The Economics of Climate Change
ISBN: 9781847207678 / Angielski / Twarda / 984 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-volume collection brings together critical essays on the economics of climate change, describing advances in the field ranging from the Kyoto Protocol carbon market, to sustainability criteria, international trade, and the management of catastrophic risks. Prepared by one of the leading academics in this pertinent and expanding field and including a new introductory essay to the collection, The Economics of Climate Change will certainly be an important resource for academics and policymakers alike.
This two-volume collection brings together critical essays on the economics of climate change, describing advances in the field ranging from the Kyoto...
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2445,47 zł |
The Business of Climate Change : Corporate Responses to Kyoto
ISBN: 9781874719571 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years climate change has become a leading issue on both the business and political agenda. With the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change now ratified, business is bracing itself for the reality of serious regulation on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
The Business of Climate Change presents a state-of-the-art analysis of corporate responses to the climate change issue. The book describes and assesses a number of recent business approaches that will help to identify effective strategies and promote the dissemination of proactive... In recent years climate change has become a leading issue on both the business and political agenda. With the Kyoto Protocol to the UN Framework Conve...
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291,63 zł |
Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice
ISBN: 9781874719359 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice has been written by two of the world's leading experts in the field in order to provide the most comprehensive and state-of-the-art textbook on environmental accounting yet attempted. The book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students and their teachers, professional accountants, and corporate and organizational managers. Although no prior knowledge of environmental accounting is necessary to understand the critical issues at stake, academic accountants will also find that the book provides a useful...
Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice has been written by two of the world's leading experts in the field in ord...
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179,05 zł |
ISO 14001: Case Studies and Practical Experiences
ISBN: 9781874719274 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illuminating new book presents a series of in-depth case studies from around the world based on numerous personal interviews with organisational leaders and focusing on their journey towards sustainability. The aim is to provide visions of a more sustainable future, and shed light on the path, milestones and solutions - in particular the management processes these organisations employed - to provide a reliable compass that others can follow.
This illuminating new book presents a series of in-depth case studies from around the world based on numerous personal interviews with organisational ...
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163,70 zł |
International Trade and Economic Growth
ISBN: 9780765618023 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and economic growth rather than the static short-run relationship between trade and economic efficiency. The authors begin with well-known theory on international trade, and then take the student into more recent and less well-known work, all with a careful balance between empirical and theoretical perspectives. A valuable teaching tool for courses in international economics, economic growth, and economic development at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,...
Unlike any other text on international trade, this groundbreaking book focuses on the dynamic long-run relationship between trade and economic growth ...
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1023,44 zł |
Managing Cities in Developing Countries: The Theory and Practice of Urban Management
ISBN: 9781847207753 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban management is a relatively new topic, which has gained increasing importance due to a rise in urbanization and a wave of decentralization programs in recent decades. This innovative book is the first systematic treatment of the critical urban management issues facing developing countries. The volume brings together a number of theoretical approaches and practical experiences in order to study the economic and financial aspects of urban management. The author argues that urban managers have to make their cities more competitive via the new opportunities provided by decentralization, and...
Urban management is a relatively new topic, which has gained increasing importance due to a rise in urbanization and a wave of decentralization progra...
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209,80 zł |
Total Responsibility Management : The Manual
ISBN: 9781874719984 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost every manager today knows that satisfying customers by meeting their quality demands is a critical component of business success. Quality management is a given in modern companies - a competitive imperative. Yet it was not always so. Back when the quality movement was getting started, few managers really understood either the importance of quality to customers or how to manage for quality. Much the same could be said today about managing responsibility. Why and how should responsibility be managed? What is responsibility management? Total Responsibility Management answers these...
Almost every manager today knows that satisfying customers by meeting their quality demands is a critical component of business success. Quality manag...
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189,28 zł |
The Human Capacity for Transformational Change: Harnessing the Collective Mind
ISBN: 9780415539906 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have reframed existing divisions as connecting relationships, bringing together as dynamic systems the supposed opposites of parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society, and rational and creative thinking. This reframing of opposites as interconnected wholes has led to realization of the power of a collective mind. This book offers ways and means of creating the synergies that are crucial in influencing a desired transformational...
Pressures for transformational change have become a regular feature of most fields of human endeavour. Master-thinkers and visionaries alike have refr...
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716,40 zł |
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it up
ISBN: 9780415623698 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting questions over how to ensure the needs of vulnerable people on the ground are met. Community-based adaptation (CBA) is one growing proposal that argues for tailored support at the local level to enable vulnerable people to identify and implement appropriate community-based responses to climate change themselves. Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change: Scaling it up explores the challenges for meeting the scale of the... As climate change adaptation rises up the international policy agenda, matched by increasing funds and frameworks for action, there are mounting qu... |
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665,24 zł |
Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydro-Electric Storage Reservoir
ISBN: 9781552386347 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to coal-produced electricity.
It is also... Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the c...
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228,10 zł |
The Business of Environmental Health & Safety Management
ISBN: 9780984682508 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book charts the rise of demonstrating value from EH&S investments within the business world, empowering readers to objectify subjective data and to show how financial success will go hand in hand with responsible stewardship of environmental health, safety, and sustainability achievements.
This groundbreaking book charts the rise of demonstrating value from EH&S investments within the business world, empowering readers to objectify subje...
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157,04 zł |
Energy Analysis for a Sustainable Future: Multi-Scale Integrated Analysis of Societal and Ecosystem Metabolism
ISBN: 9780415539661 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis. This text outlines an innovative approach capable of characterising the quality of alternative energy sources in relation to both environmental constraints and socio-economic requirements.
The vast majority of the countries of the world are now facing an imminent energy crisis. This text outlines an innovative approach capable of charact...
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716,40 zł |
Global Environmental Commons: Analytical and Political Challenges in Building Governance Mechanisms
ISBN: 9780199656202 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental challenges, and the potential solutions to address them, have a direct effect on living standards, the organization of economies, major infrastructures, and modes of urbanization. Since the publication of path-breaking contributions on the governance of environmental resources in the early 1990s, many political initiatives have been taken, numerous governance experiments have been conducted, and a large multi-disciplinary field of research has opened up. This interdisciplinary book takes stock of the knowledge that has accumulated to date, and addresses new challenges in the...
Environmental challenges, and the potential solutions to address them, have a direct effect on living standards, the organization of economies, major ...
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672,88 zł |
Ökonomische Analyse Der Eu-Emissionshandelsrichtlinie: Bedeutung Und Funktionsweisen Der Primärallokation Von Zertifikaten
ISBN: 9783835006638 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Katja Zwingmann unterzieht die RL 2003/87/EG, die so genannte Emissionshandelsrichtlinie, einer okonomischen Analyse unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Primarallokation von Zertifikaten. Sie kommt zu dem Schluss, dass einzig eine Auktion der Zertifikate zu einem effizienten Ergebnis fuhrt, und empfiehlt bei der jetzigen Zusammensetzung der Teilnehmer ein hollandisches Auktionsverfahren."
Katja Zwingmann unterzieht die RL 2003/87/EG, die so genannte Emissionshandelsrichtlinie, einer okonomischen Analyse unter besonderer Berucksichtigung...
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255,70 zł |
Environmental Taxes and Fiscal Reform
ISBN: 9780230392397 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "ordinary" taxation. The authors examine the potential 'double dividend' from tax reform for helping the environment, reducing unemployment and encouraging growth.
A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as we...
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195,42 zł |
Collective Learning for Transformational Change: A Guide to Collaborative Action
ISBN: 9780415622929 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a step by step guide for those seeking to undertake a transformational change process based on strong collaboration among diverse interests. Guiding transformational change goes beyond small changes to an existing system. It leads to lasting change in the system itself.
This book offers a step by step guide for those seeking to undertake a transformational change process based on strong collaboration among diverse int...
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741,99 zł |
Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development: Learning Journeys in Conservation
ISBN: 9780415524889 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to be defined. Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development examines ways in which resilience may be created within the web of ecological, socio-economic and cultural systems that make up the world in. The authors embark upon a learning journey exploring both robust and fragile systems and asking questions of groups and individuals actively involved in building or maintaining resilience. Through a series of wide ranging... Resilience is a term that is gaining currency in conservation and sustainable development, though its meaning and value in this context is yet to b... |
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460,50 zł |
Water Trading and Global Water Scarcity : International Experiences
ISBN: 9780415638210 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it. One of the key water management options for water demand is water trading. Water trading can contribute to water reallocation and in this way improve efficiency of water use and decouple economic growth and the use of water resources, thus contributing also to improve environmental river flows. This book explores the role of water trading, as an instrument of integrated water resources management.
Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal wit...
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716,40 zł |
Climate Change Ethics: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm
ISBN: 9780415625715 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the missing component to the debate. This book examines why 35 years of discussion of human-induced warming has failed to acknowledge fundamental ethical concerns, and subjects climate change's most important policy questions to ethical analysis.
Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the missing component to the debate. This book examines why 35 y...
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665,24 zł |
Bleakonomics: A Heartwarming Introduction to Financial Catastrophe, the Jobs Crisis and Environmental Destruction
ISBN: 9780745332680 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Bleakonomics" is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability.
Written for anyone who is wondering how we ve come to this point, Rob Larson holds mainstream economic theory up against the grim reality of a planet in meltdown. He looks at scientists conclusions about climate change, the business world s opinions about its own power, and reveals the fingerprints of finance on American elections. With a unique and engaging approach to each crucial subject,... "Bleakonomics" is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in th...
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457,85 zł |