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UNINA9910457708003321 |
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The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity in business and enterprise / / edited by Joshua Bishop |
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Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2013] |
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©2011 |
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1-136-49713-7 |
0-203-14170-9 |
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[First edition.] |
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1 online resource (297 p.) |
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TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity |
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Environmental economics |
Social responsibility of business |
Biodiversity |
Electronic books. |
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"An output of TEEB: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity". |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Economics of Ecosytems and Biodiversity in Business and Enterprise; Copyright; Contents; Foreword from H.R.H. The Prince of Wales; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction to Biodiversity and Ecosystems for Business; Background to this book; Approach, structure and contents; Biodiversity and ecosystems in a changing world; From major trends to business values; Chapter 2 Business Impacts and Dependence on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; Introduction |
Biodiversity, ecosystems and ecosystem servicesImpacts and dependence on biodiversity and ecosystem services across sectors; Biodiversity and ecosystem risks and opportunities for business; Conclusion; Annex 2.1: Case studies: cotton and the Aral Sea and timber in China; Chapter 3 Measuring and Reporting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Impacts and Dependence; Introduction; Designing BES information management and accounting systems; Incorporating BES in capital investment decisions; Collecting and using information at the |
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product level; Collecting and using information at the group level |
Conclusions and recommendationsChapter 4 Scaling Down Biodiversity and Ecosystem Risks to Business; Introduction: Biodiversity as business risk; Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into corporate risk management; Tools for managing biodiversity and ecosystem risks; Strategies for scaling down biodiversity and ecosystem risk; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Increasing Biodiversity Business Opportunities; Introduction: biodiversity as a business opportunity; Biodiversity and ecosystem services as a value proposition; Emerging markets for biodiversity and ecosystem services |
Tools to support markets for biodiversity and ecosystem servicesChallenges to building biodiversity business; What is to be done?; Chapter 6 Business, Biodiversity and Development; Introduction; The business contribution to development; Biodiversity and ecosystem services and the business role in development; Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services and development; Risks and challenges; Enablers and recommendations; Chapter 7 Summary and Conclusion; Summary of findings; An agenda for action by business and other stakeholders |
Annex 7.1: Comparison of selected business, biodiversity and ecosystem declarations, initiatives, guidelines and toolsIndex |
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This book is a product of the TEEB study (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) It provides important evidence of growing corporate concern about biodiversity loss and offers examples of how leading companies are taking action to conserve biodiversity and to restore ecosystems. The authors review a range of practical tools to manage biodiversity risks in business, with examples of how companies are using these tools to reduce costs, protect their brands and deliver real business value. The book also explores the emergence of new business models that deliver biodiversity benefits and ecosystem services on a commercial basis, the policy enabling frameworks needed to stimulate investment and entrepreneurship to realize such opportunities, and the obstacles that must be overcome. The book further examines how businesses can align their actions in relation to biodiversity and ecosystem services with other corporate responsibility initiatives, including community engagement and poverty reduction. Finally, the book concludes with a summary and recommendations for action.This book reviews indicators and drivers of biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline, and shows how these present both risks and opportunities to all businesses. It examines the changing preferences of consumers for nature-friendly products and services, and offers examples of how companies are responding. The book also describes recent initiatives to enable businesses to measure, value and report their impacts and dependencies on biodiversity and ecosystem services. |
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UNINA9910815740303321 |
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Autore |
Pedro Pedro Mateo |
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The acquisition of inflection in Q'anjob'al Maya / / Pedro Mateo Pedro |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (158 p.) |
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Trends in language acquisition research, , 1569-0644 ; ; 14 |
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Kanjobal language - Verb |
Kanjobal language - Inflection |
Kanjobal language - Grammar |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Acquisition of Inflection in Q'anjob'al Maya; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements ; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Sociolinguistic context of Mayan languages, in particular Q'anjob'al; 1.2 Grammatical background of Q'anjob'al; 1.2.1 Verb inflection in imperative clauses; 1.2.2 Verb inflection in indicative clauses; 1.2.2.1 Aspect; 1.2.1.2 Ergative and absolutive morphemes; 1.2.2.3 Status suffixes; 1.2.3 Verb morphology in aspectless complement clauses; 1.2.4 Split Ergativity in Q'anjob'al; 1.2.5 Summary |
1.3 Previous Studies on the Acquisition of Mayan Languages1.4 Previous Studies on the Acquisition of Inflection in Mayan languages; 1.4.1 K'iche'; 1.4.2 Yucatec; 1.4.3 Tzotzil; 1.4.4 Tzeltal; 1.5 The present study; 1.6 Conclusion; 1.7 An overview of the book; 2. Theoretical background; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Theories of the acquisition of inflectional morphemes; 2.2.1 Agreement or Tense Omission Model; 2.2.2 The truncation hypothesis; 2.2.3 The Modal Hypothesis; 2.2.4 The Auxiliary Complement Hypothesis; 2.2.5 Imperative Analogue Hypothesis; 2.2.6 Minimal Word Constraint; 2.2.7 Summary |
2.3 Research questions2.4 Conclusion; 3. Methodology; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Subjects; 3.3 Data collection; 3.3.1 Transcriptions; |
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3.3.2 Coding; 3.3.2.1 Qanform; 3.3.2.2 Qanverb; 3.3.2.3 Qancord; 3.4 Criteria for identifying verbs and clauses; 3.5 Analyses; 3.5.1 Verb form analysis; 3.5.2 Frequency; 3.5.3 Productivity analysis; 3.5.4 Error analysis; 3.5.5 Syllable structures and word order effects in inflectional morphemes; 4. Acquisition of intransitive verbs; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Intransitive verb forms; 4.2.1 Xhuw's intransitive verb forms; 4.2.2 Xhim's intransitive verb forms |
4.2.3 Tum's intransitive verb forms4.2.4 Summary; 4.3 Frequency of intransitive inflections; 4.3.1 Frequency of Xhuw's intransitive inflections; 4.3.2 Frequency of Xhim's intransitive inflections; 4.3.3 Frequency of Tum's intransitive inflections; 4.3.4 Summary; 4.4 Productivity of intransitive inflections; 4.4.1 Xhuw's productivity of intransitive inflections; 4.4.2 Xhim's productivity of intransitive inflections; 4.4.3 Tum's productivity of intransitive inflections; 4.4.4 Summary; 4.5 Errors; 4.5.1 Overextension and omission of status suffixes |
4.5.2 Status suffixes with incorrect aspect or incorrect clause4.5.3 Independent pronouns; 4.5.4 Intransitive verbs in aspectless complement clauses; 4.5.5 Summary; 4.6 Conclusion; 4.7 Relationship of data and theories; 5. Acquisition of transitive verbs; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Transitive verb forms; 5.2.1 Xhuw's transitive verb forms; 5.2.2 Xhim's transitive verb forms; 5.2.3 Tum's transitive verb forms; 5.2.4 Summary; 5.3 Frequency of transitive inflection; 5.3.1 Xhuw's frequency of transitive inflections; 5.3.2 Xhim's frequency of transitive inflections |
5.3.3 Tum's frequency of transitive inflections |
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Most studies on the acquisition of verbal inflection have examined languages with a single verb suffix. This book offers a study on the acquisition of verb inflections in Q'anjob'al Maya. Q'anjob'al has separate inflections for aspect, subject and object agreement, and status suffixes. The subject and object inflections display a split ergative pattern. The subjects of intransitive verbs with aspect markers take absolutive markers, whereas the subjects of aspectless intransitive verbs take ergative markers. The acquisition of three types of clauses is explored in detail (imperatives, indicativ |
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UNINA9910953189303321 |
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Autore |
Forster Paul <1957-> |
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Peirce and the threat of nominalism / / Paul Forster |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
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1-107-21304-5 |
1-139-06303-0 |
1-283-11230-2 |
1-139-07525-X |
9786613112309 |
1-139-08207-8 |
1-139-07980-8 |
1-139-07751-1 |
0-511-92122-5 |
1-139-06948-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Nominalism as demonic doctrine -- 2. Logic, philosophy and the special sciences -- 3. Continuity and the problem of universals -- 4. Continuity and meaning: Peirce's pragmatic maxim -- 5. Logical foundations of Peirce's pragmatic maxim -- 6. Experience and its role in inquiry -- 7. Inquiry as self-corrective -- 8. Theories of truth: Peirce versus the nominalists -- 9. Order from chaos: Peirce's evolutionary cosmology -- 10. A universe of chance: foundations of Peirce's indeterminism -- 11. From inquiry to ethics: the pursuit of truth as moral ideal. |
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Charles Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, was a thinker of extraordinary depth and range - he wrote on philosophy, mathematics, psychology, physics, logic, phenomenology, semiotics, religion and ethics - but his writings are difficult and fragmentary. This book provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of Peirce's thought. |
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His philosophy is presented as a systematic response to 'nominalism', the philosophy which he most despised and which he regarded as the underpinning of the dominant philosophical worldview of his time. The book explains Peirce's challenge to nominalism as a theory of meaning and shows its implications for his views of knowledge, truth, the nature of reality, and ethics. It will be essential reading both for Peirce scholars and for those new to his work. |
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