The Biosphere Rules

Author : Gregory Unruh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578421275

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Author : Gregory Unruh
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422127179

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Earth, Inc by Gregory Unruh Pdf

"In this book, Gregory Unruh introduces readers to the biosphere rules - nature-inspired principles that will transform a business from a resource depleter to a resource reuser, Reconfiguring the value chain as a value cycle, Unruh explains his five principles of sustainable business, modeled after the cyclical nature of the biosphere. Drawing on scientific evidence and the experiences of top global companies, Unruh shows how business and environmentalism are not only compatible but inherently similar." "This book presents an integrated sustainability strategy that can be leveraged across a company's product lines for profitable economies of scope and scale. Implementation leads a company inexorably toward embedded sustainability, a state in which sustainability is internalized in a company's products and disappears as a managerial concern. Showcasing the stories of successful innovators, Earth, Inc. proves that applying the biosphere rules isn't a costly sacrifice but an incredible business opportunity." --Book Jacket.

Author : Gregory Unruh
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422157855

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Earth, Inc. by Gregory Unruh Pdf

Having trouble reconciling your desire to do good by the environment while also moving your company forward? In Earth, Inc., Gregory Unruh shows you how to embed sustainability into everything your company does - profitably. Providing prescriptive steps that will inform your business decisions, Unruh will help you launch your company into eco-minded practices. His five Biosphere Rules apply the laws of nature as a guide for efficient and innovative business operations. Instead of a linear value chain, Unruh offers a cyclical value chain - a chain that offers both sustainability and profitability, for now and for the future.

Author : U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UIUC:30112071982182

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Rules and Regulations by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Pdf

Author : Olivier Barrière,Mohamed Behnassi,Gilbert David,Vincent Douzal,Mireille Fargette,Thérèse Libourel,Maud Loireau,Laurence Pascal,Catherine Prost,Voyner Ravena-Cañete,Frédérique Seyler,Serge Morand
Publisher : Springer
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319784977

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Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems: Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change by Olivier Barrière,Mohamed Behnassi,Gilbert David,Vincent Douzal,Mireille Fargette,Thérèse Libourel,Maud Loireau,Laurence Pascal,Catherine Prost,Voyner Ravena-Cañete,Frédérique Seyler,Serge Morand Pdf

This book considers the principle of ‘sustainable development’ which is currently facing a growing environmental crisis. A new mode of thinking and positioning the ecological imperative is the major input of this volume. The prism of co-viability is not the economics of political agencies that carry the ideology of the dominant/conventional economic schools, but rather an opening of innovation perspectives through science. This volume, through its four parts, more than 40 chapters and a hundred authors, gives birth to a paradigm which crystallizes within a concept that will support in overcoming the ecological emergency deadlock.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0765618354

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Man and the Biosphere by Anonim Pdf

Author : Pablo del Río,Christoph P. Kiefer,Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla,Totti Könnölä
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030747923

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The Circular Economy by Pablo del Río,Christoph P. Kiefer,Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla,Totti Könnölä Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the concept of the Circular Economy (CE), as well as an assessment of the drivers and barriers for circular practices by firms, and its implications for managers in firms and public policy makers. It includes proposals for policy frameworks and instruments that will encourage the uptake of CE practices. The book is presented in three linked parts. The first part of the book provides a broad view of the topic, put into the wider context of sustainability. In the second part, the drivers of and barriers to the uptake of the CE are analysed, with a special focus on the micro-level not seen often in the previous studies on the CE. This book is of interest to researchers, policy makers and post-graduate students in areas such as environmental management and economics.

Author : Elli Louka
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004480469

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Biodiversity and Human Rights: The International Rules for the Protection of Biodiversity by Elli Louka Pdf

The author of this study proposes a fundamental review of biodiversity protection policies. Instead of conservation/preservation, a shift to attention to ecosystem management with human rights and human dignity at the center is recommended. This study prescribes a comprehensive system for the protection of biodiversity. Human rights standards, free trade in wildlife and regulated free access to plant genetic resources are proposed as the elements of this system. Practitioners and scholars concerned with environmental issues, human rights, and sustainable development problems will find this work of great interest. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Author : Satinder Dhiman,Joan Marques
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319342351

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Spirituality and Sustainability by Satinder Dhiman,Joan Marques Pdf

This book aims to examine sustainability and spirituality philosophically with ethics as the balancing force. The goal is to reveal the important intersection between sustainability and spirituality by using spirituality as the invisible guiding hand in the quest for sustainability. The editors and contributors examine old social and economics dilemmas from a new perspective in order to provide alternative approaches to economic and social development. The enclosed contributions cover a broad range of topics such as sustainable development and human happiness, contemporary spirituality, environmental ethics and responsibility, and corporate social responsibility. In addition, the title features real-world case studies and discussion questions that inspire self-reflection and theoretical and empirical deliberation in academic courses and business seminars. Contemporary approaches to economic and social development have failed to address humankind's abiding need for spiritual growth. For material development to be sustainable, spiritual advancement must be seen as an integral part of the human development algorithm. While the policy makers and governments can play their respective role, each one of us has to consciously adopt spirituality and sustainability as a way of life. This book will rely on the spiritual power of individuals to heal themselves and the environment. Featuring interdisciplinary perspectives in areas such as science, marine biology, environmental policy, cultural studies, psychology, philosophy, ecological economics, and ethics, this book will provide extensive insights into the complimentary fields of spirituality, sustainability and ethics.

Author : Alan M. Olson,David M. Steiner,Irina S. Tuuli
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0742535401

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Educating for Democracy by Alan M. Olson,David M. Steiner,Irina S. Tuuli Pdf

The central conflicts of the world today are closely related to cultural, traditional, and religious differences between nations. As we move to a globalized world, these differences often become magnified, entrenched, and the cause of bloody conflict. Growing out of a conference of distinguished scholars from the MiddleEast, Europe, and the United States, this volume is a singular contribution to mutual understanding and cooperative efforts on behalf of peace. The term paideia, drawn from Greek philosophy, has to do with responsible education for citizenship as a necessary precondition for effective democracy. The problems discussed here are crucial, but not simple. How can we find shared ethical principles on which to build international consensus? How can religious tolerance make inroads in societies accustomed to restrictive fundamentalism? What might bring about de-dogmatization of education in the Middle East as a necessary condition for free and rational inquiry and the broader vistas required by democracy? All of these issues highlight the underlying question, "What is education really for?" Finally, the volume confronts the promises and perils of economic globalization. Noting that one third of the world's population lives in abject poverty, business has become a battlefield where ethics and trust are clearly at stake.

Author : Maria da Glória Garcia,António Cortês
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031248887

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Blue Planet Law by Maria da Glória Garcia,António Cortês Pdf

Blue Planet Law is the global and future-oriented environmental law that is necessary to face the global environmental crisis in the Anthropocene, assuming especially the link between climate action (SDG 13) and ocean sustainability (SDG 14). This open access book focuses on means of overcoming global environmental problems such as climate change, ocean degradation and biodiversity loss and the consequent risks for human life, health, food and wellbeing. It explores how environmental law, at the international, European and national levels, might set economic and technological development on a more sustainable path. Law must engage in dialogue with other areas such as philosophy, economics, ecology, and biology. This book highlights protection of the climate and the oceans and sustainable use of natural resources, through new policies, economies and technologies, including biotechnology, with a view to the preservation of life, health, food and a healthy environment for the present and future generations. The book may be seen as a contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals 13 and 14 and a tribute to the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, also known as the Stockholm Conference (1972), on its 50th Anniversary.

Author : Elena G. Popkova,Marina Alpidovskaya
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783110692112

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Human and Technological Progress Towards the Socio-Economic Paradigm of the Future by Elena G. Popkova,Marina Alpidovskaya Pdf

This book determines the specific features of socio-economic transformations of various spheres of the national economy with a focus on the financial system. It considers the development of industrial holdings in the electric energy sphere and also studies the influence of technology on fish farming in modern Russia. The global factors of using digital technologies at the municipal level during creation of "green" and "smart" cities are analyzed. The perspectives of development of tourism in the digital economy from the positions of supply and demand and are determined. The specifics of development of agricultural production in the age of digital transformations by the example of modern Russia are outlined, and "smart" agricultural platform, which allows for multiple increase of the agro-industrial complex’s efficiency, is developed. New possibilities and need in reformation of the international monetary system in the conditions of the Fourth industrial revolution are determined. The problems and perspectives of development of Eurasian stock markets in the modern economic conditions under the influence of wide distribution of digital technologies are systematized. Specific features of the evolution of the forms of money – from gold to crypto currencies are – are distinguished. Specific features of benchmarking of depreciation of currencies (inflation) under the influence of globalization and regionalization of the international monetary system are determined. The authors present a concept of the banking system of the future in the conditions of macro-economic instability, which stimulates financial crisis management of the national economy, and determine the role of banks in aggregation and redistribution of monetary resources in economy in the context of digital transformations. Also, attention is paid to social consequences of digital modernization of the financial system – transformation of human’s social life in the age of innovative banking is shown. Effectiveness of online banking, as a new form of payments that is popular in the digital economy, is analyzed. The authors formulate competencies that employees of banks of the future, which will function in the digital economy, should have and study the perspectives of digitization of the practice of tax administration based on technological processing and analytics of Big Data by the example of experience of modern Russia, as well as related transformation processes in the existing practice of the tax system organization. A concept of organization and management of the national tax system in the conditions of robotization of production and consumption is developed, and the role of blockchain technologies in improvement of the modern Russian tax system is determined. The investment platform for the modern digital economy is offered. As a result, the scientific paradigm of formation of the digital financial system in the conditions of Industry 4.0 is formed.

Author : Tamás Bányai,Ireneusz Kaczmar
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781839683008

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Green Supply Chain by Tamás Bányai,Ireneusz Kaczmar Pdf

The integration of eco-friendly aspects, tools and solutions into a conventional supply chain leads to environmentally friendly global processes in the manufacturing and service industry. This book offers a selection of chapters that explain the impact of green supply chain solutions on value-making chains. The aim of this book is to help students at all levels as well as managers and researchers to understand and appreciate the concept, design and implementation of green supply chain solutions in the Industry 4.0 era.

Author : Economic Commission for Europe
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789210543446

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Environmental Performance Reviews by Economic Commission for Europe Pdf

The report takes stock of the progress made by Kyrgyzstan in the management of its environment since the country was first reviewed in 2000. It assesses the implementation of the recommendations in the first review. It also covers nine issues of importance to Kyrgyzstan concerning policymaking, planning and implementation, the financing of environmental policies and projects, and the integration of environmental concerns into economic sectors, in particular water management, land management and biodiversity conservation and sustainable management of forests. The report places particular emphasis on the promotion of sustainable development, as the country gives a high priority to this issue.

Author : Fraser Watts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429872891

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Creation by Fraser Watts Pdf

Published in 1999. How can we reconcile assumptions about the lawfulness of the universe with provision for chance events? Do the ‘laws of nature’ indicate what absolutely must happen, or just what is most likely to happen? These are important questions for both science and theology, and are explored here in the first in-depth coverage of an important but neglected topic. Including perspectives from prestigious contributions, and published with the backing of the International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR), Creation: Law and Probability employs the disciplines of history and philosophy, as well as cosmology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience in a fascinating dialogue of faith traditions.