Advancing Sustainable Development in the Americas
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 40
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Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development: Lessons from Latin America
Author: Gilles Carbonnier
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-09-18
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9004351671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. Highlighting propositions such as buen vivir, this thematic volume questions whether competing ideologies and discourses have translated into different outcomes, be it with regard to environmental sustainability, social progress, primary commodity dependence, or the rights of indigenous peoples. This collection of articles aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them. Contributors include: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Alberto Acosta, Ana Elizabeth Bastida, Luis Bustos, Humberto Campodónico, Gilles Carbonnier, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara, Fernando Eguren, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Eduardo García, Javier Herrera, Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Robert Muggah, Gianandrea Nelli Feroci, José Antonio Ocampo, Camilo Andrés Peña Galeano, Guillermo Perry, Darío Indalecio Restrepo Botero, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez, and Frédérique Weyer.
Activating Critical Thinking to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals in Tourism Systems
Author: Karla A. Boluk
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-12
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1000390276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKActivating Critical Thinking to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals in Tourism Systems focuses on the role of critical thinking and inquiry in the implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in tourism systems. The impetus for the development of this book emerged from the declaration by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly of 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. This declaration purposely positions tourism as a tool to advance the universal 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 SDGs, thus mutually serving as an opportunity and responsibility to appraise from a critical lens what the SDGs signify and how they can be understood from multiple perspectives. The chapters in the book foster the next phase of sustainable tourism scholarship that actively considers the interconnections of the UN’s SDGs to tourism theory and praxis, and activates critical thinking to analyze and advance sustainability in tourism systems. It articulates the need for the academy to be more intrinsically involved in ongoing iterations of multilateral accords and decrees, to ensure they embody more critical and inclusive transitions toward sustainability, as opposed to market-driven, neoliberal directives. The contributions in this book encourage various worldviews challenging, shaping, and more critically reflecting the realities of global communities as related to, and impacted by, sustainable tourism development. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2017
Author: United Nations Publications
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Published: 2018-01-15
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9789211013689
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this report is to present an overview of the 17 Goals using data currently available to highlight the most significant gaps and challenges.
Sustainable Development Report 2021
Author: Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-10-14
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 1009098918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains insights on current issues in research on sustainable development, featuring the SDG Index and Dashboards.
Education for Sustainable Development
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2020-11-07
Total Pages: 73
ISBN-13: 9231003941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Age of Sustainable Development
Author: Jeffrey D. Sachs
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015-03-03
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 0231539002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development. Sachs offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. Based on Sachs's twelve years as director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, his thirteen years advising the United Nations secretary-general on the Millennium Development Goals, and his recent presentation of these ideas in a popular online course, The Age of Sustainable Development is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.
Advancing Sustainable Development
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780821339749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first systematic analysis of Russia's poverty and living standards since the country's independence. Its primary goal is to quantify the nature and extent of changes in the welfare of Russians during the course of transition and beyond. Part 1 establishes the economic and methodological framework within which poverty in the Russian Federation is studied. Part 2 comprises a series of chapters that analyze poverty profiles and trends, ranging across monetary and non-monetary indicators. Part 3 addresses selected critical aspects of the system of social support in the impact of public transfers, the extent of private interhousehold transfers, and public opinion about social problems.
Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands
Author: Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, Academia de Ingeniería de México y Academia Nacional de Medicina de México
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2019-01-27
Total Pages: 81
ISBN-13: 0309484243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and natural systems. Warming and drying conditions threaten surface water and groundwater availability, disrupt land- and marine-based livelihood systems, and challenge the sustainability of human settlements. These biophysical challenges are exacerbated by a highly mobile and dynamic population, volatile economic and policy conditions, increased exposure to extreme events, and urbanization on marginal, vulnerable lands. The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine collaborated with the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine to plan a 2-day binational workshop, Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands. The workshop goals were to highlight the challenges facing the region, assess the scientific and technical capacity that each nation can bring to bear in addressing these challenges, and identify new opportunities for binational research collaboration and coordinated management approaches in the advancement of sustainability science and development. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
OECD Insights Sustainable Development Linking Economy, Society, Environment
Author: Strange Tracey
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2008-12-02
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9264055746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA succinct examination of the concept of sustainable development: what it means; how it is impacted by globalisation, production and consumption; how it can be measured; and what can be done to promote it.
