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Peter McManners author of Green Outcomes in the Real World published by Gower.
Watch this conversation between Gower Commissioning Editor Jonathan Norman and author of Green Outcomes in the Real World - Peter McManners. In this first three minute extract they discuss the aspects of Challenges of Economic Globalization and Sustainability, the limits to resources and the effect on the environment, along with engaging your people to buy-in to sustainability and localism.Carry on and watch part two (4 mins) where Peter discusses the diminishing power of traditional Nation States and the growth of huge multinationals - is that a threat to sustainability? He also discusses cradle to cradle production systems and how it is being driven by sustainability. In part three (3 mins) Peter looks at other forms of payment apart from money – swapping work – is this a black economy or does it energise communities?
Gordon Pearson’s interview with Bob Garlick on Business Book Talk is a revelation. Gordon’s one of those academic authors who can talk about issues at a level of global economic theory in a way that gives you a real sense of what the driving forces are in the background behind operational businesses. His ideas on cooperation-based businesses really deserve to be picked up at a policymaker level but in the meantime, it’s open for you and I to explore and aspire to a post-crisis world that is robust and sustainable, rather than lurching from one mess to another. Gordon Pearson is author of The Road to Co-operation and The Rise and Fall of Management.
Gower Author Kit Oung has been commissioned by Camfil UK Energy to write a Whitepaper on Efficiency Performance in Buildings.
He will also be speaking on 23 Jan 2013 at a joint Energy Institute and British Standard organised seminar ”Energy Efficiency: What do we need to scale it up?” His presentation is titled ”Energy Management and ISO 50001″.
Kit Ong is author of Energy Management in Business published in January 2013 by Gower.
Other books on sustainability in business can be found in our new Sustainability & Green Economics catalogue.
In the first of a four part series for the 2degrees Sustainable Business Network, practicing energy consultant Kit Oung explores carbon reduction strategies using low-cost high-return opportunities and energy management systems.
Kit Oung is the author of Energy Management in Business: A Manager’s Guide to Maximising and Sustaining Energy Reduction – published this month.
On a related issue, we liked this inforgraphic which gives a quick overview of the issues, progress and set-
backs of the Kyoto Protocol. For more on C02 reduction, Larry Reynold’s new book The Business Leader’s Guide to the Low-carbon Economy gives advice on how businesses can prosper whilst reducing their carbon footprint.
Further Gower Sustainability and Green Economics titles can be found by following this link.
The 2012 IPMA Congress made a big thing of sustainability this year, which is very encouraging. The presentations, some of which will be available in the near future on SCOPUS, covered research results and case studies as well as tools and methods, all of which aligned to demonstrate the need, benefits, and practical nature of integrating sustainable methods with project delivery from a social, economic, environmental, process and product/service perspective. They are promising an expanded sustainability stream for 2013 in Dubrovnik. Gower authors, Gilbert Silvius and Ron Schipper (authors of Sustainability in Project Management) were amongst the presenters at this year’s event.
Nearly 700 participants registered for the PMI Webinar on Sustainability in Project Management by Gilbert Silvius this week. For those who missed it and would like to see the presentation, it is available via this link.
Gilbert Silvius is co-author of the critically acclaimed Sustainability in Project Management published by Gower - to read the reviews and sample chapters please follow the link.
I am delighted to say that the virtual journal, PMWorld is back after a month or two’s absence while the site was redesigned. If you have not used the jounal yet, I thoroughly recommend it as a source of free, independent and very good quality articles, case studies, reviews and reports on the whole world of project management. The highlights of Volume 1 Issue 1, from our perspective are: an article by Waffa Karkukly on the PMO Lifecycle; our Series Editor, Professor Darren Dalcher, on the risks of overstating benefits; Stephen Jenner on the fundamentals of project realization; and David Hillson’s thought-proving article ‘Kill the Risk Manager’. In the book reviews section, there are reviews of two Gower books: No Waste and Project Psychology.
Waffa Kakukly is author of the forthcoming Managing the PMO Lifecycle; Stephen Jenner is author of Transforming Government and Public Services; David Hillson is author of a clutch of Gower titles, including Managing Risk in Projects.
The Asian Development Bank this week urged Asian countries to implement green infrastructure projects to cope with the region’s explosive growth. Asia is urbanising at an unprecedented scale and speed, and if this trend continues it will pose enormous environmental challenges and degradation warned its Chief Economist, Changyong Rhee, at the launch of the Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 Green Urbanisation in Asia report. According to the report, since the 1980s Asia has been urbanising faster than anywhere else with the region, which is already home to almost half of the worlds city dwellers. In just over a decade it will be home to 21 of 37 mega-cities worldwide and in the coming generation 11 billion more people are expected to join Asia’s spiraling urban ranks. This expansion has been accompanied by a sharp rise in pollution, slum dwelling and widening economic and social inequalities, causing rapid environmental degradation.
It is in response to issues like these that many of the world’s leading authors on Sustainability and Green Economics are calling for change. Latest research, ideas and practical expertise can be found amongst Gower’s Green Economics books at www.gowerpublishing.com/businessenvironment or www.gowerpublishing.com/environmentaleconomics which includes further titles from Ashgate.
As one reviewer of Gower’s Plan for the Planet comments:
“As the world struggles with increasing threats to sustainability, caused by population growth, overuse of fresh water resources, depletion of biodiversity, reliance on non-renewable energy sources, rising prices of food, and climate disruptions, there is an urgent need for a Plan for the Planet…..”
William N. Ryerson, President, Population Media Center and Population Institute, USA
There will be plenty who criticize business for lack of social responsibility or simply failing to connect with the lives of people on the planet. Take a look at Ian Chamber’s Planet in a Pickle song; here’s a serious business person who’s not afraid to engage the future generations in the business sustainability message. Hat’s off to you, Ian! Ian Chambers is co-author of Plan for the Planet.
