locusts and bees. But, as Geoff Mulgan argues in this compelling, imaginative, and important book, the economic crisis also ... Read more

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  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    by Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Economic Complexity and Human Development

    How Economic Diversification and Social Networks Affect Human Agency and Welfare

    by Dominik Hartmann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on human development.While economic diversification can provide valuable new social choices and capabilities, it also tends to lead to more complex decision processes and changes to the set of capabilities required by people to self-determine their future. ... Read more

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  • Resilient Sustainable Cities

    A Future

    Edited by Leonie Pearson, Peter Newton, Peter Roberts ...
    Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • Long Problems

    Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing Across Time

    by Thomas Hale ...
    Political strategies for tackling climate change and other “long problems” that span generationsClimate change and its consequences unfold over many generations. Past emissions affect our climate today, just as our actions shape the climate of tomorrow, while the effects of global warming will last thousands of years. Yet the priorities of the present dominate our climate policy and the politics ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Advanced Introduction to National Innovation Systems

    by Cristina Chaminade, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Shagufta Haneef ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Innovation studies is an evolving interdisciplinary field that has moved away from the weaknesses of neoclassical thinking and embraced evolutionary theory. In this timely book, the authors offer a precise introduction to the nature of national innovation systems (NIS), examining the history of the concept and its use in today's world.This book uses language appropriate for both social science and ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Business

    Key Issues

    by Helen Kopnina, Rory Padfield ...
    Series series Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability
    Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics.Fully updated for the third edition to take into account recent developments and trends, such as the climate emergency, COVID ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability

    Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, Mary C. King ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social health among the affluent nations while simultaneously reducing and reversing the environmental damage wrought by human activity. Scholars and practitioners are making progress toward environmental and economic sustainability, but we have ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • The Planet in 2050

    The Lund Discourse of the Future

    Edited by Jill Jäger, Sarah Cornell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    In 2050, the billions of people living on Earth have found a way to manage the planetary system effectively. Everyone has access to adequate food, shelter, and clean water. Human health is no longer considered outside of the health of the ecosystems in which people live. Ecological awareness is an integral part of education. People respond effectively to social and environmental hazards, and ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD