Business and Management -- Professionals’ Perspectives of CSR: An Introduction -- Corporate Responsibility, Accounting and Accountants -- Perspectives of Lawyers in Practice on CSR -- Corporate Social Responsibility from the Perspective of Corporate Secretaries -- Mainsteaming Corporate Social...

The study of the relationship between best practices of sustainability and quality of management investigates one of the most relevant and topical issues involving researchers and professionals. For this investigation, a representative sample of 205 Brazilian companies was selected, covering the...

This paper empirically explored climate change, its related impact on rice agriculture and proper policy- related strategies and mechanism. Our current assessment provided the expected climate change impact based on observational records of inter-annual variability in precipitation and warming...

Brazil has the greatest and the most modern industrial park of Latin America, with a very diversified production. To address the need for major improvements in production systems, the new industrial strategy of Brazil has put pressure on the national industry to adopt a series of measures to...

This e-book of MEQ contains a selection of papers from the 7th international conference on "Current Issues of Sustainable Development", held in April 2007 in Opole (Poland), as well as two interesting further papers on environmental management in Chile and Saudi Arabia. The papers consider the...

Biodiversity is generally described at three levels – diversity of ecosystems, diversity of species, and diversity of genes. Biodiversity is both a scientific and a political concept, embracing a trinity of globally-agreed objectives such as conservation of biodiversity, sustainable use of...