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Cet ouvrage, qui confronte les derniers acquis de la science aux traditions ou croyances relatives aux arbres, montre combien les arbres contribuent à “enchanter” le monde et combien notre futur est lié au leur.
Arbres --- Écologie forestière --- Mythologie --- Aspect de l'environnement --- Bomen --- Ecologie --- Arbre --- Botanique --- Végétal --- Environnement --- Arbres. --- Conservation des ressources naturelles. --- Trees --- Conservation of natural resources --- Conservation des ressources naturelles
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- Integrale bedrijfskundige benadering van HR; - met actuele onderwerpen en een hernieuwde structuur; - geschreven door HR-experts met onderwijservaring. Bedrijfskundige aspecten van HRM behandelt de strategische rol van Human Resource Management binnen organisaties vanuit een integrale bedrijfskundige invalshoek. De strategische rol van HRM wordt op verschillende niveaus beschreven. Het eerste deel verkent de externe omgeving. Welke invloed hebben een veranderende wereld en de omgeving van een bedrijf op HRM? Deel 2 zoomt in op de interne omgeving van een bedrijf. De organisatiecultuur, de rol van HR en leiderschapsstijlen binnen een bedrijf worden behandeld. Het laatste deel belicht onderwerpen als motivatie, verandermanagement en Big Data vanuit de optiek van het Human Capital Management. De tweede editie is volledig vernieuwd. Het boek heeft een verbeterde structuur gekregen: op drie niveaus wordt gekeken naar de bedrijfskundige aspecten van HRM. Er komen nieuwe onderwerpen aan bod, zoals de dynamiek van mondialisering, motivatie en de invloed van Big Data.
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All the solid fuels fossil energy and mineral commodities we use come out of the Earth. Modern society is increasingly dependent on mineral and fossil energy sources. They differ in availability, cost of production, and geographical distribution. Even if solid fuels, fossil energy resources and mineral commodities are non-renewable, the extracted metals can to a large extent be recycled and used again and again. Although the stock of these secondary resources and their use increases, the world still needs and will continue to need primary mineral resources for the foreseeable future. Growing demands have begun to restrict availability of these resources. The Earth is not running out of critical mineral resources - at least for the near future - but the ability to explore and extract these resources is being restricted in many regions by competing land use, as well as political and environmental issues. Extraction of natural resources requires a clear focus on sustainable development, involving economic, environmental and socio-cultural aspects. Although we do not know what the most important resources will be in 100 years from now, we can be quite certain that society will still need energy and a wide range of raw materials. These resources will include oil and gas, coal, uranium, thorium, geothermal, metallic minerals, industrial and specialty minerals, including cement, raw materials, rare-earth elements. A global approach for assessing the magnitude and future availability of these resources is called for - an approach that, with appropriate international collaboration, was started within the triennium of the International Year of Planet Earth. Some global mineral resource assessments, involving inter-governmental collaboration, have already been initiated. The International Year of Planet Earth helped to focus attention on how the geosciences can generate prosperity locally and globally, as well as sustainability issues in both developed and developing countries.
General ecology and biosociology --- ecologie --- Physical geography --- geologie --- fysische geografie --- Geology. Earth sciences --- Nonrenewable natural resources --- Mines and mineral resources --- Ressources naturelles non-renouvelables --- Mines et ressources minières --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECOLO LIVTERRE SPRINGER-B
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Handbook of Operations Research in Natural Resources will be the first systematic handbook treatment of quantitative modeling natural resource problems, their allocated efficient use, and societal and economic impact. Andrés Weintraub is the very top person in Natural Resource research. Moreover, he has an international reputation in OR and a former president of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). He has selected co-editors who are at the top of the sub-fields in natural resources: agriculture, fisheries, forestry, and mining. The book will cover these areas in terms with contributions from researchers on modeling natural research problems, quantifying data, developing algorithms, and discussing the benefits of research implementations. The handbook will include tutorial contributions when necessary. Throughout the book, technological advances and algorithmic developments that have been driven by natural resource problems will be called out and discussed.
Natural resources --- Operations research --- Ressources naturelles --- Recherche opérationnelle --- Management --- Statistical methods --- Gestion --- Méthodes statistiques --- Management. --- Natuurlijke hulpbronnen. --- Operations research. --- Recherche opérationnelle. --- Social Sciences and Humanities. Management studies, Business Administration, Organizational Science --- Statistical methods. --- Méthodes statistiques. --- Operations Research. --- Natural resources - Management - Statistical methods --- Natural resources - Management - Case studies --- Ressources naturelles - Gestion - Cas, Études de --- Ressources naturelles - Gestion - Méthodes statistiques
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Natural resource management is entering a new era in which rapid environmental and social changes inevitably alter ecosystems and the benefits they provide to society. This textbook provides a new framework for natural resource management a framework based on stewardship of ecosystems for ecological integrity and human well-being in a world dominated by uncertainty and change. The goal of ecosystem stewardship is to respond to and shape changes in social-ecological systems in order to sustain the supply and availability of ecosystem services by society. The book links recent advances in the theory of resilience, sustainability, and vulnerability with practical issues of ecosystem management and governance. Chapters by leading experts then illustrate these principles in major social-ecological systems of the world. Inclusion of review questions, glossary, and suggestions for additional reading makes Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World particularly suitable for use in all courses of resource management, resource ecology, sustainability science, and the human dimensions of global change. Professional resource managers, policy makers, leaders of NGOs, and researchers will find this novel synthesis a valuable tool in developing strategies for a more sustainable planet. About the Authors: F. Stuart Chapin, III is Professor of Ecology in the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Gary P. Kofinas is Associate Professor of Resource Policy and Management in the School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Carl Folke is Professor and Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.
ecotoxicologie --- General ecology and biosociology --- Toxicology --- Environmental law --- ecologie --- milieubeleid --- milieurecht --- Nature protection --- natuurbescherming --- ecosystemen --- milieupolitiek --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Ecosystem management. --- Sustainable development. --- Natural resources --- Environmental management. --- Conservation of natural resources --- Environmental policy --- Ecosystèmes --- Développement durable --- Ressources naturelles --- Environnement --- Conservation des ressources naturelles --- Management. --- Social aspects. --- Gestion --- Aspect social --- Politique gouvernementale --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECOLO LIVTERRE SPRINGER-B
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More than 2.6 billion people in the developing world lack access to safe water and sanitation services. The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target is to halve the number of people without access to improved services such as a sustainable source of water supply and connection to a sewer network by 2015. That target is unlikely to be met. If there is anything that can be learnt from European development experience it is that institutional reform occurs incrementally when politically enfranchised urban populations perceive a threat to their material well-being due to contamination of water sources. Peri-urban Water and Sanitation Services, a collection of papers initially developed to support a distance-learning course at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands, challenges professionals to pursue water services dilemmas within a broader developmental framework that addresses issues of autonomy and accountability intrinsic to intergovernmental relations. This book draws on literature at the interface of common pool resources, co-production, new public management and political ecology to discuss important policy concerns that relate to rural-urban transformation, budget support, wastewater reuse and performance benchmarking. This collection of work by some of the most important researchers on socio-ecological aspects of water and sanitation is timely. By highlighting the importance of behaviour, society and ecology on the management of water and sanitation, the editors are highlighting an area of work that has largely been neglected. For instance, why is it that so many technical fixes exist, and yet in practice, few successful projects are ever brought to scale?' Mark Redwood, Program Leader, Urban Poverty and Environment Program, International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa, Canada With global urban population now larger than rural, opening of public-private relationships and opportunities, and the globalisation of technology and capital, can needs of citizens for clean and affordable water and sanitation services be met? This book argues that the terrain is rapidly changing and provides an evidence-based approach not only to technology but also to governance systems that mediate access to public services.' Gita Sen, Professor, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India
Water resources development --- Water-supply --- Water utilities --- Sanitation --- Ressources en eau --- Eau --- Services d'eau --- Salubrité publique --- Case studies --- Exploitation --- Etudes de cas --- Approvisionnement --- Salubrité publique --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECOLO LIVTERRE SPRINGER-B
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Understanding the sustainable use of energy in various processes is an integral part of engineering and scientific studies, which rely on a sound knowledge of energy systems. Whilst many institutions now offer degrees in energy-related programs, a comprehensive textbook, which introduces and explains sustainable energy systems and can be used across engineering and scientific fields, has been lacking. Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling provides the reader with a practical understanding of these five main topic areas of energy including 130 examples and over 600 practice problems. Each chapter contains a range of supporting figures, tables, thermodynamic diagrams and charts, while the Appendix supplies the reader with all the necessary data including the steam tables. This new textbook presents a clear introduction of basic vocabulary, properties, forms, sources, and balances of energy before advancing to the main topic areas of: ¢ Energy production and conversion in important physical, chemical, and biological processes, ¢ Conservation of energy and its impact on sustainability, ¢ Various forms of energy storage, and ¢ Energy coupling and bioenergetics in living systems. A solution manual for the practice problems of the textbook is offered for the instructor. Energy: Production, Conversion, Storage, Conservation, and Coupling is a comprehensive source, study guide, and course supplement for both undergraduates and graduates across a range of engineering and scientific disciplines.
Thermodynamics --- Mechanical properties of solids --- Relation between energy and economics --- Production management --- thermodynamica --- energietechniek --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- warmteoverdracht --- Power resources --- Power (Mechanics) --- Electrical engineering --- Ressources énergétiques --- Energie mécanique --- Génie électrique --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVINGEN SPRINGER-B
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En à peine plus de dix ans, parallèlement à l'émergence de nouvelles formes d'organisation (communautés, réseaux, etc.) et à la dématérialisation des activités, le capital organisationnel est devenu un thème central de la réflexion managériale. Sous ce terme, on désigne la capacité d'une entreprise à développer ses performances par la mise en place d'une organisation spécifique de ses ressources, matérielles et immatérielles (compétences, savoir-faire spécifiques, éléments d'innovation et de propriété intellectuelle, ressources numériques, capital social et relationnel). Il s'agit donc d'un levier fondamental, notamment pour mener à bien les opérations de croissance et de développement d'une entreprise. Toutefois, en raison de son caractère proprement intangible et ubiquitaire, l'évaluation et la maîtrise managériale du capital organisationnel demeurent des problèmes sur lesquels buttent encore les managers et dirigeants d'entreprises. Quel est le lien du capital organisationnel avec les autres actifs immatériels ? Comment quantifier le capital organisationnel ? Comment piloter la performance d'une organisation ? Autant de questions auxquelles ce livre a pour objectif d'apporter des éléments de réponse, par le biais d'une analyse théorique fondée notamment sur les témoignages et avis de responsables d'entreprises, et élaborée avec la participation active du groupe de travail de l'Afope. Il permettra au lecteur une meilleure compréhension du capital organisationnel, et de ses conditions de pilotage, en vue d'améliorer l'avantage concurrentiel des entreprises et le déploiement d'opérations spécifiques (cas du due diligence). Ahmed Bounfour est professeur à l'université Paris-Sud et titulaire de la Chaire européenne de management de l'immatériel. Il est l'auteur d'une dizaine d'ouvrages sur le thème de l'immatériel et de l'innovation. Il est par ailleurs l'un des principaux experts internationaux du capital immatériel, de son pilotage et de sa valorisation.
Economics --- Production management --- Business management --- Information systems --- bedrijfsplanning --- bedrijfseconomie --- bedrijfsorganisatie --- economie --- management --- bedrijfskunde --- informatica management --- handelswetenschappen --- Corporations --- Labor productivity --- Organizational effectiveness --- Human capital --- Entreprises --- Productivité --- Efficacité organisationnelle --- Ressources humaines --- Growth --- Croissance --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECONO LIVGESTI SPRINGER-B
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This second volume of Energy Resources and Systems is focused on renewable energy resources. Renewable energy mainly comes from wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, ocean, bioenergy, ethanol and hydrogen. Each of these energy resources is important and growing. For example, high-head hydroelectric energy is a well established energy resource and already contributes about 20% of the world's electricity. Some countries have significant high-head resources and produce the bulk of their electrical power by this method. However, the bulk of the world's high-head hydroelectric resources have not been exploited, particularly by the underdeveloped countries. Low-head hydroelectric is unexploited and has the potential to be a growth area. Wind energy is the fastest growing of the renewable energy resources for the electricity generation. Solar energy is a popular renewable energy resource. Geothermal energy is viable near volcanic areas. Bioenergy and ethanol have grown in recent years primarily due to changes in public policy meant to encourage its usage. Energy policies stimulated the growth of ethanol, for example, with the unintended side effect of rise in food prices. Hydrogen has been pushed as a transportation fuel.
Relation between energy and economics --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- duurzame energie --- energie-economie --- hernieuwbare energie --- Power resources --- Renewable energy sources --- Energy policy --- Ressources énergétiques --- Energies renouvelables --- Politique énergétique --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVINGEN SPRINGER-B
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Communautés européennes --- Environnement --- Europese Gemeenschappen --- Milieu --- European Union --- Pollution --- Enquête --- surveys --- Politique de l'environnement --- Environmental policies --- Changement technologique --- technological changes --- Changement climatique --- Climatic change --- Coopération internationale --- International cooperation --- Gestion des ressources --- resource management --- Administration --- administration --- Législation --- legislation --- world --- administration. --- legislation. --- Reseau
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