Search results for “[Subject: development-sustainable-development]”

• Author(s): Hillary Brown | Byron Stigge • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An integrated, holistic model for infrastructure planning and design in developing ...

• Author(s): Carsten Muller • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Development - Sustainable DevelopmentThis book provides an extensive and comprehensible introduction to the relevant questions of sustainab...

• Author(s): Kent E. Portney • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceA theoretically driven comparison of sustainability programs in American cities, updated with the latest research and additional case...

• Author(s): Gordon Conway • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Agriculture - Agronomy - GeneralToday more than three quarters of a billion people go hungry in a world where food is plentiful. A disti...

• Author(s): Theresa Enright • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentA critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris--the "Grand Paris" initiative--and the build...

• Author(s): Ronald C. Fisher • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAn interdisciplinary case study of a project to dam the Narmada River in central and western India so that it can be us...

• Author(s): Tammy L. Lewis • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAn account of the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins, neoliberal boom,...

• Author(s): Daniel A. Mazmanian | Michael E. Kraft • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Development - Sustainable DevelopmentA new edition with new and updated case studies and analysis that demonstrate the trend in U.S...

• Author(s): Richard B Norgaard • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentModernity promised control over nature through science, material abundance through technology and effectiv...

• Author(s): Dianne Rahm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General With America's dependence on fossil fuels painfully apparent due to world events and the resultant sharply rising gas pric...

• Author(s): James Meadowcroft | Daniel J. Fiorino • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyConcepts and their role in the evolution of modern environmental policy, with case studies of el...

• Author(s): Richard Jolly | Louis Emmerij | Thomas G. Weiss • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyIdeas and concepts have been a driving force in human pro...

• Author(s): Jonathan A. Fox | L. David Brown • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Banks & BankingAfter a history of funding environmentally costly megaprojects, the World Bank now claims that it is trying to become ...

• Author(s): David W. Pearce | R. Kerry Turner • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Natural ResourcesEconomics of Natural Resources and the Environment brings together the approa...

• Author(s): Steve Lerner • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceThe idea for Eco-Pioneers came to Steve Lerner while he was attending the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Although he was moved by ...

• Author(s): Joseph Harris • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralIn this classic text, Joseph Harris traces the evolution of college writing ...

• Author(s): Jerome Whitington • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIn the 2000s, Laos was treated as a model country for the efficacy of privatized, "sus...

• Author(s): Roy Rosenzweig • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn this superb and handsomely illustrated book - the first full...