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"Interdisciplinary in its approach, with expert contributors from diverse backgrounds, Resilience and Regional … Development brings to light the significance of multiple dimensions of resilience and its implications for the economy. Using a … subjects such as the concept of resilience, the negative effects generated by global shocks, systemic risks and vulnerabilities …
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threats to business resilience, it offers innovative strategies to manage financial change and reposition small and medium …, equity and asset-based finance; and recent global inflationary pressures. Ultimately, the book argues that SME resilience is … be an invaluable guide for policymakers and practitioners seeking to boost SME resilience and control economic shocks"-- …
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Since the late 1980s and early 1990s, national governments have introduced a range of policy measures designed to steer their economies along a more sustainable path. Yet how are we to know how successful these have been? This significant new book discusses the ways in which sustainable...
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The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change recognises that, in the formulation of a global strategy for reducing global emissions of carbon (the main factor in global warming) forests could play an important role. This book highlights that role and demonstrates how the forests of the world...
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. Digital dematerialization : economic mechanisms behind the net impact of ICT on materials use / Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh …
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Many developing and transition economies have not yet undertaken the policy integration measures needed to enhance the impact of industry on sustainable development. In this original and insightful book, national experts from Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey and...
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This important handbook is the first comprehensive account that brings together recent developments in the three related fields of environmental technology, environmental management and technology management. With contributions from more than 55 outstanding authors representing ten countries and...
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It is argued that mainstream economics, with its present methodological approach, is limited in its ability to analyze and develop adequate public policy to deal with current environmental problems and sustainable development. This book provides an alternative approach. Building on the strengths...
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This book discusses important recent developments in the theory, concepts and empirical applications of ecological economics and sustainable development. The editors have assembled a fascinating collection of papers from some of the leading scholars in the field of ecological economics
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Over the past two decades, China has become an economic powerhouse. However, as the world's largest producer of CO2 emissions, the scale and seriousness of China's environmental problems are clearly evident. This pioneering book provides an economic analysis of the significant environmental and...
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