Energiewirtschaft: Einfhrung in Theorie Und Politik
ISBN: 9783486709056 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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188,51 zł |
Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415537889 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducing it to a shallow technique for 'solving community problems'. In contrast, this dialogical approach re-maps the ground of community development practice within a frame of ideas such as dialogue, hospitality and depth. For the first time community development practitioners are provided with an accessible understanding of dialogue and its relevance to their practice, exploring the contributions of internationally significant thinkers such... This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless, rational philosophy - reducin... |
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746,33 zł |
Low Carbon Development: Key Issues
ISBN: 9780415538985 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of low carbon development and takes an international and interdisciplinary approach to the subject by drawing on insights from across the sciences and social sciences as well as embedding the discussion in a global context. The first part elaborates on the need for low carbon development in a carbon constrained world and the concept of low... Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate chang... |
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772,07 zł |
Statelessness and Citizenship: Camps and the Creation of Political Space
ISBN: 9780415631358 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it mean to be a citizen? In depth research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory s reductive vision, the limits of political community are not set in stone. The Urdu-speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing uprooted populations and their experience provides insights into the long term unintended consequences of major historical events. Set in a site of camp and non-camp based displacement, it illustrates the nuances of political identity and lived spaces of statelessness that Western political theory... What does it mean to be a citizen? In depth research with a stateless population in Bangladesh has revealed that, despite liberal theory s reductiv... |
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720,59 zł |
Transformative Sustainable Development: Participation, Reflection and Change
ISBN: 9780415640794 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more fundamental changes in social-political processes and relations. In this context, participation is a genuinely transformative approach to sustainable development, yet the process by which participation leads to transformation is not sufficiently understood. This book considers how the act of participating in sustainable development projects can bring about social transformation that is considered to be fair and just by the participants... Recent debates about sustainable development have shifted their focus from fixing environmental problems in a technocratic and economic way to more... |
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720,59 zł |
Formal Peace and Informal War: Security and Development in Congo
ISBN: 9780415641333 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns; but whose security? While the concepts of a common global security and human security gained prominence in the development discourse of the 1990s, two immense wars violated Congolese territorial sovereignty, bringing disaster to the population. This book examines Congo s contemporary wars and the peace agreed in 2002 from a security perspective. It explores the apparent contradictions in the political, economic and military mechanisms of security installed at Independence. For while the 2002 peace... Northern interventions into African countries at war are dominated by security concerns; but whose security? While the concepts of a common global ... |
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720,59 zł |
Values in Sustainable Development
ISBN: 9780415643504 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical methods available to study environmental values as affected by sustainable development. The first part is methodological, looking at what values are, why they are important, and how to include values in sustainable development. The second part looks at how values differ across social... To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explic... |
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746,33 zł |
Contemporary Water Governance in the Global South: Scarcity, Marketization and Participation
ISBN: 9780415657990 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost every major river dammed and diverted; increasing conflicts over the delivery of water in urban areas; continuing threats to water quality from agricultural inputs and industrial wastes; and the increasing variability of climate, including threats of severe droughts and flooding across locales and regions. These issues present tremendous challenges for water governance. This book focuses on three major concepts and approaches that have... The litany of alarming observations about water use and misuse is now familiar-over a billion people without access to safe drinking water; almost ... |
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746,33 zł |
Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action
ISBN: 9780415637411 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case studies from the UK, Germany and USA to explore the effect of institutional design and modes of governance and evaluates policy outputs, outcomes and best practice. In doing so, it illustrates where power and decision making lies in the delivery of urban renewal initiatives and examines the... Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore n... |
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720,59 zł |
Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change Adaptation
ISBN: 9780415633116 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems. Many publications deal with economic issues relating to mitigation policies, but the economics of adaptation to climate change has received comparatively little attention. However, this area is is critical and a central pillar of any adaptation strategy or plan and is the economic dimension, which therefore merits the increase in attention it is receiving. This book deals with the difficulties that face the economics of... Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all region... |
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1235,30 zł |
Fraud and Carbon Markets: The Carbon Connection
ISBN: 9780415657013 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This timely book is the first to give an overview of fraud in the carbon market. Written by a former broker, it presents unique material on the carbon fraud mechanics and analyses the missing trader fraud (VAT fraud) on European carbon allowances markets with a focus on financial and organised crime issues. Fraud and Carbon Markets: The Carbon Connection assesses the weaknesses of the Kyoto Protocol and environmental markets, using statistics as... The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This timely book i... |
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720,59 zł |
Stadtmarketing Und Kommunales Audit: Chance Für Eine Ganzheitliche Stadtentwicklung
ISBN: 9783642645556 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seit Ende der 80er Jahre befassen sich verschiedene Stadte mit Stadtmarketing, das den Bereichen Offentlichkeitsarbeit, Stadtentwicklung, Wirtschaftsforderung und Standortwerbung neue Impulse geben sollte. Marketingkonzepte wurden dabei mit Modifikationen von der Betriebswirtschaft auf die kommunale Ebene ubertragen. Hinter den ursprunglichen Konzeptionen standen Schlagworte wie 'Unternehmen Stadt' oder 'Dienstleistungsorientierung'. Heute wird unter dem Begriff eher ein umfassendes Konzept verstanden, das weniger die Werbung fur die Stadt in den Mittelpunkt ruckt, als vielmehr versucht, auf...
Seit Ende der 80er Jahre befassen sich verschiedene Stadte mit Stadtmarketing, das den Bereichen Offentlichkeitsarbeit, Stadtentwicklung, Wirtschaftsf...
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275,21 zł |
Betriebliche Umweltökonomie: Bewerten - Optimieren - Entscheiden
ISBN: 9783642646645 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Betrieblicher Umweltschutz ist mittlerweile in vielen Betrieben der deutschen Industrie zum gleichberechtigten Teil der Unternehmenspolitik avanciert. Das vorliegende Fachbuch zeigt erstmals systematisch und umfassend die technisch-wirtschaftlichen Zusammenh nge und L sungsm glichkeiten f r optimale Entscheidungen eines betrieblichen Umweltschutzmanagements auf. Anhand praxisrelevanter Beispiele werden Entscheidungsprozedere, Datenbeschaffung, L sungsm glichkeiten und Ergebnisbewertung und -umsetzung dokumentiert.
Betrieblicher Umweltschutz ist mittlerweile in vielen Betrieben der deutschen Industrie zum gleichberechtigten Teil der Unternehmenspolitik avanciert....
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139,41 zł |
Transportation Infrastructure: Environmental Challenges in Poland and Neighboring Countries
ISBN: 9783642646911 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Experts discuss how to repair, rehabilitate and modernize the transportation infrastructure in emerging Central Europe. The focus is on applying modern engineering technologies and management decision-making technologies to solve common and regional environmental issues in ground transportation, with emphasis on roads and bridges. The book includes situation, position and technical papers and state-of-the-art presentations from scientific and engineering experts as well as from government agency officials responsible for national and regional transport. Concise, cogent recommendations are...
Experts discuss how to repair, rehabilitate and modernize the transportation infrastructure in emerging Central Europe. The focus is on applying moder...
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392,66 zł |
Sustainable Development in Amazonia: Paradise in the Making
ISBN: 9780415640763 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amazonia. This is the first book focusing on agency, reflexivity and social development to address sustainable development in the region. It discusses the importance of looking into societal dynamics in order to deal with deforestation and sustainable development policies through the ethnography of an Amazonian settlement named New Paradise. This book demystifies utopian and overtly conservationist views that depict the Amazon rainforest as a...
This book argues against the assumption that sustainability and environmental conservation are naturally the common goal and norm for everyone in Amaz...
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205,83 zł |
International Aid and the Making of a Better World: Reflexive Practice
ISBN: 9780415656733 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their own? A scholar-activist and lifelong development practitioner seeks to answer that question in a book that provides a vivid and accessible insight into the world of aid its people, ideas and values against the backdrop of a broader historical analysis of the contested ideals and politics of aid operations from the 1960s to the present day. Moving between aid-recipient countries, head office and global policy spaces, Rosalind Eyben critically... How can international aid professionals manage to deal with the daily dilemmas of working for the wellbeing of people in countries other than their... |
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746,33 zł |
The Fish Production Potential of the Baltic Sea: A New General Approach for Optimizing Fish Quota Including a Holistic Management Plan Based on Ecosys
ISBN: 9783642263644 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It presents a new approach to set fish quota based on holistic ecosystem modeling (the CoastWeb-model) and also a plan to optimize a sustainable management of the Baltic Sea including a cost-benefit analysis. This plan accounts for the production of prey and predatory fish under different environmental conditions, professional fishing, recreational fishing and fish cage farm production plus an analysis of associated economic values. Several scenarios and remedial strategies for Baltic Sea management are discussed and an "optimal" strategy motivated and presented, which challenges the... It presents a new approach to set fish quota based on holistic ecosystem modeling (the CoastWeb-model) and also a plan to optimize a sustainable ma... |
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589,01 zł |
Improving Global Environmental Governance: Best Practices for Architecture and Agency
ISBN: 9780415811767 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The experience of environmental governance is approached in "Improving Global Environmental Governance "from the unique perspective of actor configuration and embedded networks of actors, which are areas of emerging importance. The chapters look at existing Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) and the broader constellation of partially networked institutions to better understand the involvement of individual actors and how to deepen the networks that include them to generate more effective governance. The book covers a wide range of issued pertaining to environmental governance... The experience of environmental governance is approached in "Improving Global Environmental Governance "from the unique perspective of actor config... |
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746,33 zł |
The Coming of Age of the Green Community: My Neighbourhood, My Planet
ISBN: 9780415517614 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970 s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives. Governments have serially failed to do the job at the international level. Now, climate change, resource depletion and widening social aspirations threaten to destabilise human society unless sustainable change can be influenced from another direction. This book explores the activities of a new generation of community-led initiatives that may... People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 19... |
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720,59 zł |
Entrepreneurship and Management in Forestry and Wood Processing: Principles of Business Economics and Management Processes
ISBN: 9780415591010 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forestry has long been in a rather favourable position in offering a valuable raw material source in high demand. However, with rapidly changing end-user demands and cost competitiveness within the forest and wood chain as a whole, the industry is needing to adapt. Explaining entrepreneurial action as part of a chain of comprehensive value-added processes leads to a new perception of forest production and wood processing. This book applies the main concepts of modern managerial science to the world of forestry and is the perfect book for students studying forestry and wood processing, as well...
Forestry has long been in a rather favourable position in offering a valuable raw material source in high demand. However, with rapidly changing end-u...
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746,33 zł |