Organizations, Policy, and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives
ISBN: 9780804741965 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism. Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780804745031 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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166,94 zł |
Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment
ISBN: 9780804748063 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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563,43 zł |
Shades of Green: Business, Regulation, and Environment
ISBN: 9780804748520 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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130,37 zł |
Green Gold: Japan, Germany, the United States, and the Race for Environmental Technology
ISBN: 9780807085318 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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121,93 zł |
Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots
ISBN: 9780977825363 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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192,97 zł |
Natural Products in the New Millennium: Prospects and Industrial Application
ISBN: 9781402010477 / Angielski / Twarda / 505 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with a variety of aspects of natural product research. It includes review articles and revised original contributions involving analysis, isolation and structure elucidation, synthesis and bioactivity of terrestrial and marine natural products. Plant cell biotechnology for the production of secondary metabolites is discussed. This volume provides also outstanding information about the industrial application of natural products for medicinal purposes.
The broad interdisciplinary approach found in this book, which comprises 50 papers, makes it interesting to the scientists,... This book deals with a variety of aspects of natural product research. It includes review articles and revised original contributions involving analys...
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781,79 zł |
The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable
ISBN: 9781559631549 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why shouldn't people who deplete our natural assets have to pay and those who protect them reap profits? Conservation-minded entrepreneurs and others around the world are beginning to ask just such a question, as the increasing scarcity of natural resources becomes a tangible threat to our own lives and our hopes for our children. This text brings together Gretchen Daily, an ecologist, with Katherine Ellison, a journalist, to offer an engaging and informative look at a new new economy - a system which recognizes the economic value of natural systems and the potential profist in protecting...
Why shouldn't people who deplete our natural assets have to pay and those who protect them reap profits? Conservation-minded entrepreneurs and others ...
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153,76 zł |
The Sustainable Company: How to Create Lasting Value Through Social and Environmental Performance
ISBN: 9781597260183 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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142,78 zł |
From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance
ISBN: 9781597260305 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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170,24 zł |
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. 5-8 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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965,13 zł |
Greening the Corporation : Management Strategy and the Environmental Challenge
ISBN: 9781853837722 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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A Thousand Shades of Green: Sustainable Strategies for Competitive Advantage
ISBN: 9781853838460 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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704,29 zł |
Cut Carbon, Grow Profits: Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability
ISBN: 9781904750154 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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347,76 zł |
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. 5-8 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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230,64 zł |
Sustainable Consumer Services: Business Solutions for Household Markets
ISBN: 9781844075119 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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172,11 zł |
Sample Entrepreneurship Project Proposal: A Guide Book for College Students Final Project
ISBN: 9781517179632 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manual gives a sample of what an entrepreneurship project form the environment can be. Ideally every student should be self employed upon finishing college. This self employment should be based on making practical the final project, be it entrepreneurship or research project. Since the world is running short of ideas of how to tackle unemployment, entrepreneurship offers that opportunity for innovation. This book helps lay that foundation...and its big thinking...since students are the future managers of mega projects, they need to start thinking big early enough. Its practical...
This manual gives a sample of what an entrepreneurship project form the environment can be. Ideally every student should be self employed upon finishi...
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Cool Companies: How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emmissions
ISBN: 9781853836558 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Cool Companies' turns on its head the idea that measures to avert global warming and climate change will pile massive costs on to the industrial sector. It shows how the smartest companies have been able to make money through the improvements that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Industry is going to have to adjust to the new tax and regulatory regimes being introduced around the world, aimed at reducing emissions and meeting internationally agreed targets. The more far-sighted companies have recognised the opportunities this offers. Joseph Romm shows how successful they have been in...
'Cool Companies' turns on its head the idea that measures to avert global warming and climate change will pile massive costs on to the industrial sect...
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Blueprint 4: Capturing Global Environmental Value
ISBN: 9781853831843 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blueprint 4 continues the theme of Blueprint 2 in looking at the opportunities for using market forces for environmental ends. It assesses a range of possible imaginative 'global bargains', which give all parties a self-interested incentive to improve the global environment. The book begins by reviewing the principle global issues to be addressed, and then explains the mechanisms of resource degradation: how economic systems fail, the operation of trade on the environment and the effects of population growth and consumption patterns. It then shows how environmental value can be captured, and...
Blueprint 4 continues the theme of Blueprint 2 in looking at the opportunities for using market forces for environmental ends. It assesses a range of ...
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198,19 zł |
Blueprint 2: Greening the World Economy
ISBN: 9781853830761 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following 'Blueprint for a Green Economy' (the Pearce Report), David Pearce and his team have turned their attention to global environmental threats. If it makes sense to apply economic analysis to national environmental problems, then it makes even more sense to apply it to world-wide dangers. The authors start by describing the reasons for using economic approaches to common resources like climate, ozone and biodiversity. They then take a detailed look at the economic ways of tackling the issues involved in global warming, ozone layer depletion, environmental degradation in the Third World,...
Following 'Blueprint for a Green Economy' (the Pearce Report), David Pearce and his team have turned their attention to global environmental threats. ...
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130,37 zł |