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Learning from the Global Financial Crisis
This book is motivated by the simple hope that the cloud of the global financial crisis may yet have a silver liningthat political leaders, economists, and management scholars might seize this opportunity to reflect critically on the assumptions, practices, and infrastructures that have precipitate... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
The Global Carbon Crisis: Emerging Carbon Constraints and Strategic Management Options
For at least a decade the science of climate change has warned us of the dire need for action – particularly by corporations who are the main engines of economic production and consumption. Yet managerial and corporate understanding of climate change and related energy issues remains fragmented and ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Management and the Sustainability Paradox: Reconnecting the Human Chain (Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society)
Management and the Sustainability Paradox is about how humans became disconnected from their ecological environment throughout evolutionary history. Begining with the premise that people have competing innate, natural drives linked to survival. Survival can be thought of in the context of long-term ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Cross-Sector Leadership for the Green Economy
Technology breakthroughs in sustainable renewable energy and energy conservation technologies require that there be a strong institutional ecosystem in place which supports innovation, but the nature of this foundation and how it works is not well-known. Becoming a leader necessitates new forms of ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
The Collaboratory: A Co-creative Stakeholder Engagement Process for Solving Complex Problems
by Adam Kahane • John North • Paul Shrivastava • Zaid Hassan • Stephen Hickman • Peter Hayward • Ronald Fry • Philip Mirvis • Eddie Blass • Claire Maxwell • Katrin Muff • Aaron Williamson • Anders Aspling • Anthony Buono • Bill Burck • Caroline Rennie • Gregoire Serikoff • Jackie Bagnall • Janette Blainey • Jonas Haertle • Louie Gardiner • Mark Drewell • Otto Scharmer • Patrick Frick • Svenja Rüger • Thomas DyllickThe introduction is free to download here.This book is about empowering ordinary people to make a difference in the world. It explores the transformation that emerges when groups spread around the world working on similar issues discover synchronicities, often cross-pollinating, and collaborate rath... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
by Paul Kellogg • Bob Barnetson • Gabrielle Slowey • Jason Foster • Josh Evans • Joy Fraser • Karen Wall • Lorna Stefanick • Manijeh Mannani • Meenal Shrivastava • Peter Jay Smith • Ricardo Acuna • Sara Dorow • Trevor HarrisonPrior to May 2015, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta had, for over four decades, been a one-party state. During that time, the rule of the Progressive Conservatives essentially went unchallenged, with critiques of government policy falling on deaf ears and Alberta ranking behind other provinces i... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Emerging Trends in Agri-Nanotechnology: Fundamental and Applied Aspects
by Xiaodong Yang • Mahendra Rai • Jyoti Singh • Kelvii Wei Kelvii Wei • Harikesh Bahadur Singh • Prachi Singh • Sandhya Mishra • Surendra Singh • Semih Otles • Birinchi Sarma • Manoj Kumar Chitara • Gagan Kumar • Anupam Maharshi • Amina Antonacci • Marcelo Dutra Arbo • Fabiana Arduini • Daiana Silva Avila • Carolina Castro Bueno • Estefania V Campos • R K Chaturvedi • Deepika Chauhan • Sampa Das • Jhones L Oliveira • Renata De Lima • Kunzes Dolma • Carolina Alves Santos • Professor Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto • Aniket Gade • Solange Cristina Garcia • Renato Grillo • Indarchand Gupta • Janmejay Pandey • Mauricio Tavares Jacques • Akansha Jain • S Marimuthu • Vijay Kumar Mishra • Arpan Mukherjee • Jessica Nardi • Raksha Pandit • Jai Singh Patel • K Raja • Rahul Singh Rajput • Ratul Moni Ram • Indira Rathore • Buket Yalcin Sahyar • Viviana Scognamiglio • N N Singh • Amira S Soliman • Ankit Srivastava • Arohi Srivastava • K S Subramanian • J C Tarafdar • Sudheer K YadavThe science of nanotechnology, the manipulation, design and engineering of devices at the atomic and molecular scale, is starting to be applied to many disciplines including aspects of agriculture and crop science. This book opens with a brief history of nanotechnology in agriculture. Applications... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018