Fragen des Umweltschutzes im Unternehmen haben durch die sich in den letzten Jahren stark verdichtende CO2-Problematik (Klimaschutz) weltweite Aufmerksamkeit erfahren.
461 konkrete Beispiele und Geschichten aus diversen Branchen zeigen, wie vielfältig und spannend Arbeit ist: Es geht um Leben, positive Entwicklungen, leckeres Essen, Gesundheit, neue Berufsbilder, um menschenfreundlichen Wohlstand, Hochhausbau aus Holz und 3D-Druck aus recycelbaren Materialien, Glück, saubere Umwelt und Menschenrechte, Diversität und Biodiversität, Fachkräftegewinnung und kreativ-umgedrehte Bewerbung.
Environmental Economics and Ecosystem Services provides a rigorous yet accessible introduction to environmental economics, using ecosystem services as the underlying framework.
This book compiles examples of the most widely used tools in agricultural economics that have been developed and used to analyze the impact of global change in agricultural activity.
This book surveys existing literature from both waste management and behavioural sciences to offer a complete overview of how economic agents relate to a central matter in the policy making agenda: that of waste prevention and recycling.
This book belongs to the Port Economics and Global Supply Chain Management strand of the Palgrave Studies in Maritime Economics book series, commissioned by Hercules Haralambides.
This book uniquely presents accurate and up-to-date information related to crops in small and fragmented agricultural lands with mixed cropping patterns.
This book uses electricity-sector reforms to question some of the preconceived ideas concerning the MENA region and to provide a broader analysis of related political economy issues.
This Palgrave Pivot looks through social, economic, institutional, and environmental lenses to examine sustainable development in India and Bangladesh.
Eco-innovations are crucial for reducing the environmental damages arising from economic activities, and are one of the main drivers of a successful transition towards sustainable development and remedying essential climate change problems.
The capacity of mixed forests to mitigate climate change effects by increasing resilience and lowering risks is pinpointed as an opportunity to highlight the role of tree species rich forests as part of complex socio-ecological systems.
Our planet faces a systemic threat from climate change, which the world community of nations is ill-prepared to address, and this book argues that a new form of ecologically conscious capitalism is needed in order to tackle this serious and rising threat.
This book introduces the Eora, Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) and World Input-Output (WIOD) databases and provides detailed metadata on the data sources, database structures and construction techniques used to build each system.
This book is devoted to the analysis and applications of energy, exergy, and environmental issues in all sectors of the economy, including industrial processes, transportation, buildings, and services.
This book provides an interdisciplinary account of how technological advances - mainly in the domains of energy and transportation - contribute to the transformation towards a more sustainable economic system.
Responding to a need for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the consequences of climate change, this book brings experts in climate science, engineering, urban planning, and conservation biology into conversation with scholars in law, geography, anthropology and ethics.
This book offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Chile's water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, hydrological droughts, and future projected impacts of climate change.
This book outlines the latest trends in the use of multicriteria analysis in agriculture by highlighting recent applications for modeling agricultural decision-making.
This book offers an edited volume for all readers who wish to gain an in-depth grasp of the economic analysis of recent developments in energy law and policy in Europe and the United States.
Based on a detailed investigation of local sources, this book examines the history of the landed estate system in England since the mid-seventeenth century.
This reference work analyzes and assesses global environmental management techniques for environmental materials with a focus on their performance and economic benefits, proposing eco-friendly solutions and designating policies that will sustain the environment for future generations.
This book explores the role of governments and international financial institutions (IFIs) in mitigating the perceived risks in green infrastructure markets of emerging and developing countries.
This handbook is based on the premise that in order for sustainability to be sustainable, a profound psychological transformation has to take place at the individual and collective level.
This book presents a systems thinking approach in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals for sustainable national development in vulnerable countries.
This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world.
This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world.
This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world.
