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Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability
ISBN: 9789048175635 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the last two decades, I have subjected the concept of sustainable development to economic analysis. To a great extent this work has been done in co-operation with my co-authors Wolfgang Buchholz, Bertil Tungodden, Martin Weitzman and Cees Withagen, and it has lead to a series of journal articles. This book presents the results of this research program. The original articles are reproduced. However, I have updated information about references and corrected a few mistakes (mostly typographical). STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK This book consists of 19 chapters. Chapter 1 is new, written as a guide...
During the last two decades, I have subjected the concept of sustainable development to economic analysis. To a great extent this work has been done i...
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806,99 |
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SEE Change : Making the Transition to a Sustainable Enterprise Economy
ISBN: 9781906093457 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The return to business-as-usual after the economic earthquake that rocked financial markets, wrecked banks and brought to light the grotesque distortions of casino capitalism on people and planet must be resisted. A new form of capitalism is both necessary and possible as some forward-thinking political, business and civil society leaders have now recognised. This book is about the myriad problems that we face and the systemic changes that are necessary for all enterprises in whatever sector and however constituted to operate within sustainable limits, to lower their ecological footprint, to...
The return to business-as-usual after the economic earthquake that rocked financial markets, wrecked banks and brought to light the grotesque distorti...
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195,06 |
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Research Companion to Green International Management Studies: A Guide for Future Research, Collaboration and Review Writing
ISBN: 9781849803632 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Research Companion to Green International Management Studies comprehensively covers the field of sustainability and the environment in business and management. Its emphasis on international topics makes it widely applicable and highly relevant in today's globalized world. Researchers will find the volume useful in stimulating new ideas and ensuring that their contributions enrich the field. A critical addition to every scholar's collection and a vital guide for PhD students as they develop their abilities to critique, review and write for academic journals, this book codifies and makes...
The Research Companion to Green International Management Studies comprehensively covers the field of sustainability and the environment in business an...
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641,81 |
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Safety Ethics : Cases from Aviation, Healthcare and Occupational and Environmental Health
ISBN: 9780754642473 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much of the previous literature in the field of safety focuses on either the technical equipment issues or the human performance factors that contribute to the active failures in safety-critical systems. However, this book provides guidance in the moral or ethical aspects of decision-making that perpetuate many of the latent failures in safety-critical systems. The book presents an interdisciplinary discussion of ethical decision-making and discusses the need to teach ethical decision-making in professional academic programs. It provides a concise introduction to the ethical foundations and...
Much of the previous literature in the field of safety focuses on either the technical equipment issues or the human performance factors that contribu...
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487,78 |
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Ethical Business Leadership: Balancing Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780820457109 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of ethical business leadership is clarified in part by the notion of a Platonic philosophical statesman. It is clarified further in a discussion of a quixotified Sancho Panza (Sancho educated by Don Quixote) as a managerial statesman and in an analysis of Aristotelian ethical business leadership and corporate culture. In his discussion of ethical business leadership, Sherwin Klein strikes a balance between an overly idealistic and theoretical view of this concept and a narrowly practical and realistic one. Moreover, he argues that Aristotelian virtue ethics provides business...
The concept of ethical business leadership is clarified in part by the notion of a Platonic philosophical statesman. It is clarified further in a disc...
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Innovation, Economic Progress and the Quality of Life
ISBN: 9781840646030 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Innovation, science and technology create wealth and yet there is a manifest imbalance within society, a paradox of greater prosperity but growing exclusion. This book marks the 25th anniversary of the Six Countries Programme, which pioneered the study of innovation from a policy viewpoint but with a radical ethos. This ethos is continued by the contributors to this book who challenge much of the thinking on innovation and technology and attempt to provide markers for the way ahead. They propose a systemic approach to the innovation process as the route to a more sustainable future and...
Innovation, science and technology create wealth and yet there is a manifest imbalance within society, a paradox of greater prosperity but growing exc...
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498,05 |
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Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship
ISBN: 9781845428365 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for further academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society. This exciting and important Handbook provides a unique forum to discuss the consequences of the social and political mandate of business firms and examines the implications of these consequences for the theory of the firm. Leading academics have been invited from various disciplines such as management studies, economics, sociology, legal studies and political...
The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a...
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe: Rhetoric and Realities
ISBN: 9781847207647 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The acid test of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is simply this: does it lead to positive impacts on society and the environment or is it just rhetoric? And if it does lead to positive impacts, how can these be enhanced? This timely book tackles this cutting-edge challenge by presenting empirical findings from a range of surveys and in-depth case studies. These build on a new methodological and theoretical framework for assessing and explaining the sustainability impact of CSR.
The acid test of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is simply this: does it lead to positive impacts on society and the environment or is it just r...
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Protecting Nature: Organizations and Networks in Europe and the USA
ISBN: 9781845429706 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing a detailed description of all the major nature protection organizations and networks, including overviews of their current membership, activities, and as far as available, budgets, Protecting Nature will be of great interest to lecturers and postgraduate students in social science fields, as well as researchers in the fields of environmental policy, environmental NGOs, social movements, civil society, nature management and policy. Members of nature protection, environmental and other civil society organizations who seek a better understanding of the historical development of nature...
Providing a detailed description of all the major nature protection organizations and networks, including overviews of their current membership, activ...
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605,87 |
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Multinational Enterprises and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781848444133 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transnational corporations play a role in the design, diffusion, and consolidation of sustainable development in the context of globalization and multinational firms. In this timely book European and American contributors analyze this role and explore the complex and dynamic phenomena of economic, political, cultural and legal interactions involved.
Transnational corporations play a role in the design, diffusion, and consolidation of sustainable development in the context of globalization and mult...
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Sustaining Development: Environmental Resources in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9781858988887 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A selection of Daniel W. Bromley's theoretical and empirical papers on economic development and environmental problems in the developing world. This book emphasizes the institutional dimensions of the environment and development problem, paying particular attention to the role of property regimes in understanding the causes and consequences of environmental degradation. Bromley addresses the conceptual and empirical issues of alternative property rights, institutions and incentives as they relate to environmental resources. He sheds light on the problems faced by governments in the developing...
A selection of Daniel W. Bromley's theoretical and empirical papers on economic development and environmental problems in the developing world. This b...
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605,87 |
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Handbook of Global Environmental Politics
ISBN: 9781843764663 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first Handbook of original articles by leading scholars of global environmental politics, this landmark volume maps the latest theoretical and empirical research in this young and growing field. Captured here are the dynamic and energetic debates over concerns for the health of the planet and how they might best be addressed. The introductory chapters explore the intellectual trends and evolving parameters in the field of global environmental politics. They make a case for an expansive definition of the field, one that embraces an interdisciplinary literature on the connections between...
The first Handbook of original articles by leading scholars of global environmental politics, this landmark volume maps the latest theoretical and emp...
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Stakeholders, the Environment and Society
ISBN: 9781843764595 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of stakeholders is integral to corporate sustainability as society increasingly demands that corporations play a role in achieving environmental objectives in addition to building shareholder wealth. In this, the first book to gather cutting-edge research on the interactions between stakeholders and organizations within the context of corporate sustainability, the contributors provide a diversity of perspectives from North America, Europe, and Oceania. The authors examine the role stakeholders play in influencing regulations on global issues such as climate change and national and...
The role of stakeholders is integral to corporate sustainability as society increasingly demands that corporations play a role in achieving environmen...
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641,81 |
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Economics of Environmental Conservation
ISBN: 9781843766148 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully updated and comprehensively revised edition of a classic text concentrates on the economics of conserving the living environment. It begins by covering the ethical foundations and basic economic paradigms' essential for understanding and assessing ecological economics. General strategies for global environmental conservation, policies for government intervention, developing countries, preserving wildlife and biodiversity, open-access to and common property in natural resources, conservation of natural areas, forestry, agriculture and the environment, tourism, sustainable...
This fully updated and comprehensively revised edition of a classic text concentrates on the economics of conserving the living environment. It begins...
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600,74 |
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Leading Change toward Sustainability : A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society
ISBN: 9781906093365 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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536,56 |
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Handbook of Corporate Sustainability: Frameworks, Strategies and Tools
ISBN: 9781847208057 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Achieving corporate sustainability (CS) is one of the most difficult challenges facing organizations in the 21st century. This comprehensive Handbook examines the current status and future direction of sustainability frameworks and applications in the corporate environment. Internationally reputed scholars present various frameworks, models, and practices of CS from a number of real world corporations across the globe, as well as emphasizing the measurement and reporting of CS. They examine the current status and future directions of model based applications in corporate sustainability and...
Achieving corporate sustainability (CS) is one of the most difficult challenges facing organizations in the 21st century. This comprehensive Handbook ...
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878,00 |
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The Top 50 Sustainability Books
ISBN: 9781906093327 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social and environmental challenges we face as a society. These are the Top 50 Sustainability Books as voted for by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership's alumni network of over 3,000 senior leaders from around the world. In addition to profiles of all 50 titles, many of the authors share their most recent reflections on the state of the world and the ongoing attempts by business, government and civil society to create a more sustainable future.
This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social and environmental challenges we face as a soci...
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302,37 |
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Management for a Small Planet: Third Edition
ISBN: 9781906093303 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work prepares managers to make strategic decisions that are both economically successful and sensitive to the natural environment. It also includes information on creating environmental management systems.
This work prepares managers to make strategic decisions that are both economically successful and sensitive to the natural environment. It also includ...
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Negotiating Environmental Change: New Perspectives from Social Science
ISBN: 9781840646733 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global environmental change will be with us forever, but how it happens in the future, and with what effect on the planet and its peoples, depends to a large extent on how the international agreements, national politics and local actions play out. This collection provides a comprehensive assessment of these critical interconnections and reveals how social scientists are making an invaluable contribution to the creation of more science and just livelihoods in a future world.
Global environmental change will be with us forever, but how it happens in the future, and with what effect on the planet and its peoples, depends to ...
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Sustainable Value: How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good
ISBN: 9781906093068 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A small but influential group of mainstream global industry leaders are now reinventing the role of business in society. They are shifting the focus away from minimizing negative impacts to offering new solutions to global problems that the public sector has been unable to tackle alone. In this new competitive environment, societal challenges such as climate change or the alleviation of global poverty are not only risks, but huge business opportunities, not only for niche players, but for mainstream business. These leaders are creating 'Sustainable Value.' They are creating it through the...
A small but influential group of mainstream global industry leaders are now reinventing the role of business in society. They are shifting the focus a...
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