ilość książek w kategorii: 7729
Implementing Sustainable Development: Strategies and Initiatives in High Consumption Societies
ISBN: 9780199242016 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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153,10 zł |
Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles Through Built Environment Design
ISBN: 9781844075782 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This challenging book throws down the gauntlet to anyone working in or studying the areas of sustainable development, planning, architecture or the built environment to rethink their current ideas and practices.
This challenging book throws down the gauntlet to anyone working in or studying the areas of sustainable development, planning, architecture or the bu...
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904,24 zł |
Positive Development: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design
ISBN: 9781844075799 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we already inhabit. The author presents a revolutionary new tool called SmartMode to achieve this end. This book challenges everyone working in or studying the areas of sustainable development, planning,...
Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, a...
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247,97 zł |
American West at Risk: Science, Myths, and Politics of Land Abuse and Recovery
ISBN: 9780195142051 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting...
The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - ...
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216,74 zł |
So You're the Safety Director!: An Introduction to Loss Control and Safety Management
ISBN: 9780865878150 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This time-proven favorite provides new safety managers with both the guidelines and the tools they need to understand their responsibilities and establish an effective safety program. So You're the Safety Director is considered indispensable by people who have been given safety-management responsibilities at their company but who do not have safety training. It equips readers with a template for evaluating, managing, and controlling company losses and for handling the OSHA compliance process. This latest edition includes OSHA's new 300 Log and explains how new safety directors can implement...
This time-proven favorite provides new safety managers with both the guidelines and the tools they need to understand their responsibilities and estab...
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894,83 zł |
Incorporation of SEA into the EA Systems of the Post-Soviet States
ISBN: 9783836484343 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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266,39 zł |
Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia
ISBN: 9780295988559 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to understand the dynamic relationship between environmental movements and the state. In communist Eastern Europe, environmental activism fueled the rise of democratic movements and the overthrow of totalitarianism. Yet, as this study of environmentalism in Slovakia shows, concern for the environment declined during the post-communist period, an ironic victim of its own earlier success. Through... As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, p... |
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470,20 zł |
Nature Protests: The End of Ecology in Slovakia
ISBN: 9780295988566 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, policy makers, and environmental practitioners to understand the dynamic relationship between environmental movements and the state. In communist Eastern Europe, environmental activism fueled the rise of democratic movements and the overthrow of totalitarianism. Yet, as this study of environmentalism in Slovakia shows, concern for the environment declined during the post-communist period, an ironic victim of its own earlier success. Through... As societies around the world are challenged to respond to ever growing environmental crises, it has become increasingly important for activists, p... |
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144,63 zł |
Waste and Environmental Policy
ISBN: 9780415459365 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialised countries present diverse but critical concerns. It takes a socio-economic and policy-oriented perspective and provides empirical evidence at EU and regional level. The EU and Italy are taken as relevant case studies given the disparities in environmental performances between less and more developed areas. The rich and various empirical evidence shows that a robust delinking between waste generation and economic growth is... This research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrial... |
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490,82 zł |
Tourism Enterprises and Sustainable Development: International Perspectives on Responses to the Sustainability Agenda
ISBN: 9780415993326 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This indispensable contribution provides a comprehensive, state of the art perspective on progress towards the objectives of sustainable development within the tourism sector across the globe by focusing on the environmental performance and adoption of environmental management systems by tourism enterprises.
This indispensable contribution provides a comprehensive, state of the art perspective on progress towards the objectives of sustainable development w...
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749,23 zł |
The Political Economy of Water and Sanitation
ISBN: 9780415994897 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advances in human development are linked to increasing access to water and sanitation (WS) services in developing countries. Utilizing data from 69 nations, Krause argues that the level of democratic governance has a statistically significant positive impact on access to WS services.
Advances in human development are linked to increasing access to water and sanitation (WS) services in developing countries. Utilizing data from 69 na...
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749,23 zł |
Wasted: Counting the Costs of Global Consumption
ISBN: 9781853833557 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides an analysis of the effects of the world's consumption patterns on sustainable development. It argues that sustainable development is a normative goal for societies, and one that is bound up with everyday practices and patterns of behaviour.
This text provides an analysis of the effects of the world's consumption patterns on sustainable development. It argues that sustainable development i...
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149,79 zł |
Measuring Corp Environmental P
ISBN: 9780786302307 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shows corporate controllers, accountants, and operating managers how to integrate environmental imports into management decision making including products costing, pricing and development. This books also discusses topics such as capital investment, performance evaluation decisions; corporate environmental strategy; and environmental costing.
Shows corporate controllers, accountants, and operating managers how to integrate environmental imports into management decision making including prod...
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204,31 zł |
The New Environmental Age
ISBN: 9780521379922 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The message of this book is that a concern for environmental issues no longer needs justification.
The message of this book is that a concern for environmental issues no longer needs justification.
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236,32 zł |
Greener Manufacturing and Operations: From Design to Delivery and Back
ISBN: 9781874719427 / Angielski / Twarda / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely work examines one core corporate function that has a profound and direct impact on corporate environmental performance - manufacturing and operations. This area has been of concern in recent years to researchers and practitioners in fields ranging from the social and natural sciences to management and technical engineering. The book reflects this diversity with global contributions on topics such as design for the environment, total quality environmental management, green supply chains, reverse logistics, environmental management systems and standards, industrial ecology,...
This timely work examines one core corporate function that has a profound and direct impact on corporate environmental performance - manufacturing and...
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304,80 zł |
Confronting Environmental Change in East and Southeast Asia: Eco-politics, Foreign Policy and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853839726 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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170,46 zł |
Decolonizing Nature: Strategies for Conservation in a Post-Colonial Era
ISBN: 9781853837500 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An exploration of the enduring influence of the colonial legacy on attitudes about relationships between people and nature in countries that were once part of the British Empire, either at the periphery or the centre. Colonial annexation and government were accompanied by the colonization and exploitation of nature, both for production and even in the name of conservation. At the start of the 21st century, the conservation of nature is still of vital importance in these countries, but what should this conservation look like? What ideas can it be based upon? This work argues that there is a...
An exploration of the enduring influence of the colonial legacy on attitudes about relationships between people and nature in countries that were once...
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697,56 zł |
Enviroment, Ethics and the Corporation
ISBN: 9780333685266 / Angielski / Twarda / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environment, Ethics and the Corporation synthesises the perspectives of corporate environmental strategy, urban planning, international environmental diplomacy and ethics in a single, wide-ranging volume. Providing a unique analysis of the growing social and environmental responsibility within the corporate sector, this book discusses corporate innovation, entrepreneurial approaches and corporate culture from both an environmental and global perspective. Partnerships with government and non-governmental organisations on achieving environmental goals are presented in a wide range of case...
Environment, Ethics and the Corporation synthesises the perspectives of corporate environmental strategy, urban planning, international environmental ...
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383,73 zł |
Corporate Environmental Management 3: Towards Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853836602 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the sorts of strategies which companies can put into place to make their performance more consistent with sustainable development. It takes into account the impacts of free trade and globalization. It contains practical guidance and examples of best practice.
An examination of the sorts of strategies which companies can put into place to make their performance more consistent with sustainable development. I...
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697,56 zł |
Practical Health and Safety Management for Small Businesses
ISBN: 9780750646802 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A straightforward and practical approach to identifying, organizing and managing health and safety in business. Looking at the needs of small businesses, it provides a step-by-step guide to health and safety management in a small business. Helping to identify all the potential hazards, offering advice on how best to look after employees and how to manage health and safety in your business, it offers to help the reader establish a system that can be maintained, added to and kept up to date as needs and the regulations change. There are examples and industry case studies.
A straightforward and practical approach to identifying, organizing and managing health and safety in business. Looking at the needs of small business...
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237,64 zł |