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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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Women, Environmental Management and Human Resources Management

2013
The uniqueness of this working environment is largely a result of a combination of factors, some of which are common to all voluntary-based organisations and others that arise from its focus upon women and the environment. The heading of this chapter and the context in which it is read might lead the reader to construe that there is a practised form of
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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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Resource and Environmental Management

The Geographical Journal, 1998
Paul Larcombe, Bruce Mitchell
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Environmentally sound management of freshwater resources

Resources Policy, 1986
Abstract The principles and basic activities of environmentally sound management of freshwater resources and a cost effectiveness methodology, including the criteria of sound management needed to implement it, are outlined. This management is regarded as a means of integrating environmental concerns with the management of the water resources and it ...
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Environmental and Resource Management

2001
Nijkamp, P., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M.
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Regional Innovation Resources for Environmental Management

2002
This paper presents research on the importance of regional sources of information and technical assistance for innovation in environmental management. Using data from U.S. chemical plants collected with a national survey, firm visits, and phone interviews, this research shows that local suppliers, customers, universities, and competitors are important ...
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