1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456711903321

Autore

Vaze Prashant

Titolo

The economical environmentalist : my attempt to live a low-carbon life and what it cost / / Prashant Vaze

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan, , 2009

ISBN

1-136-54489-5

1-282-50619-6

9786612506192

1-84977-460-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

333.72092

Soggetti

Sustainable living - Economic aspects

Environmentalism - Economic aspects

Carbon offsetting - Social aspects

Green movement - Economic aspects

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

Introduction -- The economic and environmental challenges -- From field to fork : reducing the environmental impacts of eating -- Getting from A to B : reducing emissions from travel -- Keeping your home warm -- Our friends electric -- Waste not, want not -- Travel and leisure -- Carbon offsetting, communities and social change.

Sommario/riassunto

Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more. Tough economic times need not relegate concerns for the planet to the back burner. The author is an environmental economist trying to live a low-carbon life in London. He worked for 15 years in the UK's Office of Climate Change, the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and the Department of the Environment. So far so good. But he has kids. A family to visit in India. A hectic job. In distilling and building on his own experience of trying to live a low carbon life, he help



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787713503321

Titolo

Green Business Process Management [[electronic resource] ] : Towards the Sustainable Enterprise / / edited by Jan vom Brocke, Stefan Seidel, Jan Recker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2012

ISBN

9786613766670

3-642-27488-9

1-280-99506-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Progress in IS

Classificazione

330

Disciplina

005.7

330

333.7

650

Soggetti

Information technology

Business—Data processing

Organization

Planning

Environmental management

Computers

IT in Business

Environmental Management

Information Systems and Communication Service

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

Preface by Richard T. Watson -- Foreword -- Part I: Foundationss and Directions -- Part II: Tools and Methods -- Part III: Cases and Examples.

Sommario/riassunto

Green Business Process Management – Towards the Sustainable Enterprise" consolidates the global state-of-the-art knowledge about how business processes can be managed and improved in light of sustainability objectives. Business organizations, a dominant part of



our society, have always been a major contributor to the degradation of our natural environment, through the resource consumption, greenhouse emissions, and wastage production associated with their business processes. In order to lessen their impact on the natural environment, organizations must design and implement environmentally sustainable business processes. Finding solutions to this organizational design problem is the key challenge of Green Business Process Management. This book discusses the emerging challenges of designing “green” business processes, presents tools and methods that organizations can use in order to design and implement environmentally sustainable processes, and provides insights from cases where organizations successfully engaged in more sustainable business practices. The book is of relevance to both practitioners and academics who are interested in understanding, designing, and implementing “green” business processes. It also constitutes a valuable resource for students and lecturers in the fields of information systems, management, and sustainable development.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793811303321

Titolo

Science communication on the Internet : old genres meet new genres / / edited by Maria-José Luzón, Carmen Pérez-Llantada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

90-272-6179-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond ; ; 308

Disciplina

004.6780245

Soggetti

Science - Computer network resources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"This book examines the expanding world of genres on the Internet to understand issues of science communication today. The book explores



how some traditional print genres have become digital, how some genres have evolved into new digital hybrids, and how and why new genres have emerged and are emerging in response to new rhetorical exigences and communicative demands. Because social actions are in constant change and, ensuing from this, genres evolve faster than ever, it is important to gain insight into the interrelations between old genres and new genres and the processes underpinning the construction of new genre sets, chains and assemblages for communicating scientific research to both expert and diversified audiences. In examining scientific genres on the Internet this book seeks to illustrate the increasing diversification of genre ecologies and their underlying social, disciplinary and individual agendas"--