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  • Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS)

    Improving Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Agri-Food Chain with Innovative Environmental Management Tools

    Edited by Roberta Salomone, Maria Teresa Clasadonte, Maria Proto, Andrea Raggi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Representing the coordinated work of a research group from four different Italian University departments which conducted the Eco-Management for Food (EMAF) Project, this book offers a systematic approach for managing and improving the environmental aspects of agri-food processes and products using Product-Oriented Environmental Management Systems (POEMS). ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

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  • Cradle to Cradle

    Remaking the Way We Make Things

    by William McDonough, Michael Braungart ...
    A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. But as this provocative, visionary book argues, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The New Entrepreneurs

    Building a Green Economy for the Future

    by Andrew Heintzman ...
    In The New Entrepreneurs, author and venture capitalist Andrew Heintzman introduces us to the innovative business leaders who are at the forefront of the green economy. From forestry, water, and energy to transportation and agriculture, Heintzman profiles the enterprises that are developing cutting-edge, clean-tech products and innovations for export to a vast and rapidly expanding global market. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainable Energy

    Edited by Klaus D. John, Dirk Rübbelke ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    Rising fuel prices during recent years and the threat of global warming have reinforced public and scientific interest in the issue of sustainable energy, with the term sustainability understood as having economic, environmental and social dimensions.Renewable energy is seen as an effective means to address several problems simultaneously, including climate change, exploitation of non-renewable ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Turnaround Challenge

    Business and the City of the Future

    by Michael Blowfield, Leo Johnson ...
    Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus of social, economic, environmental and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange

    Fetishism in a Zero-Sum World

    by Alf Hornborg ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ‘technology’ itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology implies a kind of global ‘zero-sum game’ involving uneven resource flows, which make it possible for ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Towards a Sustainable Bioeconomy: Principles, Challenges and Perspectives

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho, Diana Mihaela Pociovălișteanu, Paulo Roberto Borges de Brito, Ismar Borges de Lima ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book gathers contributions from scientists and industry representatives on achieving a sustainable bioeconomy. It also covers the social sciences, economics, business, education and the environmental sciences. There is an urgent need to optimise and maximise the use of biological resources, so that primary production and processing systems can generate more food, fibre and other bio-based ... Read more

    $306.19 CAD

  • The Curse of Natural Resources

    A Developmental Analysis in a Comparative Context

    by Sevil Acar ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the paradox that resource-rich countries often struggle to manage their resources in a way that will help their economies thrive. It looks at how a country's political regime and quality of governance can determine the degree to which it benefits - or suffers - from having natural resources, shifting away from the traditional focus on economic growth data to study the complex ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Natural Resources and Conflict in Africa

    The Tragedy of Endowment

    by Abiodun Alao ...
    Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil in Nigeria and diamonds in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to land in Zimbabwe and water in theHorn of Africa, the politics surrounding ownership, management, and control of natural resources has disrupted communities and increased external intervention in these ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Energy Security and Sustainable Economic Growth in China

    Edited by S. Yao ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book focuses on various issues of energy, energy efficiency and environmental policy in China. It discusses different aspects on how China may maintain its fast economic growth through good management of energy consumption and development of various energy sources. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Urban Disaster Resilience and Security

    Addressing Risks in Societies

    Edited by Alexander Fekete, Frank Fiedrich ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context. Urban as a term captures megacities, cities, and generally, human settlements, that are characterised by concentration of quantifiable and non-quantifiable subjects, objects and value attributions to them. The scope is to narrow down resilience from an all-encompassing concept to ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD