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Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780822328025 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental justice, nature conservation, cultural performance, and the politics of making and interpreting claims.
Calling for radical redefinitions of development and ownership and for new understandings of the translation of culture and rights in politically dangerous contexts natural resource frontiers... This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Base...
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458,51 |
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Culture and the Question of Rights: Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780822328131 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental justice, nature conservation, cultural performance, and the politics of making and interpreting claims.
Calling for radical redefinitions of development and ownership and for new understandings of the translation of culture and rights in politically dangerous contexts--natural resource... This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Base...
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131,65 |
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Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780822331490 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, "Nature in the Global South" is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state forest management, tropical ecology, imperial water control, public health, and community-based conservation. Focusing on these and other ways that nature has been shaped and defined, this...
A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, "Nature in the Global South" is a major contribution to unde...
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151,21 |
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Nature in the Global South: Environmental Projects in South and Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780822331506 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, "Nature in the Global South" is a major contribution to understandings of the politics and ideologies of environmentalism and development in a postcolonial epoch. Among the many significant paradigms for understanding both the preservation and use of nature in these regions are biological classification, state forest management, tropical ecology, imperial water control, public health, and community-based conservation. Focusing on these and other ways that nature has been shaped and defined, this...
A nuanced look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia, "Nature in the Global South" is a major contribution to unde...
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507,29 |
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Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of Subjects
ISBN: 9780822334927 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Kumaon in northern India, villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the early 1920s, protesting the colonial British state's regulations to protect the environment. Yet by the 1990s, they had begun to conserve their forests carefully. In his innovative historical and political study, Arun Agrawal analyzes this striking transformation. He describes and explains the emergence of environmental identities and changes in state-locality relations and shows how the two are related. In so doing, he demonstrates that scholarship on common property, political ecology, and feminist environmentalism...
In Kumaon in northern India, villagers set hundreds of forest fires in the early 1920s, protesting the colonial British state's regulations to protect...
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131,65 |
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Conservation Is Our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
ISBN: 9780822337492 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New Guinea. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over a period of seven years, Paige West focuses on the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area, the site of a biodiversity conservation project implemented between 1994 and 1999. She describes the interactions between those who ran the program mostly ngo workers and the Gimi people who live in the forests surrounding Crater Mountain....
A significant contribution to political ecology, Conservation Is Our Government Now is an ethnographic examination of the history and social ef...
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151,21 |
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Environmental Management Systems
ISBN: 9780824785239 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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682,89 |
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Smallholder Cash Crop Production Under Market Liberation: A New Institutional Economics Perspective
ISBN: 9780851992778 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Pro poor- economic growth is widely recognized as an important means for reducing poverty in developing countries. With the majority of the world's poor living in rural areas, agricultural intensification, with higher land and labor productivity from increased integration in input and output markets, is one way to expand income and livelihood opportunities for rural people. This book uses a new institutional economics perspective to review the effects of market liberalization on service provision to smallholder farmers. In many parts of the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, the...
-Pro poor- economic growth is widely recognized as an important means for reducing poverty in developing countries. With the majority of the world's p...
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533,94 |
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Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management
ISBN: 9780851993928 / Angielski / Twarda / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is increasing pressure on the forestry industry to adopt sustainable practices, but there is a lack of knowledge about how to facilitate this, and how to measure sustainability. This book reviews current thinking about scientifically based indicators, and sustainable management of natural forests and plantations. Information is applicable to both plantations and natural forests in boreal, temperate and tropical biomes. The contents have been developed from papers presented at a IUFRO conference held in Australia, August 1998.
There is increasing pressure on the forestry industry to adopt sustainable practices, but there is a lack of knowledge about how to facilitate this, a...
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857,98 |
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Environmental Compliance Made Easy: A Checklist Approach for Industry
ISBN: 9780865879522 / Angielski / Miękka / 413 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The newly revised and thoroughly updated Environmental Compliance Made Easy handbook from Government Institutes' popular "Made Easy" series reorganizes thousands of pages worth of federal environmental regulatory programs into one easy-to-use compliance resource, organized by program. Intended as both a beginner's guide and a veteran's reference, this edition provides readers with a concise summary of the major environmental programs and introduces readers to the laws and regulations programs, key requirements, responsibilities of regulated parties, and compliance and auditing processes of...
The newly revised and thoroughly updated Environmental Compliance Made Easy handbook from Government Institutes' popular "Made Easy" series reorganize...
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585,33 |
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The Complete Guide to OSHA Compliance
ISBN: 9780873716819 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an easy-to-understand, indispensable guide for helping you establish an injury/illness recordkeeping and reporting system required by OSHA. It will also enable you to conduct a self-audit to determine whether you are in full compliance. Furthermore, it informs you of your rights in an inspection and shows you how to handle citations and appeals should they arise. It also explains employer and employee rights and responsibilities, and it provides everything you need to know about employer standards and standards for specific operations.
This book is an easy-to-understand, indispensable guide for helping you establish an injury/illness recordkeeping and reporting system required by OSH...
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926,78 |
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Environmental GIS Applications to Industrial Facilities
ISBN: 9780873719919 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the application of GIS technology to industrial facilities, focusing on information from an organizational/corporate standpoint. It addresses o Intelligent drawings as the basis for representing information o Structured evolution from today's systems to an environmental management operating style o Systems integration to bring corporate information to managers, scientists, and engineers. This book describes the point solutions of the past and the issues that must be faced in implementing GIS technology within an organization.
This book describes the application of GIS technology to industrial facilities, focusing on information from an organizational/corporate standpoint. I...
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321,89 |
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: The Spirit of the CCC
ISBN: 9780874220735 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Edwin G. Hill -- a typical recruit who spent the most enjoyable and rewarding years of his life in the Civilian Conservation Corps -- was enrolled for a year at Camp Hard Labor Creek in Georgia and for two years in Washington in the great shadow of Mt. Adams and Mt. St. Helens.
Edwin G. Hill -- a typical recruit who spent the most enjoyable and rewarding years of his life in the Civilian Conservation Corps -- was enrolled for...
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73,12 |
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Corporate Responsibility and Financial Performance: The Paradox of Social Cost
ISBN: 9780899309217 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The core idea of corporate social responsibility, the notion that companies have a responsibility beyond legal requirements, is by now deeply embedded in the corporate cultures of the largest U.S. companies. The authors suggest that productive debate now focuses on the following two issues. First, what are the impacts of existing corporate social responsibility programs for the corporation? And, second, what constitutes the precise contours of this responsibility? This book explores these two themes. The issue of how corporate social responsibility affects individual companies engaged... The core idea of corporate social responsibility, the notion that companies have a responsibility beyond legal requirements, is by now deeply embed... |
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308,07 |
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The Green Corporation: The Next Competitive Advantage
ISBN: 9780899309798 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Green management or management using environmentally sensible techniques is the next major challenge for American business managers. State-of-the-art green management practices are needed to reduce pollution and to improve competitiveness by conserving resources and using the resources in a responsible manner. Every functional area of the firm will participate. World class practices for planning and implementation of green strategies are provided for technical, production, marketing and general managers. Management and engineering techniques are integrated to help readers assimilate... Green management or management using environmentally sensible techniques is the next major challenge for American business managers. State-of-the-a... |
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385,09 |
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Wisconsin : Stories of Sustainable Living, Working and Playing
ISBN: 9780979545801 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through engaging stories, "Renewing the Countryside Wisconsin" explores how the state is leading the nation in sustainably grown food, environmentally responsible businesses, and home-grown, forward-looking answers to today s rural economy.
Seven chapters cover stories ranging from arts and culture, farming, green business, conservation, tourism, community development, and learning. Learn about how the city of Washburn on Chequamegon Bay has become the country s first eco-municipality, how Growing Power is connecting urban Milwaukee kids to fresh food and the countryside, and how... Through engaging stories, "Renewing the Countryside Wisconsin" explores how the state is leading the nation in sustainably grown food, environmentally...
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156,09 |
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Partnership and Leadership: Building Alliances for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 9781402004315 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable development has become a central perspective in environmental strategies around the world. It is clear that neither governments nor businesses have the capability to bring about sustainability on their own. Therefore, collaboration has emerged as a central concept. At the same time it is obvious that someone has to take the lead in the development towards sustainability. This book focuses on different forms of collaboration emerging between various actors. The objective of the book is to more systematically explore the different roles and relationships between partnership and... Sustainable development has become a central perspective in environmental strategies around the world. It is clear that neither governments nor bus... |
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811,88 |
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Analytical Tools for Environmental Design and Management in a Systems Perspective: The Combined Use of Analytical Tools
ISBN: 9781402004537 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this book is to link demand and supply of environmental information in the field of Life Cycle Management. The book is based on the results of the CHAINET concerted action financed by EU-DGXII for the work period 1998-2000, and is intended to build bridges between the different scientific communities in the field of Life Cycle Management. A structured approach is followed, meaning that both demand and supply of environmental information are characterised, after which the two are linked.
Chapter 2 deals with the demand side; a number of characteristics are identified including... The aim of this book is to link demand and supply of environmental information in the field of Life Cycle Management. The book is based on the results...
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402,53 |
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The Sustainability of Rural Systems: Geographical Interpretations
ISBN: 9781402005138 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economy, society, and environment comprise the three main dimensions of sustainable development but too often they are considered separately. This book, by comparison, examines the interaction of the three dimensions in the context of rural systems, embracing a wide range of topics, including globalisation and reregulation in sustainable food production, conservation and sustainability, the development of sustainable rural communities, and sustainable rural-urban interaction. An international team of geographers, drawn from the International Geographical Union's Commission on The...
Economy, society, and environment comprise the three main dimensions of sustainable development but too often they are considered separately. This boo...
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811,88 |
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Unveiling Wealth: On Money, Quality of Life and Sustainability
ISBN: 9781402008146 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does money blur perspectives for a better life?
Lifting the money veil from our yardsticks of progress, income and wealth, reveals the trade-offs of economic growth. The book presents new indicators of the social, economic and ecological impacts of our lifestyles and production techniques. The indicators help to identify those responsible for these impacts and account for their accountability in terms of environmental and other ("social") costs. Sustainable development is to bring about long-term prosperity without undermining its natural foundation. For the assessment of the opaque... Does money blur perspectives for a better life?
Lifting the money veil from our yardsticks of progress, income and wealth, reveals the trade-offs ... |
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