Environmental Studies Categories
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21ST CENTURY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GLOBAL WARMING AND CLLIMATE CHANGE
ISBN: 9781926686387
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A CORPORATE SOLUTION TO GLOBLE POVERTY
World leaders have given the reduction of global poverty top priority. And yet it persists. Indeed, in many countries whose governments lack either the desire or the ability to act, poverty has worsened. This book, a Joint venture of a Harvard professor and an economist with the International Finance Corporation, argues that the solution lies in the creation of a new institution, the World Development Corporation (WDC), a partnership of multinational corporations (MNCs), international development agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
In A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty, George Lodge and Craig Wilson assert that MNCs have the critical combination of capabilities required to build investment, grow economies, and create jobs in poor countries, and thus to reduce poverty. Furthermore, they contend, MNCs can do so profitably and thus sustainably. But they lack legitimacy, and risk can be high, and so a collective approach is better than one in which an individual company proceeds alone. Thus a UN-sponsored WDC, owned and managed by a dozen or so MNCs with NGD support, will make a marked difference.
At a time when big business has been demonized for destroying the environment, enjoying one-sided benefits from globalization, and deceiving investors, the book argues that MNCs have much to gain from becoming more effective in reducing global poverty. This is not a call for philanthropy. Lodge and Wilson believe that corporate support for the World Development Corporation will benefit not only the world’s poor but also company shareholders as a result of improved MNC legitimacy and stronger markets and profitability.”
ISBN: 0691122296
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS -
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A CRITIQUE OF WELFARE ECONOMICSA RETROSPECTIVE REISSUE
ISBN: 0195664647
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS -
A DICTIONARY CIVILSOCIETY, PHILANROPY AND THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR
ISBN: 1857431669
Publisher: ROUTLEDGE -
A DICTIONARY OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
ISBN: 0713159588 – Paperback
Publisher: EDWARD ARNOLD
ISBN: 0713159588
Publisher: EDWARD ARNOLD -
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A FREE NATION DEEP IN DEBT
FOR THE GREATER PART of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. In A Free Nation Deep in Debt, James Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this political transformation occurred. The pressures of war finance led ancient states to store up treasure; and treasure accumulation invariably favored autocratic states. But when the art of public borrowing was developed by the city-states of medieval Italy as a democratic alternative to the treasure chest, the balance of power tipped. From that point on, the pressures of war favored states with the greatest public creditworthiness; and the most creditworthy states were invariably those in which the people who provided the money also controlled the government. Democracy had found a secret weapon and the era of the citizen-creditor was born. Macdonald unfolds this tale in a sweeping history that starts in biblical times, passes via medieval Italy to the wars and revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ends with the great bond drives that financed the two world wars.
ISBN: 0691126321
Publisher: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS -
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A PASSAGE TO NURISTAN
A first hand account of extraordinary travel, it is a reminiscent of “Short Walk in the Hindu Kush”. This book about Afghanistan is highly topical. Despite its recent upheavals, for most of the twentieth century Afghanistan was a sleepy, faraway place of little interest to outsiders. Nowhere was the romance and mystery attached to the country more dramatically expressed than in its Nuristan region (formerly Kafiristan – Land of Infidels). Here, the spectacular mountains and lush but inaccessible valleys have, for centuries, been home to one of the world’s least known peoples. Isolated in their mountain villages, the Nuristanis were only converted to Islam at the end of the nineteenth century. “A Passage to Nuristan” is the story of three young westerners – a Briton, an American and a German – who in 1960 set out to penetrate a land that few westerners had set eyes on. Unable to rely on maps or information on what would confront them, they were guided step by precarious step into the unknown world previously immortalised by Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be King”. This is the contemporary record – now published for the first time – of an extraordinary journey. It will fascinate all who are interested in Afghanistan, Central Asia and travel. At the same time it captures the essence of a time and a place now gone forever.
ISBN: 1845111753
Publisher: I.B. TAURIS -
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A TEXTBOOK OF MOLECULAR ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
ISBN: 9781682860052
Publisher: SYRAWOOD PUBLISHING HOUSE -
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ADVANCES AND TRENDS IN ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES III
ISBN: 9780367075095
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AMANAGING ENERGY EFFICIENTY IN HOTELS AND COMMERCIAL BUILDING
ISBN: 8185419981
Publisher: TERI -
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