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Turn your dream of launching and running a sustainable tourism business into reality. This step-by-step guide will help you prepare and implement a business plan, anticipate and solve the complex sust
This book contains papers presented at the fourth in a series of trans-disciplinary conferences on Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development, and Ecological Hazards, first held in 2006.
This book explores a major media management topic on the basis of case study research conducted in European, US and Brazilian media companies. More specifically, it examines the dynamics of employee e
Human Resource Management: Functions, Applications, and Skill Development, Second Edition, featuring the 2013 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Human Resource Curriculum Guide, explores imp
Coastal areas face increasing pressures from land use change, developmental activities, shoreline erosion, biodiversity losses and natural calamities. This volume addresses these issues facilitating t
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Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion. Yet they have a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, clim
Based on the premise that high-quality programs for young children are an essential support for families—a part of the family ecosystem—this resource demonstrates how managers of programs for young ch
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Instructors at the Pennsylvania-based Project Management Institute explain how to integrate principles of sustainable development into projects and project management. Among their topics are research
This book is the result of the 11 th International Conference on Information Systems Development -Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held in Riga, Latvia, September 12-14,2002. The purpose of thi
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This book is a road map of how to be a successful manager (anyone who supervises people) using well-proven and not-difficult-to-use tools and techniques and can be used across international boundaries
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Why, despite an emphasis on 'getting institutions right', do development initiatives so infrequently deliver as planned? Why do many institutions designed for natural resource management (e.g. Water U
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Environmental engineer Cahill presents simple and practical principles and examples of stormwater management designs that change present practice without sacrificing any of the desired comforts of a b
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This book examines the critical planning for better development and management of water resources, illustrated with respect to the world’s largest water system. The text addresses important issues inc
Natural resource management by rural citizens in tropical regions is crucial both to the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem processes, but also to the the well-being and food security of the p
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Contributors to this work (a companion to the publisher's Sustainable Urban and Regional Infrastructure Development: Technologies, Applications, and Management) are all affiliated with or associated w
Intended for both advanced undergraduate students as well as non-technical managers, this volume contains submitted chapters on security measures for electronic commerce. Two chapters deal with the li
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This work provides business practitioners with knowledge management tools to guide them through the process of gathering data, analyzing it, and making decisions that culminate in a strategic plan of
With all new and updated material, the third edition provides civil engineers with a complete history of water availability. It also delves into government development, management, and policy of wate
This book presents the new EU approach to environmental management and its attempt to place it in the perspective of sustainable development. China and other large and fast growing economies are putti
The software development market continues to grow worldwide. As projects become more complicated and the pressure to ?do more with less? becomes the rule of thumb, the need for software managers to b
The scholarship of management teaching and learning has established itself as a field in its own right, and this benchmark Handbook is the first to provide an account of the discipline. Original chap
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