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Believing Cassandra by Alan Atkisson Synopsis A bestseller on Amazon.com within months of its first release, Alan AtKisson's debut book quickly became a modern classic of sustainability literature. Global companies, grassroots groups, university courses, government agencies, and even the US Army... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper 
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Street Smart Sustainability by David Mager Publisher Comments Go Green While Making GreenYou already know why your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process-from getting employee buy-in and conducting a current sustainability audit to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.04 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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State of the World: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Toward a Sustainable Society (State of the World) by Worldwatch Institute Publisher Comments Since September 11, 2001, many governments have reasserted the centrality of traditional, military-focused security. Yet the aftermath of the ensuing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq underlines once more that lasting security is not found in soldiers... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Environmental Dilemmas: Ethical Decision Making by Robert Mugerauer Publisher Comments Because many people and ecosystems share_or constitute_any given place, they all have a stake in the outcome of what any of us do in regard to environmental problems. It is not surprising that issues are hotly contested given the many divergent interests,... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $43.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Standards and Audits for Ethics Management Systems: The European Perspective (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy) by Josef Wieland Publisher Comments Today's management is faced with the new task of implementing and dealing with standardised ethics management systems and values programs. It is a widely accepted fact that these have to be designed individually and firm specific, if they are to be a... (read more) Your price: $210.25 New - Trade Paper
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Business and the Environment: Policy Incentives and Corporate Responses by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Publisher Comments This publication summarises the results of an OECD project which collected and analysed data from over 4,000 businesses in seven OECD countries, focusing on environmental policy management. Issues considered include: the role of 'flexible' policy... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $20.41 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sustainable Development in Mineral Economies by Richard Auty Publisher Comments The mineral economies are an important group of developing countries which have suffered a "resource curse" over the past 20 years--showing a poorer performance than resource-deficient neighbors. This book draws upon case-studies and analysis of nine... (read more) Your price: $178.95 New - Hardcover
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Developing a Plan for the Planet by Ian Chambers Publisher Comments The scale of the global issues we are facing today: unsustainable population growth; climate change; energy supplies; water and food supplies; planeat sustainability and biodiversity; extreme poverty; global health; universal education; conflict... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $38.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Comparative Environmental Law & Policy #2: Environmental Regulation Through Financial Organisations, Comparative Perspectives on the Industrial by Benjamin J. Richardson Publisher Comments Environmental Regulation through Financial Organisations examines in the industrialised nations the emerging role of banks, insurers and institutional investors as organisations for articulating and strengthening environmental law and policy. Taking a... (read more) Your price: $193.50 New - Hardcover
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Conservation of Great Plains Ecosystems: Current Science, Future Options by Stanley R. Johnson Publisher Comments This text provides a rare combination of a thorough understanding of banking and lending with an innovative scholarly explanation of the concept of stewardship found in accounting, corporate governance, environmental strategy and Christian social ethics.... (read more) List Price $309.00 Your price: $297.41 Google eBooks - Electronic
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But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World by Gernot Wagner Publisher Comments You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Put bluntly, whatever you do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesnt care. Nor, for that matter, does the economy. In view of the entwined challenges of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Secure From Rash Assault (99 Edition) by James Winter Publisher Comments An Assessment of the damage inflicted on the land and landscape of Britain during the "era of steam." Concentrates on the technological limits and sociocultural restraints on industrialists, engineers, land exploiters, and others with the capacity for... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Urban Environment and Infrastructure: Toward Livable Cities by Anthony G. Bigio Publisher Comments The "brown agenda," or urban environmental issues, became an important part of the international policy agenda following the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Urban environmental issues continue to remain a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $13.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action by Leslie King Synopsis Environmental Sociology, intended for use in Environmental Sociology courses, uses sociological methods and perspectives to analyze key environmental issues. The reader is organized like an introduction to sociology reader, and comprised of readings that... (read more) Your price: $119.50 New - Hardcover
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Feeding a World Population of More Than Eight Billion People: A Challenge to Science by J. C. Waterlow Publisher Comments Since the 1960s, breakthroughs in agriculture have made it possible to satisfy the world's increasing requirements for food. Can this trend continue over the next thirty years when the world population is projected to exceed eight billion? This book... (read more) Your price: $150.25 New - Hardcover
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Manufacturing Process Technology; Proceedings; 5V. by Zhengyi Jiang Et Al Publisher Comments This five-volume set collects peer-reviewed papers from an April 2011 conference, highlighting new advances and research results in manufacturing science and engineering. The conference brought together researchers, engineers, and scientists from more... (read more) List Price $690.00 Your price: $462.30 New - Trade Paper
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Beyond the Bottom Line by Joel Makower Publisher Comments The first book to distill the best of the forward-looking ideas of socially responsible policies emerging from the corporate world. By following the suggestions detailed here, individuals can institute similar programs in their own companies--because it... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Limits to Growth Revisited by Ugo Bardi Publisher Comments “The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $48.08 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Small States: Making the Most of Development Assistance: A Synthesis of World Bank Evaluation Findings by Gene Tidrick, Marvin Publisher Comments "The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) prepared this synthesis note as an input to the ongoing process surrounding the international agenda for Small States. Its purpose is to provide a perspective on some of the issues small states face through a... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $8.87 Google eBooks - Electronic
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China in the Global Economy Environmental Taxes: Recent Developments in China and OECD Countries by Oecd Publishing Synopsis Environmental taxes are receiving growing interest world-wide. From an environmental perspective, a key driver has been the search for more efficient and cost-effective approaches for implementing domestic environmental policies. From a fiscal policy... (read more) Your price: $111.50 New - Trade Paper
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