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Green to Gold : How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
ISBN: 9780300119978 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This book explains what every executive should know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and the business world. Based on the authors' rich experience with forward-thinking companies around the world, Green to Gold demonstrates how corporations create value by building environmental thinking into their overall business strategies. Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston provide clear 'how to' advice for making sense of environmental challenges, and they offer detailed case examples of how companies achieve both environmental and business success--establishing an...
This book explains what every executive should know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and the business world. Based on the authors...
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105,63 zł |
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Carbon Strategies : How Leading Companies Are Reducing Their Climate Change Footprint
ISBN: 9780472032655 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Climate change's impacts cut across all functional areas of a business. The systematic approach proposed in this report will be very helpful to business managers concerned with integration of business activities in operations, marketing, finance, and human resources to support a consistent, pro-active strategic response to climate change."--Karen Flanders, Director, Corporate Responsibility, The Coca-Cola Company "Carbon Strategies captures the risks, and opportunities, for companies in an increasingly carbon-constrained marketplace. This book will be invaluable to any...
"Climate change's impacts cut across all functional areas of a business. The systematic approach proposed in this report will be very helpful to busin...
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172,32 zł |
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Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment : Institutional and Strategic Perspectives
ISBN: 9780804741965 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. This book brings together emerging perspectives from organization theory and management, environmental sociology, international regime studies, and the social studies of science and technology to provide a starting point for discipline-based studies of environmental policy and corporate environmental behavior. Reflecting the book's theoretical and empirical focus, the audience is two-fold: organizational scholars working within the institutional tradition, and environmental scholars interested in management and policy. Together this mix forms a creative synthesis for both sets of readers,...
This book brings together emerging perspectives from organization theory and management, environmental sociology, international regime studies, and th...
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172,59 zł |
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From Heresy to Dogma : An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism. Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780804745031 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. This is a pathbreaking account of how the environmental movement has led to profound changes in the perceptions and practices of large-scale corporations, as shown here in the chemical and petroleum industries. The book traces how market, social, and political pressures drive corporations to respond to environmental issues, analyzes the cultural frames that organizations use to come to terms with these external influences, and describes the resulting changes in organizational culture and structure. For this expanded edition, the author has written a new chapter that brings his original...
This is a pathbreaking account of how the environmental movement has led to profound changes in the perceptions and practices of large-scale corporati...
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139,34 zł |
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Shades of Green : Business, Regulation, and Environment
ISBN: 9780804748063 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental performance. But while all firms have shown improvement, some have improved more than others, many going substantially beyond compliance. What explains the variation in compliance? It's not necessarily the differences in regulation in each country. Rather, variation is accounted for by the complex interaction...
How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United St...
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410,53 zł |
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Shades of Green : Business, Regulation, and Environment
ISBN: 9780804748520 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental performance. But while all firms have shown improvement, some have improved more than others, many going substantially beyond compliance. What explains the variation in compliance? It's not necessarily the differences in regulation in each country. Rather, variation is accounted for by the complex interaction...
How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United St...
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110,42 zł |
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Green Gold
ISBN: 9780807085318 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Japan, Germany, the United States, and the Race for Environmental Technology
Japan, Germany, the United States, and the Race for Environmental Technology
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111,25 zł |
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Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots
ISBN: 9780977825363 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more sustainable practices?
Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories--over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined... After centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business mode...
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174,47 zł |
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Business and the Environment: A Reader
ISBN: 9781560326106 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This Reader brings together, in one volume, the most important and innovative articles written on the interaction of business and the environment. The contributions - by some of the world's leading business and environmental consultants, academics and practitioners - have been selected as the result of a wide-ranging consultation process involving an advisory team of recognized experts in the field, to ensure that readers have the best and most useful selection possible. This is an essential reference, not only for students in business schools, management studies and environmental... This Reader brings together, in one volume, the most important and innovative articles written on the interaction of business and the environment. ... |
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158,70 zł |
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Killing Me Softly : Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
ISBN: 9781583670835 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The political economy of toxic waste was summed up by Lawrence Summersthen chief economist at the World Bank, later U.S. Treasury Secretaryin his notorious claim that poor people live in environments that are, from an economic point of view, not sufficiently polluted. The toxic waste industry came to prominence in the United States after 1945. In its ceaseless search for profit, it now routinely endangers the health of people around the worlds and the planet itself. Smith and Girdner's Killing Me Softlyexamines the growth of the toxic waste industry and the economic logic behind its... The political economy of toxic waste was summed up by Lawrence Summersthen chief economist at the World Bank, later U.S. Treasury Secretaryin his n... |
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99,75 zł |
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The Sustainable Company : How to Create Lasting Value through Social and Environmental Performance
ISBN: 9781597260183 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "This is not a book of fluff or feel-good case studies. It's a handbook for organizational change. The instructions are specific, potential pitfalls are highlighted, and the appendix provides a detailed discussion of outside evaluation tools." -GREEN MARKET REPORT
"The Sustainable Company offers some genuinely practical insights into what it really takes to improve stakeholder impacts." -ETHICAL CORPORATION "Laszlo endeavors to translate social and environmental concerns into the language of marketing and corporate strategy...well-meaning executives will find much food for thought... "This is not a book of fluff or feel-good case studies. It's a handbook for organizational change. The instructions are specific, potential pitfalls a...
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117,20 zł |
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From Walden to Wall Street : Frontiers of Conservation Finance
ISBN: 9781597260305 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "From Walden to Wall Street makes clear that a system of market-based conservation finance is vital to the future of environmental conservation." -Henry M. Paulson, Chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Chairman of the Board of Governors, The Nature Conservancy
In the absence of innovation in the field of conservation finance, a daunting funding gap faces conservationists aiming to protect America's system of landscapes that provide sustainable resources, water, wildlife habitat, and recreational amenities. Experts estimate that the average annual funding gap will be between $1.9... "From Walden to Wall Street makes clear that a system of market-based conservation finance is vital to the future of environmental conservation." -Hen...
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139,34 zł |
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Measuring Your Company's Environmental Impact : Templates and Tools for a Complete ISO 14001 Initial Review
ISBN: 9781844070541 / Angielski / Twarda / 79 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. A step-by-step manual and complementary CD-ROM containing tools for managers to carry out a complete company-wide initial environmental review as a pre-requisite for introducing an environmental management system in accordance with ISO 14001 or EMAS. Emphasis is placed on collecting and presenting quantitative data starting with the material and energy flows through the company. The manual also contains indicators for energy, transporation and water use, to help the user compare with other companies. The toolkit includes the following electronic files: a template for the environmental review...
A step-by-step manual and complementary CD-ROM containing tools for managers to carry out a complete company-wide initial environmental review as a pr...
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279,60 zł |
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Emissions Trading and Competitiveness : Allocations, Incentives and Industrial Competitiveness under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
ISBN: 9781844074037 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. This special issue of Climate Policy journal examines the impacts on the competitiveness and the commercial incentives available from the CO2 allowance allocations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, and discusses appropriate allocation methodologies, and whether - and if so at what stage - the ETS itself may need to be amended. The study is multidisciplinary, combining economic, legal and policy analysis, with specific studies of impacts on electricity, cement and other industrial sectors and allocation issues. It brings together the results of research conducted over the past two years...
This special issue of Climate Policy journal examines the impacts on the competitiveness and the commercial incentives available from the CO2 allowanc...
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184,99 zł |
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Greening the Corporation : Management Strategy and the Environmental Challenge
ISBN: 9781853837722 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Corporate responses to environmental challenges are often held directly or indirectly responsible for significant worldwide environmental destruction. Corporations are beginning to respond to environmental and social concerns and are taking these into account. This process, known as the greening of the corporation is fraught with contraditions since the foremost aim of corporations is to earn profits. Robbins analyses teh approaches of four major international companies: ARCO Chemical; Ben & Jerry's; Shell; and The Body Shop.
Corporate responses to environmental challenges are often held directly or indirectly responsible for significant worldwide environmental destruction....
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100,87 zł |
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A Thousand Shades of Green : Sustainable Strategies for Competitive Advantage
ISBN: 9781853838460 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Almost every significant business decision today has an enviromental dimension, and managers have to be aware of their responsibilites to customers, regulators, staff and wider society. The enviromental challenge is a challenge is a challenge of change management and offers business opportunites to gain real competitive advantage.
Almost every significant business decision today has an enviromental dimension, and managers have to be aware of their responsibilites to customers, r...
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631,87 zł |
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Cut Carbon, Grow Profits : Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability
ISBN: 9781904750154 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With contributions from an array of international experts, this reference clearly illustrates what every corporation needs to know in order to manage carbon and sustainability challenges facing societies, cities, individuals and businesses today. Showing the many benefits of incorporating strategic carbon thinking into the business strategies, this work helps businesses create sustainable shareholder value, cut costs, increase revenues, build powerful corporate reputations and branding, and develop new low-carbon products and services. Essential reading for business executives at every level,...
With contributions from an array of international experts, this reference clearly illustrates what every corporation needs to know in order to manage ...
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329,15 zł |
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Terracotta Reader : A Market Approach to the Environment
ISBN: 9788171884261 / Angielski / Twarda / 495 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Providing a counterpoint to the green movement, which depends upon greater government involvement in environmental issues, this selection of essays represents the philosophy of the terra-cotta movement. Literally named for materials made out of burnt earth, the terra-cotta movement values an aesthetic, contemplative, and spiritual relationship between natural resources and humankind, in contrast to the green movement's claims that the environment needs protection from our extractive and consumptive nature. The terra-cotta movement offers a fresh, liberal perspective that aims to manage and...
Providing a counterpoint to the green movement, which depends upon greater government involvement in environmental issues, this selection of essays re...
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214,10 zł |
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Cool Companies : How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
ISBN: 9781597261166 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. 'Cool Companies' shows managers how businesses can build or retrofit their operations with the latest technologies to reduce emissions and achieve quick returns on investment. Many examples of how big firms increased profits this way are included.
'Cool Companies' shows managers how businesses can build or retrofit their operations with the latest technologies to reduce emissions and achieve qui...
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189,19 zł |
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Sustainable Consumer Services : Business Solutions for Household Markets
ISBN: 9781844075119 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The goal for consumer oriented business should be to make a profit and to do it without costing the Earth. Yet exactly how to satisfy the needs and wants of consumers without contributing to environmental degradation is proving to be the essential, but elusive goal for businesses in the 21st century. The leading solution is to substitute material consumption with the consumption of services that offer consumers convenience and value but eliminate much of the inefficiency and waste associated with our throwaway society. Sustainable consumer services for households - services that are delivered...
The goal for consumer oriented business should be to make a profit and to do it without costing the Earth. Yet exactly how to satisfy the needs and wa...
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216,53 zł |
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