Greening Business
ISBN: 9780199535217 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental protection has increasingly become a business issue at both the strategic and operational level for businesses of all sizes and across all continents. Greening Business is a comprehensive and highly contemporary analysis of the business/natural environment interface.
Supported by numerous examples of current environmental practices in industry and commerce, the book examines why, when, and how businesses have responded to the growing pressures from governments, citizens, and other stakeholders to improve on their environmental performance. Focusing on the firm as the primary... Environmental protection has increasingly become a business issue at both the strategic and operational level for businesses of all sizes and across a...
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691,07 zł |
Greening Business: Research, Theory, and Practice
ISBN: 9780199535224 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental protection has increasingly become a business issue at both the strategic and operational level for businesses of all sizes and across all continents. Greening Business is a comprehensive and highly contemporary analysis of the business/natural environment interface.
Supported by numerous examples of current environmental practices in industry and commerce, the book examines why, when, and how businesses have responded to the growing pressures from governments, citizens, and other stakeholders to improve on their environmental performance. Focusing on the firm as the primary... Environmental protection has increasingly become a business issue at both the strategic and operational level for businesses of all sizes and across a...
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280,21 zł |
The Green Workplace: Sustainable Strategies That Benefit Employees, the Environment, and the Bottom Line
ISBN: 9780230103368 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As 21st-century companies realize they'll need to be green to compete, sustainable ideas are spreading like wildfire throughout all fields of modern business. In The Green Workplace, Leigh Stringer, an expert on sustainable workplace design and strategy, shows companies on the cusp of radically transforming their practices how to bring together diverse teams and establish new organizational governance for creative problem-solving in greening their workplace. Her hands-on green strategies are based on concrete and cost-effective changes such as: As 21st-century companies realize they'll need to be green to compete, sustainable ideas are spreading like wildfire throughout all fields of moder... |
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87,53 zł |
Cracking the Carbon Code: The Key to Sustainable Profits in the New Economy
ISBN: 9780230109506 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holds critical information that is needed by anyone who wants to understand how to make money from 'green' technology and how to avoid investments that will soon suffer from hidden carbon liabilities. Readers will learn to de-code a crucial component of this new economic driver - carbon credits, the world's first common currency.
Holds critical information that is needed by anyone who wants to understand how to make money from 'green' technology and how to avoid investments tha...
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195,87 zł |
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
ISBN: 9780470393741 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Publishers Weekly review:
"Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though "no company the authors know of is on a truly long-term sustainable course," Esty and Winston label the forward-thinking, green-friendly (or at least green-acquainted) companies WaveMakers and set out to assess honestly their path toward environmental responsibility, and its impact on a company's bottom line, customers, suppliers and... From the Publishers Weekly review:
"Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angl... |
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96,11 zł |
Sustainagility: How Smart Innovation and Agile Companies Will Help Protect Our Future
ISBN: 9780749460839 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Innovation and agility will solve most of the greatest threats to our planet's ecosystem, argue Patrick Dixon and Johan Gorecki. In Sustainagility, they suggest positive ways that businesses and individuals can address these threats while making a profit. Sustainagility covers how to encourage green innovation inside an organization, how to develop green technologies faster, and how to adapt rapidly to stay ahead of competition. It includes text boxes containing shocking statistics about the destruction of our planet, short inspiring examples of how innovation has...
Innovation and agility will solve most of the greatest threats to our planet's ecosystem, argue Patrick Dixon and Johan Gorecki. In Sustainagility<...
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165,95 zł |
The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy
ISBN: 9781408822180 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A major new analysis and action plan to deal with two linked challenges to human ingenuity and human survival - the crisis of climate change and the world economic crash.
A major new analysis and action plan to deal with two linked challenges to human ingenuity and human survival - the crisis of climate change and the w...
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94,02 zł |
Sustainable Design for Interior Environments Second Edition
ISBN: 9781609010812 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable Design for Interior Environments, 2nd Edition, builds on the first edition's premise that the interior design profession has a social and moral responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of people and the environment. The text equips professors, students, and practitioners to design sustainable interiors by addressing LEED certification, environmental concerns, ecosystems, ethics, values, worldviews, and the ways in which science and technology can be used to address environmental challenges. Through content, organization, and pedagogical features, the book...
Sustainable Design for Interior Environments, 2nd Edition, builds on the first edition's premise that the interior design profession has a soc...
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420,55 zł |
The Good Work Guide: How to Make Organizations Fairer and More Effective
ISBN: 9781844075577 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This guide lays out how and why companies should be doing more to improve conditions for their staff. It opens with a discussion of the latest thinking and research into the link between high performance outcomes and improvement in the quality of working life and looks at how organizations should approach creating 'good work'.
This guide lays out how and why companies should be doing more to improve conditions for their staff. It opens with a discussion of the latest thinkin...
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199,71 zł |
Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9781844075713 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This highly readable introduction explains the axioms of green economics including views on taxation, welfare, money, economic development and employment through the work of inspirational figures like Schumacher, Robertson and Douthwaite.
This highly readable introduction explains the axioms of green economics including views on taxation, welfare, money, economic development and employm...
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220,73 zł |
Stand-Alone Solar Electric Systems: The Earthscan Expert Handbook for Planning, Design and Installation
ISBN: 9781844077137 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the best ways to get power to remote, off-grid locations, whether in developed or developing countries, is through the use of solar electric systems. This practical guide describes how to plan, design and install solar electric systems in a manner that is hands-on, graphic and technically complete. Highly illustrated chapters cover solar energy basics, components of solar electric systems (modules, batteries, regulators, inverters and appliances), installation practice, details on planning and servicing systems, water pumping, refrigeration, and, village electrification. This is the...
One of the best ways to get power to remote, off-grid locations, whether in developed or developing countries, is through the use of solar electric sy...
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709,67 zł |
Carbon Markets: An International Business Guide
ISBN: 9781844077274 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. This book is a comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding the opportunities offered by regulated and voluntary carbon markets for tackling climate change. Coverage includes: - An overview of the problem of climate change, with a concise review of the most recent scientific evidence in different fields - A highly accessible introduction to the economic theory and different constitutive elements of a carbon allowances market - Explanation of the Kyoto Protocol and its flexibility mechanisms - Explanation of how the EU...
Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles of 2010 award. This book is a comprehensive and accessible guide to understanding the opportunities o...
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551,96 zł |
Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-In Tariff Handbook
ISBN: 9781844078585 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effective policy is vital for creating greener economies, new jobs and industries, for securing energy supplies and for protecting the climate and environment. As renewable energy is fundamental to achieving all of these objectives, it too needs the best possible policy to drive it. Feed-in tariffs have proven to deliver the fastest, most cost-effective and inclusive deployment, by allowing anyone to sell renewable energy into the grid and get a long term, guaranteed return for it. This book, from authors who have spent years working on feed-in tariff design and advocacy, provides a broad and...
Effective policy is vital for creating greener economies, new jobs and industries, for securing energy supplies and for protecting the climate and env...
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220,73 zł |
Lessons Learned from Community-Based Microgeneration Projects: The Impact of Renewable Energy Capital Grant Schemes
ISBN: 9781848062016 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Key lessons from projects where government-funded renewable energy schemes have been installed in nine schools, colleges and community buildings are presented. Key issues investigated include community engagement, installation, specification, operation and performance. This report also highlights feedback on the grant processes. The case studies provide an overview of benefits and issues surrounding project implementation and how to make sure the system performs in line with the specifications. The technologies covered include biomass, solar PV and solar thermal, wind turbine, ground source...
Key lessons from projects where government-funded renewable energy schemes have been installed in nine schools, colleges and community buildings are p...
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162,91 zł |
The Power of Sustainable Thinking: How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life
ISBN: 9781849710794 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work argues that the future will be powered by sustainable thinking in business, organizations, governments and everyday life. It tackles climate change, sustainability and life success by starting with your mind. The contents include how we think, the ethics of thinking, motivating others to think and act sustainably and more.
This work argues that the future will be powered by sustainable thinking in business, organizations, governments and everyday life. It tackles climate...
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173,42 zł |
Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges
ISBN: 9781849711739 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides. It covers a wide range of issues such as biodiversity, ecosystem services and valuation in the context of diverse ecosystems such as tropical forests, marine areas, wetlands and agricultural landscapes, non-timber forest products, incentives and institutions, payments for ecosystem services, governance, intellectual property rights and the protection of traditional knowledge, management of protected areas, and climate change and...
This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it ...
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231,25 zł |
Fundamentals of Sustainable Business: A Guide for the Next 100 Years
ISBN: 9789812839329 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes the legacy of environmental and social problems that have arisen as a result of conventional business practices. This title details the coalescence of a broad-based contemporary movement that has been called 'The Next Industrial Revolution'.
Describes the legacy of environmental and social problems that have arisen as a result of conventional business practices. This title details the coal...
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252,33 zł |
Working Collaboratively: A Practical Guide to Achieving More
ISBN: 9781909293601 / Angielski / Miękka / 89 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The really big sustainability challenges for your business can't be solved by your business. But they can be solved by your business working in collaboration with others. Working Collaboratively provides tools to help you understand and manage successful collaborations, including how to:
- identify potential collaborators, e.g. key players from other parts of the system - spot internal ways of working that support or get in the way of collaboration - use a range of techniques to explore win-wins with potential collaborators. Collaboration means... The really big sustainability challenges for your business can't be solved by your business. But they can be solved by your business working in collab...
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173,42 zł |
Leadership for Sustainability and Change
ISBN: 9781909293694 / Angielski / Miękka / 83 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live in challenging times. New leaders are enhancing their "inner game" to maximize their organizational impact, and using the principles of sustainability to help their organizations thrive and innovate in response to 21st century challenges. Leadership for Sustainability and Change is a concise, practical and energizing distillation of what is working for today's most successful sustainability leaders. It provides a clear set of actions you can take to generate transformation, with results yielding market advantage, eco-efficiency, product or service innovation, personal...
We live in challenging times. New leaders are enhancing their "inner game" to maximize their organizational impact, and using the principles of sustai...
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The Social Licence to Operate: Your Management Framework for Complex Times
ISBN: 9781909293724 / Angielski / Miękka / 95 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The social license to operate began as a metaphor to bring attention to the need for companies to earn acceptance from their host communities. Today, it is a necessary management framework for complex times. A social license strategy is essentially a stakeholder engagement strategy for navigating complex socio-political environments. This book provides the framework, tools and case studies a company needs to create a foundation for truly sustainable community development. This 90-minute guide will enable you to:
- Define the social license to operate - Make the business case... The social license to operate began as a metaphor to bring attention to the need for companies to earn acceptance from their host communities. Today, ...
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173,42 zł |