In the Light of Humane Nature: Human Values, Nature, the Green Economy, and Environmental Salvation
ISBN: 9781614488644 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite significant progress in recent decades, the environmental crisis is far from over. We know what needs to change, but we don't seem to know--economically, politically, or socially--how to stop the juggernaut of destructive development and resource depletion. Something continues to undermine our efforts to become a truly sustainable society.
"In the Light of Humane Nature" highlights the positive accomplishments we have made recently in greening the economy and also exposes the underlying causes for our continued march toward disaster. A seasoned environmental professional, Arthur... Despite significant progress in recent decades, the environmental crisis is far from over. We know what needs to change, but we don't seem to know--ec...
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154,39 zł |
Food and Fuel; The Example of Brazil
ISBN: 9789086861668 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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300,77 zł |
Green Supply Chain Management
ISBN: 9780791860281 / Angielski / Twarda / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This monograph focuses on the issues facing sustainability in supply chains. Specifically it provides an overview of green supply chain management (GSCM) and the management of technology within this context. The topics include the operational and technological activities and characteristics of GSCM management. Organizational greening activities that play a role in GSCM operations are presented. The monograph also provides functional activities of the GSCM which include supplier management, internal operations management, logistics, and reverse logistics issues. Managerial considerations...
This monograph focuses on the issues facing sustainability in supply chains. Specifically it provides an overview of green supply chain management (GS...
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386,30 zł |
Social Partnerships and Responsible Business: A Research Handbook
ISBN: 9780415678636 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cross-sector partnerships are widely hailed as a critical means for addressing a wide array of social challenges such as climate change, poverty, education, corruption, and health. Amid all the positive rhetoric of cross-sector partnerships though, critical voices point to the limited success of various initiatives in delivering genuine social change and in providing for real citizen participation. This collection critically examines the motivations for, processes within, and expected and actual outcomes of cross-sector partnerships. In opening up new theoretical, methodological,... Cross-sector partnerships are widely hailed as a critical means for addressing a wide array of social challenges such as climate change, poverty, e... |
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734,76 zł |
Sport Management and the Natural Environment: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415715409 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With climate change and other environmental issues becoming increasingly prominent, any successful sport organization now has to incorporate environmental concerns into their business strategy, while all sport managers must understand how to implement environmental initiatives into their everyday business. Sport Management and the Natural Environment is the first book to introduce environmental theory and best practice in the context of sport management, demonstrating how sport organizations can become more effective and sustainable, and exploring the important advocacy role that... With climate change and other environmental issues becoming increasingly prominent, any successful sport organization now has to incorporate enviro... |
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861,44 zł |
Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters: From Hazards and Vulnerability to Prevention and Resilience
ISBN: 9780415842013 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The baby boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964 is the largest population cohort in US history. Numbering about 90 million by mid-century, more than doubling the current size. The massive increase in seniors and relative decline of those of working age in the US is mirrored in almost all the world's most populous countries. This book connects the dots between the US baby boom generation and the marked increase in natural and human-caused disasters. It evaluates options available to seniors, their aids, for and not-for and for-profit organizations and government to reduce vulnerability to...
The baby boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964 is the largest population cohort in US history. Numbering about 90 million by mid-century, more t...
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709,42 zł |
Corporations and Sustainability: The South Asian Perspective
ISBN: 9781783530847 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporations and Sustainability: A South Asian Perspective is a compilation of contributions from leading academics and practitioners that provides an overview of the key challenges and opportunities related to sustainability in South Asia.
The last two decades have seen rapid and often dramatic changes in the institutional, economic and ecological contexts faced by firms operating in South Asian economies. The most significant driver of this change has been the economic liberalization attempts of national governments resulting in easier and faster flows of information,... Corporations and Sustainability: A South Asian Perspective is a compilation of contributions from leading academics and practitioners that prov...
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658,75 zł |
The Corporate Responsibility Code Book
ISBN: 9781907643941 / Angielski / Twarda / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * A fully revised and updated version of the key reference text on corporate codes of conduct
* Tenth Anniversary version including full text of key codes The Corporate Responsibility Code Book has become the go-to guide for companies trying to understand the landscape of corporate responsibility and searching for their own, unique route towards satisfying diverse stakeholders. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. A company may face quite different challenges if it operates in more than one part of the world. And yet stakeholders, especially consumers and investors,... * A fully revised and updated version of the key reference text on corporate codes of conduct
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420,54 zł |
Sport Management and the Natural Environment: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780415715423 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With climate change and other environmental issues becoming increasingly prominent, any successful sport organization now has to incorporate environmental concerns into their business strategy, while all sport managers must understand how to implement environmental initiatives into their everyday business. Sport Management and the Natural Environment is the first book to introduce environmental theory and best practice in the context of sport management, demonstrating how sport organizations can become more effective and sustainable, and exploring the important advocacy role that... With climate change and other environmental issues becoming increasingly prominent, any successful sport organization now has to incorporate enviro... |
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227,98 zł |
Lean Waste Stream: Reducing Material Use and Garbage Using Lean Principles
ISBN: 9781482253177 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fact that a process produces garbage is a testament to design inefficiency, and this book explains how to use the nature of that garbage to pinpoint and eliminate those inefficiencies. Lean Waste Stream: Reducing Material Use and Garbage Using Lean Principles supplies an unprecedented look at how to address business waste in a manner that will improve your organization's environmental and financial performance. Tackling the problem of business garbage from a Lean perspective, the book maintains a focus on how to minimize garbage in ways that cut costs. It...The fact that a process produces garbage is a testament to design inefficiency, and this book explains how to use the nature of that garbage to pin... |
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126,63 zł |
Energy and Environmental Engineering: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Energy and Environmental Engineering (Iceee 2014), September
ISBN: 9781138026650 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2014 International Conference on Energy and Environmental Engineering (ICEEE 2014) was held September 21-22, 2014 in Hong Kong. This proceedings volume assembles papers from various professionals, leading researchers, engineers, scientists and students and presents innovative ideas and research results focused on Energy and Environmental Engineering. The papers in this book group around the following topics: Energy Science and Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering, Motivation, Electrical Engineering and Automation, the Development and Utilization of Resources, Theory and...
The 2014 International Conference on Energy and Environmental Engineering (ICEEE 2014) was held September 21-22, 2014 in Hong Kong. This proceedings v...
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912,11 zł |
Sustainability for Smes
ISBN: 9781910174005 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainability for SMEs offers a comprehensive introduction to the key business cases and techniques for putting sustainability at the heart of your business strategy.
Small businesses make a significant collective impact on the environment and society - but only a tiny percentage of SMEs complete a sustainability report. Sustainability Reporting for SMEs will enable any SME to get up to speed on sustainability reporting and plot a course of action for their business. Elaine Cohen distils the latest and best thinking on sustainability reporting for SMEs, and... Sustainability for SMEs offers a comprehensive introduction to the key business cases and techniques for putting sustainability at the heart of...
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693,42 zł |
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming
ISBN: 9780143126591 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world
McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years reporting around the world on how we are preparing for a warmer planet. Funk shows us that the best way to understand the catastrophe of global warming is to see it through the eyes of those who see it most clearly as a market opportunity. Global warming s physical impacts can be separated into three broad categories: melt, drought, and deluge. Funk travels to two dozen countries to profile entrepreneurial people who see in each of these... A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world
McKenzie Funk has spent the last six years r... |
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81,60 zł |
Greening the Financial Sector: How to Mainstream Environmental Finance in Developing Countries
ISBN: 9783642431807 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental finance, particularly energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) finance, can and should serve as an interface to other sub-sectors of financial sector promotion such as microfinance, housing finance or agricultural finance. For example, existing clients of financial institutions include small and medium-sized enterprises and households, and these are often suffering from high energy prices or have no access to sustainable energy supply. At the same time, these clients are vulnerable to extreme weather events, and often hit hardest by the impact of climate change. There... Environmental finance, particularly energy efficiency and renewable energy (EERE) finance, can and should serve as an interface to other sub-sector... |
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194,97 zł |
Lobbying for Good: How Business Advocacy Can Accelerate the Delivery of a Sustainable Economy
ISBN: 9781910174128 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The business case for Sustainability or Corporate Responsibility will never be strong enough to support an isolated business in its competition against the unscrupulous. The progressive vanguard reaches a point where it can advance no further without rendering itself uncompetitive. That is, unless advocacy and public policy intervention change the rules and shift the bar for the allowable lowest common denominator. With the base reset, so is the bar of aspiration. New rules enable new behaviors, with players competing on a fairer, more sustainable footing. This groundbreaking book,...
The business case for Sustainability or Corporate Responsibility will never be strong enough to support an isolated business in its competition agains...
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159,97 zł |
Bad Time Stories: Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies
ISBN: 9781442648821 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government-public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant that governments were on the lookout for savings, and public sector unions and employees were easy targets for government actions. Bitter conflicts between unions and governments erupted and each labour dispute involved numerous rounds of public rhetoric in which both sides attempted to justify their actions and stigmatize their opponents. In Bad Time Stories, Yonatan Reshef and Charles Keim analyse the language of both parties in... The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government-public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant ... |
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258,44 zł |
Education Management and Management Science: Proceedings of the International Conference on Education Management and Management Science (Icemms 2014),
ISBN: 9781138026636 / Angielski / Twarda / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Education Management and Management Science (ICEMMS 2014), held August 7-8, 2014, in Tianjin, China. The objective of ICEMMS2014 is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Education Management and Management Science.
This proceedings volume contains selected papers presented at the 2014 International Conference on Education Management and Management Science (ICEMMS...
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354,66 zł |
Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective
ISBN: 9780198704072 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling - reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However, persuading well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy.
This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading edge insights from some of the world's best researchers as to how organizational change in general - and... The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling - reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining iss...
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195,88 zł |
Social Partnerships and Responsible Business: A Research Handbook
ISBN: 9780415678643 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cross-sector partnerships are widely hailed as a critical means for addressing a wide array of social challenges such as climate change, poverty, education, corruption, and health. Amid all the positive rhetoric of cross-sector partnerships though, critical voices point to the limited success of various initiatives in delivering genuine social change and in providing for real citizen participation. This collection critically examines the motivations for, processes within, and expected and actual outcomes of cross-sector partnerships. In opening up new theoretical, methodological,... Cross-sector partnerships are widely hailed as a critical means for addressing a wide array of social challenges such as climate change, poverty, e... |
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278,65 zł |
The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency
ISBN: 9780231166089 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what companies in China, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand are doing to build businesses that will lessen the environmental impact of Asia's extraordinary economic growth. Dirty air, foul water, and hellishly overcrowded cities are threatening to choke the region's impressive prosperity. Recognizing a business opportunity in solving social problems, Asian businesses have developed innovative responses to...
One of Asia's best-respected writers on business and economy, Hong Kong-based author Mark L. Clifford provides a behind-the-scenes look at what compan...
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133,35 zł |