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Cocoa's Sustainability

was prohibitively expensive because of high import tariffs on cocoa beans, and only the truly wealthy could afford to buy it. Joh...

Fair Trade

that it requires local people to adjust to its way of doing things - such as operating with a high degree of mechanization - and i...

Sustaining Development and Buddhist Economics

existence (Schumacher, 1999). This is a good point. Work is produced by individuals but it often serves others outside of the comp...

Alternative Energy Sources and Sustainable Development

to reduce carbon-based emissions to 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012.2 There is still disagreement over whether ...

Business and Ethics

practical science that help guide behaviour (Laudon, 1995). This may appear very detached from information technology, ho...

Developing Sustainable Environment Needs

that no matter how gently the human population tramples upon the land and its resources, there will always continue to be a level ...

Global Political Economy Challenges to the Global Political Economy: International Trade Policies, Globalization in Developing Countries, and Sustainable Development

and that new broad-based multilateral trade negotiations should be considered a priority on the international agenda. Huge develop...

An Agenda 21 Overview

In three pages the UN concepts for sustainable environmental development are considered and include program goals. Two sources ar...

Africa, Environment, Quality of Life, and Sustainable Development

have development a series of solutions for areas of environmental concern but plans for progress are often impeded by severe econo...

Problems of Waste Disposal in the Greater Toronto Area

but ultimately with no success. All investigation between 1980 and when the Keele Valley Landfill closed in 2002 had been directe...

Mass Media, Melting Pot, Sustainable Growth, and Overpopulation Questions Answered

(Anonymous, 1997), thereby deciding which social and political issues are worthy of attention and establishing an unnatural promin...

Sustainable Development in Satisfying Stakeholder Needs and Enhancing Strategy

without compromising the needs of the future (WCED, 1987 quoted in Purser et al, 1995) sustainable development becomes a realistic...

Sustaining Business Development and L'Oreal

In eleven pages this paper evaluates L'Oreal in a business consideration that includes a PEST analysis and assesses its sustainabl...

Negative Externalities Correction

The producer bases his assessment of costs and prices at the level of private optimum, Q1, while the true level at which these qua...

Sustainable Development Objective of Social Justice

are fair, and just-and that in turn suggests that when things are unjust in society, the entire interlocking mechanism of sustaina...

The Operations Managers’ need for Awareness of Changing Markets

adding value. The way in which the products and services are developed and the way fashions and sales of products, or serv...

Can Knowledge Give a Company a Competitive Edge?

gained from experience as well as the collection of information, the experience may be the companies own experience, or that of ot...

Sustainable Development of Rain Forests' Natural Resources

to our self-perception as a species and also to the future that we envision for ourselves and our descendants (28). Wilson sees h...

Sustainable Development at Ford Motor Company

many competitors in the market in the 1920s, and then again in the 1940s following the Great Depression and World War II. Ford ha...

Urban Planning & Participation by the Public

associated with collaboration. This paper will provide a brief overview of the process, in addition to identifying lessons and val...

Business Model of Monsanto and Its Sustainability Commitment

according to Levitt, could be further reduced to the need to cultivate and maintain customers. That goal, however, could not be f...

Sustainable Development and Mainstream Development Thinking

way that promotes his own health and welfare; however, from the environmentalists point of view, humanity has damaged and consumed...

Three Varying Viewpoints of Sustainable Development

own species, with other species and with the inorganic environment (McNeill, 2001). The focus "is on whole as a system" (McNeill, ...

Argument: World Trade is the Most Important Factor in a Nation's International Development

This 5 page report argues that in development, international trade plays the main role in assuring that a country will be able to ...

Southern California Water Resources and Human Impact Assessment

beaches of southern California have historically been coveted for their pristine water and environmental conditions; however, this...

Possibility of Sustainable Development

In four pages this paper discusses the commercial environment and the possibilities offered by sustainable development in a defini...

Economic Growth and Sustainable Business Strategy

et al 1993), even in this much was actually a legal requirement rather than a voluntary undertaking (Chryssides et al, 1999)....

Paper Production, Deforestation, and Environmental Economics

In seven pages deforestation is examined as it relates to the production of paper with issues including green audits and opportuni...

Schumacher Society's Role and Contemporary World's Sustainable Development

In twenty five pages this paper examines the meaning of the concept known as sustainable development and also considers the Schuma...

Domestic Wastewater Problem and Concept of Sustainability

Cherry; 1994). The remainder of the treated waters are collected in centralized treatment systems which remove organic matter and...