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Running After Paradise
This book looks at social-environmental activism in one of the world's most important and threatened tropical forests--Southern Bahia, Brazil. It explores what it means to be in and of a place through the lenses of history, environment, identity, class, and culture. It uncovers not only what separates people but also what brings them together as they struggle and strive to create their individual and collective paradise.
Organizações inovadoras: estudos e casos brasileiros
Por que inovação? Para uma resposta simples, basta verificar quantas novidades surgem diariamente nos mais diferentes setores de atividade. Este livro discute a influência dos modelos de gestão sobre a capacidade de as empresas realizarem inovações em bases sistemáticas e apresenta casos de inovações enfatizando os seus aspectos organizacionais. Inovação é entendida no sentido amplo, englobando inovação em produtos, serviços, processos, gestão, modelos de negócio e outras
Balancing Green
An expert on business strategy offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes balance the competing demands of profitability and employment with sustainability. The demands and stresses on companies only grow as executives face a multitude of competing business goals. Their stakeholders are interested in corporate profits, jobs, business growth, and environmental sustainability. In this book, business strategy expert Yossi Sheffi offers a pragmatic take on how businesses of all sizes—from Coca Cola and Siemens to Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps and Patagonia—navigate these competing goals. Drawing on extensive interviews with more than 250 executives, Sheffi examines the challenges, ...
Sustainable Tourism VIII
This volume includes papers from the 8th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism. Today tourism is becoming accessible to a growing number of people and is an important component of development, not only in economic terms but also for knowledge and human welfare. This collection of research aims to find ways to protect the natural and cultural landscape through the development of new solutions which minimise the adverse effects of tourism. The phenomenon has many more advantages than disadvantages. New forms of economic development and increasing wealth of human societies depend on tourism. Our knowledge of the world now includes a strong component due to tourism. Human welfare has p...
Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Brazilian State: science, technology, and innovation
The aim of this book is to analyze the role and limits of actions were taken by the Brazilian State within the Science, Technology & Innovation context, from the position of the 1988 Constitutional Economic Order. Among some specific goals, the idea is to assess arguments focused on finding ways to make sure that the State will not stop promoting or delaying the technological development, as well as assessing the instruments already in place in the Legal Framework of Science, Technology, and innovation (Legal Framework), mainly in the energy sector.
Fashion through History
This collection arises from an international fashion conference held at Sapienza University in Rome, Italy, in May 2015. It is dedicated to one of the main indicators of social change, fashion, analysed within various scientific fields, historical periods, and geographical areas. It offers a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the world of clothes, starting from a historical perspective, religious clothes, and traditional costumes, and then exploring fashion theories and more recent approaches and developments in the media and advertisements. The book analyses the clothing of various cultures, including the Hittite peoples and the less explored fashion of Eastern Europe, and it deals with craft traditions and national costume in different areas, including China, Greece, Romania and Georgia. It also investigates the style of marginalized groups and youth movements and the interpretation of fashion in the studies and writings of sociologists, philosophers and linguists, such as Fausto Squillace and Christian Garve.
ESG, DIREITO DO TRABALHO E DIÁLOGO SOCIAL
Ainda que consista em um fenômeno relativamente novo, o ESG (Enviromental, Social and Governance) tem se colocado como uma pauta recorrente na sociedade, especialmente no setor empresarial, o que se acentuou sobretudo a partir do lançamento da Agenda 2030 pela ONU. Propondo mudanças no desenvolvimento da atividade empresarial e uma maior abrangência quanto aos seus objetivos, essa nova perspectiva desperta debates e suscita diversas questões acerca das políticas e práticas a serem adotadas pelas organizações nas três dimensões que a compõem. Nesse panorama, considerada sua importância para sociedade, para a empresa e para o próprio ESG, de modo especial em sua dimensão social,...
Horizontal Innovation
"Innovations do not have to be radical or limited to technological and product innovations. The authors successfully build upon the notion that the creativity of all employees in an organization can be harnessed to improve overall productivity and give the organization a competitive advantage. Not only, do incremental innovations in sum have an enormous impact on a company's bottom line, but they also have the power of engaging the entire workforce. The authors explore how an "horizontal innovation" strategy can transform an organizational culture into one in which employees feel empowered and are inspired to think out-of-the-box on a daily basis." (Hazel Gruenewald – Professor in ESB Busi...
Direito ambiental e os 30 anos da Constituição de 1988
Da necessidade de se unir em prol de um projeto comum surgiu a UBAA – União Brasileira da Advocacia Ambiental. A Instituição formada por advogados que buscam a troca de informações e experiências visando o desenvolvimento do Direito Ambiental na prática consultiva, administrativa e judicial, além de professores que postulam difundir, em bases uma coletânea de artigos sobre a questão ambiental dentro da perspectiva de sua inclusão como norma constitucional a partir de 1988. Considerando os desafios de aplicação prática da legislação ambiental em nosso país, a obra traz reflexões sobre diversos temas, contribuindo para o aprimoramento da interpretação do Direito Ambiental em absoluto respeito aos princípios constitucionais que asseguram a compatibilização da preservação ambiental com o desenvolvimento social e econômico brasileiro. Também visa o aprimoramento dos institutos jurídicos aplicáveis ao Direito Ambiental, com uma visão crítica, característica daqueles que labutam o dia a dia forense e administrativo, testemunhando as dificuldades vividas pelos destinatários das normas ambientais vigentes.
