Author: Chris Laszlo
Publisher: Island Pre
Keywords: social, environmental, performance, value, lasting, company, create, sustainable
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-07-08
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1597260185
ISBN-13: 9781597260183

"This is not a book of fluff or feel-good case studies. It’s a handbook for organizational change. The instructions are specific, potential pitfalls are highlighted, and the appendix provides a detailed discussion of outside evaluation tools." -GREEN MARKET REPORT "The Sustainable Company offers some genuinely practical insights into what it really takes to improve stakeholder impacts." -ETHICAL CORPORATION "Laszlo endeavors to translate social and environmental concerns into the language of marketing and corporate strategy...well-meaning executives will find much food for thought here

Author: Ann Florini
Publisher: Island Pre
Keywords: new, world, running, rules, coming, democracy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-02-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1559632895
ISBN-13: 9781559632898

National governments are proving ill-equipped to manage an increasingly complicated suite of global problems, from infectious diseases to climate change to conflicts over international trade. In The Coming Democracy, leading political analyst Ann Florini sets forth a compelling new paradigm for transnational governance, one based on the concept of ?transparency?? the idea that the free flow of information (on topics ranging from corporate and government behavior to nuclear proliferation to biodiversity protection) provides powerful ways to hold decision makers accountable and to give ordinar

Author: David S. Wilcove
Publisher: Island Pre
Keywords: migrations, world, decline, home, way
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-10-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1559639857
ISBN-13: 9781559639859

Animal migration is a magnificent sight: a mile-long blanket of cranes rising from a Nebraska river and filling the sky; hundreds of thousands of wildebeests marching across the Serengeti; a blaze of orange as millions of monarch butterflies spread their wings to take flight. Nature’s great migrations have captivated countless spectators, none more so than premier ecologist David S. Wilcove. In No Way Home, his awe is palpable—as are the growing threats to migratory animals. We may be witnessing a dying phenomenon among many species. Migration has always been arduous, but today

Authors:David Lindenmayer, Jerry F. Frankli,
Publisher: Island Pre
Keywords: multiscaled, approach, comprehensive, biodiversity, forest, conserving
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-07-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 1559639342
ISBN-13: 9781559639347

While most efforts at biodiversity conservation have focused primarily on protected areas and reserves, the unprotected lands surrounding those area?the "matrix"?are equally important to preserving global biodiversity and maintaining forest health. In Conserving Forest Biodiversity, leading forest scientists David B. Lindenmayer and Jerry F. Franklin argue that the conservation of forest biodiversity requires a comprehensive and multiscaled approach that includes both reserve and nonreserve areas. They lay the foundations for such a strategy, bringing together the latest scientific information

Authors:David Salvesen, Lindell L. Marsh, Douglas R. Por
Publisher: Island Pre
Keywords: practice, theory, banking, mitigation
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 1996-06-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1559633719
ISBN-13: 9781559633710

Under the Clean Water Act, development that results in the permanent destruction of wetlands must, in most cases, be mitigated by the creation of a new wetland or the restoration of a degraded one. In recent years, the concept of "mitigation banking" has emerged. Rather than require developers to create and maintain wetlands on their own on a quid pro quo basis, mitigation banking allows them to pay for wetlands that have been created and maintained properly by others to compensate for their damage.The contributors to this volume provide an overview of mitigation banking experience in the Unit

Authors:Frank Ackerman, David Kiron, Neva R. Goodwin, Jo
Publisher: Island Pre
Keywords: economic, thought, issues, goals, human, frontier
Number of Pages: 458
Published: 1997-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1559635606
ISBN-13: 9781559635608

What are the ends of economic activity? According to neoclassical theory, efficient interaction of the profit-maximizing "ideal producer" and the utility-maximizing "ideal consumer" will eventually lead to some sort of social optimum. But is that social optimum the same as human well-being? Human Well-Being and Economic Goals addresses that issue, considering such questions as: Does the maximization of individual welfare really lead to social welfare? How can we deal with questions of relative welfare and of equity? How do we define, or at least understand, individual and social welfare? And h

Author: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publisher: Island Pre
Keywords: assessment, ecosystem, series, millennium, ecosystems, framework, human
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2003-08-15
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1559634030
ISBN-13: 9781559634038

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being is the first product of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a four-year international work program designed to meet the needs of decisionmakers for scientific information on the links between ecosystem change and human well-being. The book offers an overview of the project, describing the conceptual framework that is being used, defining its scope, and providing a baseline of understanding that all participants need to move forward.The Millennium Assessment focuses on how humans have altered ecosystems, and how changes in ecosystem services have affected human