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  • Return on Investment in Corporate Responsibility
    Cesar Saenz
    In today’s climate, companies must be economically successful and at the same time take social responsibility. Author Cesar Sandro Saenz Acosta introduces a new SROIM (Social Return on Investment Management) model, to design and measure the social value created by companies. ...
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    98,76 €

  • Pollution Across Borders
    This book is a collection of insights from experts of various fields, and will entail discussions of the recurring haze problem in Southeast Asia.It discusses multiple aspects of the haze problem. What is the cause of the haze? Who are the perpetrators and victims? What are the impacts and costs of the haze? Why has the haze problem persisted for decades? Are there prospects of...
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    154,36 €

  • Sustainability Accounting
    Advances in Environmental Accounting Management aims to advance knowledge of the management of corporate environmental impacts. It aims to increase the awareness of management accounting practitioners, investors, and other stakeholders of the financial and social consequences of corporate environmental impacts. ...
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    184,53 €

  • The Value of a Teacher
    Kennedy Onyango-Adongo
    The Value of a Teacher is not just a book but a library joining together dozens of writings on history, stories, songs, poetry, and speeches on illegal trade in wildlife, air quality, environmental rule of law, the green economy, chemicals and waste, and marine debris. Almost the only common factor is that they all speak to us of teachers, revealing their nature, their ecosyste...
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    15,66 €

  • Sustainable in Stilettos
    Tracey Martin
    Sustainable in Stilettos is the beginning of a conscious conversation about fashion, beauty, art, food and life. Within its pages are real solutions from real people that are changing the face of the industry. Will you be one of them? In today’s world where massive corporations drive fashion, beauty products and food, the primary goal is always to maximize profits. In doing so,...
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    15,12 €

  • Saving Planet Earth
    Andrew S. Ball / David F. Smith / Duncan A. Rouch
    Planet Earth is a minuscule part of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and the only place where we humans can practically live. We all know this, but why are we so slow to fix the major environmental issues which are degrading the quality of life on this one planet? Here Dr Duncan Rouch, Dr David Smith and Professor Andrew Ball answer this question, with an exciting novel response that...
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    28,80 €

  • Revolution Sustainable
    Eric R Miller
        Revolution Sustainable is an internal look at society and culture and how we develop a rational approach to living, land development and lifestyle that encourages sustainability and environmental conservation. It will help engage governments, companies and individuals to follow the sustainable revolution through the use of available and developing technologies that are capa...
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    17,69 €

  • Our World is Burning
    Ian Prattis
    This book examines our fragile future and offers an alternative way of living based on Mindful Engagement. In sixteen essays Ian Prattis offers examples of how to respond to the most serious social, economic, environmental and personal challenges of the Twenty-First century. He advocates mindfulness practice to cultivate awareness as an ethical framework to guide actions, to cr...
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    16,00 €

  • Environmental Health and Safety Audits
    Lawrence B Cahill / Lawrence B. Cahill / Lawrence BCahill
    Environmental health and safety (EHS) audit programs have become an established and essential component of corporate governance in most every major organization whose activities could affect public health and the environment. While many of the audit programs in existence are quite mature there continues to be an evolution of audit practices designed to better identify and contr...
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    66,46 €

  • Our World Is Burning
    Ian Prattis
    This book examines our fragile future and offers an alternative way of living based on Mindful Engagement. In sixteen essays Ian Prattis offers examples of how to respond to the most serious social, economic, environmental and personal challenges of the Twenty-First century. He advocates mindfulness practice to cultivate awareness as an ethical framework to guide actions, to cr...
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    34,63 €

  • Green Economy in the Western Balkans
    This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to the Western Balkans, addressing topics from the green image of a country, sustainable waste management, the way in which SMEs develop green entrepreneurship, sustainability in tourism and trade, green consumerism, energy efficiency, and conservation projects. ...
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    168,06 €

  • Worst-Case Economics
    Frank Ackerman
    In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ’Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks. ...
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    54,33 €

  • Introducing a New Economics
    Jack Reardon / Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi / Molly Scott Cato
    Introducing a New Economics is a groundbreaking textbook that heralds a revolution in the teaching of economics. Students and lecturers alike are rejecting the narrow curricula and lack of intellectual diversity that characterise the mainstream. They demand that the real world should be brought back into the classroom, insisting that this is the only way to confront the current...
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    70,34 €

  • The Economics of Airport Operations
    This volume examines the role that airports play in economic development and land values, the regulation and economic efficiency of airports, airport pricing and competition, and the role played by airports in influencing airline operations and networks. ...
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    277,34 €

  • The Revolution Will Be Improvised
    Mike Freedman
    Filmmaker and writer Mike Freedman speaks with a range of experts from a variety of backgrounds about what the future has in store for humanity.Post-growth economics, sustainability, water privatisation, rejuvenation biotechnology, cyber-security and the war on drugs are some of the topics covered, featuring new insights from diverse thinkers including Richard Heinberg, Derrick...
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    11,36 €

  • A Course in Environmental Economics
    Daniel J. Phaneuf / Daniel JPhaneuf / Till Requate
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    202,55 €

  • Desenterrando el conflicto: empresas mineras, activistas y expertos en el Perú
    Fabiana Li
    A lo largo de la historia, las tecnologías mineras han tenido efectos transformadores sobre los paisajes y las formas de vida. La sierra central del Perú es el lugar emblemático que simboliza la convivencia entre las personas y la actividad extractiva. Fabiana Li analiza la manera agresiva en la que las modernas tecnologías mineras han llevado el tema al primer plano de la polí...
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    31,20 €

  • Greening Auto Jobs
    Caleb Goods
    Greening Auto Jobs: A Critical Analysis of the Green Job Solution details current and problematic understandings of what constitutes a 'green job.' Adopting an approach grounded in critical political economy, this book presents a framework to scrutinize the green job solution and the theoretical framework which overwhelmingly informs contemporary green job creation efforts and ...
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    66,74 €

  • Land!
    John Crowe Ransom
    The accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom made profound contributions to twentieth-century American literature. As a teacher at Vanderbilt University he was also a leading member of the Southern Agrarian movement and a contributor to the movement’s manifesto I’ll Take My Stand. Ransom’s Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites Ransom’s poetic sensibilities w...
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    30,73 €

  • Management of Transboundary Water Resources under Scarcity
    Water scarcity due to climate change, population growth, and economic development is a critical issue in many semi-arid and arid regions around the world. Water scarcity is especially critical in regions where water is shared by several riparian states and used for competing purposes (irrigation, domestic, industry, environment, and hydropower). There is evidence that water sca...
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    203,40 €

  • Saving Ourselves
    YACINE BELHAJ-BOUABDALLAH
    Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institutions at all levels, public and private, national and international, are teaming up to combat climate change and to promote more sustainable societies. In this book, Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah interviews heads of states, politicians, religious leaders, leading academi...
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    33,05 €

  • Saving Ourselves
    YACINE BELHAJ-BOUABDALLAH
    Sustainability is going to be one of the most important issues of the coming decades. For the first time, institutions at all levels, public and private, national and international, are teaming up to combat climate change and to promote more sustainable societies. In this book, Yacine Belhaj-Bouabdallah interviews heads of states, politicians, religious leaders, leading academi...
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    105,48 €

  • International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance
    MARY E LOVELY
     International Economic Integration and Domestic Performance brings together the essays of Mary E Lovely focused on the relationship between international economic integration and domestic performance. It is a collection of sole-authored and co-authored papers that have been published in various scholarly journals over the last two decades. The first section considers the welfa...
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    126,43 €

  • Urban Land and Sustainable Development
    Yehua Dennis Wei
    According to the 2014 revision of the World Urbanization Prospects by UN DESA, urbanization could add another 2.5 billion people to urban population by 2050, with close to 90 percent of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa. This unprecedented increase in urban population not only poses challenges to providing jobs, housing, and infrastructure, but also exerts an increas...
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    90,97 €

  • A Course in Environmental Economics
    Daniel J. Phaneuf / Daniel JPhaneuf / Till Requate
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    94,88 €

  • Climate Finance
     How is the struggle against climate change financed? Climate Finance: Theory and Practice gives an overview of the key debates that have emerged in the field of climate finance, including those concerned with efficiency, equity, justice, and contribution to the public good between developed and developing countries. With the collaboration of internationally renowned experts in...
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    178,92 €

  • Our Earth, Our Species, Our Selves
    Ellen Moyer
    Our current environmental crises -- most notably, climate change -- call on us to upgrade to a new way of life that will sustain us and our world far into the future. When you read this timely, accessible, and thought-provoking book, you will discover:*  We already have the capacities and tools to create a health and environmental revolution.*  Specific actions you and I can ta...
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    14,81 €

  • How I Saw It
    RICHARD L SANDOR
    From 1999 to 2005, Richard L Sandor wrote a monthly column for Environmental Finance magazine. The column was called "How I See It", and with this latest publication, Sandor has compiled all of his articles into one comprehensive historical analysis and commentary on the field of Environmental Finance.How I Saw It offers a historical account of the development of the Chicago Cl...
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    142,42 €

  • Rationing Earth
    Herb Bentz
    Our economy has spiralled out of control with too much focus on the quantity of production. The way to reduce this wasteful overproduction of goods and services is to increase their quality. In this groundbreaking book, industrial designer Herb Bentz explains how to fix the economy and break the environment versus economy deadlock. Bentz tells us how the use of good design can ...
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    38,82 €

  • Rationing Earth
    Herb Bentz
    Our economy has spiralled out of control with too much focus on the quantity of production. The way to reduce this wasteful overproduction of goods and services is to increase their quality. In this groundbreaking book, industrial designer Herb Bentz explains how to fix the economy and break the environment versus economy deadlock. Bentz tells us how the use of good design can ...
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    29,31 €