Sustainable Development category: 1942 books
Peace through Commerce
Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
Peace through Commerce: Responsible Corporate Citizenship and the Ideals of the United Nations Global Compact contains a foreword, introduction, and twenty-one chapters by major business leaders and scholars who discuss the issues set out by the United Nations Global Compact, launched in 2000. The...
The High Engagement Work Culture
Balancing Me and We
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The 2008 crisis set off a systemic panic which almost engulfed the world's financial system. Through a lens of sustainability this book examines how organisations can explore a new business culture today. Drawing from real-life examples and new ideas Bowles and Cooper discuss how organisations can move from 'me' to 'we'.
Environmental Ethics
An Introduction and Learning Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
As the destructive consequences of environmental problems such as global warming, water scarcity and resource and biodiversity destruction have been felt ever more heavily, people are becoming more aware of the importance of and their responsibilities towards environmental protection. The causes of...
by Thomas Kruse
Language: German
Release Date: August 12, 2006
Language: German
Release Date: August 12, 2006
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich VWL - Umweltökonomie, Note: 1,0, FernUniversität Hagen, 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aufgrund der in den letzten Jahren und Jahrzehnten immer offener zu Tage tretenden globalen Umweltschäden, verursacht durch die zunehmende...
Entrepreneurship and Management in Forestry and Wood Processing
Principles of Business Economics and Management Processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
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...
Benefits of Investing in Water and Sanitation
An OECD Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
The provision of water supply, sanitation and wastewater services generates substantial benefits for public health, the economy and the environment. Benefit-to-cost ratios can be as high as 7 to 1 for basic water and sanitation services in developing countries.
Wastewater treatment interventions,...
Ensuring Environmental Compliance
Trends and Good Practices
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Despite progress in recent years, there is growing evidence that OECD countries are not on track to reach some of their key environmental goals. This report examines the strategies and instruments that governments use to ensure compliance with pollution prevention and control regulations, particularly...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Solving the world’s environmental problems could take a significant toll on economic growth if only today’s technologies are available. We know that innovation – the creation and adoption of new cleaner technologies and know-how – provides a means to achieve local and global environmental...
by Simon Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book explores the role of integrity in business and discusses why all leaders seek to have it. The author argues that it is less about ‘having’ integrity as an attribute, and more about practising it. The Practice of Integrity in Business examines how taking responsibility for ideas, values...
Accounting for the Environment
More Talk and Little Progress
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Advances in Environmental Accounting and Management has three main objectives. First, it enhances understanding of global environmental issues, especially valuation and disclosure of environmental impacts of firms' activities. Second, it makes management, investors and other stakeholders aware of...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
This 2009 review of Ireland's environmental conditions and policies evaluates progress in reducing the pollution burden, improving natural resource management, integrating environmental and economic policies, and strengthening international co-operation. The analyses presented are supported by a broad range of economic and environmental data.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book provides a conceptual framework of global value chains, flexibility and sustainability, supported by research projects, case applications and models in various related areas organized into three parts. In the first part of the book, various authors discuss how to improve the efficiency and...
The Future MBA
100 Ideas for Making Sustainability the Business of Business Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The Future MBA brings together 100 ideas on how to rethink management education in order to embed sustainability. This book acts as a creative toolkit for individuals working in management education on how to design new and innovative products, services, and experiences for the business school community...
Business Models in the Circular Economy
Concepts, Examples and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book focuses on the role of corporations in the transition towards an economy that works more in line with ecological limits. It is centred on business model innovation in the context of the circular economy, which is gaining consensus across business, policy and academic circles by proposing...