Sustainable Development Set: Sustainable Development Set
Progress for a Small Planet
1st Edition
By Barbara Ward
March 07, 2013
Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor as a third of humanity continues to live and die in desperate poverty. In this exceptional book ...
Rising Seas
1st Edition
By Martin Ince
March 07, 2013
Recent and dramatic flooding in places as far apart as Bangladesh and North Wales are example of what could become commonplace if sea levels rise. Most scientists are predicting a rise of about one metre and this book, based on research carried out for the Commonwealth governments, describes in ...
Atlas of Nepal in the Modern World
1st Edition
By Michael Sill, John Kirkby
February 13, 2013
Nepal is associated, in most people's imagination, with Everest (Sagarmatha to the Nepalese), vivid plants and picturesque villages and people. The truth, as always, is other. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, surrounded by big and powerful neighbours. It is immensely diverse, ...
Wasted: Counting the Costs of Global Consumption
1st Edition
By Michael Redclift
October 01, 2009
Sustainable development cannot be achieved solely at the international level. Without the creation of more sustainable livelihoods, it will remain a utopian and elusive goal. Yet given the huge differences in economic development and levels of consumption between North and South, how might this be ...