ilość książek w kategorii: 7461
Treadmill of Production: Injustice and Unsustainability in the Global Economy
ISBN: 9781594515064 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schnaiberg's concept of the treadmill of production is arguably the most visible and enduring theory to emerge in three decades of environmental sociology. Elaborated and tested, it has been found to be an accurate predictor of political-economic changes in the global economy. In the global South, it has figures prominently in the work of structural environmental analysts and has been used by many political-economic movements. Building new extensions and applications of the treadmill theory, this new book shows how and why northern analysts and governments have failed to protect our...
Schnaiberg's concept of the treadmill of production is arguably the most visible and enduring theory to emerge in three decades of environmental socio...
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1064,13 zł |
The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations
ISBN: 9780470723951 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the world's first complete reference on CSR, compiled by the Institute for Corporate Cultural Affairs (the ICCA). The entries have been written by leading experts, leading global thinkers and CSR practitioners.
In these pages lie the answers to questions such as:
The reference also lists and describes the most important... This is the world's first complete reference on CSR, compiled by the Institute for Corporate Cultural Affairs (the ICCA). The entries have been writte...
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298,70 zł |
Environmental Law, the Economy and Sustainable Development: The United States, the European Union and the International Community
ISBN: 9780521049009 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comparative analysis of environmental regulation in multi-jurisdictional legal and political systems, focusing on the United States, the European Union, and the international community. Each of these systems must deal with environmental interdependencies that cross local borders, in some cases creating regional problems, such as acid deposition, ozone type smog, and pollution of shared water bodies. Some transjurisdictional environmental problems are global, including stratospheric ozone depletion, climate change, and the loss of biodiversity. Other environmental...
This book provides a comparative analysis of environmental regulation in multi-jurisdictional legal and political systems, focusing on the United Stat...
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212,77 zł |
Sustainable Consumer Services: Business Solutions for Household Markets
ISBN: 9781844075119 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The goal for consumer oriented business should be to make a profit and to do it without costing the Earth. Yet exactly how to satisfy the needs and wants of consumers without contributing to environmental degradation is proving to be the essential, but elusive goal for businesses in the 21st century. The leading solution is to substitute material consumption with the consumption of services that offer consumers convenience and value but eliminate much of the inefficiency and waste associated with our throwaway society. Sustainable consumer services for households - services that are delivered...
The goal for consumer oriented business should be to make a profit and to do it without costing the Earth. Yet exactly how to satisfy the needs and wa...
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107,95 zł |
Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term Performance
ISBN: 9781844075485 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by the world's leading experts, this book provides a consensus of insider views - essential for investors, fund managers, business leaders and consultants.
Written by the world's leading experts, this book provides a consensus of insider views - essential for investors, fund managers, business leaders and...
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684,09 zł |
Environmental Management: Readings and Cases
ISBN: 9781412958493 / Angielski / Miękka / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increased concern about the natural environment has led to an urgent call for organizations to take action toward environmental stewardship. This Second Edition of the groundbreaking Environmental Management: Readings and Cases will inspire readers to find creative solutions to the challenges of maintaining sustainable enterprise while restoring our ecological community. Featuring a highly esteemed group of contributors with content from premier journals --including Harvard Business Review -this comprehensive reader fills a major gap in the teaching of business and the... Increased concern about the natural environment has led to an urgent call for organizations to take action toward environmental stewardship. This <... |
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724,63 zł |
Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America
ISBN: 9781933115627 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richness of the nation�s natural heritage and the complexities involved in managing its resources. A follow-up to RFF�s popular America�s Renewable Resources (1990), Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America updates readers about the current challenges involved in managing America�s natural resources, especially in light of the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ecosystem approaches to management. Written to...
The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richn...
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197,58 zł |
Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America
ISBN: 9781933115634 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richness of the nation�s natural heritage and the complexities involved in managing its resources. A follow-up to RFF�s popular America�s Renewable Resources (1990), Perspectives on Sustainable Resources in America updates readers about the current challenges involved in managing America�s natural resources, especially in light of the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ecosystem approaches to management. Written to...
The vast size of the United States and extensive variation of its climate, topography, and biota across different regions contribute to both the richn...
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96,23 zł |
Accounting for Mother Nature: Changing Demands for Her Bounty
ISBN: 9780804756983 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the face of growing pressure on our natural landscapes and increasingly bitter conflict over their management and use, simply defending the status quo is not enough. Finding a balance between producing commodities, such as lumber, and maintaining amenities, such as open space, is crucial if we hope to promote environmental stewardship and healthy economies. Accounting for Mother Nature brings together experts with wide-ranging experience to provide a comprehensive examination of the critical debate around the management of scarce natural resources. The contributors to this volume...
In the face of growing pressure on our natural landscapes and increasingly bitter conflict over their management and use, simply defending the status ...
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171,78 zł |
Managing Water Resources: Methods and Tools for a Systems Approach [With CDROM]
ISBN: 9781844075546 / Angielski / Miękka / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'This book bridges disciplines, previously confined to specialist journal publications, by providing a comprehensive overview of the systems analysis application to water resources. It is ideal for Masters-level courses in Water Resources Engineering where modern management techniques of optimization and modelling are highly important in the strategic management of a vital resource.' - Derek Clarke, University of Southampton, UK 'The great novelty of this book is that it presents in detail how fuzzy-set theory can be used in water resource system management. The author was... 'This book bridges disciplines, previously confined to specialist journal publications, by providing a comprehensive overview of the systems analys... |
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303,99 zł |
Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
ISBN: 9781603580557 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth--the first book to show the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet-- Donella Meadows remained a pioneer of environmental and social analysis until her untimely death in 2001. Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. Edited by the Sustainability Institute's Diana Wright, this essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and... In the years following her role as the lead author of the international bestseller, Limits to Growth--the first book to show the consequen... |
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87,72 zł |
Carbon Responsibility and Embodied Emissions: Theory and Measurement
ISBN: 9780415470209 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates environmental indicators accounting for indirect emissions (as embodied in international trade) within the framework of input-output analysis and introduces an indicator of environmental responsibility derived from consumer and producer responsibility, i.e. upstream emissions embodied in final demand and downstream emissions embodied in primary inputs. A new estimation method for international inter-industry transactions is derived from the maximum entropy principle and is computed using a genetic optimization algorithm. This estimation method is then... This book investigates environmental indicators accounting for indirect emissions (as embodied in international trade) within the framework of inpu... |
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709,42 zł |
The New Economics of Sustainable Consumption: Seeds of Change
ISBN: 9780230525337 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others' emotions. Using statistical evidence and corpus-linguistic methods, but also qualitative text analyses, the author examines how expressions that describe emotions are employed in a large corpus of conversational, newspaper, fictional and academic English.
This book offers new insights into how English speakers talk about their own and others' emotions. Using statistical evidence and corpus-linguistic me...
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389,98 zł |
Progress for a Small Planet
ISBN: 9780393300185 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,74 zł |
Green Inc.: Guide to Business and the Environment
ISBN: 9781853832505 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frances Cairncross, senior editor of The Economist and author of the best selling Costing the Earth, shows that economic growth does not have to be at the expense of environmental protection. For the poor, growth is essential, to eliminate the threats to health and environmental security that poverty presents. As for the more affluent, they may be unwilling to sacrifice their living standards, even for a cleaner environment. The question is, rather, how can the environmental impact of growth be minimized? Here, the role of business is crucial. New technologies and well-designed policies have...
Frances Cairncross, senior editor of The Economist and author of the best selling Costing the Earth, shows that economic growth does not have to be at...
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70,08 zł |
Tourism, Globalisation and Cultural Change: An Island Community Perspective
ISBN: 9781873150719 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In what ways does tourism change the host community? This book offers original insights into the broad and deep influences of tourism, and places them within the historical context of globalisation. Intensive fieldwork spanning many years on a Canary Island has produced a rich portrayal of the community, examining the changes experienced in areas including their working lives, families, identities, local culture, values, attitudes, political structure and economic base. The tourists, predominantly independent, are also examined, and their unique impact analysed. The research emphasises the... In what ways does tourism change the host community? This book offers original insights into the broad and deep influences of tourism, and places t... |
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159,76 zł |
Tomorrow's World: Britain's share in a sustainable future
ISBN: 9781853835117 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 20 per cent of the Earth's population currently consumes over 80 per cent of available resources. Whilst most Westerners lead lives of unprecedented material comfort fuelled by spiralling consumption patterns, 1.3 billion people exist on less than US$1 per day. As the first industrial nation and a former colonial power, Britain's record of overconsumption is one of the most notable. Researched and written by Friends of the Earth, Tomorrow's World argues that Britain must make deep cuts in resource consumption in order to allow developing countries to escape from poverty, and to prevent...
20 per cent of the Earth's population currently consumes over 80 per cent of available resources. Whilst most Westerners lead lives of unprecedented m...
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48,43 zł |
Planning, Governance and Spatial Strategy in Britain: An Institutionalist Analysis
ISBN: 9780333773178 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Concern for more open, participative, devolved and integrated government has led many, including the UK Labour government, to re-examine the importance of place, space and territory. Applying an institutionalist approach, and deploying substantial original empirical evidence, this book makes a major contribution to understanding the emergence of more localised governance in England in the 1990s, with particular reference to the role of spatial planning systems.
Concern for more open, participative, devolved and integrated government has led many, including the UK Labour government, to re-examine the importanc...
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217,84 zł |
The Earth Policy Reader: Today's Decisions, Tomorrow's World
ISBN: 9781853839702 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy in harmony with the Earth's ecosystems, not undermining them. This edition of the biennial reader highlights 12 key trends, from population growing by 80 million annually, to ice melting, to the boom in use of solar cells. It explains, for example, why wind-generated electricity is emerging as the foundation of the new post-fossil fuel energy economy. It also specifically investigates China's desertification problem, the issues surrounding food...
In this study, the award-winning environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues have charted progress in building the eco-economy - an economy ...
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182,37 zł |
The Case Against the Global Economy : And for a Turn Towards Localization
ISBN: 9781853837425 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible, but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy, 24 leading economic, agricultural, cultural and environmental authorities, drawn from across the world, argue that free trade and economic globalization are producing exactly the opposite results to those promised. From a detailed...
The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-be...
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187,44 zł |