As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance.
This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources.
Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis.
In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack.
Imagine a waste-free future for your business, your family, and yourself A circular economy is an economic system designed to save money, eliminate waste, and achieve deep sustainability.
Die Pflegebranche in Deutschland ist im Umbruch – sie muss dem zunehmenden Fachkräftemangel etwas entgegensetzen und zugleich als eine der Zukunftsbranchen die Potenziale der Technisierung und Digitalisierung heben.
By examining the issues of environmental policy formation and implementation linked to economic development, and reviewing the Japanese experiences and the examples of other Asian countries, this book reveals factors of dynamism between environmental policy and social change in a domestic, regional and global context.
Since the time of Adam Smith, there has been a voluminous literature concerned with the differing wealth of nations and the variation in the nature of economic growth, and several schools of thought have held precedence at different times.
Economic development is intended to benefit everyone in a community; however, in many cases, increased public and private investment can result in the pricing out and displacement of existing residents and businesses.
A structured guideline for development and implementation of business strategies, programs, and models with core sustainability values is then proposed and explicitly discussed, drawing upon management models, tools and techniques proven to be effective in organizational decision-making and prognostication.
This book continues the discussion from Volume I on the risks organizations face in order to succeed with a special focus on the challenges brought on by the COVID-19 virus crisis.
Dieses Fachbuch ist für Arbeitgeber und Unternehmer mit Personalverantwortung und präsentiert innovative Lösungen für erstklassige betriebliche Gesundheitskonzepte.
This thesis investigates the connection betweenenvironmental regulation, technological innovation, and export competitivenessin renewable energy equipment based on a large sample of 225 developed anddeveloping countries from 1990 to 2012.
This volume analyzes the ways in which natural resource wealth has shaped authoritarian political regimes and statist economic systems in the countries of southern Africa in the post-colonial period.
The study examines the main development steps of digitalization in the Austrian education system in a historical longitudinal section as well as their significance for teaching practice.
Das Buch ist eine Einführung in ‚Diversity Management‘ als strategisches Konzept zum Management von Verschiedenheiten und Gemeinsamkeiten, mit dem Ziel, Vielfalt in der Organisation zu fördern und für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg produktiv zu nutzen.
Named one of 10 Must-Read Career and Leadership Books For 2022 by ForbesThe ultimate guide to the essentials of strategy and management, from one of the world's top business thinkers.
This book explores the determination of China's carbon emission targets, especially with regard to the allocation of responsibility of China's import and export carbon emissions, and carbon emission quota allocations across different time periods, industries, and regions.
Addressing the area of shared leadership, also known as collective or distributed leadership, this edited book embraces the underlying idea that leadership is a dynamic process that intersects closely with followership.
In The Sustainable Manifesto, Kersten Reich describes in a concise and memorable way the necessary actions that humans need to take to live sustainably and combat climate change.
An exploration of the ways in which ancient theories of empire can inform our understanding of present-day international relations, Enduring Empire engages in a serious discussion of empire as it relates to American foreign policy and global politics.
This book argues that society must rethink the notion of formal employment and instead introduce and spread the notion of "e;meaningful work"e; so that societies can become independent of economic growth.
Innovation-oriented environmental regulation is extremely attractive for policy planners and decision makers, since it is expected that innovations can cut costs of environmental measures and overcome existing trade-offs between economic and ecological goals.
In the present global context, some countries still face many challenges to bringing about inclusive, efficient, and environmentally sustainable development.
Moving beyond most conventional thinking about energy security in Europe which revolves around stability of supplies and the reliability of suppliers, this book presents the history of European policy-making regarding energy resources, including recent controversies about shale gas and fracking.
Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact.
A classic textbook that has guided generations of students through the intricacies of property valuation, The Income Approach to Property Valuation remains a keen favourite amongst students and teachers alike.
Originally published in 1984, this book develops a quantitative model designed for use in the evaluation of the relative merits of alternative energy R&D programmes.
This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear - the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety - with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations.
This book outlines methodologies to estimate the economic impacts of natural disasters based on business surveys conducted after large disasters in Japan.
Fachliche Expertise, klinische Kompetenz und Outcome-Orientierung sind die Zielvorgaben an die Expert_innen der Gesundheitsberufe, um eine qualitativ hohe Gesundheitsversorgung im interdisziplinären Team sicher zu stellen.
Das Buch dokumentiert den Ladenburger Diskurs "Umweltstaat", einem von der Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung veranstalteten wissenschaftlichen Gespräch aus dem Themenbereich "Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Mensch, Umwelt und Technik".
