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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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287,28 zł |
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Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway
ISBN: 9780700613670 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We expect Birkenstocks. We find wing-tips. Professional organizations that advocate on behalf of environmental issues have become a permanent part of the American political landscape. From the Sierra Club to the Rainforest Action Network, these groups represent more than eleven million members and claim more than $3.5 billion in assets. Sometimes lambasted for non-stop fund-raising, top-heavy bureaucracies, or agendas out of touch with local concerns, they remain staunch advocates for Mother Nature in the marble halls of Washington. But what happens to a grassroots movement when it goes...
We expect Birkenstocks. We find wing-tips. Professional organizations that advocate on behalf of environmental issues have become a permanent part...
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404,86 zł |
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Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway
ISBN: 9780700613687 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We expect Birkenstocks. We find wing-tips. Professional organizations that advocate on behalf of environmental issues have become a permanent part of the American political landscape. From the Sierra Club to the Rainforest Action Network, these groups represent more than eleven million members and claim more than $3.5 billion in assets. Sometimes lambasted for non-stop fund-raising, top-heavy bureaucracies, or agendas out of touch with local concerns, they remain staunch advocates for Mother Nature in the marble halls of Washington. But what happens to a grassroots movement when it goes...
We expect Birkenstocks. We find wing-tips. Professional organizations that advocate on behalf of environmental issues have become a permanent part...
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117,02 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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380,47 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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429,24 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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204,87 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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536,56 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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185,36 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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153,98 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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214,58 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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358,32 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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237,22 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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904,63 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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143,71 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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146,29 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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424,37 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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146,29 zł |
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Constructing Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780791446683 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a critique of the economic, technological, political, and ethical theories that are the basis for current policy, this book shows that sustainable development proposals are at least incomplete or impractical and at worst dangerously misleading. The concept of sustainable development presents a problem for theorists and policy makers because it cannot be objectively defined and subjective understandings vary widely. For the capitalist, sustainable development is a problem of production efficiency and technological innovation; for the environmentalist, a more appropriate ethic is a...
Through a critique of the economic, technological, political, and ethical theories that are the basis for current policy, this book shows that sustain...
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128,36 zł |
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Environment and Development: An Economic Approach
ISBN: 9780792318781 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the second edition of a text based on a report commissioned by the Swedish International Development Authority (SID A). The financial grant from SIDA which made the work possible is hereby gratefully acknowledged. There are already many books on the market about environmental economics, some of them very good. What is special about this one? We do not claim to have obtained new results, but we have our own way of presenting the subject matter. In particular, we are of the opinion that policy failures are often overlooked as an obstacle to efficient environmental management....
This book is the second edition of a text based on a report commissioned by the Swedish International Development Authority (SID A). The financial gra...
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403,47 zł |
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Facing Public Interest: The Ethical Challenge to Business Policy and Corporate Communications
ISBN: 9780792336334 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the community. The side-effects of entrepreneurial decision making - increasing unemployment, for instance, or pollution - increasingly expose corporations to the public gaze, with management in the limelight.
Facing Public Interest opens up new vistas on business policy and corporate communications facing public interest. The relationship between private enterprise and public interest is subjected to an ethical examination, highlighting... Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as private business since business activities have widespread and sometimes far-reaching impacts on the comm...
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403,47 zł |
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