Authors:S.J. McLaren, D.R. Kniveton,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: change, global, research, advances, volume, surface, climate, land, linking
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2000-10
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 0792366387
ISBN-13: 9780792366386
Our views and understanding of variations in climate, geomorphological processes and the interrelationships that exist between climatic changes and land surface changes, both now and in the past, have developed greatly over the last decade. This book aims to encapsulate some of these recent advances and focuses on the integration of research that has been conducted by geomorphologists and climatologists on linking climate and land surface changes. This book is divided into two main parts: Section A incorporates research that has concentrated on short-term variations in climate, whils
Authors:Hundreds of Heads, Michelle Nunn,
Publisher: Hundreds of Heads Books
Keywords: change, yourself, world
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1933512008
ISBN-13: 9781933512006
Be the Change celebrates the personal transformations of men and women who, by working to change the world, changed themselves. Featuring interviews with over 1,000 volunteers, from everyday people to business and community leaders to celebrities, the book combines hands-on advice on ways to get involved with enlightening real-life stories from those who did. Inspirational yet practical, it’s the perfect companion for readers who want to stop daydreaming about a more fulfilling life and a better world and take action to do so.
Author: D. Gary Miller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: change, volume, morphological, typological, sound, syntactic, approaches, linguistic, theory, language, methodology
Number of Pages: 1152
Published: 2010-10-15
List price: $325.00
ISBN-10: 0199590214
ISBN-13: 9780199590216
This two volume work examines every aspect of language change and two centuries of linguistic approaches towards understanding it. The enterprise opens with a consideration of the nature of language and what constitutes language change. Gary Miller argues that a single overarching theory is insufficient to encompass the protean mix of linguistic, social, political, and cognitive factors involved in linguistic diachrony. He analyzes general processes of phonetic, phonological, morphological, and syntactic change, and explores their origins, causes, and effects. To support his analyses, he provi
Authors:Susanne C. Moser, Lisa Dilling,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: change, climate, social, facilitating, communicating, creating
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-12-10
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 052104992X
ISBN-13: 9780521049924
The need for effective communication, public outreach and education to increase support for policy, collective action and behaviour change is ever present, and is perhaps most pressing in the context of anthropogenic climate change. This book is the first to take a comprehensive look at communication and social change specifically targeted to climate change. It is a unique collection of ideas examining the challenges associated with communicating climate change in order to facilitate societal response. It offers well-founded, practical suggestions on how to communicate climate change and how t
Authors:Susanne C. Moser, Lisa Dilling,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: change, climate, social, facilitating, communicating, creating
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2007-02-05
List price: $146.99
ISBN-10: 0521869234
ISBN-13: 9780521869232
The need for effective communication, public outreach and education to increase support for policy, collective action and behaviour change is ever present, and is perhaps most pressing in the context of anthropogenic climate change. This book is the first to take a comprehensive look at communication and social change specifically targeted to climate change. It is a unique collection of ideas examining the challenges associated with communicating climate change in order to facilitate societal response. It offers well-founded, practical suggestions on how to communicate climate change and how t
Authors:Suzanne Benn, Dexter Dunphy, Andrew Griffith,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: change, organizational, future, understanding, agents, guide, corporate, sustainability, leaders
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0415287413
ISBN-13: 9780415287418
This title is a unified approach to corporate sustainability, combining ecological and human sustainability. Key areas covered include HRM, strategic, organizational and environmental issues. Not only valuable to students, it will also prove invaluable to practitioners as a practical guide for change agents in bringing about sustainability in a systematic way. Practice and theory are carefully balanced; uniquely the authors provide a combination of insight into the subject and practical assistance with implementation.
Authors:Dexter Dunphy, Andrew Griffiths, Suzanne Benn,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: change, organizational, future, understanding, agents, guide, corporate, sustainability, leaders
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2007-05-22
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0415393302
ISBN-13: 9780415393300
The sustainability of business, both economically and ecologically, is one of this century’s key debates. In this fully revised and updated edition of their ground-breaking study of organizational change and corporate sustainability, Dexter Dunphy, Andrew Griffiths and Suzanne Benn argue that there are important benefits to the corporation in making changes for sustainability, and that a sustainable world is only possible with the formation of creative alliances between corporations, citizens and governments. Bringing together global issues of ecological sustainability, strategic human re
