Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

The global community is at a critical moment in its pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); crises are threatening decades of development gains, further delaying the urgent transition to greener, more inclusive economies, and throwing progress on the SDGs even further off track.

This book offers a timely and insightful look at how political tensions, economic disruptions, and technological advances are reshaping the way goods and services move across borders.

Agriculture is the oldest and most traditional of economic sectors, and its business has seen major evolutionary leaps over the past century.

Too many organizations are currently caught in a green slump, struggling to engage in sustainability projects and making far less progress than they should be.

Changing the world and making a profit can go hand in hand.

The book provides an overarching perspective on sustainability from a historical, practical and legal perspective.

The modern era is marked by intricate disruptions originating from diverse sources, carrying long-term implications.

Unlock greater profits.

This comprehensively updated third edition explores the nature and role of environmental management and offers an introduction to this rapidly expanding and changing field.

This book conceptualizes and clarifies the meaning of sustainable performance, approaching it holistically from different perspectives.

Everyone knows we're doomed by runaway overpopulation, pollution, or resource depletion, whichever comes first.

This book explores empirical studies and policies related to green finance and low-carbon technology development through country-level case studies and regional analyses across East and Southeast Asia.

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the recently concluded conference, held on May 2-3, 2023, in the beautiful Kingdom of Bahrain.

Engineers have applied science to land people on the moon, design the cars we drive, and cram the power of a 20th-century supercomputer into the phones we carry.

Environmental Strategic Communication: Advocacy, Persuasion, and Public Relations equips readers with the concepts, contexts, and practical tools to become effective environmental communicators across nonprofit, corporate, and government sectors.

The ongoing changes in population, climate, and the availability of energy have resulted in unprecedented threats and opportunities that all project and program managers, portfolio managers, and public planners need to be aware of.

Things that are good for the planet are also good for business.

Although most agree that Lean Six Sigma is here to stay, they also agree that learning how to sustain the results seems problematic at best and unattainable at worst.

The ongoing changes in population, climate, and the availability of energy have resulted in unprecedented threats and opportunities that all project and program managers, portfolio managers, and public planners need to be aware of.

Sharing successful examples of sustainable products from around the world, Green Products: Perspectives on Innovation and Adoption supplies an in-depth analysis of the key factors that influence the adoption of sustainable products.

En los ltimos aos el poli-etilen-tereftalato, mejor conocido como PET,se ha convertido en un Comoditie de alto valor y potencial en el mercadomexicano.

Companies are increasingly facing intense pressures to address stakeholder demands from every direction: consumers want socially responsible products; employees want meaningful work; investors now screen on environmental, social, and governance criteria; "e;clicktivists"e; create social media storms over company missteps.

A unique book that takes the reader into the depths and mysteries of creating a wondrous people-initiated economic plan grounded in centuries of cultural and ecological wisdom.

Any business can take steps to be friendlier to the environment, but how do you do it while maintaining and actually boosting profits?

The book features contributions that address both environmental economics and environmental management.

This comprehensive text provides students with a solid foundation in international marketing theory, research, and practice.

A framework is concisely presented for the economic analysis of pollution problems and for evaluating proposed solutions.

Business leaders need to embrace sustainability in order to ensure the lasting success of their organizations.

Business leaders need to embrace sustainability in order to ensure the lasting success of their organizations.

The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada.

The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada.

As businesses face an increasing array of environmental challenges, including climate change, air and water pollution, and solid waste management, environmental management has become an increasingly important area of expertise.

As businesses face an increasing array of environmental challenges, including climate change, air and water pollution, and solid waste management, environmental management has become an increasingly important area of expertise.

In Regenerative Tourism Industry, authors Geetanjali Sageena and Suneel Kumar take an in-depth and practical approach to regenerative tourism.

A Vineyard Odyssey is a fascinating saga of wine-the journey from vine to bottle-that takes the reader on a travelogue of the many hazards that lie along the way.

Nation and the World must move forward with development of a range of energy sources and savings, all with attendant environmental problems.

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density.

The negative impacts of carbon emissions from human activities continue to dramatically reshape the environmental, political, and social landscape.

Bhuvan Unhelkar takes you on an all-encompassing voyage of environmental sustainability and Green IT.

Environmental Management System ISO 14001:2004 provides the information and practical know-how required to facilitate a smooth adoption and incorporation of the latest revisions and enhancements put forth by the International Organization for Standardization.

COMPRESSION: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainability Through Vigorous Learning Enterprises sounds a clarion that we cannot afford to ignore.

This completely revised fourth edition of Fundamentals of Sustainable Development provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to sustainable development for undergraduate and postgraduate students across the natural and social sciences, and beyond.

This publication is the first one to develop a global impact taxonomy for FinTechs that aspire to fulfill the SDGs.

Protect the earth and your bottom line.

Modern capitalism has focused on profit maximization at the expense of non-renewable natural resources.

This textbook examines fashion luxury brand management, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of its origins, unique components, current practices, global trade and, most importantly, the application of sustainable models to the industry.

Never before has the quest to balance the needs of people, the environment, and the economy been so important.

Lack of knowledge about, and noncompliance with, international standards can result in loss of sales and partnership opportunities as well as possible legal action.