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Principles of ecology and management : international challenges for future practitioners / Alan Sitkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sitkin, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ecology.
- Environmental ecology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodeaton, Oxford : Goodfellow Pub., c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An environmental business book written by a business school professor for business school students.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613113801
- 9781283113809
- 1283113805
- 9781906884826
- 190688482X
- 9781906884437
- 1906884439
- 9786000040383
- 6000040385
- OCLC:
- 708569290
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