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Reactivation of the Built Environment
The book deals with urban reactivation, a particular form of regeneration intervention which in addition to the physical-spatial dimension of the places also—and above all—considers the social and relational dynamics that the intervention is able to activate. In this sense, the concept of activation (or reactivation) emphasizes the act of putting something into or back into operation, whether it concerns the material components of a container (a building or a place) or the immaterial components of a content (a need, or a function), starting from the exploitation of opportunities that the architectural project contributes to revealing, developing and accompanying.
Corporate Social Responsibility in Europe
The acid test of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is simply this: does it lead to positive impacts on society and the environment or is it just rhetoric? And if it does lead to positive impacts, how can these be enhanced? This timely book tackles this cutting-edge challenge by presenting empirical findings from a range of surveys and in-depth case studies. These build on a new methodological and theoretical framework for assessing and explaining the sustainability impact of CSR. For selected sustainability issues mitigation of climate change and chemical risk, resource management in marine fisheries, promotion of gender equality and countering of bribery and within different European in...
Venice in Environmental Peril?
Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development. Are these threats myths or reality? This book explores Venice's environmental risks based on interviews with Venetian environmental campaigners and draws on the mythology of the Venetian Republic. Campaigners' opinions about the mobile dams nearing completion to protect the city reveal that Venice now represents an environmentally-threatened retreat from modernity. This reputation has been established as sustainable development and climate change policies have risen to the top of political agendas in many cities and countries. The book investigates how environmentalism has been transformed from a theory underpinning counter-cultural movements to part of a dominant holistic culture in Western societies. Rather than constraining Venice in search of a mythical harmony with nature, this book offers a ten-point proposal to modernize the city while preserving its ancient heritage.
Stumbling Toward Sustainability
In 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world agreed to implement an ambitious plan for ecologically sustainable human development. This book is a comprehensive review of U.S. efforts to achieve such development since Rio. The U.S. has unquestionably begun to take steps toward sustainable development. Yet the nation is now far from being a sustainable society, and in many respects is farther away than it was in 1992. Nevertheless, legal and policy tools are available to put the U.S. on a direct path to sustainability. This book brings together 42 distinguished experts from a variety of backgrounds and academic disciplines. It is among the most thorough assessments ever conducted of U.S. law and policy concerning the environment.
Re-Act
Urban re-activation is becoming an increasingly relevant and complex topic in Europe, as it brings together a growing community of influential actors who, in recent years, have established a number of successful interventions in the field of re-use and re-appropriation. In this book, we will not only investigate these informal practices as they pertain to architects, but also to various groups and collectives, designers, entrepreneurs, programmers, geographers, and so on-concerned citizens who have already begun to transform their ideas into actions by introducing new models and innovative ideas. Following this initial introduction, we shall present a series of interviews from a selection of...
Sustainable Banking
This comprehensive addition to the debate on sustainable development has been produced in order to take a global pulse on how the financial services sector is responding to the growing challenge of shareholder and stakeholder expectations on social and environmental performance. In the opinion of many commentators in this new book, given the intermediary role banks play within economies, their potential contribution toward sustainable development is enormous. Indeed, for banks, the conclusion that corporate sustainability has become an investable concept that increases long-term shareholder value is becoming difficult to deny.To date, banks have been relatively slow to examine their exposure...
La sostenibilità è un'impresa
Una bussola per orientare le realtà imprenditoriali, divise tra i rumori di fondo della comunicazione “green”, spesso concepita come fine e non mezzo, e le complessità di norme, standard e buone pratiche. La finanza e movimenti d'opinione come “Friday for future”, i 17 obiettivi fissati dall’ONU e la crisi pandemica hanno messo in cima alle agende di tutti il tema della sostenibilità. Ma cosa significa davvero parlare, nelle sue varie accezioni, di “sviluppo sostenibile” e come tutto questo ha a che fare con le aziende e le loro prospettive strategiche? In questo libro gli autori guidano il lettore in un percorso che dalle origini della sostenibilità giunge ai fenomeni fina...
Creare valore a lungo termine
LŐinvestimento sostenibile e responsabile un Giano bifronte che riunisce due dimensioni distinte dellŐattivit di investimento: quella economica, di chi vuole accrescere il valore del proprio risparmio, e quella socio-ambientale, di chi vuole generare esternalit positive a vantaggio della comunit. Il volume offre unŐoccasione di riflessione e sistematizzazione a quanti siano incuriositi dal tema, siano essi operatori del mondo della finanza, utilizzatori degli strumenti finanziari, osservatori del mercato. LŐapproccio concreto, attento pi alle pratiche che alle teorie e adotta un linguaggio semplice e accessibile. Lo scopo non quello di aprire un dibattito tecnico sui dettagli ma di allargare la platea dei soggetti in grado di prendere (o suggerire) scelte di investimento consapevole. Le tre parti del libro danno un inquadramento generale su: definizioni e classificazioni, modalit di gestione, caratteristiche del mercato, e affidano a capitoli specifici gli approfondimenti e la narrazione di esperienze significative. Ne esce un quadro completo, che d voce alla variet delle competenze professionali e scientifiche maturate in questi anni in Italia sullŐargomento.
L'impresa moda responsabile
Un viaggio esplorativo sui legami tra moda e responsabilità d’impresa: con questa intenzione si dipana il percorso del libro. L’idea di fondo è che anche per le aziende del settore fashion l’equilibrio di lungo termine possa essere raggiunto solo integrando obiettivi economici di breve - irrinunciabili per la remunerazione di capitale e lavoro - con altri, non economici ma capaci di generare valore, che fanno riferimento al rapporto con l’ambiente, la società, la cultura, l’arte e il territorio, i media, le istituzioni, la legislazione e soprattutto la dimensione etica. La tesi si inserisce nel dibattito sul ruolo sociale dell’impresa, alla luce del fallimento di un modello di...
