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Sustainable Dev Econs and Plcy
ISBN: 9780631209942 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable Development: Economics and Policy applies an interdisciplinary perspective to the latest developments in economic analysis and to policies affecting the global environment and economic development.
Sustainable Development: Economics and Policy applies an interdisciplinary perspective to the latest developments in economic analysis and to p...
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320,06 zł |
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Econ Ethics Env Policy
ISBN: 9780631229698 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basing environmental policy on economic analysis, and ways to overcome these problems. Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices offers a comprehensive analysis of the ethical problems associated with basin... |
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309,02 zł |
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Issues in Environmental Economics
ISBN: 9780631235699 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses cutting edge issues in the rapidly developing field of environmental and natural resource economics.
This book addresses cutting edge issues in the rapidly developing field of environmental and natural resource economics.
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138,08 zł |
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Sustainable Development: Understanding the Green Debates
ISBN: 9780632064595 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can there be a common definition of sustainable development?
Views on sustainable development range from those of the mainstream economist to the hardened environmentalist - via many shades of green. This book offers a clear overview of the debates and sets out the various theories, providing an accessible introduction for all who now need to understand how sustainable development affects their working practices. The text is structured around key questions on the concept of sustainable development:
Can there be a common definition of sustainable development?
Views on sustainable development range from those of the mainstream econo... |
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518,89 zł |
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The Snake with Golden Braids: Society, Nature, and Technology in Andean Irrigation
ISBN: 9780739111970 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Snake With Golden Braids seeks to understand how local inhabitants of the extraordinarily rugged Andean topography of Huanoquite, Peru came to understand their landscape and then build and maintain a system of irrigation ditches across it. Stephen G. Bunker combines a history of these systems with a rethinking of the local myths, legends, and environment to help make sense of the land and its uses.
The Snake With Golden Braids seeks to understand how local inhabitants of the extraordinarily rugged Andean topography of Huanoquite, Peru came to und...
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430,79 zł |
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Transnational Identity Politics and the Environment
ISBN: 9780739120156 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transnational Identity Politics and the Environment attempts to transcend current social science paradigms for interpreting the relations between globalization and environmental activism, and to develop an alternative perspective that recognizes the effects of economic globalization, accelerating migration, and the retreat of the state on environmental social movements and politics. The book is a study in global sociology, and makes use of both quantitative analysis and qualitative case studies. By addressing cutting-edge theories of globalization from several disciplines, using multiple...
Transnational Identity Politics and the Environment attempts to transcend current social science paradigms for interpreting the relations between glob...
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486,02 zł |
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Economic Governance and the Challenge of Flexibility in East Asia
ISBN: 9780742509443 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the institutional underpinnings of East Asia's dynamic growth by exploring the interplay between governance and flexibility. As the challenges of promoting and sustaining economic growth become ever more complex, firms in both advanced and industrializing countries face constant pressures for change from markets and technology. Globalization, heightened competition, and shorter product cycles mean that markets are increasingly volatile and fragmented. To contend with demands for higher quality, quicker delivery, and cost efficiencies, firms must enhance their capability to...
This book analyzes the institutional underpinnings of East Asia's dynamic growth by exploring the interplay between governance and flexibility. As the...
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231,97 zł |
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Implementing Sustainable Development: From Global Policy to Local Action
ISBN: 9780742523616 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a great deal of rhetoric and no shortage of ideas about sustainable development. However, note Cooper and Vargas (both of the U. of Vermont), there has also been an implementation gap. Saying that implementation is the art of the feasible, they present a feasibility framework for profes
There is a great deal of rhetoric and no shortage of ideas about sustainable development. However, note Cooper and Vargas (both of the U. of Vermont),...
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254,06 zł |
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Shades of Green: Environment Activism Around the Globe
ISBN: 9780742546479 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities.
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discuss...
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607,53 zł |
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Shades of Green: Environment Activism Around the Globe
ISBN: 9780742546486 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discussing issues unique to different parts of the world, Shades of Green shows that environmentalism around the globe has been strengthened, weakened, or suppressed by a variety of local, national, and international concerns, politics, and social realities.
Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. Discuss...
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209,87 zł |
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Redefining Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780745316055 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical perspective of the complex issues surrounding disaster relief and development where decisions are driven by capitalist forces.
A critical perspective of the complex issues surrounding disaster relief and development where decisions are driven by capitalist forces.
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165,64 zł |
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Environmental Management for Hotels
ISBN: 9780750623803 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text offers students an understanding of both concepts and practical implications of the environmental challenges relating to hotels. The book incorporates case study materials to tie in theory with real life, and also in relation to an international context. The text emphasizes supervisory issues which relate to the management of hospitality operations in ways which are sensitive to the impact on the environment. Students are also offered an alternative approach to many aspects of hospitality operational management.
This text offers students an understanding of both concepts and practical implications of the environmental challenges relating to hotels. The book in...
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220,31 zł |
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Green Profits: The Manager's Handbook for ISO 14001 and Pollution Prevention
ISBN: 9780750674010 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Green Profits covers two tightly connected topics, environmental management systems (EMS) and pollution prevention (P2), in a single volume. Authored by an environmental engineer and an economist/planner, Green Profits shows how to implement an EMS, especially ISO 14001, so that it leads to profitable pollution prevention innovations, and how to identify and implement pollution prevention measures in a sound strategic business framework. Green Profits provides the knowledge and tools for enterprise managers to achieve the benefits of both EMS and P2, and to do so in ways that fit in with...
Green Profits covers two tightly connected topics, environmental management systems (EMS) and pollution prevention (P2), in a single volume. Authored ...
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586,94 zł |
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Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
ISBN: 9780759105065 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). Their overview of this transnational movement reveals important links between environmental management and social justice agendas for sustainable use of resources by local communities. In this volume, leaders who have been instrumental in creating and shaping CBNRM describe their model programs; the countermapping movement and collective claims to land and resources; legal strategies for gaining rights to resources and territories;...
The distinguished environmentalists in this collection offer an in-depth analysis and call to advocacy for community-based natural resource management...
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458,83 zł |
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Bound to the Hearth by the Shortest Tether
ISBN: 9780761833321 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bound to the Hearth by the Shortest Tether is a story of original research in China and Brazil as well as the circumstances that made that work possible. Applied anthropology, rural economics, agroforestry, natural and social history, and world travel are combined to create an engaging account of the effort to better the circumstances of the developing world's rural poor. The first part of the book focuses on rural China and the indigenous knowledge of the processes at work within the world's oldest system of timber management and how that knowledge is being displaced by inferior scientific...
Bound to the Hearth by the Shortest Tether is a story of original research in China and Brazil as well as the circumstances that made that work possib...
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305,89 zł |
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Advances in Environmental Accounting and Management
ISBN: 9780762303342 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management aims to advance knowledge of the governance and management of corporate environmental impacts and the accounting for these, including issues related to measurement, valuation, and disclosure. It also aims to increase the awareness of management, accounting practitioners, investors and other stakeholders of the financial and social consequences of corporate environmental impacts, encouraging greater environmental accountability and responsibility.
Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit papers on any social and environmental... Advances in Environmental Accounting & Management aims to advance knowledge of the governance and management of corporate environmental impacts and th...
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1028,21 zł |
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Green Business: The Five-Part Model for Creating an Environmentally Responsible Company
ISBN: 9780764325038 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a five-part model companies can follow to "green" themselves. Moreover, it shares the success, and failures, of forerunners in this fast-growing business trend. This book details why and how businesses are becoming more environmentally firendly. It sites seventeen case studies that illustrate "green" advantages enjoyed by companies like Interface, Inc., Patagonia, IBM, Mitsubishi Corporation, and others. Winning "green" practices like the following have enahanced the performance of companies, both in employee retention, customer loyalty, and overall profits. * Patagonia...
This book offers a five-part model companies can follow to "green" themselves. Moreover, it shares the success, and failures, of forerunners in this f...
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146,86 zł |
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Fatal Consumption: Rethinking Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780774807876 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do we claim to value sustainability while acting in an unsustainable fashion? How can we reduce our consumption drastically and move toward a sustainable social system when our society is specifically based on consumption? These two linked questions are at the heart of this important book, the result of a four-year interdisciplinary study of British Columbia's Lower Fraser Basin. Taking the slogan ?think globally, act locally? to heart, the contributors to Fatal Consumption are theoretical as well as practical. Though specific in focus, the analysis in Fatal Consumption... Why do we claim to value sustainability while acting in an unsustainable fashion? How can we reduce our consumption drastically and move toward a s... |
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157,35 zł |
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Sustainable Production: Building Canadian Capacity
ISBN: 9780774812511 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issues associated with sustainable production are among the most important facing the world in the early 21st century. While most of the scholarship in this area has been produced in the United States and Europe, not much has been written from a Canadian perspective. Sustainable Production establishes a Canadian presence in the sustainable production debate by analyzing the opportunities and constraints facing both the public and private sectors as Canada strives to move public policy and industrial practice forward. Sustainable production focuses on the systems by... The issues associated with sustainable production are among the most important facing the world in the early 21st century. While most of the schola... |
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456,48 zł |
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Sustainable Production: Building Canadian Capacity
ISBN: 9780774812528 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The issues associated with sustainable production are among the most important facing the world in the early 21st century. While most of the scholarship in this area has been produced in the United States and Europe, not much has been written from a Canadian perspective. Sustainable Production establishes a Canadian presence in the sustainable production debate by analyzing the opportunities and constraints facing both the public and private sectors as Canada strives to move public policy and industrial practice forward. Sustainable production focuses on the systems by... The issues associated with sustainable production are among the most important facing the world in the early 21st century. While most of the schola... |
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157,35 zł |
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