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  • The Business of History

    Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce

    by Tom Levitt ...
    Why are today’s businesses as they are? Building on WH "Beable’s Romance of Great Businesses", a description of 32 significant companies published a century ago, this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment. Who were those Victorian entrepreneurs? How did their beliefs influence their work? What is their legacy? ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Welcome to GoodCo

    Using the Tools of Business to Create Public Good

    by Tom Levitt ...
    This second edition of Welcome to GoodCo updates the author's critically acclaimed analysis of how the tools of business are being (and ought to be) used to help tackle the great problems of both the planet and of local communities. In exploring the increasingly politically relevant issue of 'responsible capitalism' - and its variations - he asks what it means, where it came from, why politicians ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Company Citizen

    Good for Business, Planet, Nation and Community

    by Tom Levitt ...
    Business doing good is doing good business; this book learns from the era where governments ruled the world, pre-globalisation, and where business looked after itself, where issues like climate change, resource depletion and even poverty and hunger were not thought to be the responsibility of business.The Company Citizen concludes that not only are these key issues for business today but that the ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • Partners for Good

    Business, Government and the Third Sector

    by Tom Levitt ...
    After a century in which charities suspected the motives of cynical business people, and business people dismissed the contributions of amateur volunteers, the two sectors are coming together today as never before. The third sector has increased its business capacity through the experience gained from a decade of providing commissioned services to the public sector. Society today expects employers ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Conservation in the Internet Age

    Threats And Opportunities

    Edited by James N. Levitt ...
    Since the earliest days of our nation, new communications and transportation networks have enabled vast changes in how and where Americans live and work. Transcontinental railroads and telegraphs helped to open the West; mass media and interstate highways paved the way for suburban migration. In our own day, the internet and advanced logistics networks are enabling new changes on the landscape, ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD

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  • Governing the Commons

    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
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    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

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  • Nature's Fortune

    How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

    by Mark R Tercek, Jonathan S Adams ...
    What is nature worth? The answer to this question -- which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms -- is revolutionizing the way we do business.In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment banker, and science writer Jonathan Adams argue that nature is not only the foundation of human well-being, but also the smartest commercial investment any ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Integral Community Enterprise in Africa

    Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism

    by Anselm Adodo ...
    Series series Transformation and Innovation
    At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management, enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa. For over three decades, Africa was the recipient of billions of dollars in aid funds that were meant to catapult the continent from undeveloped to developed ... Read more

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  • The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles

    Development, Sprawl, and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region

    by L. Anders Sandberg, Gerda R. Wekerle, Liette Gilbert ...
    The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen activism on the Moraine’s future in the face of rapid urban expansion.The Oak Ridges Moraine ... Read more

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  • The Restoration Economy

    The Greatest New Growth Frontier

    by Storm Cunningham ...
    "A landmark work . . . I was relieved to see that there is a good and reasonable solution to the ruinous policies of unbridled new development." —Mark Stewart, CEO, iAccess CommunicationsThe Restoration Economy reveals the previously undocumented trillion-dollar global industries that are restoring our natural and manmade environments. Restorative development is rapidly overtaking new development ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Optimism

    Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World (Environmental Sustainability, Doing Good Things, Book for Activists)

    by Zahra Biabani ...
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