This book provides a concise and authoritative guide to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and related paradigms, including environmental responsibility, corporate sustainability and responsibility, creating shared value, strategic CSR, stakeholder engagement, corporate citizenship, business...

Emissions trading challenges the management of companies in an entirely new manner: Not only does it, like other market-based environmental policy instruments, allow for a bigger flexibility in management decisions concerning emission issues. More importantly, it shifts the mode of governance of...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Water Saving and Yield Enhancing Micro Irrigation Technologies in India: Theory and Practice -- Chapter 3. Current State of Drip Adoption for Irrigation of crops in Maharashtra -- Chapter 4. Micro-Irrigation in Karnataka: Potential and Constraints for...

Chapter 1. The Plight -- Chapter 2. How much is too much? -- Chapter 3. Right to water -- Chapter 4. The shades of suffering -- Chapter 5. Are we 'learning from doing'? -- Chapter 6. Who served the poison? -- Chapter 7. In love with the ‘Devil’s Water’ -- Chapter 8. The assassin on the...

Dieses Buch nimmt die Wachstumskritik auf und geht über sie hinaus. Es zeigt die systemischen Zwänge auf, die uns am Wachstumspfad festhalten lassen, und stellt alternative Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten für eine Gesellschaft vor, die nicht auf Wachstum angewiesen ist - für eine Gesellschaft, in...