Management For A Small Planet

Author : Jean Garner Stead,W. Edward Stead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351279109

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Management for a Small Planet by Jean Garner Stead,W. Edward Stead Pdf

When this classic text was first published in 1992, it provided a unique focus for the burgeoning concern for sustainability and sustainable organizational practices. The book's impact continues to be felt today as large multinational corporations such as Wal-Mart and GE are making substantial commitments to the "triple bottom line" of economic success, social responsibility, and environmental protection, and sustainability has become a part of curricula in business schools around the globe. Featuring extensive new material throughout, this new edition of Management for a Small Planet is now widely available outside of North America for the first time. The book maintains the same unique vision and approach that made the original so influential. Unlike other texts on the topic, it employs a strategic, general management perspective within theoretical frameworks on how organizations can be instrumental in moving humankind toward a more sustainable world. Part I includes chapters dedicated to each dimension of sustainability: biophysical, economic, and social. Part II contains the specifics on the formulation and implementation of sustainable management practices, all grounded in the principles of organizational behavior, leadership, and business strategy. The book is an ideal text for any course concerned with environmental management and sustainable management practices.

Author : W. Edward Stead,Jean Garner Stead
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018338678

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Management for a Small Planet by W. Edward Stead,Jean Garner Stead Pdf

On natural environment issues

Author : Jean Garner Stead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1317465601

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Management for a Small Planet by Jean Garner Stead Pdf

Author : Sanjay Sharma,Mark Starik
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781957088

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Research in Corporate Sustainability by Sanjay Sharma,Mark Starik Pdf

This book presents studies from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives: human resources management, strategy, operations management, accounting, international business, marketing and development. It represents the latest state of knowledge in organizations and the natural environment and provides interesting perspectives for academics, environmental consultants as well as environmental managers from business, the public sector, NGOs, international development institutions, and government.

Author : Johan Holmberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429577758

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Policies for a Small Planet by Johan Holmberg Pdf

First published in 1992. The world is not living within its means. Current development policies, in both industrial and developing countries, are wasting resources and destroying the commons on which we all depend. The world is set on a path of deepening poverty and a deteriorating environment. New policies are needed to achieve sustainable development. This book presents an integrated series of essays on the policies for sustainable development from one of the leading policy research institutes on environment and development issues. It concentrates on the developing world and looks at the specific sectors to which the policies have to be applied. Beginning with a discussion of what constitutes sustainable development, it goes on to deal with the institutional arrangements needed to mobilise human resources for change and the economic policies for sustainable natural resource management. It then examines the policies needed in agriculture, urban development, industry, forests, drylands, energy use, finance, population and consumption. Throughout it demonstrates how those directly involved are best placed to manage their environments and resources. Policies must support the experience and resourcefulness of local people. Sustainable development requires that they control their own futures. This title will be of great interest to students of Environmental Studies.

Author : Barbara Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134045662

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Progress for a Small Planet by Barbara Ward Pdf

Three topics dominate discussions of the global environment: pollution; the consequences of the affluent running ever faster through finite resources; and the growing tensions between rich and poor as a third of humanity continues to live and die in desperate poverty. In this exceptional book Barbara Ward (co-author with Rene Dubos of the bestselling Only One Earth) refused to see these processes as inevitable. It describes new technologies for recycling waste, for energy, forgetting more or less linking them to ordinary people's working lives. It also suggests a strategy for meeting the basic needs of the disadvantaged, and shows how the vast inequalities between countries can be reduced. This perceptive survey of policies outlines a planetary bargain between the world's nations that would guarantee individual freedom from poverty and keep our shared biosphere in good working order. Originally published in 1988

Author : Johan Holmberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000198353

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Policies for a Small Planet by Johan Holmberg Pdf

An integrated series of studies on the policies needed to achieve sustainable development in each of the main economic and social sectors is presented in this study. It looks first at the changes needed in political institutions and processes, and in the economic principles on which plans are made. It then concentrates on the major sectors: agriculture; industry; urban development; forests; drylands; energy use. It concludes by describing how the new policies could be financed and discusses the biggest challenge of all - to stabilize growth in population and consumption.

Author : Tom Bigg
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849772693

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Survival for a Small Planet by Tom Bigg Pdf

Few scientific developments have given rise to as much controversy as biotechnology. Numerous groups are united in their opposition, expressing concern over environmental and health risks, impacts on rural livelihoods, the economic dominance of multinational companies and the ethical implications of crossing species boundaries. Among the supporters of the technology are those that believe in its potential to enhance food security, further economic development, increase productivity and reduce environmental pressures. As a result, countries - and sectors within countries - find themselves at odds with each other while potential opportunities for development offered by the use of biotechnology are seized or missed, and related risks go unmanaged.This book, a unique interdisciplinary collection of perspectives from the developing world, examines the ongoing debate. Writing for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, leading experts address issues such as diffusion of technology, intellectual property rights, the Cartagena Protocol, impacts of international trade, capacity building and biotechnology research and regulation. With the most recent and relevant examples from around the world, Trading in Genes offers the reader a single-volume overview of the connections between biotechnology, trade and sustainability that is both wide-ranging and thorough.

Author : Daniel C. Maguire,Larry L. Rasmussen,Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics Larry L Rasmussen
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791436454

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Ethics for a Small Planet by Daniel C. Maguire,Larry L. Rasmussen,Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics Larry L Rasmussen Pdf

A radical new look at the religious, economic, and political roots of terracide and how things can change for the better.

Author : Sanjay Sharma,Mark Starik
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845423623

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Stakeholders, the Environment and Society by Sanjay Sharma,Mark Starik Pdf

The role of stakeholders is integral to corporate sustainability as society increasingly demands that corporations play a role in achieving environmental objectives in addition to building shareholder wealth. In this, the first book to gather cutting-edge

Author : Jean Garner Stead,W. Edward Stead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351276306

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Sustainable Strategic Management by Jean Garner Stead,W. Edward Stead Pdf

“Sustainable strategic management” refers to strategic management policies and processes that seek competitive advantages consistent with a core value of environmental sustainability.This book has been specifically written as a text to augment traditional graduate and undergraduate management courses on strategic management. It fills the need for a strategy text that gives full attention to sustainability and environmental protection. The authors have structured the book to follow the usual order of topics in any standard management text. Sustainable Strategic Management also features an on-going, chapter-by-chapter case study (Eastman Chemical Company) that exemplifies many of the principles of environmentally sound management practices.From creating organizational visions, to formulating goals and strategies, to strategy implementation and evaluation, this book provides readers with new ways of thinking about their organization’s role in the greater society and ecosystem. From the Authors’ Preface:Ours is the first book to integrate sustainability into strategic management. It covers the full gamut of strategic management concepts and processes that would be expected in any quality strategic management book, and it does so in a way that thoroughly weaves sustainability into each and every one of them. Students using this book understand such things as: why reducing materials and energy intensity is an effective functionallevel strategy, why socially differentiated products command premium prices, and why a business ecosystem pursuing a vision of social and ecological responsibility can dominate its market. Further, because the book is relatively short, reasonably priced, and very thorough in its coverage of strategic management concepts and ideas, it can be used either as a stand-alone text for graduate and undergraduate strategic management courses, as a supplement to another book, or as one of a group of short texts.

Author : Norman P. Lieberman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118060254

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Process Engineering for a Small Planet by Norman P. Lieberman Pdf

Methods for more planet-friendly process engineering Our earth is just one big, complex Process Facility with limited air, water, and mineral resources. It responds to a number of process variables—among them, humanity and the environmental effects of our carbon consumption. What can professionals in the Hydrocarbon Process Industry do to retard environmental degradation? Rather than looking to exotic technology for solutions, Process Engineering for a Small Planet details ready-at-hand methods that the process engineer can employ to help combat the environmental crisis. Drawing from the author's professional experience working with petroleum refineries petroleum refineries, petrochemical plants, and natural gas wells, this handbook explains how to operate and retrofit process facilities to: Reuse existing process equipment Save energy Reduce greenhouse gas emissions Expand plant capacity without installing new equipment Reduce corrosion and equipment failures Covering topics from expanding fractionator and compressor capacity and vacuum tower heater expansion to minimizing process water consumption and increasing centrifugal pump capacity, Process Engineering for a Small Planet offers big ideas for saving our small planet.

Author : Adebowale Akande
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031172038

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Globalization, Human Rights and Populism by Adebowale Akande Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary global overview of populism and human rights in the light of globalization. It examines why the dominant (neo)liberal paradigm of the last decades resulted in major economic and social inequalities which resulted in the surge of national populism, led by the election success of right-wing parties, movements, and leaders across the world. It discusses, among other topics, the success of Brexit in Britain and the election success of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen and explains why there is a need for a dialogue on human rights and globalization in this era of populism. Further contributions analyze various important topics of the field, including cross-culturalism, globalization, human rights, challenges and threats, diversity, curbing global corruption, sustainable development, populism, the decline of free speech, the new nationalism, internationalization, global regime of human rights, leadership theory, global management competencies, gender, quality management, individualism-collectivism, and examples of new initiatives in global organizations. This makes the book a valuable and useful resource for students, researchers, and scholars of international relations, political science, sociology, political psychology, law, diplomatic studies, Communication and media studies, economics, education and management, as well as practitioners and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of globalization, populism, and human rights.

Author : Brian V. Peck
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-27
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781481799942

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Notes from a Small Planet by Brian V. Peck Pdf

"About an hour out of Phnom Penh we are transferred onto a mini-bus which takes some time to arrive, but eventually comes. Then driven at breakneck speed on a very dusty road that gets dust all over everything, coming into the city is a bit of a shock as there is no doubt about it that the outer areas do resemble the Third world, but the inner city is clean and modern. We are taken to the King's Hotel where we could choose too stay or go - as I was tired I decided to stay, but without hot water in my cheap room - well what can you expect for 5 dollars. I shared dinner with Isabel and Jeroen - who I took a real shine too. And in the morning I have breakfast with Sarah from Sweden who I had first met in Chau Doc and came on our boat when partly through the trip. Sarah was one of these very assured intelligent young women who had done a lot of travelling – as breakfast progressed I kept thinking that her body language was saying categorically too me (was old enough to be her father) or probably any man who may have tried it on with her - that if you mess with me boy I will chew both of your testicles off with one bite. Apparently she was some sort of chemist who new a lot about food and what it does to us, when we eat it. I said very little while eating my breakfast and kept my legs very tightly together".

Author : Frances Moore Lappé
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780593357774

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Diet for a Small Planet (Revised and Updated) by Frances Moore Lappé Pdf

Discover a way of eating that revolutionized the meaning of our food choices and sold more than 3 million copies—now in a 50th-anniversary edition with a timely introduction plus new and updated plant-centered recipes “Frances Moore Lappé is one of the few people who can credibly be said to have changed the way we eat—and one of an even smaller group to have done it for the better.”—The New York Times In 1971, Diet for a Small Planet broke new ground, revealing how our everyday acts are a form of power to create health for ourselves and our planet. This extraordinary book first exposed the needless waste built into a meat-centered diet. Now, in a special edition for its 50th anniversary, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé goes even deeper, showing us how plant-centered eating can help restore our damaged ecology, address the climate crisis, and move us toward real democracy. Sharing her personal journey and how this revolutionary book shaped her own life, Lappé offers a fascinating philosophy on changing yourself—and the world—that can start with changing the way we eat. This new edition features eighty-five updated plant-centered recipes, including more than a dozen new delights from celebrity chefs including Mark Bittman, Padma Lakshmi, Alice Waters, José Andrés, Bryant Terry, Mollie Katzen, and Sean Sherman.