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Investment in Sustainable Development: A UK Perspective on the Business and Academic Challenges
Garland, Nigel; Hadfield, Mark; Howarth, George; … - In: Sustainability 1 (2009) 4, pp. 1144-1160
There are many legislative, stakeholder and supply chain pressures on business to be more ‘sustainable’. Universities … is the essence of sustainable development. The challenges and opportunities for both business and universities are to …
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Phantom Trips
Millard-Ball, Adam - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2014
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Trip Generation for Smart Growth Projects
Schneider, Robert J.; Handy, Susan L.; Shafizadeh, Kevan - Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), University … - 2014
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Essays on India’s Economy: Growth and Innovation
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
growth. The second part examines innovation in the context of manufacturing, education, information technology, management …
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First-Run Smoking Presentations in U.S. Movies 1999-2003
Polansky, Jonathan R.; Glantz, Stanton A. PhD - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2004
Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic heights in 2002, topping levels observed a half century earlier. Tobacco’s comeback in movies has serious public health implications, because smoking on screen stimulates...
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Smoking Presentation Trends in U.S. Movies 1991-2008
Titus, Kori; Glantz, Stanton PhD; Polansky, Jonathan R. - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2009
Tobacco presentations in commercial motion pictures are of serious public health concern because cumulative exposure to this imagery causes large numbers of adolescents to start smoking. An estimated 52% of adolescent smoking initiation is attributed to this exposure. To examine trends in the...
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Uses and Misuses of Statistics
C, Chakrabarty K - eSocialSciences - 2012
Statistics is used in our day to day life. Examples are there to show that statistics is misused in many. This can happen when people are information illiterate. [Address at DST-CIMS, BHU on Mar 20, 2012 as part of the 150th Birth Aniversary Celebrations of Mahanama Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya].
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Introduction
Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press
incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of …
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The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
Goldin, Ian; Mariathasan, Mike - Princeton University Press
incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097661
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In Transition towards Sustainability: Bridging the Business and Education Sectors of Regional Centre of Expertise Greater Sendai Using Education for Sustainable Development-Based S...
Ofei-Manu, Paul; Shimano, Satoshi - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 7, pp. 1619-1644
that it will be good to focus on bridging the business and education sectors by building ESD capacity of the children and …This article discusses a business-school collaborative learning partnership in the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE …) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Greater Sendai. This partnership is further linked to a broader context …
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