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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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730,59 |
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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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641,88 |
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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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704,50 |
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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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641,88 |
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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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1189,82 |
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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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678,41 |
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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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636,66 |
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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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594,91 |
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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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928,89 |
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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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327,15 |
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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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208,69 |
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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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641,88 |
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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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143,72 |
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Sustainable Innovation: The Organisational, Human and Knowledge Dimension
ISBN: 9781874719991 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How sustainable is innovation? Problematically, most contemporary patterns of innovation in human social systems and organizations are not sustainable. This prevents people from learning effectively, from recognizing and solving their problems, and from operating in sustainable ways. It is arguably why societies, businesses and industries around the world are so unsustainable. Sustainable innovation is a pattern of social learning and problem-solving that is, itself, sustainable. The sustainability of innovation, moreover, is linked to the sustainability of its outcomes, which manifest...
How sustainable is innovation? Problematically, most contemporary patterns of innovation in human social systems and organizations are not sustainable...
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842,79 |
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The Difference Makers: How Social and Institutional Entrepreneurs Created the Corporate Responsibility Movement
ISBN: 9781906093044 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1970s, public and civil society dissatisfaction with the global power of corporations has generated a growing wave of new institutional mechanisms that attempt, in different ways, to create more accountable, responsible, and transparent businesses. These institutional mechanisms have become part of a much-larger social movement that is attempting to develop a set of constraints on business that stands in stark contrast to the dominant economic logic of maximizing shareholder wealth and growing multinational corporations' size and power. They include business associations and...
Since the 1970s, public and civil society dissatisfaction with the global power of corporations has generated a growing wave of new institutional mech...
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178,43 |
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Greening Chinese Business : Barriers, Trends and Opportunities for Environmental Management
ISBN: 9781874719588 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental regulation in China is not really different from that in the rest of the world, except that environmental authorities are relatively new and less established. In order to understand why corporate environmental performance has hardly improved despite the existing regulatory framework, empirical research on high-level executives' perceptions of environmental protection is essential.
Environmental regulation in China is not really different from that in the rest of the world, except that environmental authorities are relatively new...
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327,15 |
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Eco-industrial Strategies : Unleashing Synergy between Economic Development and the Environment
ISBN: 9781874719625 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Old-style manufacturing, embodied in industrial parks that litter the landscape, may soon become dinosaurs of industrial development. These Jurassic Parks of the past will be replaced by new eco-industrial parks (EIPs) that link manufacturers more closely together into an industrial ecosystem for business and environmental excellence. Companies have always depended on a larger ecology of suppliers, customers, geography and market to be successful, but a popular mythology was that each company was an island. Abandoning this fantasy by consciously integrating into a larger industrial ecology is...
Old-style manufacturing, embodied in industrial parks that litter the landscape, may soon become dinosaurs of industrial development. These Jurassic P...
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327,15 |
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Corporate Social Responsibility, Accountability and Governance : Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9781874719564 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The business case for corporate social responsibility, which suggests that socially and environmentally aware companies can expect to reap financial rewards, is seemingly gaining widespread acceptance within the business community. This is particularly apparent in the ever-increasing number of prominent companies parading their social, ethical and environmental credentials by producing paper- or web-based social and environmental, or sustainability, reports. In so doing, reporting companies claim, they are demonstrating a clear commitment to transparency and accountability to their key...
The business case for corporate social responsibility, which suggests that socially and environmentally aware companies can expect to reap financial r...
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842,79 |
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Global Challenges: Furthering the Multilateral Process for Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9781874719519 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg 2002 was the latest conference in an international process to manage environment and development issues that can be traced back to the late 1960s. Three milestones mark this 30-year process of social and political interaction: the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (UNCHE), held in Stockholm in 1972, the first international meeting at a high political level convened to address environmental issues; the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro; and the WSSD,...
The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg 2002 was the latest conference in an international process to manage environment an...
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287,49 |
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Sustainable Measures : Evaluation and Reporting of Environmental and Social Performance
ISBN: 9781874719168 / Angielski / Twarda / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental and social performance measurement and reporting by business has become a high-profile issue during the 1990s. It is increasingly being requested by stakeholders and required by governments. Companies too are finding that they need better environmental and social performance data for effective internal management. And there are a growing number of standardisation initiatives - such as the ISO 14031 guidelines on environmental performance evaluation or the CERES Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) template for sustainability reporting - that are aimed at making it easier for more...
Environmental and social performance measurement and reporting by business has become a high-profile issue during the 1990s. It is increasingly being ...
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