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This edited collection brings together leading theoretical and applied research with the intent to design a sustainable global financial future. The contributors argue that our world cannot move toward sustainability, address climate change, reverse environmental degradation, and improve human...
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Technology breakthroughs in sustainable renewable energy and energy conservation technologies require that there be a strong institutional ecosystem in place which supports innovation, but the nature of this foundation and how it works is not well-known. Becoming a leader necessitates new forms...
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility and its development in Africa. It provides in-depth studies on 11 sub-Saharan countries, demonstrating that corporate social responsibility is forming and going through different stages of metamorphosis in the...
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Foreword by Dr. Ian Mitroff -- Ch 1 The Case of Eco-Spirituality -- Ch 2 Sustaining the Cosmic Wheel of Sacrifice: Journey from Consumer to Contributor -- Ch 3 Moral Underpinnings of Sustainability -- Ch 4 The Environment is a Moral and Spiritual Issue -- Ch 5 Ethics and CSR for Spirituality and...
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Acknowledgements -- Executive Summary -- 1 The Historical Context of Payments for Environmental Services -- 2 Payments for Environmental Services: Revisiting the Theoretical Baseline Assumptions -- 3 The Practical Perspective of Environmental Services Management -- 4 Conclusions -- Annex.
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This book explores the environmental competitiveness of 133 countries around the world, presenting an index evaluation system to facilitate a comparative analysis of environmental competitiveness on a global scale. This is a new way to measure competitiveness in the light of the contradiction...
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After over 30 years of reform and opening up, China’s aggregate economic volume is now the second largest in the world …. Over the past decade many provinces in the western region of China have implemented ecological migration projects of … different scales, which have attracted considerable attention both in China and abroad. The projects indicate, first, that there …
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China and Taiwan are two of the fastest growing economies of the newly industrialized countries. Much of their growth …' which the multinationals would not enjoy elsewhere. Corporate Environmentalism in China and Taiwan tests this hypothesis …
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The report was launched during China’s Twelfth Five-year Period (2011-2015). After revising the measurement system of … autonomous regions as well as 38 large and medium-sized cities in China. A Public Satisfaction Survey of the Urban Residents is … resources protection and pollutants emission, and government’s related investment and management respectively. The China Green …
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Preface -- Ecological Crisis, Eco-civilization and Eco-city -- An Evaluation on China’s Eco-city Construction … China, and assesses the achievements and shortcomings of China’s eco-city construction projects. As both China and Western …
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