Trovati 40603 documenti.
Trovati 40603 documenti.
Milano : Lybra immagine, 1999
Architettura e design
Stakeholders, the environment and society / edited by Sanjay Sharma, Mark Starik
Cheltenham ; Northampton : E. Elgar, c2004
New perspectives in research on corporate sustainability
Abstract: The authors examine the role stakeholders play in influencing regulations on global issues such as climate change and national and regional problems. Stakeholder selection of companies and the sustainability issues they choose to target are explored, as are the ways in wich organizations motivate them to partecipate in the evolution of holistic sustainable solutions.
Irresistible Empire : America's advance through Twentieth-Century Europe / Victoria De Grazia
Cambridge (Mass.) ; London : The Belknap press of Harvard University Press, 2006)
Abstract: Molti aspetti del nostro quotidiano di consumatori che oggi diamo per scontati sono in realtà frutto di un lungo processo storico compiutosi nel "secolo breve". Un processo che questo libro intelligente e spiritoso affronta da un'angolazione che sarebbe piaciuta a Georges Perec: le cose. Una magistrale storia intrecciata dell' Europa e dell 'America all'epoca dell'avvento della società dei consumi.
Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2006
Fa parte di: History of political economy. Annual supplement. Annual supplement
Fa parte di: History of political economy. Annual supplement. Annual supplement
Abstract: The theory of demand, or consumer choice theory, is prominently featured in the early chapters of every microeconomics textbook - introductory, intermediate, or graduate - and has appeared in essentially the same place and in the same basic form for over a half-century. The theory's basic idea is quite simple, or at least seems to be so once the catechism has been learned. It goes like this.
Cost Benefit analysis and water resources management / edited by Roy Brouwer and David Pearce
Cheltenham ; Northampton (MA) : Edward Elgar, (2005)
Abstract: Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is around 70 years old if we date its first practical application to water resources developments in the USA in the 1930s. The theory of CBA is much older and its origins can be more precisely set in the 1840s with the writings of the French engineer and economist Jules Dupuit.
Cheltenham ; Northampton : E. Elgar, c2005
Munasinghe Institute for Development series on growth and sustainable development
Abstract: Using a multidisciplinary approach that draws on their in-depth experience in the field of energy, environment, and economics, the authors develop a comprehensive analytical framework. They applay their methodology to four detailed studies of Sri Lanka's energy sector, wich illustrate how to address key energy and environmental policy issues found in many developing counties today. Supplementary case ezamples are presented which also draw on many other countries in Asia and Africa.
Princeton Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2006
Abstract: In this book the two authors assert that MNCs have the critical combination of capabilities required to build investment, grow economies, and create jobs in poor countries, and thus to reduce poverty. Furthermore, they contend, MNCs can do so profitably and thus sustainably.
Westport ; CT London : Praeger, 2005
Abstract: In this book the author provides an antidote: take fifty of today's top economic issues and explain their mening, implications, and potential solutions in a logical, straightforward, commonsense, and non-partisan way.
Brewing justice : fair trade coffee, sustainability, and survival / Daniel Jaffee
Berkeley [etc.] : University of California Press, c2007
Abstract: Fair trade is a fast-growing alternative market intended to bring better prices and greater social justice to small farmers around the worls. But is it working? This vivid study of indigenous coffee farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, offers the first thorough investigation of the social, economic, and environmental benefits of fair trade. It explorers the changing politics of the international fair international fair trade, illuminating the complex dynamic of this alternative market and its relationshio to the global economy.
Fair trade for all : how trade can promote development / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton
Oxford : Oxford University press, 2005
Abstract: How can the poorer countries of the world be helped themselves trough freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book, Nobel prize-winning economist Stiglitz and his co-author Charlton present a radical new economic model, designed to open up markets in a way that will allow them to flourish.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2007
Abstract: This book explores the challenges and potential of Fair Trade, one of the world's most dynamic efforts to enhance global social justice and sustainability through market-based social change.
Fair trade : market-driven ethical consumption / Alex Nicholls and Charlotte Opal
Los Angeles : Sage, c2005
Abstract: Fair Trade is at a crucial moment in its evolution from alternative trading mechanism to mainstream economic model. The strategic future of Fair Trade is put under careful scrutiny in this timely and thoughtful book. This book will interest advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and MBA students taking courses on business ethics, retail, marketing management ang development economics.
Cambridge ; London : MIT Press, ©2008
Food, health, and the environment
Abstract: The book presents series of interdisciplinary, empirically rich case studies showing how small-scale farmers manage ecosystems and organize collectively as they seek useful collaborations with international NGOs and coffee companies to create opportunities for themselves in the coffee market. The findings demonstrate the interconnections among farmer livelihoods, biodiversity, conservation, and changing coffee market.
Microfinance : evolution, achievements and challenges / edited by Malcolm Harper
London : ITDG, 2003
Abstract: This reader brings together fourteen of the most important articles on microfinance to have been published since 1990. These contributions illustrate the major developments in microfinance during the period and, together with the editor's introductory analysis, provide an invaluable overview of the field.
Practical microfinance : a training manual / Malcolm Harper
London : ITDG Publishing, 2003
Abstract: Microfinance is a powerfull tool for alleviating poverty, enabling poor people to earn a living and take control of their lives. This book provides material and detailed step-by-step guides for twenty-two sessions, including case studies, quantitative exercises and field trips. The sessions cover topics such as sustainability, interest rates, the choice of delivery methodologies and institutiona, impact assessment and delinquency management.
Global backlash : citizen initiatives for a just world economy / edited by Robin Broad
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2002
Abstract: This book allows us to understand more clearly the history and content of the current debates about corporate-led economic globalization. But, more than that, it tells what we can do about it -what peolple are already doing about it.
Torino : Museo regionale di scienze naturali, 2009
Bologna : EMI, (2006)
Abstract: Cinque favole che provengono da diversi stati dell'India: I dolcetti di Ganesh dal Maharashtra; La festa del riso dall'Andhra Pradesh; Avanti zucca muoviti dal Madhya Pradesh; Il fantasma goloso dal Kashmir e Shiva e la Vecchia dal Karnataka.
Roma : Banca d'Italia, 1998
Temi di discussione del Servizio studi / Banca d'Italia ; 341
Abstract: The paper explores whether and how current lending-of-last-resort practice can be extended beyond national borders. It argues that what makes lending of last resort effective at the national level is a blend of resources availability, technical discretion, ex-ante supervision, and powers of enforcement.
Roma : Banca d'Italia, 2001
Temi di discussione del Servizio studi / Banca d'Italia
Abstract: The paper examines the evolution of consumer and business confidence indexes in France, Germany and Italy since the mid-eighties, using regressions of the indexes on a set of common macroeconomic variables for each country. Comparison of the results across agents and across countries highlights some differences in behaviour that have emerged in the last 50 years.