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“ram ramprasad”

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  • Creating a Green and Cultural Economy

    A Story from India That Integrates the Best in East & West

    by Ram Ramprasad ...
    A unique book that takes the reader into the depths and mysteries of creating a wondrous people-initiated economic plan grounded in centuries of cultural and ecological wisdom. In a tapestry of factual and everyday events, the author makes a well-reasoned argument that we first need to address culture, then a sustainable lifestyle, then ecology, and finally economics. The author strongly reasons ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • 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

    $9.59 USD

  • Eco-Business

    A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability

    by Peter Dauvergne, Jane Lister ...
    Two experts explain the consequences for the planet when corporations use sustainability as a business tool.McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever seeks to achieve 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing by 2020. Walmart has pledged to become carbon neutral. Big ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Waste to Wealth

    The Circular Economy Advantage

    by Peter Lacy, Jakob Rutqvist ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Climate-Challenged Society

    by John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg ...
    This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is written "with attitude", ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Beyond Certification

    by Scott Poynton ...
    Series series DoShorts
    This book is free to download in PDF and EPub formats.Is certification the solution? Can it deliver urgently needed improvements to complex problems like deforestation and the exploitation of people? In this controversial new book, Scott Poynton, founder of The Forest Trust, makes a compelling case for a new approach to social and environmental problems that goes "beyond certification" ... Read more

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  • Climate Economics

    The State of the Art

    by Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth Stanton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert all climate damage has now passed, well-designed mitigation and adaptation policies, if adopted ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Sustainability and Energy Politics

    Ecological Modernisation and Corporate Social Responsibility

    by Giorel Curran ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change. She does so through an ecological modernisation and corporate social responsibility lens which she contends shapes and underpins sustainability today. Case studies cover climate policy, unconventional gas and renewable energy. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Trade Unions in the Green Economy

    Working for the Environment

    Edited by Nora Räthzel, David Uzzell ...
    Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted. Yet research has largely ignored labour and its responses. This book brings together sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, historians, economists, and representatives from international and local unions based in Australia, Brazil, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Justice, Sustainability, and Security

    Global Ethics for the 21st Century

    Edited by E. Heinze ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral dimensions and offer prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Oligopoly, the Environment and Natural Resources

    by Luca Lambertini ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics
    Industrial production and consumption patterns rely heavily on the intensive use of both renewable and non-renewable resources and the consequences for the environment can be serious. Following a long period of time where the profit incentives of firms have prevailed over preservation of the environment and the world’s natural resources, a new consensus has emerged concerning the need to regulate ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Complexity and Sustainability

    by Jennifer Wells ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Complex dynamic system studies have been studied explicitly in the natural sciences, and most only implicitly throughout other fields. Yet much great social theory and philosophy is in fact based in complexity, and important concepts like postmodernism, risk, and collapse all stem from complexity. Six key terms are explored: nonlinearity, feedbacks, thresholds, hierarchies, emergence and self ... Read more

    $82.99 USD