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Relationships between human resource dimensions and environmental management in companies: proposal of a model

open access: yesJournal of Cleaner Production, 2008
This work deals with the main contributions of human resource dimensions for the environmental management in a company. While the specialized literature concerning the technical aspects of environmental management expands, there is a gap in the ...
Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour   +1 more
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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   +2 more
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Renewable resource management with environmental prediction [PDF]

open access: possibleCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2001
Variations in environmental conditions affect renewable resource growth. The ability to predict such variations is improving, providing scope for improved management. We generalize a common stochastic stock recruitment model to explore how optimal management changes with environmental prediction. We obtain three main results. First, while it might seem
Christopher Costello   +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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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

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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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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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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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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