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Abstract: The main aspects covered for each guarantee scheme are: history, legal status, funding, working principles and procedures, quantitative data and financial performance, contribution to the agricoltural sector, perspective.

Abstract: Focusing onretailing in nineteenth-century Britain, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. It challenges the view that women were helpless consumers manipulated by merchants' use colour, light and display intoexcessive purchases, or even driven by their desires into acts of theft.

Abstract: Leading the way towards answering this question, The Ethical Consumer is an indispensable introduction to the subject. Exploring areas like boycotts and fair trade projects, it gathers together the diverse experiences of scholars, campaigners and business practitioners from the international community.

Abstract: In this book, Rob Dellink shows he is a skillful applied modeller of environment-economy interactions. The book includes three stylized models that will prove to be a great help for students who want to understand the basics of environmental policy analysis in general equilibrium models.

Abstract: This book examines alternative theories and the empirical testing of trade-offs we make in life among work, leisure, travel and personal maintenance actions and how our plans relate to lenght of stay, attractions, destinations, accomodation and activities, and investigates how marketing strategies affect consumer plans.

Abstract: A "Safe and Sustainable World" demonstrates what has and can be done. It also looks to what must be done to integrate human ingenuity and the four billion or so years of evolutionary intelligence of the natural world into healthy human environment.

Abstract: In this book, the tow authors bring together an array of scholars who explore the ambivalence provoked by the global spread of "American" consumer culture. The first comparative volume to examine global phenomena of consumer culture from the perspective of East Asia, this book analyze not only the attractions of mass consumption but also the many discontents and dilemmas that arise from consumerism.

Abstract: While many rural areas continue to experience depopulation and economic declfacing rapid in-migration, as well as employment and income growth. Much of this growth is due to the presence and use of amenity resources, broadly defined as qualities of a region that make it an attractive place to live and work. Rather than extracting natural resources for external markets, these communities have begun to build economies based on promoting environmental quality.

Abstract: Technological change plays a crucial role in analizing energy efficency improvements and, therefore, in ameliorating the conflict between economic growth and environmental quality. However, the diffusion of new technologies can prove a costly and lengthy process, meaning that many firms do not invest in best-practice technologies. The author offers important new explanations for this energy-efficiency paradox.

Abstract: This book is that rare phenomenon, one that provides us with a unique, relevant, and seminal contribuition to our knowledge, examining the physiological, behavioral, reproductive, community, and other ecological effects of light pollution. It will enhance our ability to mitigate this ominous environmental alteration through moreconscious and effective design of the built environment.

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.

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.