The ISIS Agreement: How Sustainability Can Improve Organizational Performance and Transform the World
ISBN: 9781844074150 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alan AtKisson, author of 'Believing Cassandra' and co-author of 'The Natural Advantage of Nations', provides the ideal entry point for leaders and innovators in all organisations charged with the task of understanding and instituting change towards sustainability.
Alan AtKisson, author of 'Believing Cassandra' and co-author of 'The Natural Advantage of Nations', provides the ideal entry point for leaders and inn...
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Mountain Area Research and Management: Integrated Approaches
ISBN: 9781844074273 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited work brings together scientists and practitioners from six continents to present their experience in undertaking activities that contribute to our understanding and informed management of mountain areas. They address the challenges of working in interdisciplinary teams and of effectively involving stakeholders.
This edited work brings together scientists and practitioners from six continents to present their experience in undertaking activities that contribut...
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660,05 zł |
Technology Transfer for the Ozone Layer: Lessons for Climate Change
ISBN: 9781844074730 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Imagine the pride of earning the Nobel Prize for warning that CFCs were destroying the ozone layer. Then imagine that citizens, policymakers, and business executives heeded the warning and transformed markets to protect the earth. This book is the story of why we can all be optimistic about the future if we are willing to be brave and dedicated world citizens.' MARIO MOLINA, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and Professor, University of California This book tells how the Montreal Protocol, the most successful global environmental agreement so far, stimulated the development and worldwide transfer...
'Imagine the pride of earning the Nobel Prize for warning that CFCs were destroying the ozone layer. Then imagine that citizens, policymakers, and bus...
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Green Seduction: Money, Business, and the Environment
ISBN: 9781934110270 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bill Streever has worked in almost every camp involved with the environment. He is a scientist who has worked in both public and private sectors. He brings that wide experience and the perspective of many others like him to Green Seduction: Money, Business, and the Environment. Thirty-five years ago, polluted rivers burned, cities and farms dumped raw sewage into aquifers, highway and dam construction proceeded with little thought to environmental impact, and carcinogens and acids billowed from smokestacks. Today much has changed. Government jobs and university training programs... Bill Streever has worked in almost every camp involved with the environment. He is a scientist who has worked in both public and private sectors. H... |
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Umweltökonomik: Eine Theorieorientierte Einführung
ISBN: 9783540587644 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Konzeption des vorliegenden Buches besteht im wesentlichen in einer speziellen "Problemsicht," aus der sich methodische und inhaltliche Schwerpunktsetzungen ableiten. Das Umweltproblem ist im Kern ein Koordinations- und Kooperationsproblem. Mit Hilfe eines spieltheoretischen Ansatzes wird dieser Kern dargestellt und analysiert. Bei dieser Analyse werden neuere Erkenntnisse der "Mechanism-design"-Forschung ebenso verwendet wie neuere Ans tze zur Erkl rung kooperativen Verhaltens. Die dabei verwendete Methode erlaubt eine klare Strukturierung des Umweltproblems und eine fundierte...
Die Konzeption des vorliegenden Buches besteht im wesentlichen in einer speziellen "Problemsicht," aus der sich methodische und inhaltliche Schwerpunk...
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138,14 zł |
Sustainable Solid Waste Management : Issues, Policies and Structures
ISBN: 9788171884285 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This case study discusses the need for improvement in the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste in Delhi, focusing on the need for policy, institutional, and governance reforms. The difficulties, including the coordination of the municipality and central government authorities, are investigated, and steps are suggested for making the process more participatory and technically sound through innovations elsewhere in the country and abroad, particularly from neighboring countries.
This case study discusses the need for improvement in the disposal of nonhazardous solid waste in Delhi, focusing on the need for policy, institutiona...
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138,69 zł |
Environmental Requirements and Market Access: Reflections from South Asia
ISBN: 9788171884667 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comprised of papers from leading experts, this multifaceted analysis explores the environmental requirements that have emerged from the trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization and their impact on developing markets such as South Asia. These essays address a variety of environmental and health-related standards and their prohibitive effect, discriminatory impact, and high-compliance costs--all of which hurt these developing markets. The volume concludes with an agenda of action points for governments, businesses, and international agencies to address the challenges these standards...
Comprised of papers from leading experts, this multifaceted analysis explores the environmental requirements that have emerged from the trade negotiat...
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165,42 zł |
Ecotaxes on Polluting Inputs and Outputs
ISBN: 9788171885848 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of taxes to put pressure on polluters has had mixed results internationally, according to this study of economic instruments (EIs) as a means for cleaning up environmental-hazards. The analysis identifies several key considerations in structuring effective ecotaxes, including trade-offs between environmental and other goals, the size of the tax base, distortions in prices, the possibility of phasing in the taxes, incentives for compliance, and the advisability of earmarking of funds for environmental protection. Industries in India covered in the discussion include makers of...
The use of taxes to put pressure on polluters has had mixed results internationally, according to this study of economic instruments (EIs) as a means ...
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China's Energy Outlook 2004
ISBN: 9789812567482 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book offers a timely and insightful look into China's present energy situation and the emerging challenges of balancing energy supply and demand over the forthcoming decades. It presents a holistic analysis of the growing pressures on the energy system as a result of the country's dynamic socio-economic progress. The volume considers current hot topics and will be useful as a reference for those aspiring to understand more about what is happening in China's energy sector today.
This unique book offers a timely and insightful look into China's present energy situation and the emerging challenges of balancing energy supply and ...
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401,10 zł |
Ökonomische Grundlagen Des Haftungsrechts
ISBN: 9783790805505 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In den letzten Jahren sind Fragen des Haftungsrechts in Wissenschaft und Politik intensiv diskutiert worden. Produkthaftung, Arzthaftung, Arbeitnehmerhaftung, Umwelthaf tung und Haftung bei Verkehrsunfallen waren dabei die wichtigsten Anwendungsgebiete, Gefahrdungshaftung und Verschuldenshaftung die meistzitierten Formen des Haftungsrechts. Wahrend in der juristischen Diskussion der Aspekt des "gerechten, Schadensausgleiches" im Vordergrund stand, haben sich die Okonomen insbesondere fur die Praventionswirkungen des Haftungs rechts interessiert. Hierbei geht es urn die Frage, inwieweit...
In den letzten Jahren sind Fragen des Haftungsrechts in Wissenschaft und Politik intensiv diskutiert worden. Produkthaftung, Arzthaftung, Arbeitnehmer...
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181,80 zł |
Business Power and Conflict in International Environmental Politics
ISBN: 9780230572522 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmental field, and provides detailed case studies of the most important environmental challenges in recent years.
This book puts forward a distinctive theoretical approach and analytical framework for studying business as an international actor in the environmenta...
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194,52 zł |
Economics and Management of Climate Change: Risks, Mitigation and Adaptation
ISBN: 9780387773520 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for mankind. Although there is increasing evidence that climate change is already occurring, there is neither sufficient knowledge as to what extent climate change poses risks to societies and companies, nor about adequate strategies to cope with these risks. Bringing together an international group of scholars from environmental economics, political science and business, this book describes, analyses and evaluates climate change risks and responses of societies and companies. The book contributes to the question of how climate change... Climate change is one of the biggest challenges for mankind. Although there is increasing evidence that climate change is already occurring, there ... |
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389,09 zł |
Quantitative Eco-nomics: How Sustainable Are Our Economies?
ISBN: 9781402069659 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Quantitative Eco-nomics" cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environmental and ecological economics. Environmental accounts and empirical analyses provide operational concepts and measures of the sustainability of economic performance and growth. They facilitate rational and compatible environmental and economic policies. This thought-provoking text raises doubts, however, about the measurability of sustainable development. Has the paradigm run its course? The answer is a guarded 'yes' - guarded... "Quantitative Eco-nomics" cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environment... |
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Sustainable Investing: The Art of Long-Term Performance
ISBN: 9781844075485 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by the world's leading experts, this book provides a consensus of insider views - essential for investors, fund managers, business leaders and consultants.
Written by the world's leading experts, this book provides a consensus of insider views - essential for investors, fund managers, business leaders and...
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Economics of the Environment: Theory and Policy
ISBN: 9783540737063 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The labor of nature is paid, not because she does much, but because she does little. In proportion as she becomes niggardly in her gifts, she exacts a greater price for her work. Where she is munificently bene- cent, she always works gratis. 1 David Ricardo This book interprets nature and the environment as a scarce resource. Whereas in the past people lived in a paradise of environmental superabundance, at present environmental goods and services are no longer in ample supply. The environment fulfills many functions for the economy: it serves as a public-c- sumption good, as a provider of...
The labor of nature is paid, not because she does much, but because she does little. In proportion as she becomes niggardly in her gifts, she exacts a...
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Visions of Nature: A Scientific Exploration of People's Implicit Philosophies Regarding Nature in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK
ISBN: 9783825890087 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Visions of nature are the ideas that people hold of what nature is and how we should relate to it. These visions, besides being a dynamic cultural phenomenon worthy of scientific study for its own sake, are important for the design of democratically grounded landscape and nature policies. Drawing from a wide range of disciplines from the social sciences, the humanities and ecology, this volume reports on the growing scientific insights in visions of nature in Europe. Aspects covered are the long term dynamics of relationships between people and nature connected to land-use and... Visions of nature are the ideas that people hold of what nature is and how we should relate to it. These visions, besides being a dynamic cultural ... |
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144,30 zł |
Global Warming, the Ozone Hole, and the Fourth Estate
ISBN: 9783836461818 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the chorus demanding substantive worldwide action on global warming
grows louder, the stakes are ever higher for human health, the environment, and the economy. Research has established that the news media both reflect and influence public opinion and the policymaking process. An understanding of news coverage of climate change and its sibling, the ozone hole, is invaluable for anyone serious about addressing todays global environmental problems. This interdisciplinary study illuminates the impact of American press coverage on the global warming and stratospheric ozone debates as they... As the chorus demanding substantive worldwide action on global warming
grows louder, the stakes are ever higher for human health, the environment,... |
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Managing a Material World
ISBN: 9780792351535 / Angielski / Twarda / 349 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we reach the end of the 20th century, the question of how to meet human needs and preferences while safeguarding the global environment is a major concern facing humanity. This book reflects the state of the art of thinking on the necessary concepts, tools and instruments that are likely to help producers, consumers and governments to adjust their policies and practices. It covers theories and concepts, practical approaches and visions of industry and government. The book has been written by a team of authors that includes the most forward thinking researchers and managers on the issue. It...
As we reach the end of the 20th century, the question of how to meet human needs and preferences while safeguarding the global environment is a major ...
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389,09 zł |
The Economics of Spatial Choice and Displacement
ISBN: 9783836437561 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fishery policy makers would often benefit from information on how a policy might change fishermen behavior before the policy is implemented. Discrete choice models may be used to make predictions about these potential changes. Most of the simulation work done so far, however, has not been validated.
In this book, a discrete choice model of fishing location choices is estimated and used to simulate the impacts of a spatial policy on the behavior of fishermen. The simulated redistribution of fishing effort is then compared with the actual redistribution of effort that had occurred with... Fishery policy makers would often benefit from information on how a policy might change fishermen behavior before the policy is implemented. Discrete ...
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421,80 zł |
Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural-Resource Use
ISBN: 9781402083037 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reduction of poverty is a tremendous and persistent challenge for the global community. Given that the livelihood of millions is at stake, there is an urgent need to reconsider the causes of and the remedies for poverty. Poverty and its reduction are closely linked to the natural-resources base. The quality and bounty of the local environment certainly affect living conditions of the poor and their poverty is often seen as a contributing factor to the degraded condition of the local environment. Teasing apart the direction of causality in this resource-poverty nexus is a serious empirical... Reduction of poverty is a tremendous and persistent challenge for the global community. Given that the livelihood of millions is at stake, there is... |
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