Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

This book is a comprehensive guide to the key steps required to strategically approach becoming a successful sustainable business including conducting a CSR assessment, developing a CSR strategy and the accompanying business case, developing and implementing CSR commitments, and measuring the performance and effectiveness of the planning initiative.

This book is about providing a comprehensive framework for understanding business ethics and corporate governance.

This book provides insights into an understanding of disruptive leadership.

Progress of corporate history since the industrial revolution has been an enormous growth in freedom of enterprise, economic prosperity, innovation, technical, and intellectual advancement but it has also been, stoking the passions of greed, a slow and sure decay of morality, and social order culminating in high unemployment and Occupy Wall Street movements.

"e;A powerful, illuminating book.

Based on the past 30-years' research on the technical and cultural values of China's Grand Canal, this book, based on interdisciplinary research, studies the natural and social background of the evolution and development of different sections of the Grand Canal in different historical periods, as well as the interrelations between the Grand Canal and the Chinese politics, economics, and culture.

This second volume focuses on treatment technologies that are commonly applied at hazardous waste sites and site characterization.

No es extraño referir a la Ciudad de México bajo la idea de lo inconmensurable.

Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become.

Hollow and Home explores the ways the primary places in our lives shape the individuals we become.

Ecologists, like other scientists, have for decades debated their role in society.

Ecologists, like other scientists, have for decades debated their role in society.

In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces.

In 1897 a small landholder named Robert Eastham shot and killed timber magnate Frank Thompson in Tucker County, West Virginia, leading to a sensational trial that highlighted a clash between local traditions and modernizing forces.

Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history.

Oil and Nation places petroleum at the center of Bolivia's contentious twentieth-century history.

Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism.

Employing original fieldwork, historical analysis, and sociological theory, Sekine and Bonanno probe how Japan's food and agriculture sectors have been shaped by the global push toward privatization and corporate power, known in the social science literature as neoliberalism.

As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster.

As our economic and natural systems continue on their collision course, Bruce Jennings asks whether we have the political capacity to avoid large-scale environmental disaster.

Los progresos del hombre habla sobre el mundo moderno y las consecuencias que han producido un impacto en el medio ambiente: clima, contaminación e incluso en los productos que comemos.

This volume is an accont of early developments in meteorological research that brings to life the struggles of young pioneers-the trials and tribulations of developing new instruments, and the difficulty of sampling the atmosphere under challenging working conditions, to name just two.

The objects of the American Meteorological Society are "e;the development and dissemination of knowledge of meteorology in all its phases and applications, and the advancement of its professional ideals.

The new climate policy of the United States was introduced when President Donald Trump signed an Executive order on "e;Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth"e; on March 28th 2017.

A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.

In the fall of 1979, millions of some of the most beautiful acres in the world were under threat.

"e;Abbott and Rushforth have a knack for entertaining readers.

';All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign.

In the light of the looming ecological crisis facing the world today, much of the stunning beauty of the natural world is being lost forever.

The Civic Health Diagnostic Workbook was written with purpose: to help you diagnose your communitys civic health, plan for effective public engagement, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of your engagement processes, and also identify, benchmark, and share best practices.

The research reported in this monograph represents an attempt to explore the extreme values as well as the more probable values of the radiative characteristics of water and ice clouds in the solar wavelengths.

This book provides insight into the air force weather history from 1937 to 1987.

This book presents the expanded versions of invited papers presented at the International Symposium on the Life Cycles of Extratropical Cyclones, held in Bergen, Norway, 27 June-1 July 1994.

This book presents the memoirs of Sverre Pettersen, prominent leader in the field of meteorology.

Guy Stewart Callendar (1898-1964) is noted for identifying, in 1938, the link between the artifcial production of carbon dioxide and global warming.

From low humor to high drama, TV weather reporting has encompassed an enormous range of styles and approaches, triggering chuckles, infuriating the masses, and at times even saving lives.

The objectives of the American Meteorological Society are "e;the development and dissemination of knowledge of meteorology in all its phases and applications, and the advancement of its professional ideals.

The author of Strangers in the House examines nature's connection to herself and humanity in this collection of essays.

This practical and poetic "e;survival manual"e; is the first English translation of the French masterpiece of living wild in the world and creating a permaculture.

Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter.

For fifty years, Australia has schemed to deny East Timor billions of dollars of oil and gas wealth.

What you eat doesn't just impact you - it shapes the world around you.

Now no longer well known or clearly recognizable as a region, the Tulare Lake Basin also once supported the densest non-agricultural population in North America.

Scattered across the Scottish Highlands are the last surviving remnants of the Caledonian forest which have survived, naturally seeding and growing since the last ice age.

The Times Best Gardening Books of 2022 Ornamental plants are the cornerstone of our gardens and we are spoiled for choice with literally tens of thousands of hardy beauties from which to select.

Of Sea takes the form of a poetic bestiary of creatures living beneath, beside and above the water: in wetlands, salt marshes and the intertidal zone.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM*From the mercurial mind of award-winning poet John McCullough comes his darkest and most experimental book to date.

***'Just brilliant.