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Sustainability in Business: A Financial Economics Analysis
This book provides an approach to sustainable decision-making rooted in financial and economic literature. Financial economic techniques have the power to frame the discussion of sustainability to explain who, how, and why sustainability is a growing phenomenon in business and investing. Financial c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Teachers Doing Research: The Power of Action Through Inquiry
This popular text describes the processes of doing teacher action research. But it is much more than a dry presentation of "methods." Filled with examples of teacher action research projects, provided by teachers themselves, the book places teachers at the heart of the action research process. Teach... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Soil Carbon: Science, Management and Policy for Multiple Benefits
by Meine Van Noordwijk • Pete Smith • Christiano Ballabio • Daniel Buschiazzo • Bas Van Wesemael • Genxing Pan • Francesca Bampa • Rich Conant • Heitor L.C. Coutinho • Patrick Gicheru • Andre Bationo • Roger Funk • David Werner • Martial Bernoux • Unai Pascual • Tapas Bhattacharyya • Marty Goldhaber • Hans Joosten • Dave Abson • Niels Batjes • Carlos Eduardo Cerri • Generose Nziguheba • David Powlson • Christian Feller • Pierre-Alain Maron • Luca Montanarella • Yongcun Zhao • Chris DuffyThis book brings together the essential evidence and policy opportunities regarding the global importance of soil carbon for sustaining Earth's life support system for humanity. Covering the science and policy background for this important natural resource, it describes land management options that ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Soil Carbon
by Meine Van Noordwijk • Pete Smith • Christiano Ballabio • Daniel Buschiazzo • Elke Noellemeyer • Steven A Banwart • Bas Van Wesemael • Genxing Pan • Francesca Bampa • Rich Conant • Heitor L.C. Coutinho • Patrick Gicheru • Andre Bationo • Roger Funk • David Werner • Martial Bernoux • Unai Pascual • Tapas Bhattacharyya • Marty Goldhaber • Hans Joosten • Dave Abson • Niels Batjes • Carlos Eduardo Cerri • Generose Nziguheba • David Powlson • Christian Feller • Pierre-Alain Maron • Luca Montanarella • Yongcun Zhao • Chris Duffy • Eleanor MilneThis book brings together the essential evidence and policy opportunities regarding the global importance of soil carbon for sustaining Earth's life support system for humanity. Covering the science and policy background for this important natural resource, it describes land management options that ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Dermal and Ocular Toxicology: Fundamentals and Methods
Dermal and Ocular Toxicology: Fundamentals and Methods is a procedurally-oriented volume of detailed methods and practical examples discussing the dermal and ocular aspects of toxicology. The book is divided into a dermal section and an ocular section. Each section begins with a chapter on the anato... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1991 -
The Capability Approach, Empowerment and Participation: Concepts, Methods and Applications (Rethinking International Development series)
This book explores the linkages between Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach and participatory forms of development – especially those associated with critical pedagogy and empowerment from the bottom-up. It shows how the capability approach and the participatory movement can complement and reinforce e... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century (New Black Studies Series #1)
by Derrick P. Alridge • Keisha N. Blain • Cornelius L. Bynum • Jeffrey Lamar Coleman • Pero Gaglo Dagbovie • Stephanie Y. Evans • Aaron David Gresson • Claudrena N. Harold • Leonard Harris • Maurice J. Hobson • La TaSha Levy • Layli Maparyan • Zebulon V. Miletsky • R. Baxter Miller • Edward Onaci • Venetria K. Patton • James B. Stewart • Nikki M. TaylorConsidering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. Thi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Inside Out: Architectures of Experience (Conjunctions #68)
by Joyce Carol Oates • Kathryn Davis • Bradford Morrow • Claude Simon • Robert Coover • Joanna Scott • Nathaniel Mackey • Frederic Tuten • Robert Kelly • Robert Clark • Mary South • Elaine Equi • Cole Swensen • Elizabeth Robinson • G. C. Waldrep • Ann Lauterbach • Can Xue • Susan Daitch • Lance Olsen • Matt Reeck • Brandon Hobson • Andrew Mossin • Gabriel Blackwell • Monica Datta • Ryan Call • Lisa Horiuchi • Lawrence Lenhart • Mark Irwin • Justin Noga • Karen Hays • John Madera • Karen HeulerNew writings—on rooms, buildings, and the spaces and structures that surround us—from Robert Coover, Joyce Carol Oates, Joanna Scott, and more. From huts to houses to high-rises, childhood bedrooms to churches, the spaces we occupy and pass through shape our memories and perceptions, often without... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Long Year: A 2020 Reader (Public Books Series)
by Eric Klinenberg • Joan Wallach Scott • Julie Livingston • Natalia Molina • Jun Li • Guobin Yang • Andrew Lakoff • Priscilla Wald • Warwick Anderson • Warren Breckman • Adam Tooze • Ananya Roy • Sophie Lewis • Neha Vora • Margaret O'Mara • Yarimar Bonilla • Merlin Chowkwanyun • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor • Margaret Morganroth Gullette • Marcia Chatelain • Jacob A.C. Remes • Joanne Randa Nucho • Xiaowei Wang • Miguel Centeno • Jean-Paul Gagnon • Keisha N. Blain • Sulfikar Amir • Mustafa Dikeç • David Schmidt • Gautam Bhan • David S. Barnes • Isabelle Guérin • Andy Horowitz • Simon Balto • Éric Charmes • Max Rousseau • Michelle Cera • Gilles Guiheux • Ye Guo • Renyou Hou • Manon Laurent • Anne-Valérie Ruinet • Govindan Venkatasubramanian • Mathieu Ferry • Marine Al Dahdah • Sherihan Radi • Jeffrey Aaron Snyder • Rachel Nolan • Evan Lieberman • Julia Foulkes • Soledad Álvarez Velasco • Sophie Gonick • Alfonso Fierro • Erick Corrêa • Gianpaolo Biaocchi • Jake Carlson • Quentin Ravelli • Rikki J. Dean • Afsoun Afsahi • Emily Beausoleil • Selen A. Ercan • Cordula Dittmer • Daniel F. Lorenz • Kathryn Cai • Kavita SivaramakrishnanSome years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022