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Corporate Social Responsibility
ISBN: 9780754628309 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume examine the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility, and the uses that have been made of the language of corporate responsibility to explore the business/society relationship. The first section traces the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility as a way of understanding and framing the business/society relationship. Section two of the volume looks at "Definitions and ethical justifications" with a view to exploring current discussions of the nature, scope and source of the social responsibilities of corporations. Section three,...
The essays in this volume examine the emergence of the concept of corporate social responsibility, and the uses that have been made of the language of...
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1457,35 |
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Corporate Environmental Responsibility
ISBN: 9780754628248 / Angielski / Twarda / 628 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traditionally, industry has been accused of sacrificing sustainable development in the pursuit of short-term profit. Yet today, under the banner of Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER), a growing number of business organizations are claiming to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem. So, what is this emerging phenomenon of CER and what does it aspire to achieve? How pervasive is it and what are its implications for both business and the environment? This collection of essential articles and papers maps the development of the CER concept, traces the principal debates...
Traditionally, industry has been accused of sacrificing sustainable development in the pursuit of short-term profit. Yet today, under the banner of Co...
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Corporate Business Responsibility
ISBN: 9780754628453 / Angielski / Twarda / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2008/9 crisis in global commercial debt markets exposed glaring deficiencies in corporate and regulatory operational and strategic risk management systems. This collection provides an overview of how narrow conceptions of responsibility in corporate law, organizational practice and regulatory dynamics facilitated the crisis. The first section revisits the debates about the role of the corporation prompted by the publication of The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932). The second section explores why the conception of enlightened shareholder interest gained and retained potency...
The 2008/9 crisis in global commercial debt markets exposed glaring deficiencies in corporate and regulatory operational and strategic risk management...
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1578,79 |
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Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada
ISBN: 9780774816038 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical re-thinking of the nature of our democracy and citizenship. This work aims to move the ideas of green democracy and ecological citizenship from the margins to the centre of discussion and debate in Canada. Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada offers sixteen case studies to demonstrate that environmental conflicts are always about our rights and responsibilities as citizens and about the quality of our... The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, ca... |
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145,69 |
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To My Polis, With Love: May Gloucester Show The World The Ways Of Frugality
ISBN: 9781438288024 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community economic and cultural development The impending economic conditions will not be so dire if you BECOME A LOCALIST BECOME A CONCORDIAN
Community economic and cultural development The impending economic conditions will not be so dire if you BECOME A LOCALIST BECOME A CONCORDIAN
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59,87 |
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Managing the Business Case for Sustainability : The Integration of Social, Environmental and Economic Performance
ISBN: 9781874719953 / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The difficulties in moving towards corporate sustainability raise the question of how environmental and social management can be integrated better with economic business goals. Over the last decade, the relationship between environmental and economic performance, and more recently the interaction between sustainability performance and business competitiveness, have received considerable attention in both theory and practice. However, to date, only partial aspects of the relationship between sustainability performance, competitiveness and economic performance have been studied from a...
The difficulties in moving towards corporate sustainability raise the question of how environmental and social management can be integrated better wit...
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388,57 |
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Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781874719502 / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors argue the business case for sustainable development in this study that explores a range of issues beginning with corporate social responsibility and ending with eco-efficiency.
The authors argue the business case for sustainable development in this study that explores a range of issues beginning with corporate social responsi...
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140,83 |
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The Fight For Conservation
ISBN: 9781438531069 / Angielski / Miękka / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most valuable citizen of this or any other country is the man who owns the land from which he makes his living. No other man has such a stake in the country. No other man lends such steadiness and stability to our national life. Therefore no other question concerns us more intimately than the question of homes. Permanent homes for ourselves, our children, and our Nation--this is a central problem. The policy of national irrigation is of value to the United States in very many ways, but the greatest of all is this, that national irrigation multiplies the men who own the land from which...
The most valuable citizen of this or any other country is the man who owns the land from which he makes his living. No other man has such a stake in t...
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55,13 |
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Doing Business in a New Climate: A Guide to Measuring, Reducing and Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
ISBN: 9781844079070 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a highly readable business guide to greenhouse gas management packed with strategies and tips for business strategy and rapid implementation.
This is a highly readable business guide to greenhouse gas management packed with strategies and tips for business strategy and rapid implementation.
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728,68 |
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Leading Change toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society
ISBN: 9781906093341 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since Leading Change toward Sustainability was first published in late 2003, many leaders have made significant progress in transforming their organizations into better social and environmental citizens. But many have not. As the world struggles to cope with the growing threat of a global carbon crisis, Bob Doppelt has revised one of the best books ever written about change management, leadership and sustainability to focus on de-carbonization. To significantly slash greenhouse gases and prepare for climate change, organizations of all sizes will need to undergo an enormous shift in...
Since Leading Change toward Sustainability was first published in late 2003, many leaders have made significant progress in transforming their ...
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165,11 |
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The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 4: Tragedy and Hope - From the Sichuan Earthquake to the Olympics
ISBN: 9789004182417 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume of the China Environment Yearbook is the fourth in the seminal series by China's first environmental NGOs, Friends of Nature. The fourth English translation updates readers on environmentally significant issues of 2008, a year of both tragedy and hope. 2008 was an eventful year that included such setbacks as the Sichuan Earthquake, debilitating snow and ice storms, an algae bloom at the site of the Olympic sailing venue prior to the games, and a worsening global economic crisis. But there were also events that filled the country with optimism, including a successful Beijing...
This volume of the China Environment Yearbook is the fourth in the seminal series by China's first environmental NGOs, Friends of Nature. The fourth E...
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688,39 |
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A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-sized Businesses
ISBN: 9780313382697 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses" is designed specifically to help smaller enterprises share in the benefits that flow from sustainability. Built around case histories showcasing 12 small to medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that have outstanding records of sustainability, this unique, hands-on guide will help readers choose and develop sustainability strategies and undertake the marketing and management initiatives necessary for success. The studies collected here detail each company's journey from initial idea through... "A Simple Path to Sustainability: Green Business Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses" is designed specifically to help smaller enterpr... |
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Global Sustainability as a Business Imperative
ISBN: 9780230102811 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first volume in the series addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. Delivering new models for conducting business, implications of undertaking new approaches, and ways businesses are transforming and being transformed by their environments.
This first volume in the series addresses the pressing need to align business practices with the requirements of a sustainable world. Delivering new m...
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402,53 |
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Capacity Development in Practice
ISBN: 9781844077410 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood and undervalued as a distinct professional domain. Written by practitioners, this innovative publication is designed to make capacity development more professional and increasingly effective in achieving development goals. This title includes practical illustrations that draw on experiences from the civic, government and private sectors. A central theme is to understand capacity as more than something internal to organisations. This book shows how...
The international development community invests billions of dollars to improve organisational capacity. But real-life practice is poorly understood an...
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704,38 |
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Under Corporate Skies: A Struggle Between People, Place and Profit
ISBN: 9781921361760 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relating the story of a tiny town pitted against a strong corporation, this account strives to voice the concerns of local communities when they come into conflict with corporate profits. With the help of Erin Brockovich, the small town of Yarloop in Western Australia is fighting its powerful neighbor, Alcoa World Alumina. Their struggle is over social, health, and environmental concerns surrounding Alcoa's Wagerup alumina refinery. The stories told here are shared by communities around the world amidst ongoing industrialization and resultant collisions between social and economic interests....
Relating the story of a tiny town pitted against a strong corporation, this account strives to voice the concerns of local communities when they come ...
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94,98 |
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Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges, and the New Agenda
ISBN: 9780199580934 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention from academics, policymakers, and practitioners alike. Does aid work in promoting growth and reducing poverty in the developing world? Will a new 'big push' approach accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals or will another opportunity be missed? Can the lessons of almost half a century of aid giving be learnt? These are truly important questions in view of the emerging new landscape in foreign aid and recent developments...
Foreign aid is one of the few topics in the development discourse with such an uninterrupted, yet volatile history in terms of interest and attention ...
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685,11 |
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The New Pioneers: Sustainable Business Success Through Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
ISBN: 9780470748428 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New times create new needs - and new needs require new solutions. The New Pioneers is a practical guide for capitalists and idealists on how to navigate in the new economic world order.
It is about the social megatrends that are shaping our lives in new ways and creating a new face of capitalism. And it is about the pioneers that are paving the way for the new business revolution: this century's generation of visionary leaders, social entrepreneurs and social intrapreneurs. 'Hardcore business people are realising that they can increase their profits by incorporating... New times create new needs - and new needs require new solutions. The New Pioneers is a practical guide for capitalists and idealists on how to...
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112,44 |
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Education for Sustainable Development: Papers in Honour of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)
ISBN: 9780415590846 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What role can education play in securing a sustainable future? This book looks at this key issue in a global context with case studies from across the developing world.
What role can education play in securing a sustainable future? This book looks at this key issue in a global context with case studies from across the...
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213,70 |
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Evaluating Sustainable Development in the Built Environment
ISBN: 9781405192583 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first edition was extremely well received, providing an introduction and insight to this important topic in a comprehensive yet easy to read form. It was chosen to be issued to the representatives of the organizations from the G8 and G20 countries attending the University Summit held in Turin in 2009 which addressed the issue of how education and research can assist sustainable development.
The second edition, completely updated to reflect the significant advances and new insights that have been made since publication of the first edition, focuses on two main issues:
The first edition was extremely well received, providing an introduction and insight to this important topic in a comprehensive yet easy to read form....
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408,83 |
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Use of Satellite and In-Situ Data to Improve Sustainability
ISBN: 9789048196173 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than 30-year operational satellite data have already been used for monitoring land, ocean and atmosphere. These applications have contributed to improve sustainable economy, produce healthy environment and enhance human life. The Advanced Research Workshop sponsored by NATO and organized by the USA's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Ukrainian's Space Agency bring the scientists with the most mature research designed for practical use. The goals were to select those which is used for services today and identify the areas to expand research and services. Scientific and...
More than 30-year operational satellite data have already been used for monitoring land, ocean and atmosphere. These applications have contributed to ...
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