Management and Sustainability
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Improving Irrigation in Asia
Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti
Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of intervent...eBook:Find out more£23.16
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Transport, the Environment and Security
Rae Zimmerman
From a primarily urban perspective, the author illustrates that the fields of transportation, environment (with an emphasis on climate change) and security (for both natural hazards and terrorism) and their interconnections remain robust...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Furthering Environmental Impact Assessment
Edited by Anastássios Perdicoúlis, Bridget Durning, Lisa Palframan
The environmental impact of development projects is currently studied and mitigated from two distinct perspectives: before and after project implementation, with environmental impact assessment (EIA) and environmental management systems ...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Policy-Making
Edited by Anneke von Raggamby, Frieder Rubik
This pathbreaking book contributes to the discourse of evidence-based policy-making. It does so by combining the two issues of policy evaluation and sustainable development linking both to the policy-cycle.eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Water Accounting
Edited by Jayne M. Godfrey, Keryn Chalmers
One of the most pressing global issues of the 21st century is the scarcity of water of a quantity appropriate to ensure economic, environmental and social sustainability. In addressing the issue through policy and management, of critical...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Automotive Industry in an Era of Eco-Austerity
Peter E. Wells
This unique book seeks to combine economic analysis with the environmental research to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the forces that shape change in the automotive industry. It eschews the usual focus on technologies, and gi...eBook:Find out more£27.96
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Performance
Tobias Gössling
Does it pay for businesses to act morally? This book attempts to answer this question. Taking a positive approach, it demonstrates that, under certain conditions, organizations can act responsibly and profitably at the same time. It elab...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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The Social Embeddedness of Industrial Ecology
Edited by Frank Boons, Jennifer Howard-Grenville
Most work on industrial ecology continues to emphasize its roots in engineering and the technological sciences. This book differs in that it explores the social context of industrial ecology and presents empirical work addressing how cog...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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Payments for Environmental Services, Forest Conservation and Climate Change
Edited by Luca Tacconi, Sango Mahanty, Helen Suich
This resourceful book draws on several case studies to derive implications for the design of Payment for Environmental Services (PES) schemes that are very relevant to current climate change negotiations and the implementation of Reduced...eBook:Find out more£25.00
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Creating Ecological Value
Frank Boons
Firms adopt a wide variety of ecological strategies, ranging from the development of innovative products with reduced environmental impact to lobbying against governmental attempts to set standards for the way in which firms deal with th...eBook:Find out more£23.16
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Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century
Bryan Horrigan
Professor Bryan Horrigan spans subjects as diverse and topical as global corporate responsibility and governance debates, practical guidelines for responsible businesses and their professional advisers, governmental roles in corporate so...eBook:Find out more£42.36
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Multinational Enterprises and the Challenge of Sustainable Development
Edited by John R. McIntyre, Silvester Ivanaj, Vera Ivanaj
Transnational corporations play a role in the design, diffusion, and consolidation of sustainable development in the context of globalization and multinational firms. In this timely book European and American contributors analyze this ro...eBook:Find out more£25.00