This book explains the role and limitations of liberalized international trade on the global environment and sustainable development. A distinguishing feature of this book is an integration of trade, environment and development perspectives for operationally meaningful policy purposes. The...

Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral dimensions and offer prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition

Dieser Herausgeberband setzt sich empirisch und theoretisch mit verschiedenen Aspekten einer nachhaltigen Unternehmensführung auseinander. Fortwährendes weltweites Bevölkerungswachstum und zunehmender Konsum zusammen mit wachsender Globalisierung führen dazu, dass die in unserer Umwelt...

Dieses Buch zeigt, dass das Stadtleben der Zukunft möglicherweise ein „Shared City Life“ sein wird, indem die Bevölkerung mehr und mehr Sharing-Ansätze nutzt. Damit dieses Shared City Life den Interessen der Stadt selbst entspricht und nicht nur Externe, etwa internationale...

In an era of globalization, technological innovation, and social transformations, universities face the challenge of training students with the competencies needed to meet the demands of the market and to successfully integrate into today’s workforce. This book looks at the university as a...

This book reflects on the causes of resource-based conflicts and competition, and presents solutions for safely and sustainably providing resources with a focus on material flow management. The contributions from different disciplines highlight issues such as safe access to resources, conflicts...

This volume includes the full proceedings from the 2009 World Marketing Congress held in Oslo, Norway with the theme Marketing in Transition: Scarcity, Globalism, & Sustainability. The focus of the conference and the enclosed papers is on marketing thought and practices throughout the world....

This book covers the multi-faceted incentives, trade-offs, and challenges associated with the economics and politics of resource efficiency investments. By contributing a wide range of empirical evidence, practitioners' insights, and policy perspectives, this book carefully examines the role of...