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The Business Guide to Sustainability: Practical Strategies and Tools for Organizations
Darcy Hitchcock, Marsha Willard
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2006
Serious business libraries and management-level readers interested in sustainability will relish it.
THE BUSINESS GUIDE TO SUSTAINABILITY: PRACTICAL STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR ORGANIZATIONS addresses a myriad of issues, from tools and frameworks to common practices and how average individuals can help move an organizational structure towards sustainable practices. ...
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Towards a New Map of Africa
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2005
* Provides a wide ranging review of the major successes and failures of development policy in Africa as the continent enters the 21st Century * The world’s leading experts in African development issues combat the relentlessly negative public image of Africa This groundbreaking book with a foreword by Mary Robinson, former President of ...
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Voluntary Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide to What They Are and How They Work (Environmental ...
Ricardo Bayon, Amanda Hawn, ...
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2007
Voluntary Carbon Markets
Excellent primer on the evolving international and US carbon markets, and a vital read for those considering entry.
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Developing Wind Power Projects: Theory and Practice
Tore Wizelius
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2007
Objective and Comprehensive
Professor Wizelius presents an objective approach to Wind Power Projects and fundamental concepts. The book covers some important Wind Power aspects from A to Z - from technical issues to project development and commercial feasibility analysis. I strongly recommend ...
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Planning and Installing Photovoltaic Systems: A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers (Planning and ...
Deutsche Gesellshaft Für Sonnenenergie
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2008
Growth in photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing worldwide continues to increase. In parallel, appropriate standards and certification schemes are being developed. During this period, clear guidance is crucial for integrating this technology into working practices of professionals in the building sector. This bestselling guide has become the essential ...
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Applied Photovoltaics
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2007
photovoltaics book purchase review
The delievery of this book is good. I purchased 6 books online. It is the third or second one arrived. The quality is good, looks like a totally new book. In summary, the service of this bookshop is very good! Cheers!
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Photovoltaics for Professionals: Solar Electric Systems Marketing, Design and Installation
Falk Antony, Christian Dürschner, ...
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2007
Excellent
Excellent book for someone who is interested in up to date information and learning more about becoming professionally involved with solar energy.
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The Sustainability Handbook: The Complete Management Guide to Achieving Social, Economic and Environmental ...
William R. Blackburn
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2007
TSH Review
Great book, easy to read, provides foundation to understanding sustainability on a personal, professional and global level.
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Ideas For Development
Robert Chambers
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2005
* From one of the 'gurus' of development and author of the best selling Participatory Workshops * Chock-full of provocative and actionable ideas drawn from four decades of development work and written in Robert Chambers' infectious and highly readable style Our world seems entangled in systems increasingly dominated by power, greed, ...
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Human Ecology
Gerald G. Marten
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2001
* Clear, accessible and illuminating introduction to the fundamental concepts and issues of sustainable development * Ideal introductory course book for a wide range of courses in environmental sciences, social sciences, geography and ecology * Contains extensive examples, case studies and includes exercises "This book is a valuable step toward ...
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Ethnobotany: A Methods Manual (People and Plants Conservation)
Gary J. Martin
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2004
An excellent text for an ethnobotany field methods course.
This book is one of the very few that is perfect for teaching a college level ethnobotany field methods class. It covers the how-tos of data collection, hypothesis testing, plant identification and collection for both general purposes and for phytochemical analysis. ...
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Striking a Balance: A Guide to Enhancing the Effectiveness of Non-Governmental Organizations in International ...
Alan Fowler
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 1999
A Great Resource!
This is a FANTASTIC reference for those interested in NGO Management, or for those starting up their own NGOs. Fowler does an excellent job of going step-by-step through the process of organizational development in these complex organizations.
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Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys
Kate Fletcher
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2008
This inspirational design handbook presents a new vision of sustainability in the fashion and textile sector based on design thinking and practice. It brings together for the first time information about lifecycle environmental impacts, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation, and frames them in a sustainability context. It ...
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The Perception of Risk (The Earthscan Risk in Society Series)
Paul Slovic
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2000
Risk book purchase without risk
How often have I wished I had the publications of particularly productive scientists bound together in one document. Despite modern IT-technique, which increases the availability of such publications, an appropriate book is still superior. Now there is such a book for ...
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Capitalism as if the World Matters
Jonathon Porritt
Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2007
How business and government can build a better world
Jonathan Porritt's CAPITALISM AS IF THE WORLD MATTERS provides college-level readers with a fine survey of how capitalism at its foundations may be a part of the environmental problem as a whole. Many time commercial activities themselves lend to eroding environments: ...
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