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  • Business Adaptation to Climate Change

    by Jorge E. Rivera, Chang Hoon Oh, Jennifer Oetzel, Viviane Clement ...
    Series series Organizations and the Natural Environment
    This book seeks to advance the understanding of how businesses may adapt to climate change trends. Specifically, it focuses on two general research questions: Firstly, how do businesses adapt to chronic slow-onset nature adversity conditions linked to climate change? Secondly, how do firms adapt to weather-related natural disasters exacerbated by climate change? In the first part of the book, the ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Voluntary Environmental Programs

    A Policy Perspective

    by Allen Blackman, Aseem Prakash, Charles Koerber, Cody Jones, David Ervin, Dinah A. Koehler, Irene Henriques, Ivan Montiel, John W. Maxwell, Jorge Riviera, Laurie Manderino, Magali Delmas, Matthew Potoski, Patricia Koss, Perry Sadorsky, Peter de Leon, Thomas P. Lyon, Darnell, Sides, Madhu Khanna ...
    Series series Studies in Public Policy
    Protecting the environment is often not the primary objective of businesses. As the world has become more environmentally aware, the necessity of environmental regulations becomes apparent. Voluntary Environmental Programs: A Policy Perspective examines different approaches to environmental protection in business. Environmental improvements on the part of industry often result from government ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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    Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It

    by Max H. Bazerman, Ann E. Tenbrunsel ...
    When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption in the tobacco ... Read more

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  • Dying for a Paycheck

    How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It

    by Jeffrey Pfeffer ...
    In one survey, 61 percent of employees said that workplace stress had made them sick and 7 percent said they had actually been hospitalized. Job stress costs US employers more than $300 billion annually and may cause 120,000 excess deaths each year. In China, 1 million people a year may be dying from overwork. People are literally dying for a paycheck. And it needs to stop.In this timely, ... Read more

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  • Behavioral Economics For Dummies

    by Morris Altman ...
    A guide to the study of how and why you really make financial decisionsWhile classical economics is based on the notion that people act with rational self-interest, many key money decisions—like splurging on an expensive watch—can seem far from rational. The field of behavioral economics sheds light on the many subtle and not-so-subtle factors that contribute to our financial and purchasing ... Read more

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  • The Character of Harms

    Operational Challenges in Control

    by Malcolm K. Sparrow ...
    How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? The Character of Harms argues that control or mitigation of 'bad' things involves distinctive patterns of thought and action which turn out to be broadly applicable across a range of human endeavors, and which need to be better understood. Malcolm Sparrow demonstrates that an explicit focus on the ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Experiments in Economics

    Playing fair with money

    by Ananish Chaudhuri ...
    Are humans fair by nature? Why do we often willingly trust strangers or cooperate with them even if those actions leave us vulnerable to exploitation? Does this natural inclination towards fairness or trust have implications in the market-place? Traditional economic theory would perhaps think not, perceiving human interaction as self-interested at heart. There is increasing evidence however that ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Behavioral Economics and Its Applications

    Edited by Peter Diamond, Hannu Vartiainen ...
    In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of applied economics-finance. Peter Diamond and Hannu Vartiainen's Behavioral Economics and Its ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • Swans, Swine, and Swindlers

    Coping with the Growing Threat of Mega-Crises and Mega-Messes

    by Ian Mitroff, Can Alpaslan ...
    Series series High Reliability and Crisis Management
    Swans, Swine, and Swindlers addresses a core, contemporary question: What steps can we take to better anticipate and manage mega-crises, such as Haiti, Katrina, and 9/11?This book explores the concept of "messes." A mess is a web of complex and dynamically interacting, ill-defined, and/or wicked problems; their solutions; and our conscious and unconscious assumptions, beliefs, emotions, and values ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

    by Christine Wamsler ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face the challenge of integrating risk reduction and adaptation strategies into their work. However, related knowledge and expertise are still scarce and fragmented.Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Environmental Marketing

    Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research

    by William Winston, Alma T Mintu-Wimsatt ...
    Environmental Marketing: Strategies, Practice, Theory, and Research is a timely resource for the 1990s. It examines a broad range of issues that affect environmental behavior while providing materials and guidance to marketing decisionmakers. It will guide your organization toward a decidedly “green” marketing movement, toward marketing concepts and tools that not only serve your organization's ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Ecosystems and Human Well-Being

    A Manual for Assessment Practitioners

    by Neville Ash, Keisha Garcia, Thomas Tomich, Bhaskar Vira, Monika Zurek, Claire Brown, Hernn Blanco ...
    Designed by a partnership of UN agencies, international scientific organizations, and development agencies, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) is the most extensive study ever of the linkages between the world’s ecosystems and human well-being. The goal of the MA is to establish the scientific basis for actions needed to enhance the contribution of ecosystems to human well-being without ... Read more

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