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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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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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178,65 |
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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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Bridging Research and Policy in Development: Evidence and the Change Process
ISBN: 9781853396038 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * Explains best practice on conducting an -influencing agenda-
* Powerful and wide-ranging case studies * Explores the link between research and policy This is a crucial book for international development researchers who want the lessons of their research converted into changes in government and aid agency policy. International policy making is extremely complex and little studied. This book reviews what we do already know and provides a conceptual framework for future research. Through four case studies, ranging from local to international... * Explains best practice on conducting an -influencing agenda-
* Powerful and wide-ranging case studies * Explores the link betw... |
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136,65 |
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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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301,14 |
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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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165,11 |
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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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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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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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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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233,13 |
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Global Sustainable Development in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781853312410 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the theme of global sustainable development across two dimensions.First it introduces its progress and prospects in both rich and poor countries. It then outlines the major trends that will in practice influence the direction of sustainable development into the next century. It encompasses an understanding of sustainable development as both a theoretical framework for thinking about how to deal with human needs and environmental limits on the one hand, and a more material understanding of it as a set of practices, on the other.The book is written by a group of...
This book addresses the theme of global sustainable development across two dimensions.First it introduces its progress and prospects in both rich and ...
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163,63 |
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SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES IN EUROPE
ISBN: 9781853837913 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A presentation of detailed comparative research into the implementation in 11 European countries of Local Agenda 21 - the action plan for sustainable development at community level. Overviews of implementation in each country are accompanied by analysis of positive and negative changes, as well as a comparative analysis with high academic and policy relevance. Numerous practical examples are included of best cases and crucial barriers.
A presentation of detailed comparative research into the implementation in 11 European countries of Local Agenda 21 - the action plan for sustainable ...
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Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth
ISBN: 9781853838262 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved around the sun. His paper led to a revolution in thinking. In Lester Brown's brilliant and invigorating account of the industrial economy, he shows how a rethink of its fossil fuel-based, throwaway ethos is necessary to ensure that it works with, not against, the natural environment. The issue now is whether the environment is part of the economy or the economy is part of the environment. Brown argues the latter, pointing out that treating the...
In 1543, Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus challenged the view that the sun revolved around the earth, arguing instead that the earth revolved aro...
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Greening the Built Environment
ISBN: 9781853834035 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors provide possible explanations for the problems involved in greening the built environment and offer a number of the solutions to those problems. Central themes are the links between environmental damage, poverty and the economy.
The authors provide possible explanations for the problems involved in greening the built environment and offer a number of the solutions to those pro...
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Raising a Ladder to the Moon: The Complexities of Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility
ISBN: 9780333962701 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raising a ladder to the moon' is a metaphor that was used to describe the immensity of the task of laying the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable at the end of the nineteenth century. It is used in this book to illuminate the challenges and opportunities that are inherent in the development of corporations as socially and environmentally responsible 'citizens' at the beginning of the twenty-first century. With reference to companies such as Macdonald's, Deutsche Bank, Coca-Cola, Royal Dutch / Shell, BP, Wal-Mart, and Unilever, Raising a Ladder to the Moon argues that in order to re-engage...
Raising a ladder to the moon' is a metaphor that was used to describe the immensity of the task of laying the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable at ...
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Biological and Cultural Diversity: The role of indigenous agricultural experimentation in development
ISBN: 9781853394430 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The developed world has much to learn from the third world about the preservation of biological diversity. This book demonstrates the intimate relationship between cultural and biological diversity, and how the practices of third world farmers have promoted cultivation with conservation.
This book presents fifteen examples of practices from countries as diverse as Nepal and Nigeria, from home gardens in South India to water harvesting in the Sudan. In a reversal from scientific Western prescriptions, the contributors look at farmers' practices in the third world. What... The developed world has much to learn from the third world about the preservation of biological diversity. This book demonstrates the intimate relatio...
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129,05 |
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Governance for Sustainable Development: A Foundation for the Future
ISBN: 9781844072071 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Good governance was identified at the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a critical factor for ensuring successful sustainable development. This book features the briefing papers that were presented at the Summit, and addresses the role and reform of global institutions and processes.
Good governance was identified at the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a critical factor for ensuring successful sustainable development. Th...
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Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach
ISBN: 9780521802239 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains how to develop more effective risk communications using the Carnegie Mellon mental-model approach. Such communications are designed to contain, in readily usable form, the information that people need to make informed decisions about risks to health, safety, and the environment. The approach draws together methods from the natural and social sciences, providing a framework for interdisciplinary collaboration. It is demostrated with varied examples including electromagnetic fields, climate change, radon, and sexually transmitted diseases.
This book explains how to develop more effective risk communications using the Carnegie Mellon mental-model approach. Such communications are designed...
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Social Progress and Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781853395567 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neil Thin sets out to clarify the meaning of the social dimensions of development, with an emphasis on sustainability. He outlines a conceptual framework to facilitate better communication and understanding as a basis for improved policies, implementation strategies and learning strategies. Thin reviews the concepts of social development as currently used in policy documents, operational work, theoretical texts, and monitoring and evaluation. He relates the meaning of social development to core concepts of sustainable development, and to other specific concepts such as the economy and the...
Neil Thin sets out to clarify the meaning of the social dimensions of development, with an emphasis on sustainability. He outlines a conceptual framew...
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Measuring Sustainability: Learning from Doing
ISBN: 9781853838392 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work in real-life development contexts. The book describes and analyzes how to derive, validate and apply indicators in the course of an actual development project - in this case, the Mediterranean Action Plan.
This text presents practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work in real-life development contexts. The book describes and analyzes h...
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