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Pre-Owned Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources Paperback

It s time for a new kind of economy We re overusing the earth s finite resources and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough Rob Dietz and Dan O Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual... more

Enough Is Enough : Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources (Paperback)

It’s time for a new kind of economy We’re overusing the earth’s finite resources and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the... more

World Bank Studies: Azerbaijan : Inclusive Growth in a Resource-Rich Economy (Paperback)

Azerbaijan experienced a golden age in the last decade during which the average growth rate reached record high levels and poverty decreased significantly. On average the economy grew by 15.3 percent per year in real terms during this period. As a... more

Routledge Contemporary China Unemployment in China: Economy Human Resources and Labour Markets (Paperback)

Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy keenly analyzing the new directions the world s next superpower is now taking. Successfully bringing together a wide range of research and evidence from leading scholars... more

Natural Resource Management and Policy: Public Economics and the Environment in an Imperfect World (Paperback)

Growing populations and economies have increased the public s awareness that the world s environmental resources are finite. The issues of global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer have given universal significance to what were once local and... more

Geography of Production and Economic Integration (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy) - Jovanovic Miroslav

This book discusses the way in which economic integration and preferential trade agreements reinforce or alter the existing location of industries. Using a conceptual approach with real life examples the author seeks to clarify and explain the key... more

Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy (Paperback)

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY NC ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Collaborative Advantage... more

Routledge Library Editions: Development Food and Poverty: The Political Economy of Confrontation (Paperback)

First published in 1976 this book deals with contemporary tensions between the West and the Third World caused by hunger malnutrition and poverty perpetuated by an imbalance in the distribution of world resources. The book deals with the issue of... more

Strategic Human Resource Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Digitalized Economic Paradigm (Paperback)

Human resources are critical within organizations particularly in the modern world where technology can be acquired to produce the same quality of products. Today in the context of the digitalized economy hospitality organizations must ensure their... more

Routledge Advances in Management and Bus Green Human Resource Management in Chinese Enterprises (Paperback)

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and particularly environmental management has now become a global social norm. As the largest developing economy in the world China is currently a major environmental polluter. This book examines how Chinese... more

The Circular Economy and Its Implications on Sustainability and the Green Supply Chain (Paperback)

In the modern world solid and liquid waste deposits are mounting due to increasing populations and wealth. Businesses are therefore being put under pressure to pay attention to the environmental and resource consequences of the products they produce... more

Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency of Business (Paperback)

In today s information-flooded world the scarcest resource is not ideas or even talent: it s attention. In this groundbreaking book Thomas Davenport and John Beck argue that unless companies learn to effectively capture manage and keep it--both... more

The Big Flatline: Oil and the No-Growth Economy (Hardcover) by Jeff Rubin

9780230342187. New condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 272. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 272 p. In The Big Flatline economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world s governments are getting it... more

Study on the enterprise growth under the transformation economy environment: Taking China`s first joint-stock enterprise as an example (Paperback)

Since the end of the 1970s and the beginning of 1980s with the political and economic system changes in the world some enterprises being operated on the basis of market mechanism have emerged in the economy which once implemented the planning resource... more

Significance of Human Resource Management to Organizations (Paperback)

No organization anywhere in the world can achieve its objectives in full and variety without dependable credible rightly engaged and well-motivated personnel. All organizations irrespective of size nature of business location economic or social... more

World Bank Studies: Local Content Policies in the Oil and Gas Sector (Paperback)

A number of countries have recently discovered and are developing oil and gas reserves. Policy makers in such countries are anxious to obtain the greatest benefits for their economies from the extraction of these exhaustible resources by designing... more

I can make it! - Job Performance-critical Competencies for German-speaking Expatriate Managers Working in the Middle East (Paperback)

The world s economy still continues to globalise at rapid progression. However this leaves organisations with the challenge of managing their human resources across cultural boundaries. The retention and development of internationally competent... more

Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction: Poverty Reduction and Changing Policy Regimes in Botswana (Paperback)

An examination of how Botswana overcame the legacies of exceptional resource deficiency and colonial neglect to transform itself from one of the poorest nations of the world to a middle income economy. Contributions review how economic social and... more

Developmental Pathways to Poverty Reduction: Poverty Reduction and Changing Policy Regimes in Botswana (Hardcover)

An examination of how Botswana overcame the legacies of exceptional resource deficiency and colonial neglect to transform itself from one of the poorest nations of the world to a middle income economy. Contributions review how economic social and... more

Strategies for Promoting Sustainable Hospitality and Tourism Services (Hardcover)

Tourism marketing is a vital tool in promoting the overall health of the global economy. This brings necessary revenue to particular regions of the world that have limited revenue producing resources and provides an opportunity for tourists to explore... more

Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance: The Export of Capital from Britain (Rle Banking & Finance) (Paperback)

During the years before 1914 the world s still largely unused resources were brought increasingly within the framework of a single world economy. This process owed much to Britain s ability to export capital on a scale which has never since been... more

International M&A Due Diligence Second Edition (Paperback)

Designed as a go-to resource for cross-border M&A practitioners this second edition provides lawyers with a meaningful head start in the due diligence process by compiling responses from leading local firms in the 20 top economies in the world other... more

Pre-Owned Critical Issues in Asian Development: Theories Experiences and Policies (Hardcover 9780195866063) by M G Quibria

9780195866063. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 280. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 280 p. Contains: Illustrations. Focusing on Asia location of many of the world s most dynamic economies this work brings new insights... more