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The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
ISBN: 9780061252792 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. "The first important book of the 21st century. It may well revolutionize the relationship between business and the environment."
--Don Falk, Executive Director, Society for Ecological Restoration The Ecology of Commerce is the provocative national bestseller that addresses the necessity of merging good business practices with common sense environmental concerns. Nearly two decades after its initial publication, this controversial work by Paul Hawken has been revised and updated, arguing why business success and sustainable environmental practices need not--and, for the... "The first important book of the 21st century. It may well revolutionize the relationship between business and the environment."
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75,17 zł |
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ReWealth!: Stake Your Claim in the $2 Trillion Development Trend That's Renewing the World
ISBN: 9780071489829 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Across the globe, developers, investors, planners, civic leaders, community activists, and entrepreneurs are tapping into the $2 trillion market of the 21st century's most exciting trend-rewealth. By renewing what's already been developed and repairing damage done to natural resources, we are turning a 5000-year legacy of depletion and destruction into a $100 trillion worldwide inventory of restorable assets. In ReWealth , redevelopment expert Storm Cunningham reveals a vast new realm of fast-growing, highly profitable opportunities to revitalize our communities and our... Across the globe, developers, investors, planners, civic leaders, community activists, and entrepreneurs are tapping into the $2 trillion market of... |
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186,05 zł |
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Exploring Sustainable Consumption : Environmental Policy and the Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780080439204 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Consumerism is increasingly recognized as a major drain on global resources and the search for sustainable consumption is emerging as a key policy issue. This text locates the problem within a specific history and recruits specialist opinions from a variety of disciplines.
Consumerism is increasingly recognized as a major drain on global resources and the search for sustainable consumption is emerging as a key policy iss...
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815,37 zł |
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Technology, Humans, and Society : Toward a Sustainable World
ISBN: 9780122210907 / Angielski / Twarda / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. A number of factors, from soaring fuel prices to genetically modified agricultural products, have greatly refocused worldwide attention on the interrelationship between technology and society and the necessity for sustainable engineering and business practices. Technology, Humans, and Society focuses on building a model for business and engineering that will lead to a sustainable world. The challenge for engineering is to develop new technologies that enable economic growth and do not deplete irreplaceable resources and destroy ecological systems. No longer solely the domain... A number of factors, from soaring fuel prices to genetically modified agricultural products, have greatly refocused worldwide attention on the inte... |
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296,56 zł |
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The Future of the Environment : Ecological Economics and Technological Change
ISBN: 9780195085747 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. One of the most important and complex problems facing both developing and industrialized nations is how to sustain economic growth without harming the environment. Faye Duchin and Glenn-Marie Lange address this issue in a practical and realistic way: through a detailed evaluation of the well-known approach to sustainable development outlined in the Brundtland Report, Our Common Future. Taking issue with the Brundtland Report's optimistic and widely accepted assumptions, the authors show that the positive effects of recycling, increased fuel-efficiency, and other technological...
One of the most important and complex problems facing both developing and industrialized nations is how to sustain economic growth without harming the...
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588,20 zł |
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Business and Society
ISBN: 9780195095661 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Combining perspectives on the interplay of two areas of primary importance to our lives--business and society--this anthology brings together a wide range of readings on the subject. Topics include the historical evolution of the business enterprise, the emergence and development of the labor force, and the impact of the international marketplace. Castro concentrates on the moral and social aspects of business, the way it affects national economy, the environment, careers, the disadvantaged, government, and public opinion. Combining the idea that a good business education must also be a good...
Combining perspectives on the interplay of two areas of primary importance to our lives--business and society--this anthology brings together a wide r...
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538,04 zł |
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Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People : A Challenge to Science
ISBN: 9780195113129 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since the 1960s, breakthroughs in agriculture have made it possible to satisfy the world's increasing requirements for food. Can this trend continue over the next thirty years when the world population is projected to exceed eight billion? This book takes a critical look at the immediate challenges for feeding the population just a generation from now. Based on the 10th International Symposium sponsored by the Nutrition Committee and the Trustees of the Rank Prize Funds, the volume examines the full range of related issues, from food economics to resource allocation and crop yields. Beginning...
Since the 1960s, breakthroughs in agriculture have made it possible to satisfy the world's increasing requirements for food. Can this trend continue o...
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865,29 zł |
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Implementing Sustainable Development : Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies
ISBN: 9780198294368 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines how governments in industrialized countries have engaged with the challenge of sustained development over the past decade. Analysis of initiatives undertaken by nine national governments and the European Union reveal important differences in the ways the international commitment to sustainable devolopment has been received.
This book examines how governments in industrialized countries have engaged with the challenge of sustained development over the past decade. Analysis...
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1059,26 zł |
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Justice and the Environment : Conceptions of Environmental Sustainability and Theories of Distributive Justice
ISBN: 9780198294955 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Environmental sustainability and social justice are both widely regarded as desirable social objectives. Professor Dobson's powerful new study explores the relationship between these two objectives and concludes that radical environmental demands are only incompletely served by couching them in terms of justice.
Environmental sustainability and social justice are both widely regarded as desirable social objectives. Professor Dobson's powerful new study explore...
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449,65 zł |
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The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1
ISBN: 9780199240692 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet "official" development economics has concentrated on headline international issues and only recently begun to take account of the dependence of poor countries on their natural resources, the link between acute poverty and environmental degradation, and the problems associated with the management of local common property such as soil and soil cover, water, forests and their products, animals and fisheries. In this volume, part of the WIDER Program on the Economics...
Two and a half billion people are affected directly on a day-to-day basis by the allocation and use of purely local resources. Yet "official" developm...
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416,40 zł |
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Clusters, Networks and Innovation
ISBN: 9780199275557 / Angielski / Twarda / 499 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Governments and regional authorities often express the belief that the key to prosperity and economic expansion is related to the ability of countries to sustain regional clusters of competitiveness and innovation. The book reviews the most important conceptual approaches to the analysis of the emergence, growth and evolution of clusters of innovation. Drawing from the different experiences of industrial districts and high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley, Boston's biotech region and Hsinchu-Taipei, the contributions in this book offer a broad interpretative framework and policy...
Governments and regional authorities often express the belief that the key to prosperity and economic expansion is related to the ability of countries...
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1336,36 zł |
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Clusters, Networks, and Innovation
ISBN: 9780199275564 / Angielski / Miękka / 499 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Governments and regional authorities often express the belief that the key to prosperity and economic expansion is related to the ability of countries to sustain regional clusters of competitiveness and innovation. The book reviews the most important conceptual approaches to the analysis of the emergence, growth and evolution of clusters of innovation. Drawing from the different experiences of industrial districts and high-tech regions such as Silicon Valley, Boston's biotech region, and Hsinchu-Taipei, the contributions in this book offer a broad interpretative framework and policy...
Governments and regional authorities often express the belief that the key to prosperity and economic expansion is related to the ability of countries...
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389,59 zł |
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Resource Abundance and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780199275786 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since the 1960s the economies of the resource-poor nations have grown much faster than those of the resource-abundant nations. This book explains the disappointing performance of resource-abundant nations by extending the growth accounting framework to include natural and social capital.
Since the 1960s the economies of the resource-poor nations have grown much faster than those of the resource-abundant nations. This book explains the ...
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549,40 zł |
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Sustainability : A Philosophy of Adaptive Ecosystem Management
ISBN: 9780226595214 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. While many disciplines contribute to environmental conservation, there is little successful integration of science and social values. Arguing that the central problem in conservation is a lack of effective communication, Bryan Norton shows in "Sustainability" how current linguistic resources discourage any shared, multidisciplinary public deliberation over environmental goals and policy. In response, Norton develops a new, interdisciplinary approach to defining sustainability the cornerstone of environmental policy using philosophical and linguistic analyses to create a nonideological...
While many disciplines contribute to environmental conservation, there is little successful integration of science and social values. Arguing that the...
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173,12 zł |
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Taxes and Exchange Rates in the EU
ISBN: 9780230004757 / Angielski / Twarda / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book looks at concerns in the EU about differences in company tax rates, exchange rate changes, and inflation differentials, building an analytical model which includes the finance decision of firms, particularly those decisions which have a strong tax component.
This book looks at concerns in the EU about differences in company tax rates, exchange rate changes, and inflation differentials, building an analytic...
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606,06 zł |
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Pricing the Planet : Economic Analysis for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780231101745 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, represented an unparalleled opportunity for scientists, economists, planners, energy specialists, and other professionals from around the world to exchange ideas and information. Bringing together the views discussed at the corresponding International Symposium and Exhibit of Environmental Technologies (ECOTECH)--an official event sponsored by the Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat of Industry, Commerce, and Science Technology of Brazil--Pricing the Planet addresses our ecological future...
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, represented an unparalleled opportunity for scie...
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671,33 zł |
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Pricing the Planet : Economic Analysis for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780231101752 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, represented an unparalleled opportunity for scientists, economists, planners, energy specialists, and other professionals from around the world to exchange ideas and information. Bringing together the views discussed at the corresponding International Symposium and Exhibit of Environmental Technologies (ECOTECH)--an official event sponsored by the Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat of Industry, Commerce, and Science Technology of Brazil--Pricing the Planet addresses our ecological future...
The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, represented an unparalleled opportunity for scie...
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150,54 zł |
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Valuing the Future : Economic Theory and Sustainability
ISBN: 9780231113076 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. With issues like global warming and the loss of biodiversity becoming increasingly important to policymakers and scientists worldwide, the issue of sustainability cannot be ignored as we move toward the twenty-first century. Not surprisingly, the sustainable management of the biosphere has in recent years been the subject of much attention among ecologists, environmental engineers, and other members of the scientific community. Yet although these issues are clearly rooted in economic behavior and organization, the question of sustainability is not one that has been addressed directly by...
With issues like global warming and the loss of biodiversity becoming increasingly important to policymakers and scientists worldwide, the issue of su...
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175,63 zł |
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Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought
ISBN: 9780253215116 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought provides an inclusive and balanced survey of the major issues debated by Western environmentalists over the last three decades. Peter Hay examines issues in philosophy, religion, politics, and economics as presented or criticized by environmentalists. Topics covered include the roots of environmental philosophy; the development of ecophilosophy, deep ecology, and ecofeminism; how religion relates to environmental values; environmentalists' writings on science and epistemology; animal liberation; the role of place; the economic dimensions of... Main Currents in Western Environmental Thought provides an inclusive and balanced survey of the major issues debated by Western environmentalists o... |
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126,36 zł |
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The Feminization of Development Processes in Africa : Current and Future Perspectives
ISBN: 9780275959463 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Women have historically provided vision and leadership to African countries and are now being recognized as pivotal to the overall sustainable development of Africa. In many cases, however, this recognition has not resulted in the empowerment of African women, who still face great discrimination. This edited volume explores the contributions women have made to all phases of development--planning, design, construction, implementation, and operation--and the obstacles they have had to face. Besides analyzing the current situation and identifying trends, the contributors also make... Women have historically provided vision and leadership to African countries and are now being recognized as pivotal to the overall sustainable deve... |
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482,91 zł |
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