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The Dynamics of the Eco-Efficient Economy: Environmental Regulation and Competitive Advantage
ISBN: 9781840645620 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Entrepreneurs and managers are increasingly aware that the environment can be both a threat and an opportunity to their current economic activities. This timely book discusses the question of environmental performance versus corporate practices and finds that environmental considerations can have a positive effect on business.The perception of the environment as a means to achieve competitive advantage for companies is a relatively recent phenomenon. The contributors address how to create institutional environments that stimulate businesses to integrate the environment in strategic decision...
Entrepreneurs and managers are increasingly aware that the environment can be both a threat and an opportunity to their current economic activities. T...
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520,71 |
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Waste in Ecological Economics
ISBN: 9781840646481 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Waste is a quintessentially ecological economic issue. The generation of waste is rooted in the very laws of nature, but waste is also a social construct, and what we understand to be waste has evolved with human societies. Therefore, a crucial issue in modern waste management is the understanding of attitudes towards waste. This volume examines the ecological economics approach to waste, its conceptualization and management. In order to provide a comprehensive understanding of the issue of waste, the authors utilize an array of disciplinary approaches from both natural and social sciences....
Waste is a quintessentially ecological economic issue. The generation of waste is rooted in the very laws of nature, but waste is also a social constr...
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546,48 |
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The Impact of the WTO: The Environment, Public Health and Sovereignty
ISBN: 9781848445703 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nine environmental and health disputes that have been adjudicated at the WTO since 1995. The investigation concludes that criticism of the WTO has been overstated and, surprisingly, nations do in fact retain sovereignty over environmental and health policy. The disputes explored suggest that the WTO has been able to balance trade, environmental and health objectives. The discussion illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of the dispute resolution process and closes with suggestions for improving it.
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nine environmental and health disputes that have been adjudicated at the WTO since...
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226,58 |
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Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship
ISBN: 9781849800600 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for further academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society. This exciting and important Handbook provides a unique forum to discuss the consequences of the social and political mandate of business firms and examines the implications of these consequences for the theory of the firm. Leading academics have been invited from various disciplines such as management studies, economics, sociology, legal studies and political...
The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a...
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324,53 |
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Environmental Taxation and Climate Change: Achieving Environmental Sustainability Through Fiscal Policy
ISBN: 9780857937865 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Containing an authoritative set of original essays, Environmental Taxation and Climate Change provides fresh insights and analysis on how environmental sustainability can be achieved through fiscal policy. Written by distinguished environmental taxation scholars from around the world, this timely volume covers a range of hotly debated subjects including carbon related taxation in OECD countries, implications of environmental tax reforms, innovative environmental taxation and behavioural strategies, as well as many other relevant topics.
Containing an authoritative set of original essays, Environmental Taxation and Climate Change provides fresh insights and analysis on how environmenta...
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572,26 |
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Climate Change and Sustainable Development: New Challenges for Poverty Reduction
ISBN: 9781848444096 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book provides cutting-edge knowledge and analyses of the consequences that climate change will have for sustainable development and poverty reduction within the context of global development. Exploring alternative resource management approaches including federal resource management governance, ecosystem services, digital dematerialization, ecological cities, biofuels versus food, and children and climate change, this innovative volume provides fresh insights on the human condition with regards to the current debates on climate change. The distinguished contributors examine climate...
This unique book provides cutting-edge knowledge and analyses of the consequences that climate change will have for sustainable development and povert...
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670,22 |
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Oil Price Uncertainty
ISBN: 9789814390675 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers an investigation of the direct effects of uncertainty about oil prices on the real economy. This title features advances in macroeconomics and financial economics to investigate the effects of oil price shocks and uncertainty about the price of oil on the level of economic activity.
Offers an investigation of the direct effects of uncertainty about oil prices on the real economy. This title features advances in macroeconomics and ...
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274,27 |
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Environmental and Economic Impacts of Decarbonization: Input-Output Studies on the Consequences of the 2015 Paris Agreements
ISBN: 9780415787406 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On December 12th, 2015, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Paris, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal and legally binding climate deal. They agreed to decarbonize the economy in order to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2C relative to the preindustrial levels. Although each country is free to design its own strategy on mitigation and adaptation, it will be bound to such strategy and is supposed to implement the bulk of the adjustments by 2050. Many questions arise from the Paris Agreement that... On December 12th, 2015, at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change held in Paris, 195 countries adopted the first-ever universal... |
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710,17 |
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Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques: A Manual
ISBN: 9781840649192 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manual offers a detailed, contemporary explanation of how to carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It is relavent for the application of these techniques to all non-market goods and services including air and water quality; provision of public open space; h ealth care that is not sold through private markets; risk reduction policies and investments not provided privately; provision of information as with the recorded heritage, the protection of cultural assets and so on. The resulting valuations can be used for a number of purposes including, but not limited...
This manual offers a detailed, contemporary explanation of how to carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It is relavent for ...
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814,57 |
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"SEE" The EMPOWERING Energy Solution: Save money today, Create well paying jobs, Promote local economic growth, Reduce energy usage, Significantly red
ISBN: 9781475021400 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book will empower YOU as an individual to make informed decisions about your options regarding energy use for the heating or cooling of your home or other occupied buildings that you may own. Amazingly, if you finance the conversion of your old home or the building of your new home to SEE standards, your monetary savings from using less energy will in most cases more than cover any costs involved. Simple yet compelling arguments are made for how you can save money today and even greater amounts in the future, as home heating and cooling energy costs continue their rise. Not only will you...
This book will empower YOU as an individual to make informed decisions about your options regarding energy use for the heating or cooling of your home...
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56,61 |
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Governance by Evaluation for Sustainable Development: Institutional Capacities and Learning
ISBN: 9781849801577 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This path-breaking book provides balanced and comprehensive coverage of current research and practice on the role of evaluation in supporting governance for sustainable development and learning. This accessible study draws lessons from how evaluation studies and evaluation systems advance the agendas of sustainable development and good governance. Such studies open up decision-making processes to stakeholders, supporting evidence-based, coherent and transparent decision-making, integrating concerns of the three domains of sustainable development into decision-making and supporting learning...
This path-breaking book provides balanced and comprehensive coverage of current research and practice on the role of evaluation in supporting governan...
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670,22 |
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Cost - Benefit Analysis and Distributional Preferences: A Choice Modelling Approach
ISBN: 9780857932228 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advancing the incorporation of equity preferences in policy analysis, this book demonstrates the application of choice modelling to the estimation of distributional weights suitable for inclusion in a cost-benefit analytical framework. A platform for discussion of the challenges and opportunities of this approach is presented in the form of a detailed case study designed to estimate community preferences for different intergenerational distributions. While the case study is focused on natural resource management and environmental policy, the conceptual and methodological advances illustrated...
Advancing the incorporation of equity preferences in policy analysis, this book demonstrates the application of choice modelling to the estimation of ...
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448,53 |
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Valuing Environment and Natural Resources
ISBN: 9780857930231 / Angielski / Twarda / 1440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over-exploitation of environment and natural resources is becoming increasingly widespread in the modern world. To combat this, environmental economists have attempted to value such resources in order to ensure that they are given due recognition in any ex ante appraisal, or ex post evaluation of projects or policies; and also to ensure that optimal levels of consumption are determined for the resource. This authoritative collection, along with an original introduction by the editors, brings together seminal papers published in the last three decades which demonstrate the application of a...
Over-exploitation of environment and natural resources is becoming increasingly widespread in the modern world. To combat this, environmental economis...
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Consumption and Its Consequences
ISBN: 9780745661070 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our seemingly insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet? Can we reconcile curbs on consumption with goals such as reducing poverty and social inequality?
Miller responds to these questions by proposing feasible and, where possible, currently available alternatives, drawn mainly from his own original ethnographic research.... This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consume...
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257,78 |
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Forest Economics
ISBN: 9780774821537 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A firm grounding in economics is integral to sound forestry policies and practices. This book, a major revision and expansion of Peter H. Pearse's 1990 classic, is an essential book for forestry students and professionals. Updated and enhanced with advanced empirical presentation of materials, it covers the basic economic principles and concepts and their application to modern forest management and policy issues. Forest Economics reflects the authors' more than fifty years of combined experience in forest economics in the United States and Canada. Its comprehensive and systematic... A firm grounding in economics is integral to sound forestry policies and practices. This book, a major revision and expansion of Peter H. Pearse's ... |
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Contemporary Environmental Accounting : Issues, Concepts and Practice
ISBN: 9781874719342 / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice has been written in order to provide an up-to-date textbook in the rapidly developing field of environmental accounting. 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 should also find that the book provides a useful introduction to the topic.
Contemporary Environmental Accounting: Issues, Concepts and Practice has been written in order to provide an up-to-date textbook in the rapidly develo...
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Furthering Environmental Impact Assessment: Towards a Seamless Connection Between EIA and EMS
ISBN: 9780857933270 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The environmental impact of development projects is currently studied and mitigated from two distinct perspectives: before and after project implementation, with environmental impact assessment (EIA) and environmental management systems (EMS) being the main instruments on the respective sides. This double perspective creates a discontinuity in the way environmental impacts are analysed, an issue that has been noted by both academics and practitioners. This book gathers and presents both theoretical and actual examples to link EIA with EMS and explores ways to overcome difficulties and provide...
The environmental impact of development projects is currently studied and mitigated from two distinct perspectives: before and after project implement...
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Conflicts and Cooperation in Managing Environmental Resources
ISBN: 9783642467677 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of environmental resources involves strategic be- havior of self-interested agents, bargaining, cooperation and other efforts to provokeor settle conflicts. In order to model conflicts and cooperation in managingthese resources most papers contained in the book make use of advanced game theoretic concepts. The first six contributions investigate conceptual issues of international conflicts and cooperation while the other four address conflicts and cooperation arising in the context of monitoring and enforcing environmental controls. The emphasis is on demonstrating how new...
The use of environmental resources involves strategic be- havior of self-interested agents, bargaining, cooperation and other efforts to provokeor set...
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Das Management Von Stoffströmen: Geteilte Verantwortung - Nutzen Für Alle
ISBN: 9783642720109 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ausgehend von der Idee des Stoffstrommanagements und dessen Stellung innerhalb des "Sustainable Development"-Konzepts werden dem Leser Informationsgrundlagen, Bewertungsmethoden und Organisationsformen vorgestellt, die fur konkrete Stoffstrommanagement-Aktivitaten erforderlich sind. Das daraus erarbeitete Konzept wird anhand eines konkreten Beispiels durchgespielt, wobei auch die Grenzen des Managements von Stoffstromen aufgezeigt werden. Abschliessend werden die Moglichkeiten zur Forderung des Stoffstrommanagements im Rahmen der Regelungen des internationalen Handels (GATT/WHO) und der...
Ausgehend von der Idee des Stoffstrommanagements und dessen Stellung innerhalb des "Sustainable Development"-Konzepts werden dem Leser Informationsgru...
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Umwelt Und Sicherheit: Herausforderungen Für Die Internationale Politik
ISBN: 9783642720604 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Besteht ein Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltzerstorung, Ressourcenknappheit und gewaltsamen Konflikten? Globale Umweltveranderungen, wie der Klimawandel und der Anstieg des Meeresspiegels, Verknappung des Susswassers und fortschreitende Bodendegradation lassen zunehmend die aussen- und sicherheitspolitische Dimension der Umweltpolitik erkennen. Es sind vor allem schleichende und nur langfristig umkehrbare Entwicklungen, die ein entschiedenes politisches und gesellschaftliches Handeln erfordern.
Dieser Band vereint Beitrage namhafter deutschsprachiger Experten verschiedener wissenschaftlicher... Besteht ein Zusammenhang zwischen Umweltzerstorung, Ressourcenknappheit und gewaltsamen Konflikten? Globale Umweltveranderungen, wie der Klimawandel u...
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