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  • Business Adaptation to Climate Change

    by Jorge E. Rivera, Chang Hoon Oh, Jennifer Oetzel, Viviane Clement ...
    Series series Organizations and the Natural Environment
    This book seeks to advance the understanding of how businesses may adapt to climate change trends. Specifically, it focuses on two general research questions: Firstly, how do businesses adapt to chronic slow-onset nature adversity conditions linked to climate change? Secondly, how do firms adapt to weather-related natural disasters exacerbated by climate change? In the first part of the book, the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Tourism Management in Warm-water Island Destinations

    by Michelle McLeod, Robertico Croes, David Airey, Dr Sheree-Ann Adams, Donna Chambers, Anne P. Crick, Frederic Dimanche, Rachel Dodds, Brigitte Joubert0, Jorge Ridderstaat1, Manuel Rivera2, Michael Sadowski3, Neelu Seetaram4, Kelly J. Semrad5, Professor Noel Scott6 ...
    Series series CABI Series in Tourism Management Research
    Warm-water islands are a cohesive group of islands distinguished by their geography and remoteness, history as former colonial territories, and dependence on external stakeholders for their economic and social development. Warm-water island destinations also have a year-round tourism industry. These island tourism destinations are facing unprecedented adjustment challenges in the wake of ... Read more

    $49.89 USD

  • How Do Emotions Drive Money Decisions?

    Euro

    by Jorge Rivera, Ph.D. ...
    This book asks the reader to consider key points that relate to financial literacy such as the difference between a need and a want. The connection between love and financial security; effects of stress and money on one’s intimate life; and how emotions trigger one’s behavior and impact financial decision-making. These questions are difficult to answer in part because secondary schools and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Economic Development, Agriculture and Climate Change

    by Antonio Yúnez-Naude, Jorge Mora-Rivera ...
    Series Book 15 - World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy
    Climate change (CC) is currently an unquestionable phenomenon. If not stopped, it will be catastrophic for life on earth. Scientific evidence shows that human activities are the primary driver of CC tendencies since the industrial times. In this book, we present the relationship between development and CC, with special reference to agriculture, the rural sector, and policies aimed to promote ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Voluntary Environmental Programs

    A Policy Perspective

    by Allen Blackman, Aseem Prakash, Charles Koerber, Cody Jones, David Ervin, Dinah A. Koehler, Irene Henriques, Ivan Montiel, John W. Maxwell, Jorge Riviera, Laurie Manderino, Magali Delmas, Matthew Potoski, Patricia Koss, Perry Sadorsky, Peter de Leon, Thomas P. Lyon, Darnell, Sides, Madhu Khanna ...
    Series series Studies in Public Policy
    Protecting the environment is often not the primary objective of businesses. As the world has become more environmentally aware, the necessity of environmental regulations becomes apparent. Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective examines different approaches to environmental protection in business. Environmental improvements on the part of industry often result from government ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Cuba and Puerto Rico

    Transdisciplinary Approaches to History, Literature, and Culture

    Edited by Carmen Haydée Rivera, Jorge Duany ...
    The intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their diasporasThis volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary perspective. In these essays, contributors highlight the interconnectedness of the two archipelagos in social categories such as nation, race, class, and gender to encourage a more nuanced and multifaceted study of the ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Computational Intelligence for Business Analytics

    Edited by Witold Pedrycz, Luis Martínez, Rafael Alejandro Espin-Andrade, Gilberto Rivera, Jorge Marx Gómez ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    Corporate success has been changed by the importance of new developments in Business Analytics (BA) and furthermore by the support of computational intelligence- based techniques. This book opens a new avenues in these subjects, identifies key developments and opportunities. The book will be of interest for students, researchers and professionals to identify innovative ways delivered by Business ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Celebrate Life

    by Etta Dachman, Rose Smeenk, Jorge Rivera, Steven Gold, Dorothy Salvage, Flordelisa Mota, Florence Mendel ...
    A group of seniors, members of a poetry class in Mosholu-Montefiore Senior Center, has created a collection of poems; exciting, humorous, and tender as nature. These poems will make the readers look at life in a different way. The new perspective will be to celebrate life, and invite others to join the feast of fulfillment. Seniors wrote this unique selection of poems, to share their inspiration ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Best Practices in Manufacturing Processes

    Experiences from Latin America

    Edited by Jorge Luis García Alcaraz, Leonardo Rivera Cadavid, Rosa Guadalupe González-Ramírez, George Leal Jamil, Mario Gustavo Chong Chong ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book reports the best practices that companies established in Latin America are implementing in their manufacturing processes in order to generate high quality products and stay in the market. It lists the technologies, production and administrative philosophies that are being implemented, presenting a collection of successful cases of studies from Latin America. The book describes how the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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    Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

    by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel ...
    When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco ... Read more

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  • The Informal Sector and the Environment

    Edited by Ranjula Bali Swain, Uma Kambhampati ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    The informal economy – broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation – sustains a large part of the world's workforce. It is a diverse, complex and growing area of activity. However, being largely unregulated, its impact on the environment has not been closely scrutinised or analysed.This edited volume demonstrates that the informal sector is a major ... Read more

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  • Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance

    Timba Music and Black Identity in Cuba

    by Umi Vaughan ...
    Rebel Dance, Renegade Stanceshows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. Umi Vaughan, an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer "plantao" in Cuba—planted, living like a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD