The UN global compact : fair competition and environmental and labour justice in international markets / / edited by Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Liam Leonard |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations, tables |
Disciplina | 658.40830954 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
Gonzalez-PerezMaria Alejandra
LeonardLiam |
Collana | Advances in sustainability and environmental justice |
Soggetto topico |
Nature - Environmental Conservation & Protection
Social impact of environmental issues Leadership - Moral and ethical aspects Social responsibility of business |
ISBN | 1-78441-294-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | UN-supported principles for responsible management education (PRME) : global context, regional implementation, and the role of signatories / Anthony F. Buono, Jonas Haertle, Rudi Kurz -- How UN global compact can contribute corporate accountability and sustainability? / Arzu Özsözgün Çaliskan -- Creating alignment between corporate sustainability and global compact initiatives / Harish C. Chandan -- Designing corporate governance to enhance respect for UN global compact principles / Alice de Jonge -- Writing the social contract : integrating the UN global compact and mining CSR / W. Travis Selmier II -- Socially responsible investment : the financial performance of Spanish equity pension plans / Carmen-Pilar Martí-Ballester -- Why do Spanish firms engage in the global compact initiative? An explanation from institutional and social identity theories / Maria dels Angels Dasí Coscollar, Consuelo Dolz Dolz, Esmeralda Linares-Navarro -- How international investment agreements can better contribute to sustainable development by reflecting the U.N. global compact principles / Rafael Tamayo-Álvarez -- Leadership styles in organizations participating the UN global compact / Emel Esen -- The espoused values of MNEs operating in Colombia : their ethical orientation and stakeholder consideration / Sergio Castrillón-Orrego -- First contact pilot program : a contribution for the dissemination of the global compact in Medellin, Colombia / Juan Carlos Diaz Vasquez, Jaime Alberto Ospina Gallo, Margarita María Montoya Peláez. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818950603321 |
Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Water and development : good governance after neoliberalism / / edited by Ronaldo Munck [and three others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 333.91 |
Collana | CROP international studies in poverty research |
Soggetto topico |
Water resources development - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Water-supply - Government policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan Water-supply - Economic aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Water-supply - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Management Economic development - Africa, Sub-Saharan Development studies Human rights Political geography Social impact of environmental issues Water supply & treatment |
ISBN |
1-350-22389-1
1-78360-495-6 1-78360-494-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
About the Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and acronyms; Part One Context; Introduction; 1 Water, development and good governance; 2 Liquid dynamics: challenges for sustainability in the water domain; 3 Can IWRM float on a sea of underdevelopment? Reflections on twenty-plus years of 'reform' in sub-Saharan Africa; 4 Water politics in eastern and southern Africa; Part Two Case Study; 5 Integrated water management and social development in Uganda; 6 Governance and safe water provisioning in Uganda: theory and practice.
7 Woman water keeper? Women's troubled participation in water resource management8 Women and water politics: an ethnographic gender perspective; 9 Understanding adaptive capacity on the ground: a case of agro-pastoralists in a rural parish, Uganda; 10 Functional sustainability of hand pumps for rural water supply; Part Three Balance Sheet; 11 Beyond the MDGS: can the water crisis for the poor finally be resolved?; Notes on contributors; Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797665503321 |
London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Water and development : good governance after neoliberalism / / edited by Ronaldo Munck [and three others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 333.91 |
Collana | CROP international studies in poverty research |
Soggetto topico |
Water resources development - Africa, Sub-Saharan
Water-supply - Government policy - Africa, Sub-Saharan Water-supply - Economic aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan Water-supply - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Management Economic development - Africa, Sub-Saharan Development studies Human rights Political geography Social impact of environmental issues Water supply & treatment |
ISBN |
1-350-22389-1
1-78360-495-6 1-78360-494-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
About the Author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and acronyms; Part One Context; Introduction; 1 Water, development and good governance; 2 Liquid dynamics: challenges for sustainability in the water domain; 3 Can IWRM float on a sea of underdevelopment? Reflections on twenty-plus years of 'reform' in sub-Saharan Africa; 4 Water politics in eastern and southern Africa; Part Two Case Study; 5 Integrated water management and social development in Uganda; 6 Governance and safe water provisioning in Uganda: theory and practice.
7 Woman water keeper? Women's troubled participation in water resource management8 Women and water politics: an ethnographic gender perspective; 9 Understanding adaptive capacity on the ground: a case of agro-pastoralists in a rural parish, Uganda; 10 Functional sustainability of hand pumps for rural water supply; Part Three Balance Sheet; 11 Beyond the MDGS: can the water crisis for the poor finally be resolved?; Notes on contributors; Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910814836403321 |
London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why women will save the planet : a collection of articles for friends of the earth / / edited by Jenny Hawley |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London [England] : , : Zed Books, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.720820922 |
Soggetto topico |
Women environmentalists
Environmentalism The environment Feminism & feminist theory Gender studies: women Political activism Social impact of environmental issues Sustainability |
ISBN |
1-350-22400-6
1-78360-581-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Jenny Hawley - Introduction -- 1. Diane Elson, University of Essex - Women's empowerment and environmental sustainability in the context of international UN agreements -- 2. Wanjira Maathai, Green Belt Movement, Kenya - Women as drivers of forest restoration to combat climate change -- 3. Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex - Why do gender equality and sustainability go hand in hand?4. Caroline Lucas, UK Green Party MP - Is there a specific role for women in helping to achieve environmental sustainability through politics?5. Susan Buckingham, Feminist geographer, Brunel University - The institutionalisation and masculinisation of environmental knowledge -- 6. Yvonne Orengo, Andrew Lees Trust - Media empowering women in southern Madagascar -- 7. Julie A. Nelson, Economist, University of Massachusetts Boston - Empowering a balanced and useful economics of sustainability: the role of gender -- 8. Anna Fitzpatrick, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London - The role of fashion in bringing about social and ecological change -- 9. Celia Alldridge, Activist with the World March of Women - How the defence of the commons and territories has become a core part of feminist, anti-capitalist struggles -- 10. Vandana Shiva, Philosopher, activist and co-author of Ecofeminism - Hand in hand: women's empowerment and sustainability -- 11. Quinn Bernier, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute - Women's empowerment in sustainable agriculture -- 12. Isabel Bottoms and Amena Sharaf, Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights - The impacts of environmental mismanagement on Egypt's poor -- 13. Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg, University of Antwerp - How gender-sensitive are National Adaptation Programmes of Action? Selected findings from a desk review of thirty-one sub-Saharan African countries -- 14. Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare and Fatima Jibrell, NGO leaders - Women, conflict and the environment in Somali society -- 15. Esther Mwangi, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) - Gender, participation and community forestry: lessons from beneath the canopy -- 16. Barbara Stocking, Former CEO of Oxfam GB - Putting gender equality at the heart of Oxfam's work -- 17. Nidhi Tandon, Networked Intelligence for Development, Canada - From individual to communal rights: empowering women for sustainable use of natural resources -- 18. Maria Mies, Sociologist, activist and co-author of Ecofeminism - Mother Earth -- 19. Sarah Fisher, Population and Sustainability Network - Sexual and reproductive health and rights: a win-win for women and sustainability -- 20. Kate Metcalf and colleagues, UK Women's Environmental Network - The power of grassroots action for women's empowerment and the environment -- 21. Marylyn Haines Evans, National Federation of Women's Institutes - One hundred years of collective action for environmental change -- 22. Juliet Davenport, CEO of Good Energy - The impact of gender balance in the renewable energy sector -- 23. Emma Howard Boyd, 30% Club for women in business leadership - More women in business for a sustainable economy -- 24. Fiona Reynolds, Former director general of the National Trust - Sustainability is about people -- 25. Cathy Newman, Journalist and TV presenter for Channel 4 News, UK - Sexism and gender equality in British politics -- 26. Sarah Richardson, Historian, University of Warwick - Mistresses of their own destiny: a history of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century British politics |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798096303321 |
London [England] : , : Zed Books, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Why women will save the planet : a collection of articles for friends of the earth / / edited by Jenny Hawley |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London [England] : , : Zed Books, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.720820922 |
Soggetto topico |
Women environmentalists
Environmentalism The environment Feminism & feminist theory Gender studies: women Political activism Social impact of environmental issues Sustainability |
ISBN |
1-350-22400-6
1-78360-581-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Jenny Hawley - Introduction -- 1. Diane Elson, University of Essex - Women's empowerment and environmental sustainability in the context of international UN agreements -- 2. Wanjira Maathai, Green Belt Movement, Kenya - Women as drivers of forest restoration to combat climate change -- 3. Lyla Mehta and Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex - Why do gender equality and sustainability go hand in hand?4. Caroline Lucas, UK Green Party MP - Is there a specific role for women in helping to achieve environmental sustainability through politics?5. Susan Buckingham, Feminist geographer, Brunel University - The institutionalisation and masculinisation of environmental knowledge -- 6. Yvonne Orengo, Andrew Lees Trust - Media empowering women in southern Madagascar -- 7. Julie A. Nelson, Economist, University of Massachusetts Boston - Empowering a balanced and useful economics of sustainability: the role of gender -- 8. Anna Fitzpatrick, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London - The role of fashion in bringing about social and ecological change -- 9. Celia Alldridge, Activist with the World March of Women - How the defence of the commons and territories has become a core part of feminist, anti-capitalist struggles -- 10. Vandana Shiva, Philosopher, activist and co-author of Ecofeminism - Hand in hand: women's empowerment and sustainability -- 11. Quinn Bernier, Chiara Kovarik, Ruth Meinzen-Dick and Agnes Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute - Women's empowerment in sustainable agriculture -- 12. Isabel Bottoms and Amena Sharaf, Egyptian Centre for Economic and Social Rights - The impacts of environmental mismanagement on Egypt's poor -- 13. Nathalie Holvoet and Liesbeth Inberg, University of Antwerp - How gender-sensitive are National Adaptation Programmes of Action? Selected findings from a desk review of thirty-one sub-Saharan African countries -- 14. Shukri Haji Ismail Bandare and Fatima Jibrell, NGO leaders - Women, conflict and the environment in Somali society -- 15. Esther Mwangi, Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) - Gender, participation and community forestry: lessons from beneath the canopy -- 16. Barbara Stocking, Former CEO of Oxfam GB - Putting gender equality at the heart of Oxfam's work -- 17. Nidhi Tandon, Networked Intelligence for Development, Canada - From individual to communal rights: empowering women for sustainable use of natural resources -- 18. Maria Mies, Sociologist, activist and co-author of Ecofeminism - Mother Earth -- 19. Sarah Fisher, Population and Sustainability Network - Sexual and reproductive health and rights: a win-win for women and sustainability -- 20. Kate Metcalf and colleagues, UK Women's Environmental Network - The power of grassroots action for women's empowerment and the environment -- 21. Marylyn Haines Evans, National Federation of Women's Institutes - One hundred years of collective action for environmental change -- 22. Juliet Davenport, CEO of Good Energy - The impact of gender balance in the renewable energy sector -- 23. Emma Howard Boyd, 30% Club for women in business leadership - More women in business for a sustainable economy -- 24. Fiona Reynolds, Former director general of the National Trust - Sustainability is about people -- 25. Cathy Newman, Journalist and TV presenter for Channel 4 News, UK - Sexism and gender equality in British politics -- 26. Sarah Richardson, Historian, University of Warwick - Mistresses of their own destiny: a history of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century British politics |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807436503321 |
London [England] : , : Zed Books, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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William R. Freudenburg, a life in social research [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Susan Maret |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | United Kingdom : , : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
Disciplina |
301
361 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MaretSusan |
Collana | Research in social problems and public policy |
Soggetto topico |
Social Science - Sociology - General
Social Science - General Social issues & processes Social impact of environmental issues Social sciences - Research Sociology - Research |
ISBN | 1-78190-735-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The sociological imagination personified : reflections on the life, scholarly contributions and professional accomplishments of William R. Freudenburg / Riley E. Dunlap -- Freudenburg and STARE at Wisconsin / Thomas A. Heberlein -- Learning to think about a mountain with Bill / Scott Frickel -- Power in coupled natural and human systems : the intellectual legacy of William R. Freudenburg / Thomas K. Rudel -- The double diversion of national energy in a globalized era : offshore oil, coal, and oil sand leases / Christine Shearer, Debra Davidson, Robert Gramling -- "Double diversion" and the environmental good : framing a disproportionate solution to an ecological threat as a problem for the commons / Daina Cheyenne Harvey, Andrew Varuzzo -- Equity, discourse, and action : an inflective paradigm linking planning, participation, and natural science / Ann Ruzow Holland -- Toward a better understanding of social problems and policy making : institutionalism of William R. Freudenburg / Ted I.K. Youn -- When recreancy becomes the norm : emergency response planning and the case of tar sands upgrading in the Alberta industrial heartland / Michael R. Edelstein -- "Peak farmland" : revealed truth or recreancy? / Charles Geisler, Ben Currens -- Freudenburg beyond borders : recreancy, atrophy of vigilance, bureaucratic slippage, and the tragedy of 9/11 / Susan Maret -- Breaking news : weapons of mass distraction deployed to fight scientific consensus on climatic changes / Margarita V. Alario -- Power and vulnerability : contextualizing "low risk" views of environmental and health hazards / Christine Shearer ... [et al.] -- Temporal myopia : a case of promising new technologies, the federal government, and inherent conflicts of interest / Mary B. Collins, William R. Freudenburg -- Development, inequality, and environmental quality : an analysis of competing hypotheses using local areas in the United States / Frank M. Howell, William R. Freudenburg (deceased), Gregory A. Works -- Robbing natures bank : preface / William R. Freudenburg. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791224303321 |
United Kingdom : , : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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William R. Freudenburg, a life in social research / / edited by Susan Maret |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | United Kingdom : , : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
Disciplina |
301
361 |
Altri autori (Persone) | MaretSusan |
Collana | Research in social problems and public policy |
Soggetto topico |
Social Science - Sociology - General
Social Science - General Social issues & processes Social impact of environmental issues Social sciences - Research Sociology - Research |
ISBN | 1-78190-735-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | The sociological imagination personified : reflections on the life, scholarly contributions and professional accomplishments of William R. Freudenburg / Riley E. Dunlap -- Freudenburg and STARE at Wisconsin / Thomas A. Heberlein -- Learning to think about a mountain with Bill / Scott Frickel -- Power in coupled natural and human systems : the intellectual legacy of William R. Freudenburg / Thomas K. Rudel -- The double diversion of national energy in a globalized era : offshore oil, coal, and oil sand leases / Christine Shearer, Debra Davidson, Robert Gramling -- "Double diversion" and the environmental good : framing a disproportionate solution to an ecological threat as a problem for the commons / Daina Cheyenne Harvey, Andrew Varuzzo -- Equity, discourse, and action : an inflective paradigm linking planning, participation, and natural science / Ann Ruzow Holland -- Toward a better understanding of social problems and policy making : institutionalism of William R. Freudenburg / Ted I.K. Youn -- When recreancy becomes the norm : emergency response planning and the case of tar sands upgrading in the Alberta industrial heartland / Michael R. Edelstein -- "Peak farmland" : revealed truth or recreancy? / Charles Geisler, Ben Currens -- Freudenburg beyond borders : recreancy, atrophy of vigilance, bureaucratic slippage, and the tragedy of 9/11 / Susan Maret -- Breaking news : weapons of mass distraction deployed to fight scientific consensus on climatic changes / Margarita V. Alario -- Power and vulnerability : contextualizing "low risk" views of environmental and health hazards / Christine Shearer ... [et al.] -- Temporal myopia : a case of promising new technologies, the federal government, and inherent conflicts of interest / Mary B. Collins, William R. Freudenburg -- Development, inequality, and environmental quality : an analysis of competing hypotheses using local areas in the United States / Frank M. Howell, William R. Freudenburg (deceased), Gregory A. Works -- Robbing natures bank : preface / William R. Freudenburg. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820825103321 |
United Kingdom : , : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Über Almen : zwischen Agrikultur & Trashkultur / / Christoph Kirchengast |
Autore | Kirchengast Christoph |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Innsbruck : , : innsbruck university press, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (138 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 338.17609436 |
Soggetto topico |
Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
Environmentalist thought & ideology Social impact of environmental issues Agriculture & farming |
ISBN |
9783902571465 (ebook)
3902571462 (ebook) |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910140506603321 |
Kirchengast Christoph | ||
Innsbruck : , : innsbruck university press, , 2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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