Sistema Bibliotecario Area Metropolitana

Abstract: European Consumer Law has become a vital part of both legal education and practice. The Casebook is an essential guide for students and practitioners alike. It provides the reader with an overview of the most important cases and analyses in the area of European consumer law on both European and national levels.

Abstract: Microcredit has been accepted as an effective tool for poverty alleviation and as an approach to development. Access to credit has been recognized as a human right. In this context, the book reviews the performance of microcredit programmes; identifies and analyses the issues facing the microcredit sector; and suggests policies and programmes to deal with the issues to further strenghten the role of microcredit for poverty alleviation.

Abstract: With this book Ritzer further cements his reputation as a leading commentator on consumption. In so doing, he delves deeper into a variety of new territories. Researchers into consumption and globalization will definitely want this book on their shelves.

Abstract: The two authors present a comprehensive approch to analyzing affluent consumers-and creating, promoting and selling innovative products and services to them. They deconstruct how a complex market segment works. Dispelling popular myths and misconception about the composition and behavior of this segment, they provide not only a practical guide for marketersand students of marketibg, but also a fascinating glimpse into a culture driven by materialism, status and aspirations to luxury.

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.