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Introduction to Climate Change Management

Transitioning to a Low-Carbon Economy

This book provides climate students with the basic scientific background to climate change management. Students will learn about international and national approaches to climate change management defined in voluntary initiatives as well as in national law and international agreements. The book describes mitigation and adaptation measures, monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions, and strategies for achieving a low-carbon economy, including green finance. This book combines theory and practice, introducing students to the conceptual background but also taking a professional and technical approach with case studies and low carbon toolkits. Filled with didactic elements such as concept schemes, tables, charts, figures, examples, as well as questions and answers at the end of the chapters, this book aims to engage critical thinking and the discussion of important topics of our days. The low-carbon strategy is one of the answers to limiting the greenhouse effect on our planet. This strategy is to minimize the overall carbon consumption in the life cycle of the products we consume, from the extraction of raw materials to the end of their life. The future is being built today. This book will guide its readers along the path of imagining and realizing a low-carbon economy.”

NGOs have frequently criticized the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, ... Within a country, “retail” commercial banks are variously organized as private companies or cooperative associations.

Our Common Journey

A Pioneering Approach to Cooperative Environmental Management

"Our Common Journey is an insider account told through dozens of candid interviews with leading business and environmental experts around the world. De Jongh's co-author, Sean Captain, provides an American perspective and renders the concepts fully accessible to an English-speaking audience, making the book a global guide to a sustainable planet."--Jacket.

De Jongh's co-author, Sean Captain, provides an American perspective and renders the concepts fully accessible to an English-speaking audience, making the book a global guide to a sustainable planet."--Jacket.

Self-management in Yugoslavia and the Developing World

Labor-management Cooperation in a Public Service Industry

Labor-Management Cooperation in a Public Service Industry outlines the historical aspects of labor-management cooperation and the characteristics of the transit industry which made it conducive to this cooperation. The second chapter discusses different cooperative programs such as employee input programs, safety programs, performance incentive programs, and training programs. Administrative considerations are examined in chapter three, along with the potential difficulties and calculating cost benefits. The two appendices offer a case study analysis format and quantitative assessment of four quality circles. This book contains extensive interviews with nearly seventy mass transit practitioners.

The two appendices offer a case study analysis format and quantitative assessment of four quality circles. This book contains extensive interviews with nearly seventy mass transit practitioners.

NIMBY Politics in Japan

Energy Siting and the Management of Environmental Conflict

Negative reaction to undesirable facilities in one's neighborhood "not in my back yard" isn't limited to the United States. Japanese communities have also resisted siting decisions for power plants, and have often delayed or killed projects for which a legitimate social need exists.NIMBY Politics in Japan is the first detailed account in English of energy siting disputes in postwar Japan. Based on an investigation of a hundred conventional and nuclear plants, the book draws on a wide range of local and corporate sources, as well as interviews with participants, to reveal the bargaining processes involved in social choices and their public policy outcomes.S. Hayden Lesbirel examines why some siting decisions have taken an extraordinarily long time to complete while others have proceeded rapidly. He focuses on the intensity of conflict, relative strengths among participants, and the role of compensation, and he shows how innovative uses of compensation often enable negotiated compromises to be reached. Stressing the importance of dynamic bargaining and creative responses to social and political problems, Lesbirel shows the value of negotiated compromises in Japanese consensual politics."

Based on an investigation of a hundred conventional and nuclear plants, the book draws on a wide range of local and corporate sources, as well as interviews with participants, to reveal the bargaining processes involved in social choices ...

Population Pressure and Management of Natural Resources

Income-sharing and Labour Absorption in Small-scale Fisheries

Knowledge-Based Risk Management in Engineering

A Case Study in Human-Computer Cooperative Systems

Based on the author's ten years of research, development, and implementation of knowledge-based systems for project risk management, this book addresses the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to management, and attempts to attain a new level of AI and risk management for large construction projects. It presents a new concept--a human-computer cooperative system--as the next generation knowledge-based system for application to ill-structured management fields. The human-computer cooperative system incorporates human intuitive abilities into the computer system. A case study is used involving a risk management case for large construction projects with the resulting discussions and methods applicable to other management fields as well.

Based on the author's ten years of research, development, and implementation of knowledge-based systems for project risk management, this book addresses the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to management, and attempts to attain a ...

Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management

Addresses the art of controlling and updating your library's collection. Discussions of the importance and logistics of electronic resources are integrated throughout the book.

Adresses the art of controlling and updating your library's collection. Discussions of the importance and logistics of electronic resources are integrated throughout the book.

Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Management

This volume bridges the gap between ecology and natural resource management and, in particular, focuses on plant ecology as a foundation for vegetation and wildlife management. It describes how concepts and approaches used by ecologists to study communities and ecosystems can be applied to their management. Guy R. McPherson and Stephen DeStefano emphasize the importance of thoughtfully designed and conducted scientific studies to both the advancement of ecological knowledge and the application of techniques for the management of plant and animal populations.

This volume bridges the gap between ecology and natural resource management and, in particular, focuses on plant ecology as a foundation for vegetation and wildlife management.

Strategic Management from an Islamic Perspective

Text and Cases

Fascinating insights into modern strategic management from an Islamic perspective While strategic management is a cornerstone of any MBA program, it's almost always taught from conventional theories and typically American case studies. This book takes those traditional theories and interprets them from an Islamic perspective using more international case studies. Though primarily intended as a textbook for business students, the book is also extremely useful for any Muslim business leaders who want to transform their businesses while complying with Shariah, with a particular focus on developing corporate cultures and structures in sync with Islamic values. Offers a critical review of conventional strategic management theory, suggesting more effective alternatives based on a combination of conventional and Islamic theories Includes international case studies, each with a particularly Islamic angle Written by a successful author team that has written extensively on the subject of business management from an Islamic perspective

under the supervision of the Ministry of Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development. To date, Bank Rakyat has a total of 111 branches offering Islamic banking facilities to its customers. Bank Rakyat is among a family of organizations ...