Principles of ecology and management : international challenges for future practitioners / / Alan Sitkin
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| Autore: |
Sitkin Alan
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| Titolo: |
Principles of ecology and management : international challenges for future practitioners / / Alan Sitkin
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| Pubblicazione: | Woodeaton, Oxford, : Goodfellow Pub., c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 658.4083 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ecology |
| Environmental ecology | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction to Ecology and Management -- The ecological mindset -- Basic science for managers -- The estrangement of management and ecology -- Case study: Detroit focuses on SUVs not survival -- 2 Resource Depletion -- Energy inputs -- Non-energy inputs -- Case study: Peak oil -- 3 Pollution -- Pollution sources -- Environmental impacts -- Sectoral factors -- Case study: Steeling South Africans against pollution -- 4 Environmental Economics and Politics -- Environmental economics -- Environmental politics -- Case study: Making Britain's green and sceptr'd isle -- 5 Corporate Greening Strategies -- Implementing the transition -- Controls and measurements -- Case study: Lenovo and its Greenpeace rankings -- 6 Green Operations -- Knowledge management -- Value chain functions -- Case study: BASF has a brand new bag -- 7 Green Marketing -- Green consumption -- Corporate green marketing approaches -- Case study: Wal-mart eats its greens -- 8 Ecology and International Business -- Multinational enterprises and the environment -- International dilemmas -- Case study: Chinese greens -- 9 Green Sectors for the Future -- Staples -- Living patterns -- Case study: Cybertran's foray into light rail -- 10 Clean Energy and New Ventures -- Clean energy -- Launching new ventures -- Case study: Birthing green energy ventures -- References -- Glossary -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An environmental business book written by a business school professor for business school students. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Principles of ecology and management |
| ISBN: | 1-283-11380-5 |
| 9786613113801 | |
| 1-906884-82-X | |
| 1-906884-43-9 | |
| 600-00-4038-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811594903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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