Business and environmental sustainability are not natural bedfellows. Business is about making money; sustainability is about protecting the planet. Business …
Building better organisations, with a clear sense of purpose, is a common challenge faced by many entrepreneurs and executives in …
Major religious traditions have begun to reflect on sustainability concerns in their theology and practice. Little research, however, has explored …
In this innovative work, Kristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen and Monica Gruezmacher analyse the challenges and possibilities of sustainability transitions, …
The rapid growth of organic farming has been amongst the most remarkable changes in global agriculture in recent decades. Initially, …
Frugal innovation is a powerful new model for creating solutions for a world struggling with rapid population growth, exploding demand …
Industrial Buildings. Conservation and Regeneration ДИЗАЙН, ДОМ и СЕМЬЯ,НАУКА и УЧЕБА Название: Industrial Buildings. Conservation and Regeneration Автор: M. Stratton …
Le Corbusier famously said, “A house is a machine for living in.” We now confront the litany of environmental challenges …
Tim Beatley has long been a leader in advocating for the "greening" of cities. But too often, he notes, urban …
The tumultuous changes of the past decade, including China's economic rise and the financial meltdown, were just the beginning. The …
Pixels use electricity, and a lot of it. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest …
This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature’s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.If chaos …
The Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure series is a new series of practical handbooks which provide engineers with an understanding of sustainability …
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain …
In light of the Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability is a factor to consider for understanding the changes that are coming …
Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She’d grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like …
You look good in those jeans. But are those jeans themselves good? Have you ever looked into where they came …
Who makes your clothes? This used to be an easy question to answer it was the seamstress next door, or …
America’s electrical grid, an engineering triumph of the twentieth century, is turning out to be a poor fit for the …
Costume, Clothes & Fashion.;Combining industry insider interviews with a fascinating historical narrative, Stitched Up delves into the alluring world of …
Luxury Marketing, Sustainability and Technology explores how new technologies, sustainability, and relationship marketing impact and change the future of luxury …
Provides Reassurance and Suggestions From Those Who Have Walked the Same Lean Road Perhaps the most fundamental challenge that companies …
A concise and feisty takedown of the all-style, no-substance tech ventures that fail to solve our food crises. Why has …
Material flow management offers enterprises a high potential for realizing new economic competitive advantages. The eco-efficient optimization of material flow …
Green Roof Systems goes beyond the fashionable green roof movement and provides solid information on building accessible space, often as …
Michael Gane's ground-breaking Forest Strategy combines detailed analysis of the forest sector with modern strategic management principles to develop a …
This volume offers a wealth of interdisciplinary approaches to artificial intelligence, machine learning and optimization tools, which contribute to the …
This book addresses the dilemma that firms face in engaging in corporate social responsibility (CSR) while maintaining a financially sustainable …
This book presents high-quality cases on the actions carried out by companies to minimize the social and environmental impact of …
Delivering AI projects and building an AI organization are two big challenges for enterprises. They determine whether companies succeed or …
A clear understanding of the issues surrounding climate change, global warming, air and water pollution, ozone depletion, deforestation, the loss …
This book constitutes the revised and selected papers of the International Conference on Global Economic Revolutions (ICGER 2023) held in …
"River Dynamics and Integrated River Management” provides comprehensive information on rivers for integrated management, including natural processes, stresses resulting from …
This handbook of locally based agricultural practices brings together the best of science and farmer experimentation, vividly illustrating the enormous …
This revised edition is fully updated and continues to provide the best in-depth introduction to renewable energy science. It focuses …
Introduction: The birth of clean tech -- The global landscape : current and emerging clean-tech leaders and the competitive threat …
