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The 2015 edition of A Planet for Life reaches bookshelves in a landmark year for the world. A new development cooperation framework is being crafted while sustainable development goals (SDGs) are being laid out to address the 21st century’s most urgent sustainable development issues.
A Planet for Life provides first hand analysis and narrative of ongoing transformation and sustainable development challenges in key countries. It tours five continents to shed ...
A Planet for Life 2012 focuses on agriculture and its relation to development food and the environment. At the end of the 2000s a consensus has emerged and points to the urgent need for massive investment in the agricultural sector which is once again viewed as one of the prime engines for development and food security as well as for poverty reduction. But what exactly does this consensus cover.
While the idea of investing in agriculture is gaining ground and ...
The twenty-first century is already an urban one. Cities are pivotal to sustainability concerns – globalization, climate change, food security, environmental protection, and innovation. Today’s urban actors, both citizens and their leaders, have a major responsibility as trustees of the future: their present actions will influence the shape and structure of cities, so that the generations to come may live healthy and contented lives.This volume ...