Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philipp aerni”
Skip side bar filters

  • Global Business in Local Culture

    The Impact of Embedded Multinational Enterprises

    by Philipp Aerni ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the impact of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on local economies, and presents selected case studies of MNEs operating in low income countries. By balancing external social and environmental costs against its corresponding benefits, the book demonstrates that MNEs can have a positive net-impact on local development if they build up social capital by embedding themselves in ... Read more

    $53.99 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

  • Ethical Tensions from New Technology

    The Case of Agricultural Biotechnology

    by Philipp Aerni, Rachel A. Ankeny, Bartosz Bartkowski, Heather J. Bray, Bradley Martin Jones, Deepthi E. Kolady, Jane Kolodinsky, Katie M. MacDonald, Kelly A. McKinley, Desmond Ng, Frauke Pirscher, Roberto Quiroz, Dane Scott, Shivendra Kumar Srivastava, Debra M. Strauss, Insa Theesfeld, Johannes Timaeus, Corrine Valdivia, Duane Windsor ...
    Series series CABI Biotechnology Series
    The introduction of new technologies can be controversial, especially when they create ethical tensions as well as winners and losers among stakeholders and interest groups. While ethical tensions resulting from the genetic modification of crops and plants and their supportive gene technologies have been apparent for decades, persistent challenges remain. This book explores the contemporary nature ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • 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

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edited by Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Book 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Sugarcane Complex in Brazil

    The Role of Innovation in a Dynamic Sector on Its Path Towards Sustainability

    by Felix Kaup ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book offers an in-depth analysis of the Brazilian sugarcane complex with a special focus on technological advances that promote sustainable development. It first examines the question why sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil is considered a superior alternative to fossil fuel compared to other biofuels produced on an industrial scale and subsequently analyzes the most dynamic areas within the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Integral Community Enterprise in Africa

    Communitalism as an Alternative to Capitalism

    by Anselm Adodo ...
    Series series Transformation and Innovation
    At a time of global economic crisis and disillusionment with capitalism, Adodo offers refreshing and positive insight into a more integral way of business management, enterprise and community development as well as holistic healing in Africa. For over three decades, Africa was the recipient of billions of dollars in aid funds that were meant to catapult the continent from undeveloped to developed ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy

    New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945 - 1975

    by David Hall ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes in Britain, mainly as a consequence of that war, forced New Zealand to seek new markets for its exports, ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Bio-Economic Models applied to Agricultural Systems

    Edited by Guillermo Flichman ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book has the purpose of providing the "state of the arts" concerning bio-economic modelling dealing with agricultural systems. In most cases, the contributions use a methodology combining the use of biophysical and economic models, in all cases, an engineering production function approach is totally or partially applied. This practice is being developed in the last years as a response to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Routledge Revivals: A Rural Policy for the EEC (1984)

    by Hugh Clout ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, Hugh Clout’s work contributes to one of the most debated and important topics of the time, the European Economic Community. Starting from the Mid-20th century, Clout explains the profound socio-economic and environmental changes that effected the countryside of Western Europe. This work shows how the EEC’s wide-ranging Common Agricultural Policy added a measure of ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region

    A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making

    Edited by Paolo Verme, Abdlekrim Araar ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is an analysis of energy and food subsidies in the MENA region between 2010 and 2014. Using the World Bank’s proprietary SUBSIM model, the book studies the distribution of subsidies and the simulation of subsidy reforms across eight countries within in a partial equilibrium framework. The distributional analysis of subsidies provides information on who benefits from existing subsidies, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Water Crisis in Yemen

    Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East

    by Christopher Ward ...
    Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political economy components. He assesses the social and economic impacts of the crisis and provides in-depth case studies in the key management areas. The final part of the book offers an assessment of current strategy and looks at future ways in which the people ... Read more

    $153.89 USD