Description: If businesses and other organizations are to meet the many and complex challenges of sustainable development, then they all, both public and private, need to embed sustainability considerations into t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If businesses and other organizations are to meet the many and complex challenges of sustainable development, then they all, both public and private, need to embed sustainability considerations into t...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With increasing greenhouse gas emissions, we are embarked on an unprecedented experiment with an uncertain outcome for the future of the planet. The Kyoto Protocol serves as an initial step through 20...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Human induced biodiversity loss is greater now than at any time in human history, with extinctions occurring at rates hundreds of times higher than background extinction levels. The field of biodivers...
Author: Barbier, Edward B. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The basic unit of nature - the ecosystem - is a special form of wealth, which we can think of as a stock of natural capital. However, perhaps because this capital is free, we have tended to view it as...
Author: Neuhoff, Karsten Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: At the UN Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen, 117 heads of state concluded that low-carbon development is necessary in order to combat climate change. However, they also understood that transition to ...
Author: Whitesell, William C. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a thorough grounding in the science and economics of climate policy issues and draws key lessons from the longer experiences of central banks in grappling with related challenges. F...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides. It covers a wide range of issues such as...
Description: This book comprehensively addresses the economic, social and institutional difficulties in conserving biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides. It covers a wide range of issues such as...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agricultur...
Description: The dramatic increases in food prices experienced over the last four years, and their effects of hunger and food insecurity, as well as human-induced climate change and its implications for agricultur...
Author: Fiksel, Joseph Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Proven methods for achieving environmental excellence while increasing profitability"If your goal is to design and develop environmentally sustainable products that also drive shareholder value, then ...
Description: Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of inter...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ecological Economics from the Ground Up takes a unique and much-needed bottom-up approach to teaching ecological economics and political ecology, using case studies that focus on a wide range of inter...
Author: de Perthuis, Christian Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Since the publication of the Stern Review, economists have started to ask more normative questions about climate change. Should we act now or tomorrow? What is the best theoretical carbon price to rea...
Author: Pearson, Charles S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Economics and the Challenge of Global Warming is a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the role of economics in confronting global warming, the central environmental issue of the twenty-first centu...
Author: Goldemberg, Jose / Lucon, Oswaldo Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The relationship between energy and the environment has been the basis of many studies over the years, as has the relationship between energy and development, yet both of these approaches may produce ...
Description: The relationship between energy and the environment has been the basis of many studies over the years, as has the relationship between energy and development, yet both of these approaches may produce ...
Author: Allen, Daniel Publisher: Emereo Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Enterprise Content Management Best Practices: ECM Strategy 100 Most Asked Questions - Solve your Information Management challenges on Email Management, Search, Records Management, Compliance, and more...
Author: Endres, Alfred Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This intermediate-level undergraduate textbook in environmental economics builds on the microeconomics courses students take in their first year. It intentionally does not survey the whole field or pr...
Author: Cherry, Todd L. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P><P>The experimental method is one commonly applied to issues of environmental economics; this book brings together 63 leading researchers in the area and their latest work expl...
Author: Environmental Protection Agency & De Publisher: Government Institutes Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Federal Facility Environmental Management Systems explains how, why, and when federal agencies need to establish compliant EMSs in accordance with the April 21, 2000, Executive Order. Clear explanatio...
Author: World Bank Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression...
Author: Harris, Jason Publisher: Emereo Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Green Computing and Green IT Best Practices on Regulations and Industry Initiatives, Virtualization, Power Management, Materials Recycling and Telecommuting
Author: Scott Cato, Molly Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change, financial crisis and out-of-control globalization - all the major problems facing the world have their root in the dominant economic syst...
Author: Scott Cato, Molly Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change, financial crisis and out-of-control globalization - all the major problems facing the world have their root in the dominant economic syst...
Description: The price of oil is currently six times as high as it was five years ago, and will double within the next two years. We're all aware of the negative aspects of being so dependent on oil and you can't ...
Author: Bakas, Adjiedj / Creemers, Rob Publisher: Infinite Ideas Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The price of oil is currently six times as high as it was five years ago, and will double within the next two years. We're all aware of the negative aspects of being so dependent on oil and you can't ...
Description: Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered soci...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered soci...
Author: Botzen, W. J. Wouter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years, the damage caused by natural disasters has increased worldwide; this trend will only continue with the impact of climate change. Despite this, the role for the most common mechanism f...
Description: The increasing demand for rural land and its natural resources is creating competition and conflicts. Many interested parties, including farmers, nature conservationists, rural residents and tourists,...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The increasing demand for rural land and its natural resources is creating competition and conflicts. Many interested parties, including farmers, nature conservationists, rural residents and tourists,...
Author: Clark, Daniel Publisher: Emereo Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Network Access Control 100 Success Secrets - 100 Most Asked NAC Questions on Implementation and Deployment of unify endpoint security technology, user or system authentication and network security enf...
Author: Tilton, John E. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The sharp rise in mineral use has revived concern about scarcity. Economist John Tilton responds by analyzing recent trends in the consumption and availability of minerals that are most integral to th...
Author: Tilton, John E. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The sharp rise in mineral use has revived concern about scarcity. Economist John Tilton responds by analyzing recent trends in the consumption and availability of minerals that are most integral to th...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements seeks to identify key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and politically pragmatic post-2012 international policy...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements is a global, multi-disciplinary effort intended to help identify the key design elements of a scientifically sound, economically rational, and p...
Author: Ellerman, A. Denny / Convery, Frank J. / de Perthuis, Christian Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) is the world's largest market for carbon and the most significant multinational initiative ever taken to mobilize markets to protect the environm...
Author: Conrad, Jon M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus and intermediate microeconomics and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts (Chapter 1...
Author: Brown, Peter G. / Garver, Geoff Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this groundbreaking guide to building an ethical economy, Peter Brown and his colleagues at the Quaker Institute for the Future show readers how a system that embodies the core Quaker principle of ...
Author: Brown, Peter / Garver, Geoffrey Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Our current economic system is unsustainable. Its fundamental elements, unlimited growth, and endless wealth accumulation fly in the face of the fact that the Earth's resources are clearly finite. In ...
Author: Randall, Alan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The precautionary principle has been labeled simplistic and the rational approach to decision-making under risk was modeled on well-specified games of chance. How then are we to manage the risks, unce...
Author: Foster, Kevin Publisher: Emereo Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: SharePoint Best Practices: Improve workplace productivity, Help your people work together. 100 Most Asked Questions on Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Microsoft Search Server (MSS) and Microsoft Sh...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The failure of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 revealed major flaws in the way the world's policy makers have attempted to prevent dangerous levels of increases in global temperatur...