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Agri-Culture : Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
ISBN: 9781853839207 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. Can nothing be done or is it time for the expansion of another sort of agriculture, founded on more ecological principles, and in harmony with people, their societies and cultures?
Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions ...
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700,25 zł |
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Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature
ISBN: 9781853839252 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions of people remain hungry and malnourished. Can nothing be done or is it time for the expansion of another sort of agriculture, founded on more ecological principles, and in harmony with people, their societies and cultures?
Something is wrong with our agriculture and food systems. Despite great progress in increasing productivity in the last century, hundreds of millions ...
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197,05 zł |
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The Plain Language Guide to World Summit on Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853839283 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates who mapped out the future of the global sustainable development agenda. The resulting technical document, the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPOI), identifies priorities in the implementation of Agenda 21 and other international agreements, and commitments that will take these priorities forward. This plain language version provides an invaluable reference to the outcomes of the WSSD by explaining the JPOI clearly for the lay person and expert alike.
The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg in 2002 brought together thousands of delegates who mapped out the future of the gl...
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103,69 zł |
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The Sustainability Curriculum : The Challenge for Higher Education
ISBN: 9781853839481 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In higher education, sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is embraced by some individuals and departments and perceived by others as a threat to the coherence of particular disciplines. It is not a subject in its own right, although there are signs that this may now be happening. and sustainable development on various academic disciplines, institutional practices, fields of study and methods of enquiry. The authors examine the purpose of the modern university and the nature of sustainable education. They explore links to social movements for sustainability, approaches...
In higher education, sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is embraced by some individuals and departments and perceived by ot...
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700,25 zł |
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Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia: Eco-Politics, Foreign Policy and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853839719 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An edited collection of concise, hard-hitting essays by a group of international experts and scholars that address the politics and policy of environmental change and sustainable development in East and Southeast Asia. The book pays particular attention to the ways in which foreign policy and international relations theories help explain eco-politics and sustainable development in the region. Case studies cover environmental diplomacy in East Asia and strategies for sustainable development in Southeast Asia, including Japanese environmental policy, China's climate change diplomacy, the role...
An edited collection of concise, hard-hitting essays by a group of international experts and scholars that address the politics and policy of environm...
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570,57 zł |
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The Malthus Factor: Poverty, Politics and Population in Capitalist Development
ISBN: 9781856495646 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as in the past. It highlights the strategic role of Malthusian ideas in the defence of capitalist political economy when confronted by struggles for equality and human progress. The leading historical example the author takes offers a major reassessment of the origins of the Irish Famine. His contemporary case study focuses on the Green Revolution, which the author analyzes in terms of a broad Western strategy of capitalist agricultural development...
This volume represents a major critique of the way Malthusian thinking has influenced capitalist development policy in the modern period, as well as i...
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181,49 zł |
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Sustainable Landscapes and Lifeways: Scale and Appropriateness
ISBN: 9781859183007 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Profound transformations have occurred in our everyday environments during the twentieth century. This book addresses these transformations through a series of case studies of changes in landscape and lifeways during the 1950-1990 period in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Sweden. The book's central concern is sustainability -- the challenge of orchestrating the competing goals of economic growth, ecological integrity and social vitality.
Regional case studies spanning coal-based power plants in Saarland, farms and bogs in Slieveardagh, traditional fields of Waterland... Profound transformations have occurred in our everyday environments during the twentieth century. This book addresses these transformations through a ...
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138,31 zł |
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Environmental Planning and Management
ISBN: 9781860946714 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on environmental planning and management. Environmental problems are not purely scientific; some of the major problems deal with poor management and the inability to involve people in environmental decision making process. The approach taken in this book is to review environmental problems as they are affected by poor planning and management. Understanding of management issues involved will help to get top management to buy into environmental management. The tendency is for top management to view environmental management efforts as expensive and wasteful to an organization....
This book focuses on environmental planning and management. Environmental problems are not purely scientific; some of the major problems deal with poo...
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492,77 zł |
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The Economics of Waste
ISBN: 9781891853432 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this concise, engaging, and provocative work, Richard Porter introduces readers to the economic tools that can be applied to problems involved in handling a diverse range of waste products from business and households. Emphasizing the impossibility of achieving a zero-risk environment, Porter focuses on the choices that apply in real world decisions about waste. Acknowledging that effective waste policy integrates knowledge from several disciplines, Porter focuses on the use of economic analysis to reveal the costs of different policies and therefore how much can be done to meet goals to...
In this concise, engaging, and provocative work, Richard Porter introduces readers to the economic tools that can be applied to problems involved in h...
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254,11 zł |
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Analytical Framework for Integrated Water Resources Management: Ihe Monographs 2
ISBN: 9789054104735 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This monograph provides a framework and guidelines for the assessment of institutional frameworks for integrated water resources management (IWRM). The framework and guidelines were developed to enable expert teams of the Inter-American Development Bank to incorporate capacity-building considerations into water-related projects. The framework and guidelines were tested in four countries with different physical, social and economic environments in Latin America and the Caribbean. Using this framework, it is possible to identify shortcomings in existing water management arrangements and to... This monograph provides a framework and guidelines for the assessment of institutional frameworks for integrated water resources management (IWRM).... |
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259,30 zł |
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Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa
ISBN: 9789171064523 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on case studies from eight different countries, the con-tributors to this provocative collection of essays demonstrate quite clearly that environmental programmes often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty and that they constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs.
Drawing on case studies from eight different countries, the con-tributors to this provocative collection of essays demonstrate quite clearly that envi...
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133,05 zł |
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The Challenges of Sustained Development: The Role of Socio-Cultural Factors in East-Central Europe
ISBN: 9789637326004 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to narrow the gap between the old and new members of the European Union? A vast amount of statistical data on social and economic factors in selected European countries is analyzed along constructs such as civilizational competence; social capital; quality of governance, entrepreneurial spirit; social cohesion etc.
How to narrow the gap between the old and new members of the European Union? A vast amount of statistical data on social and economic factors in selec...
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114,39 zł |
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Trimming the Sails: The Comparative Political Economy of Expansionary Fiscal Consolidations: Ahungarian Perspective
ISBN: 9789639776012 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of the transition from socialism to capitalism from the perspective of the scholar whose "Economics of Shortage' (1980) made him the most influential critic of the political economy from within the Soviet block
An analysis of the transition from socialism to capitalism from the perspective of the scholar whose "Economics of Shortage' (1980) made him the most ...
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349,44 zł |
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Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems - Proceedings of the 3rd Dubrovnik Conference
ISBN: 9789812706409 / Angielski / Twarda / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainability is an important discourse aimed at promoting a new strategy in the development of energy, water and environmental (EWE) systems - the key components that affect the quality of life on our planet. This book provides an understanding of the implications of the different aspects of sustainability.
Sustainability is an important discourse aimed at promoting a new strategy in the development of energy, water and environmental (EWE) systems - the k...
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1099,64 zł |
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Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention
ISBN: 9780792359265 / Angielski / Miękka / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Difficult ethical and political issues confront the application of scientific and technological solutions for preventing pollution from occurring. Often the questions embodying proposed solutions to known problems are ambiguous; and no singular solution can exist for all locations. Yet the common organizing principle for all solutions to environmental problems must be scientific, because only sound science can provide a rational understanding that decision-makers can use universally. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention (October 12-14, 1998,...
Difficult ethical and political issues confront the application of scientific and technological solutions for preventing pollution from occurring. Oft...
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384,63 zł |
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Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society: A Revolution in Economic Thinking by Multi-Objective Optimization
ISBN: 9781402076817 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For both public and private managers, the book Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society is today's key to answer the problem of a sustainable development world. This world has to take into account the meaning of all stakeholders involved and has to reconcile a number of objectives, such as economic growth, employment and preservation of the ecosystem. Traditional methods, such as cost-benefit, are outmoded as they translate all these objectives into monetary costs, a materialistic approach. On the contrary, objectives have rather to stick to their own units, eventually...
For both public and private managers, the book Optimization Methods for a Stakeholder Society is today's key to answer the problem of...
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576,96 zł |
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Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention
ISBN: 9780792359258 / Angielski / Twarda / 383 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Difficult ethical and political issues confront the application of scientific and technological solutions for preventing pollution from occurring. Often the questions embodying proposed solutions to known problems are ambiguous; and no singular solution can exist for all locations. Yet the common organizing principle for all solutions to environmental problems must be scientific, because only sound science can provide a rational understanding that decision-makers can use universally. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Tools and Methods for Pollution Prevention (October 12-14, 1998,...
Difficult ethical and political issues confront the application of scientific and technological solutions for preventing pollution from occurring. Oft...
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384,63 zł |
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From Understanding to Action: Sustainable Urban Development in Medium-Sized Cities in Africa and Latin America
ISBN: 9781402028793 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hans van Ginkel Rector, United Nations University The challenges of the world's future are linked to the growing share of the global population that will reside in urban areas. UN projections indicate that by 2030 the world's urban population share will rise to 60 percent. Of the two billion added to the global population, 99 percent will be added to the urban areas of the world. Of this number, 95 percent will be in countries of the developing world. As most people will live in urban areas we had better work to build and organize them as both attractive and less resource consuming places....
Hans van Ginkel Rector, United Nations University The challenges of the world's future are linked to the growing share of the global population that w...
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384,63 zł |
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The Triple Bottom Line : Does It All Add Up
ISBN: 9781844070169 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this text leading experts examine the implications of the idea of the triple bottom line - the business strategy that delivers simultaneous financial, social and environmental benefits - showing what it has already achieved by stimulating change and bringing business to appreciate the importance and benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and good environmental performance. They then go beyond this to explore the limits of the metaphor and what remains to be done through regulation and legislation and with detailed professional procedures in environmental accounting and...
In this text leading experts examine the implications of the idea of the triple bottom line - the business strategy that delivers simultaneous financi...
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622,44 zł |
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The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Consumption
ISBN: 9781844071647 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable consumption is a controversial concept: politically, socially and intellectually. Consumption drives our economies and defines our lives; making it sustainable is an enormous and essential challenge. The World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 set in place a 10-year programme of effort by national governments to develop strategies for sustainable consumption and production. The problem of changing consumer behaviour and making our lives more sustainable continues to challenge opinion-formers and policy-makers alike. This book provides a coherent synthesis of key...
Sustainable consumption is a controversial concept: politically, socially and intellectually. Consumption drives our economies and defines our lives; ...
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207,43 zł |
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