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  • Transforming Rural Communities in China and Beyond

    Community Entrepreneurship and Enterprises, Infrastructure Development and Investment Modes

    by Ying Zhu, Hong Lan, David A. Ness, Ke Xing, Kris Schneider, Seung-Hee Lee, Jing Ge ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book represents one of the first attempts by a multidisciplinary research team, encompassing the social sciences, business, architecture and planning, engineering, and finance and economics, to help rural communities discover sustainable and self-reliant paths to development and transformation.The opening chapter outlines the background of the research, its importance in the context of China ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Waste to Wealth

    The Circular Economy Advantage

    by Peter Lacy, Jakob Rutqvist ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book about Management Research

    by Emma Bell, Richard Thorpe ...
    Series series Very Short, Fairly Interesting & Cheap Books
    In Management Research the authors provide a stimulating and critical overview of the key theoretical debates on research paradigms and methodologies, demystifying the process and providing invaluable insights into the politics and practice of research.Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • An Introduction to Sustainability

    Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives

    by Martin Mulligan ...
    An Introduction to Sustainability provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key concepts and ideas which are encompassed within the growing field of sustainability.The fully updated second edition, including new figures and images, teases out the diverse but intersecting domains of sustainability and emphasises strategies for action. Aimed at those studying the subject for the first ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Climate Change Governance

    Edited by Jörg Knieling, Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Climate change is a cause for concern both globally and locally. In order for it to be tackled holistically, its governance is an important topic needing scientific and practical consideration. Climate change governance is an emerging area, and one which is closely related to state and public administrative systems and the behaviour of private actors, including the business sector, as well as the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary

    An Economic History

    by Viktor Pál ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously. Further, this book explains why this process was ultimately a failure. By exploring the environmental pre-history of communist Hungary before analyzing the economic development of the Kádár regime, Pál investigates ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services

    From Regulation to Innovation

    by Philipp Aerni ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses the ability of market-based instruments to improve the sustainable provision of environmental services. The author combines field research and insights from the multi-stakeholder dialogue at the FAO to analyze the gap between the predictions provided by theory and the corresponding outcomes in practice. In particular, the author challenges the theory behind Payments for ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sustainability Innovations in the Electricity Sector

    Edited by Dorothea Jansen, Katrin Ostertag, Rainer Walz ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The future of modern societies depends on their ability to deal with the challenge of climate change in the coming decades. One essential component is a better understanding of innovation processes in the energy sector. This book focuses on sustainability innovations in renewable energies, combined heat and power, and energy service contracting, and analyses the institutions, actors and functions ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Silicon Valley Model

    Management for Entrepreneurship

    by Annika Steiber, Sverker Alänge ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a new management model that has evolved in Silicon Valley. The future will favor companies that can migrate to a management model, better suited for the times. The abilities to remain entrepreneurial and innovate constantly will be essential for all companies in an innovation economy. However, most firms still use industrial-age management models that are not suited to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • China: Innovative Green Development

    by Angang Hu ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is particularly concerned with China’s path to green development and how it can be understood, exploring questions such as how the goal of Chinese-led green development can be achieved. The book provides systematic explanations of the theory of green development, exploring its background, its theoretical basis, the areas it covers, the stages it encompasses and the constraining and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Renewable Energies

    Business Outlook 2050

    Edited by Fausto Pedro García Márquez, Mayorkinos Papaelias, Alexander Karyotakis ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of current renewable energy technologies and their basic principles. It also addresses the financial aspects of renewable energy projects and analyzes their profitability, covering the most relevant topics for engineers, economists, managers and scientists who are actively involved in renewable energy research and management. The authors are ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Green Information Systems in the Residential Sector

    An Examination of the Determinants of Smart Meter Adoption

    by Philipp Wunderlich ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Given rising electricity consumption, coupled with finite resources, and a growing awareness surrounding sustainable energy, ICT-enabled electrical networks such as smart grids are increasingly being deployed by energy companies. One aspect of smart grids is smart meter technology (SMT), which are sophisticated digital electrical meters, having the potential to increase energy efficiency in both ... Read more

    $89.09 USD