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Principles of Ecology and Management.
Title:
Principles of Ecology and Management.
Author:
Sitkin, Alan.
ISBN:
9781906884826
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (282 pages)
Contents:
Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction to Ecology and Management -- The ecological mindset -- Basic science for managers -- The estrangement of management and ecology -- Case study: Detroit focuses on SUVs not survival -- 2 Resource Depletion -- Energy inputs -- Non-energy inputs -- Case study: Peak oil -- 3 Pollution -- Pollution sources -- Environmental impacts -- Sectoral factors -- Case study: Steeling South Africans against pollution -- 4 Environmental Economics and Politics -- Environmental economics -- Environmental politics -- Case study: Making Britain's green and sceptr'd isle -- 5 Corporate Greening Strategies -- Implementing the transition -- Controls and measurements -- Case study: Lenovo and its Greenpeace rankings -- 6 Green Operations -- Knowledge management -- Value chain functions -- Case study: BASF has a brand new bag -- 7 Green Marketing -- Green consumption -- Corporate green marketing approaches -- Case study: Wal-mart eats its greens -- 8 Ecology and International Business -- Multinational enterprises and the environment -- International dilemmas -- Case study: Chinese greens -- 9 Green Sectors for the Future -- Staples -- Living patterns -- Case study: Cybertran's foray into light rail -- 10 Clean Energy and New Ventures -- Clean energy -- Launching new ventures -- Case study: Birthing green energy ventures -- References -- Glossary -- Index.
Abstract:
An environmental business book written by a business school professor for business school students.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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