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As CEOs and business leaders navigate a world of complex global challenges, sustainability is no longer optional but a business imperative. In this book, two sustainability leaders with decades of experience — Henrik Henriksson, CEO of Scania and Elaine Weidman Grunewald, Co-founder of the AI Sustainability Center, and former Chief Sustainability & Public Affairs Officer at Ericsson — offer a simple but powerful three-step model for leading an...
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Avoid the speed trap! Discover how changemakers can find lasting solutions to urgent social problems through a proven 5-step process for listening thoughtfully, building broad support, and exploring unconventional options.
Society celebrates leaders who promise fast, easy solutions to the world's problems-but quick fixes are just mirages that fade, leaving us with the same broken systems. The truth is, effective social change happens through slow,...
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It's time for a new kind of economy; we're overusing the earth's finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O'Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth-an economy where the goal is not more but enough. They explore specific strategies to conserve natural resources, stabilize population, reduce inequality, fix the financial...
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"Readers will learn about the fourth UN Sustainable Development Goal and what it takes to commit to ensuring quality education and learning opportunities for all. Aligned to curriculum standards, this book also highlights key 21st Century content: Global Awareness, Public Policy, Health and Wellness, Civics Literacy, and Environmental Stewardship. Includes a table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and infographics"--...
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Most of the world's population now lives in cities. So if we are to address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil adequately, the city has to be a major focus of attention. Ecocities is about re-building cities and towns based on ecological principles for the long term sustainability, cultural vitality and health of the Earth's biosphere. Unique in the literature is the book's insight that the form of the city really matters –...
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The Storytelling Workbook is a nine-week programme (based on Anthony Tasgal's 'rule of three') to help you learn to better tell your own narrative and present your story whether it be for your CV, your dating apps or your own personal writing. It is an entertaining, instructive and interactive guide to becoming a better storyteller across all facets of your personal and professional life.
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67) Construire l'Avenir: FélixTshisekedi et les 20 Innovations Majeures. Guide pour la Transformatio
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L'innovation est un concept clé pour la croissance économique et le développement. On la définit généralement comme l'introduction de nouvelles méthodes de production, de nouveaux produits ou services, de nouveaux marchés ou de nouvelles sources d'approvisionnement dans une économie.Mais quelles innovations le nouveau président de la RD Congo, Félix Tshisekedi peut mettre en place pour la transformation holistique de ce pays? La réponse...
68) Transformación Estructural de América Latina: Condición para un Desarrollo Sostenido e Inclusivo
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Desde la década de 1980, el ritmo de crecimiento económico de América Latina ha sido errático y notablemente inferior al promedio mundial. Como resultado, la región ha ido perdiendo importancia relativa en el contexto global, como lo evidencia abundante información estadística. El rezago de América Latina es multifacético; incluye los campos económico, científico, tecnológico, social e institucional. La estructura productiva de los países...
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Wie kriegen wir endlich wirklich fairen Kaffee? Warum sind Familienunternehmen besser beim nachhaltigen Wirtschaften? Woran hapert es bis heute bei Cradle to Cradle? Wie sieht nachhaltige Architektur aus? Was bringt Mülltrennung? Sollten wir häufiger "Nein!" sagen? Wie lecker ist Insektenschokolade? Was bleibt am Ende übrig? Und überhaupt: warum eigentlich Nachhaltigkeit?
Die besten Geschichten aus mehr als 20 Jahren brand eins zu den großen...
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Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility (CSR) - incorporating corporate responsibility, sustainable development, business ethics, corporate citizenship, business & society and corporate governance - has become a widely taught subject in business schools and practiced in companies around the world. For the first time, there is a comprehensive e-textbook that introduces students and practitioners to CSR theory and practice, looking at the past, present...
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Why do poor countries remain poor? Why, after receiving billions of dollars, do poor countries remain poor? Why are failing foreign aid models utilized over and over again? After the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, authors Daniel Jean-Louis and Jacqueline Klamer observed first-hand the negative consequences of donations provided with the sincerest of good intentions-donations that ultimately undermined local industries and wiped out jobs. Based...
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Tuvalu, the fourth smallest country in the world, with an estimated population of 10,440, is an isolated and resource-poor country that relies mainly on royalties received for access to its exclusive economic zone and remittances as its main sources of foreign exchange. This case study describes how the Falekaupule Trust Fund (FTF) was established in the 1990s, with support from the Asian Development Bank, as a mechanism to help build capacity for...
73) Street Smart Sustainability: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Profitably Greening Your Organization's DNA
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Go Green While Making Green: You already know why your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process-from getting employee buy-in and conducting a current sustainability audit to developing a plan of action and measuring progress. Nuts-and-bolts guidance helps you make continuous, cost-effective improvements and shift the prevailing business culture by infusing green practices...
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This book analyzes the importance of maize worldwide and the special importance for Mexico as a center of origin and diversity (COD). By adopting a comparative approach, the analysis focuses on how developed and developing countries handle imports of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO's). The book also analyzes the impact that GMO maize imports from the USA might have in Mexico as a COD of maize. This book illustrates the process of economic liberalization...
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Qu'entend-on par territoires durables? S'agit-il d'un nouveau modèle d'urbanisme ? D'une stratégie de verdissement ? D'un mode de gestion des biens communs ? D'une modernisation de l'action publique ? D'une transformation sociale ? D'une utopie ? Il n'existe pas de réponse unique et univoque pour qualifier la variété des démarches territoriales de développement durable (DD) qui ont émergé à l'international au cours des vingt dernières années....
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For years, Nauru, a small Pacific island nation (population 10,000), benefited from the considerable wealth generated from its only major natural resource, phosphate. However, when that resource was almost exhausted and national assets held under the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust had been reduced to relatively minor holdings, the Government of Nauru sought and received assistance from the Asian Development Bank and the Australian Agency for International...
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El libro, liderado por el Grupo Interdisciplinario de Investigación en Desarrollo, Estructuras Económicas, Políticas Públicas y Gestión (GIDEP), se convierte en la tercera publicación de la colección que, desde el año 2008, trabaja desde la interdisciplinariedad por la excelencia investigativa, a partir de la reflexión y aportes relevantes sobre problemas sociales complejos. En esta publicación los lectores encontrarán diferentes abordajes,...
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This report critically analyzes the complex environment for private sector development in Papua New Guinea, showing the country's potential to capitalize on its vast wealth well into the coming decades. However, to ensure sustainable and inclusive growth, Papua New Guinea needs ongoing reform so that the benefits of future resource exports benefit the entire economy. This report was produced by the Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative, a...
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How to develop a profitable space presence before the advent of low cost access to orbit, and free from the specification restrictive purse strings of government. Some enterprising company will take the first step to universal riches from space resources. As a species, we can do this now without the snail's pace of governmental hegemony. "The Space Trade," describes a variety of step-wise paths to new self-sustaining trade in space. Shows how the...
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Business operates at the frontiers of society – seeking out new territories to explore and exploit, imagining fresh new ways to meet age old needs, innovating the artifacts that become the legacy of civilizations, reinventing the rituals which shape acceptable social behavior, and changing the way we spend our precious time. But what happens when the landscape itself changes? As the world globalizes, power is shifting – from the plush boardrooms...
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