Sustainable Development Set: Sustainable Development Set
Caring for the Earth: A strategy for sustainable living
1st Edition
By The World Conservation Union (Iucn), Unep, Wwf
November 27, 2013
'This is a strategy for a kind of development that provides real improvements in the quality of human life and at the same time conserves the vitality and diversity of the Earth. The goal is development that will be sustainable. Today it may seem visionary. but it is attainable. To more and more ...
Global Environment Outlook 2000
1st Edition
By United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)
November 27, 2013
'The continued poverty of the majority of the planet's inhabitants and excessive consumption by the minority are the two major causes of environmental degradation The present course is unsustainable and postponing action is no longer an option. Inspired political leadership and intense cooperation ...
Strategies for Sustainability: Africa
1st Edition
By Adrian Wood
November 05, 2013
The World Conservation Union, Founded in 1948, brings together States government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organisations in a unique world partnership over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist ...
Strategies for Sustainability: Latin America
1st Edition
By Arturo Lopez Ornat
November 05, 2013
IUCN- The World Conservation Union Founded in 1948 The World Conservation Union brings together States government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organisations in a unique world partnership over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union IUCN seeks to ...
Strategies for National Sustainable Development: A handbook for their planning and implementation
1st Edition
By Jeremy Carew-Reid, Robert Prescott-Allen, Stephen Bass, Barry Dalal-Clayton
April 11, 2013
The IUCN Strategies for Sustainable Development Handbook Series This handbook is one in a series being produced by IUCN and its partners to assist countries and communities implement Agenda 21, the action programme of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development. The series will ...
Women and the Environment in the Third World: Alliance for the future
1st Edition
By Irene Dankelman, Joan Davidson
April 11, 2013
'This book ... should be issued to grass-root organisations everywhere' Doris Lessing, The New Scientist 'It is must reading for government planners, environmentalists and the ordinary layman' Asia Week Women in the Third World play the major role in managing natural resources. They are also the ...
World at the Crossroads: Towards a sustainable, equitable and liveable world
1st Edition
By Philip B. Smith, Samuel E. Okoye, Jaap de Wilde, Priya Deshingkar
April 11, 2013
Thirty years ago the Russell-Einstein Manifesto warned humanity that our survival is imperilled by the risk of nuclear war... In the spirit of that Manifesto, we now call on all scientists to expand our concerns to a broader set of interrelated dangers: destruction of the environment on a global ...
Dam the Rivers, Damn the People: Development and resistence in Amazonian Brazil
1st Edition
By Barbara J. Cummings
March 28, 2013
The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America. Brazil is that continent's most rapidly developing country. The Amazon is at the heart of the conflict between conservation and development, between people and power, and between heritage and modernisation. In the ...
Strategies for Sustainability: Asia
1st Edition
By Jeremy Carew-Reid
March 28, 2013
IUCN – The World Conservation Union Founded in 1948 The World Conservation Union brings together States, government agencies and a diverse' range of non-governmental organizations in a unique world partnership: over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union, IUCN seeks ...
Threats Without Enemies: Facing environmental insecurity
1st Edition
By Gwyn Prins
March 28, 2013
The world is moving into a new era which will be dominated by a new range of threats and a new range of priorities. Already headlines tell of storms and droughts, mass emigrations, the danger of old Soviet nuclear reactors and the thinning ozone layer, and with the menaces of global warming, ...
Mountain World in Danger: Climate change in the forests and mountains of Europe
1st Edition
By Sten Nilsson, David Pitt
March 07, 2013
The changing climate, the warming of the world and acid rain are among the greatest problems facing us at the end of the twentieth century. This book describes, for the first time, the effects of these phenomena on the high mountains and the forests of Europe. Mountains and the frozen regions (the ...
One World for One Earth: Saving the environment
1st Edition
By Philip Sarre, Paul Smith, Paul Smith with Eleanor Morris
March 07, 2013
We have only one earth, and how we choose to live in it matters. This highly readable and challenging text sets out some important topical issues that tells us we are not making a very good job of it. From the tropical rainforests to the teeming cities of the developing world and the energy hungry...