Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. This book serves as a guidebook to build a bright, peaceful, and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization.
This book offers state-of-the-art information on the environmental science and performance of buildings, linking new technologies and methodologies with the latest research on systems, simulations and standards. It is helpful for architects and building engineers, and environmental engineers.
International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions. The policy recipe pursued by the West, and imposed on governments elsewhere, is to pass control over water to private interests. This book exposes the enormity of the problem, and the dangers of the proposed solution.
Provides a unique insight into the international process that led to the adoption of the Biosafety Protocol in January 2000. The contributors trace the evolution of major negotiating positions; examine key elements of the treaty; and highlight the Protocol's implications for trade, development and environmental policy and law.
Suitable for business professionals, management students and academics, activists and public servants, this book covers the issues of business in society.
Arguing that corporate citizensip emerges from the New Economy dynamics, the author explores how far business can and should improve their social and environmental performance, and relates it to learning, knowledge and innovation
Technical co-operation involving northern experts transferring expertise to the south has not always worked. This study uses a range of country studies to analyze what has worked in the past, what hasn't, and how to ensure that future co-operation results in genuine capacity building and ownership of the capabilities by the recipients.
An investigation of science, politics and our food production system, this book exposes the bogus science, political interference and flawed policies which threaten our food supply. Covering cases such as BSE and foot and mouth, it also offers solutions to make science work in the public interest.
Author:Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts
Janet Larsen
Lester Brown
Publishing date:2003
This biennial reader charts the progress of the building of the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems. It highlights 12 key trends, from population growth to ice melting and the boom in the use of solar cells. It also investigates China's desertification problem.
Explores the possibilities for developing a sustainable society through 'lifelong learning' - that is, learning that happens in everyday environments and activities as diverse as shopping, community, 'edutainment', information and communication technology, the internet, broadcasting, people's experience of place and space, and green building.
Industrial civilization has relied on the combustion of abundant and cheap carbon fuels. But continued reliance has had perilous consequences. Yet there is a solution: to make the transition to renewable sources of energy and distributed, decentralized energy generation. This book provides what must be done to overcome the obstacles.
Author:Cirncross
Richard Feachem
Sandy Cairncross
Sir Richard Feachem
Publishing date:2018
This fully updated third edition of this classic text, widely cited as the most important and useful book for health engineering and disease prevention, describes infectious diseases in tropical and developing countries, and the measures that may be used effectively against them.
Ethical sourcing, both through fair trade and ethical trade, is entering the mainstream of food retailing. This book explores the opportunities and challenges in the ethical sourcing of food by combining analysis and case studies that examine various approaches related to ethical sourcing.
Since the Stockholm Environment Conference in 1972 and the Rio Summit in 1992, there has been unprecedented public concern for the future of the planet and a growing awareness that development needs to be sustainable. This title charts the growth of these ideas.
From the mid 1990s to the present day, agricultural biotechnology ? GM crops and foods ? has been the focus of debate and conflict in many European countries. Contrasting views of risks and benefits, trust in science and regulation, the understanding of science, media coverage and mobilization of the public by civil society groups ? all have been cited as drivers of public opinion. Designed in part to allay public concerns about GM agriculture, a European moratorium led to a new regulatory framework. The long running controversy is a signal that the public?s view cannot be ignored in the development and implementation of new technologies arising out of genomics. Yet, agricultural biotechnologies are but one development in this area. Genetic testing and the uses of
Author:Bernard Maire
Emmanuel Monnier
Francis Delpeuch
Michelle Holdsworth
Publishing date:2009
Obesity represents one of the major global health challenges of the twenty-first century. Its occurrence has now reached epidemic proportions, not only in industrialized nations, but increasingly in less developed countries too.
Written by world-leading specialists in public health nutrition, Globesity cuts straight to the underlying nature and causes of this devastating trend. It shows that the causes of obesity are primarily socio-economic and the result of a distorted agricultural and food production and supply system. To address this problem, we must learn how to better manage the physical, social and economic environment rather than simply focusing on individual lifestyle choices. The authors draw startling parallels between the obesity crisis and climate
Intends to engage scholarly perspectives on environmental regulation in light of the challenges posed by nanotechnology. This title focuses on the overarching lessons of regulatory response. With perspectives from economics, history, philosophy, and public policy, it illuminates the various challenges inherent in the development of nanotechnology.
Climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity: drastic reduction of carbon emissions is vital if we are to avoid a catastrophe that devastates large parts of the world. Individual action is essential if we want to avoid climate chaos. This title shows how easy it is to take responsibility.
This volume brings together authors from four continents to argue that lean thinking should be integral to design management in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). It was published as a special issue of Architectural Engineering and Design Management.
Climate change is dramatically affecting freshwater supplies, particularly in the developing world. This volume presents a case for and exploration of different freshwater adaptation strategies in the face of global climatic change.
Author:Kamal Malhotra
United Nations Development Programme
Publishing date:2003
The world's trade regime is promoted by international agencies and most governments as the best way to lift the poor out of poverty and achieve sustainable development. But does it contribute to human development or not? This reassessment looks at the way it has worked under the GATT and under the World Trade Organization.
Management of local resources has a greater chance of a sustainable outcome when there is partnership between local people and external agencies. This book analyses and extends this premise to show that the process of research for improving natural resource management must incorporate participatory and user-focused approaches.
Taking on the themes of UN-HABITAT's Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities (2003), this title focuses on the deficiencies in the provision of water and sanitation where most of the populations of the developing world live: in towns and small cities. It studies the problems facing the smaller urban centres.
Author:Georgina Ayre
Jan McHarry
Janet Strachan
Rosalie Callway
Publishing date:2004
Based on the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI) as ratified at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, this plain language version brings together the outcomes and recommendations of the JPOI for the lay person and expert alike.
