1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451732003321

Titolo

Business regulation and non-state actors : whose standards? : whose development? / / edited by Darryl Reed, Peter Utting and Ananya Mukherjee-Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-45936-7

0-203-12692-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in development economics ; ; 93

Altri autori (Persone)

Mukherjee-ReedAmanya

ReedDarryl

UttingPeter

Disciplina

338.9

Soggetti

Trade regulation

Industrial policy

International business enterprises - Social aspects

Social responsibility of business

Sustainable development

Non-governmental organizations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Business Regulation and Non- State Actors Whose standards? Whose development?; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Introduction: multistakeholder regulation from a development perspective; 1 Development and the problematic of non- state regulation; 2 Activism, business regulation and development; 3 Assessing the ETI codes of labour practice; 4 Social Accountability 8000 and socioeconomic development; 5 The International Organization for Standardization

6 The United Nations Global Compact and development7 The Global Reporting Initiative: promise and limitations; 8 Balanço Social and sustainability reporting in Brazil; 9 The Forest Stewardship Council; 10



The Marine Stewardship Council; 11 The GlobalG.A.P.; 12 Global retail accumulation strategies and Wal- Mart's CSR regime; 13 Applying the Atlanta Agreement on child labour in South Asia; 14 The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI); 15 Blood diamonds, non- state actors and development: the Kimberley Process and beyond; 16 Peoples' tribunals in Latin America

17 The Worker Rights Consortium18 International Framework Agreements and development; 19 IFOAM and the institutionalization of organic agriculture; 20 'Fair trade gold': prospects for Africa's artisanal miners; 21 The World Fair Trade Organization: from trust to compliance; 22 Fairtrade International (FLO); 23 Comercio Justo México: potential lessons for Fairtrade?; 24 From non- state regulation to governance? Shifting the site of contestation; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume assesses the achievements and limitations of a new set of non-state or multistakeholder institutions that are concerned with improving the social and environmental record of business, and holding corporations to account. It does so from a perspective that aims to address two limitations that often characterize this field of inquiry. First, fragmentation: articles or books typically focus on one or a handful of cases. Second, the development dimension: what does such regulation imply for developing countries and subaltern groups in terms of well-being, empowerment and sustainabil



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910140566703321

Titolo

Horticultural reviews . Volume 28 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jules Janick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003

ISBN

1-282-24208-3

9786613813206

0-470-65085-0

0-470-65084-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (502 p.)

Collana

Horticultural reviews, , 0163-7851

Altri autori (Persone)

JanickJules

Disciplina

635

635.05

Soggetti

Horticulture

Horticulture - Research

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

HORTICULTURAL REVIEWS: Volume 28; Contents; Contributors; Dedication: M. Allen Stevens; 1: Plant Nomenclature and Taxonomy: An Horticultural and Agronomic Perspective; I. INTRODUCTION; II. SPECIES CONCEPTS IN WILD PLANTS; III. CLASSIFICATION PHILOSOPHIES IN WILD AND CULTIVATED PLANTS; IV. BRIEF HISTORY OF NOMENCLATURE AND CODES; V. FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES IN THE CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE OF CULTIVATED AND WILD PLANTS; VI. A COMPARISON OF THE ICBN AND ICNCP; VII. POSSIBLE NEW CODES; VIII. CULTIVATED PLANT NOMENCLATURE AND THE LAW; IX. CULTIVAR EPITHETS AND TRADEMARKS

X. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A UNIVERSALLY STABLE CROP NOMENCLATURE THROUGH CHANGES AND USE OF THE ICNCPREFERENCES; LITERATURE CITED; 2: Grafting of Herbaceous Vegetable and Ornamental Crops; I. INTRODUCTION; II. GRAFTING TECHNOLOGY; III. PHYSIOLOGY OF GRAFTING; IV. CROP EXAMPLES; V. GRAFTING FOR CROP IMPROVEMENT; VI. CONCLUSION AND PROSPECTS; LITERATURE CITED; 3: Health Promoting Phytochemicals in Vegetables;



I. INTRODUCTION; II. MAJOR CLASSES OF PHYTOCHEMICALS IN VEGETABLE; III. PHYTOCHEMICALS CONTENT AND HEALTH BENEFITS OF THE FOUR MAJOR VEGETABLE GROUPS

IV. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH NEEDSLITERATURE CITED; 4: Detection and Elimination of Viruses and Phytoplasmas from Pome and Stone Fruit Trees; I. INTRODUCTION; II. PATHOGENS; III. PATHOGEN DETECTION; IV. ELIMINATION OF VIRUSES; V. ELIMINATION OF PHYTOPLASMAS; VI. INDEXING, MASS PROPAGATION, AND GERMPLASM CONSERVATION; VII. CONCLUSIONS; LITERATURE CITED; 5: Pear Fruit Volatiles; I. INTRODUCTION; II. ANALYSIS OF CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; III. BIOGENESIS; IV. FACTORS AFFECTING QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE EMISSION OF PEAR VOLATILES; V. VOLATILE COMPOUNDS' INFLUENCE ON QUALITY

VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONSLITERATURE CITED; 6: The Physiology of Flowering in Strawberry; I. INTRODUCTION; II. FLORAL MORPHOLOGY; III. ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON REPRODUCTIVE GROWTH; IV. FLORAL INDUCTION MODELS; V. GENETICS OF FLORAL INDUCTION; VI. CONCLUSIONS; LITERATURE CITED; 7: Flower and Fruit Thinning of Peach and Other Prunus; I. INTRODUCTION; II. REPRODUCTIVE PHYSIOLOGY; III. ABSCISSION; IV. THINNING PRACTICES; V. FUTURE PROSPECTS; LITERATURE CITED; 8: The Reproductive Biology of the Lychee; I. INTRODUCTION; II. FLOWERING; plates; III. POLLINATION

IV. THE FERTILIZATION PROCESS AND INITIAL FRUIT SETV. FRUIT DEVELOPMENT AND ABSCISSION; VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS; LITERATURE CITED; Subject Index; Cumulative Subject Index; Cumulative Contributor Index

Sommario/riassunto

Horticultural Reviews, Volume 28 presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural sciences. The emphasis is on applied topics including the production of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamental plants of commercial importance.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910254946303321

Titolo

Business Modeling and Software Design : 5th International Symposium, BMSD 2015, Milan, Italy, July 6–8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Boris Shishkov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-40512-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 191 p. 76 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, , 1865-1356 ; ; 257

Disciplina

330.97309

Soggetti

Information technology - Management

Application software

Software engineering

Business IT Infrastructure

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Computer Application in Administrative Data Processing

Software Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains revised and extended versions of selected papers from the Fifth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2015, held in Milan, Italy, in July 2015. The symposium was organized and sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on Enterprise Systems and Technology (IICREST), being co-organized by Politecnico di Milano and technically co-sponsored by BPM-D. Cooperating organizations were Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), the U Twente Center for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT), the BAS Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI), the Dutch Research School for Information and Knowledge Systems (SIKS), and AMAKOTA Ltd. BMSD 2015 received 57 paper submissions from which 36 papers were selected for publication in the BMSD'15 proceedings. 14of those papers were selected as full papers. Additional post-symposium reviewing was



carried out reflecting both the qualities of the papers and the way they were presented. 10 best papers were selected for the Springer edition (mainly from the BMSD'15 full papers). The 10 papers published in this book were carefully revised and extended (following the reviewers' comments) from the papers presented. The selection considers a large number of BMSD-relevant research topics: from business-processes-related topics, such as process mining and discovery, (dynamic) business process management (and process-aware information systems), and business process models and ontologies (including reflections into the Business Model Canvas); through software-engineering-related topics, such as domain-specific languages and software quality (and technical debt); and semantics-related topics, such as semantic technologies and knowledge management (and knowledge identification); to topics touching upon cloud computing and IT-enabled capabilities for enterprises.