Sustainable Development Books

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The Age of Sustainable Development The Age of Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 848 ratings — published 2015
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,446 ratings — published 2017
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,334 ratings — published 2017
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 13,923 ratings — published 2008
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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,788 ratings — published 1972
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 50,660 ratings — published 2021
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The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 6,730 ratings — published 2020
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Silent Spring Silent Spring (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 54,332 ratings — published 1962
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The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,220 ratings — published 2013
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 452,586 ratings — published 1997
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 11,232 ratings — published 2005
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,983 ratings — published 1973
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The Limits to Growth The Limits to Growth (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 900 ratings — published
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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 3,142 ratings — published 2022
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Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 8,824 ratings — published 2020
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 12,473 ratings — published 2002
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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 3,579 ratings — published 2021
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 16,475 ratings — published 2021
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 27,564 ratings — published 2014
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Thinking In Systems: A Primer Thinking In Systems: A Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.19 — 21,699 ratings — published 2008
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 78,606 ratings — published 2014
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There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,838 ratings — published 2019
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Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,934 ratings — published 2019
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 29,659 ratings — published 2019
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 42,523 ratings — published 2014
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.36 — 200,121 ratings — published 2018
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,058 ratings — published 2006
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The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,359 ratings — published 1993
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Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,028 ratings — published 2009
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Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 256 ratings — published 1996
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What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?: How Money Really Does Grow on Trees (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.19 — 416 ratings — published 2013
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 35,848 ratings — published 1949
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Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series) Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.86 — 625 ratings — published 2000
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The World Without Us The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,213 ratings — published 2007
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 74,381 ratings — published 2004
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,823 ratings — published 1986
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 19,666 ratings — published 1961
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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 46,669 ratings — published 2024
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The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 2008
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Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World Capitalism at the Crossroads: Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 40 ratings — published 2010
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Measuring Sustainability and CSR: From Reporting to Decision-Making (Ethical Economy Book 64) Measuring Sustainability and CSR: From Reporting to Decision-Making (Ethical Economy Book 64)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
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Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts (Business) Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts (Business)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.62 — 80 ratings — published 2008
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Sustainable Investing: Revolutions in theory and practice Sustainable Investing: Revolutions in theory and practice (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published
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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 4.02 — 255 ratings — published 2005
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Social Policy for Development Social Policy for Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.38 — 8 ratings — published 2004
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Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: New Policy Options (Initiative for Policy Dialogue) Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: New Policy Options (Initiative for Policy Dialogue)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2006
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Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities) Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Environmental Humanities)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published 2010
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Energy and the English Industrial Revolution Energy and the English Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-development)
avg rating 3.46 — 35 ratings — published 2010
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Abhijit Naskar
“I'm not a vegetarian, I could eat anything if it's well cooked and tastes good, but preservation of wildlife is nonnegotiable, because it is only by preserving biodiversity, that we ensure a sustainable planet for humanity. It is one thing to consume animals for food, and another to destroy entire ecosystems for profit. There is nothing wrong in development, but development founded on destruction of nature, is the most expensive ticket to human extinction.”
Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

Abhijit Naskar
“Declutter and Undisparity, these are the lifeblood of sustainability.”
Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

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