Sistema Bibliotecario Area Metropolitana

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abstract: Nel dicembre del 2002, l'Assemblea Generale delle Nazioni Unite ha proclamato il Decennio dell'Educazione allo Sviluppo Sostenibile (DESS) per il periodo 2005-2014 e ne ha affidato la guida all'UNESCO. La finalità del Decennio è sensibilizzare governi e società civili di tutto il mondo verso la necessità di un futuro più equo ed armonioso, rispettoso del prossimo e delle risorse del Pianeta, valorizzando il ruolo che in tale percorso è rivestito dall'educazione

Abstract: Il mondo alpinistico sta affrontando un ampio dibattito sul rapporto tra spedizioni extraeuropee e ambiente montano. Il Quaderno riporta i risultati di un programma di ricerca nel campo dell'Ecocomoatibilità, che ha testato nel 2004 una metodologia conosciuta, ma la cui validità per la prima volta è stata sperimentata in una spedizione alpinistica.

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.

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.

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.

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.