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Management of Environmental Resources and Environmental Policy

1992
We have in previous chapters argued that the basic problem in managing environmental resources is the problem of incentives. Environmental resources are often such that it is not in the best of interest of the individual to act in a way that is best for the society at large. The basic objective of environmental policy is therefore to create an economic
Jan Bojö, Karl-Göran Mäler, Lena Unemo   +2 more
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Managing information resources and environmental turbulence

Information Management & Computer Security, 1997
Using a sample of large industrial firms from two industries with differing external turbulence ‐ commercial banking and pharmaceutical ‐ hypothesizes that the need for a senior manager of information technology is essential in high‐turbulence industries (commercial banking).
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Resource and Environmental Management

2013
Preface 1. Change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict 2. Turbulence and planning 3. Looking to the future 4. Sustainability 5. Ecosystem approach 6. Learning organizations and adaptive management 7. Assessing alternatives 8. Partnerships and stakeholders 9. Local knowledge systems 10. Gender and development 11.
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Environmental Human Resource Management

1998
Although human resource management is an area much less involved than most in environmental protection, it is here that long-term, significant preconditions are created for the effectiveness of environmental management in a company. This is true not only in terms of the qualification requirements set when selecting and promoting personnel, but also in ...
Ulrich Steger, Ralph Meima
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Resource and Environmental Management

2019
Change. Complexity. Uncertainty, Conflict, Ambiguity. Intractability. Wicked problems. Ethics, Integrity. All these terms capture much of what resource and environmental managers must address in determining the most appropriate course of action relative to social-ecological systems.
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Innovations in resource and environmental management

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, 2003
Innovation currently is an obsession in business and government circles. For instance, the term 'innovation gap' has become a popular way of referring to the purported failure of some countries or sectors to 'keep up' with others in terms of the generation of scientific advances and new technologies.
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Implementing Environmental and Resource Management

2011
From the contents: Part I - Energy Efficiency and Innovation.- Part II - Planning and Decision-making.- Part III - Limits to Managing the Environment.
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Woodfuel resource use and environmental management

Energy Policy, 1989
Abstract The deterioration of the woodfuel resource base in developing countries is being increasingly perceived as a problem of land management. Given this focus, the economics of natural resource use can provide a framework appropriate for an integrated analysis of environmental and energy-related issues of biomass resource management.
Witold Teplitz-Sembitzky, Gunter Schramm
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Uncertainty and the intertemporal management of environmental resources

International Journal of Systems Science, 1984
Abstract The assumption that dispersion relationships, pollution levels and parameters of the preference function are known with certainty and hence are accessible to the environmental policy makers, at no cost, violates reality. In the real world, various internalization schemes must explicitly recognize that the environmental externality dynamics ...
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Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management

2010
As Thomas Sterner points out, the economic toolkit for dealing with environmental problems has become formidable. It includes taxes, charges, permits, deposit-refund systems, labeling, and other information disclosure mechanisms. Though not all these devices are widely used, empirical application has started within some sectors, and we are beginning to
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