The business leader's guide to the low-carbon economy / / Larry Reynolds

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462330703321
• Autore: Reynolds Larry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-4094-7127-6; 1-317-03961-0; 1-317-03960-2; 1-315-61424-3; 1-4094-2352-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4083
• Soggetti: Business enterprises - Environmental aspects; Management - Environmental aspects; Technological innovations - Environmental aspects; Sustainability; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A Gower book"--Cover.; First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I The Drivers of the Low-carbon Economy; 1 The Cost of Energy; 2 Climate Change; 3 Responding to the Challenge of Climate Change; Part II The Features of the Low-carbon Economy; 4 Low-carbon Energy; 5 Energy Efficiency; 6 Low-carbon Transport; Part III What Will it Really be Like?; 7 Present Trends Continue; 8 Conflict; 9 Technology to the Rescue; 10 Less is More; Part IV What You Need to Do; 11 Managing Energy; 12 Managing Carbon; 13 Adaptation; 14 The Sustainable Business; 15 Developing New Products; Part V Making It Happen16 Transforming Your Business; 17 Starting a New Enterprise; 18 Leadership in the Low-carbon Economy; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Rising energy prices and concerns about climate change are driving us ; towards a new kind of economy - a low-carbon economy. What will this low-carbon economy be like, and what does your business have to do to prosper in this new business environment? In The Business Leader's Guide to the Low-carbon Economy, Larry Reynolds shows how successful organisations are already learning to be more energy efficient, manage their carbon footprint, adapt to climate change and become truly sustainable. As well as explaining how to future-proof your organisation against possible threats, his book tells you h