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Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning methods and draws from specific case studies to demonstrate the opportunities and challenges in CSS approaches. The Handbook is divided into two volumes written by outstanding internationally renowned scholars in the field. This second volume focuses on foundations and advances in data science statistical modeling and machine learning. It covers a range of key issues including the management of big data in terms of record linkage streaming and missing data. Machine learning agent-based and statistical modeling as well as data quality in relation to digital trace and textual data as well as probability non-probability and crowdsourced samples represent further foci. The volume not only makes major contributions to the consolidation of this growing research field but also encourages growth into new directions. With its broad coverage of perspectives (theoretical methodological computational) international scope and interdisciplinary approach this important resource is integral reading for advanced undergraduates postgraduates and researchers engaging with computational methods across the social sciences as well as those within the scientific and engineering sectors. | Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

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Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understanding of the processes driving innovation so that we may gain a deeper insight into the development of economies. Specifically the study explores the concept of innovation potential and the factors that result in variations in innovation potential across metropolitan areas using the US machine tool industry as a case study. To provide a comparison the same models are also estimated for the semiconductor industry. The findings indicate that urbanisation economies localization economies human capital universities and invention-derived knowledge are significant factors. The study assesses the contributions of three different skill levels of human capital; college-educated graduate degree and locally produced PhD’s in mechanical and electrical engineering. Only the graduate and PhD degree measures are found to be significant indicating the importance of having a highly skilled pool of labour within the region. The influences of the factors appear to be similar across industries with some slight differences. The transfer of knowledge through patents is also studied. It is found that the transmission of this knowledge is slower between different industries relative to the transmission within the same industry. | Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U. S. Machine Tool Industry

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Managers of Discontent

Managers of Discontent

In today's political climate the status and future of the trade unions are subjects of particular interest. Yet apart from national leaders of major unions little is known about full-time trade union officers. In Managers of Discontent Diane Watson draws on a rich fund of material based on extensive interviews and observation to examine the role of trade union officers comparing them with their managerial counterparts in three industrial sectors. Her lively and interesting interview material by allowing the people studied to speak for themselves raises a series of challenging questions about the future of trade unions.

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The Tactics of Resignation A Study in British Cabinet Government

The Tactics of Resignation A Study in British Cabinet Government

First Published in 1967 the Tactics of Resignation examines the principles of collective and individual ministerial responsibility and investigates the parallel problems related to the shadow cabinet in Britain. It raises pertinent questions like: why do so many hold their peace and support policies of which they privately disapprove? Loss of confidence in the House of Commons should involve individual resignation. How have so many ministers been able to hang on in the face of adverse criticism or apparent inefficiency? This book is a valuable addition to understand the difference between traditional principles and actual British government. It is an interesting read for students of British government and politics. | The Tactics of Resignation A Study in British Cabinet Government

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Untethering Educational Leadership Cases and Contexts from Chinese Cinema

Untethering Educational Leadership Cases and Contexts from Chinese Cinema

Lingdao the Chinese word for leadership is rarely used to denote acts of social persuasion that occur outside of contexts of formal rank or status. However the ubiquity of informal leadership in China raises a number of practical and theoretical questions. Based on an analysis of selected Chinese cinematic works depicting settings of educational practice and policy the book explores how Western understandings of leadership emerge from these texts to form discursive media for social change. It also offers a new understanding of lingdao and leadership; how they represent a natural human desire regardless of formal rank or position to mobilize collective will change minds and achieve social change. The book will be of interest to professional scholars and graduate students of Chinese culture educational leadership mass media and popular culture. | Untethering Educational Leadership Cases and Contexts from Chinese Cinema

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The Assyrian Genocide Cultural and Political Legacies

The Assyrian Genocide Cultural and Political Legacies

For a brief period the attention of the international community has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in Iraq Syria and Turkey. In particular the abductions and massacres of Yezidis and Assyrians in the Sinjar Mosul Nineveh Plains Baghdad and Hasakah regions in 2007–2015 raised questions about the prevention of genocide. This book while principally analyzing the Assyrian genocide of 1914–1925 and its implications for the culture and politics of the region also raises broader questions concerning the future of religious diversity in the Middle East. It gathers and analyzes the findings of a broad spectrum of historical and scholarly works on Christian identities in the Middle East genocide studies international law and the politics of the late Ottoman Empire as well as the politics of the Ottomans' British and Russian rivals for power in western Asia and the eastern Mediterranean basin. A key question the book raises is whether the fate of the Assyrians maps onto any of the concepts used within international law and diplomatic history to study genocide and group violence. In this light the Assyrian genocide stands out as being several times larger in both absolute terms and relative to the size of the affected group than the Srebrenica genocide which is recognized by Turkey as well as by international tribunals and organizations. Including its Armenian and Greek victims the Ottoman Christian Genocide rivals the Rwandan Bengali and Biafran genocides. The book also aims to explore the impact of the genocide period of 1914–1925 on the development or partial unraveling of Assyrian group cohesion including aspirations to autonomy in the Assyrian areas of northern Iraq northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey. Scholars from around the world have collaborated to approach these research questions by reference to diplomatic and political archives international legal materials memoirs and literary works. | The Assyrian Genocide Cultural and Political Legacies

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The Autonomous State of Childcare Policy and the Policy Process in Britain

The Autonomous State of Childcare Policy and the Policy Process in Britain

This title was first published in 2001. Public childcare provision in Britain is an issue that raises much passion and has been the source of much disappointment. Free childcare in Britain is limited. Public policy has been slow to change in terms of providing more childcare. Insufficient public childcare provision is a barrier to acheiving equal rights for women especially within the employment sector. This book sets out to search for the factors crucial to constraining the development of childcare policy and public childcare provision. It looks at schemes that have been set up but that ultimately fail in allowing women to work by not providing the necessary childcare provision. The book looks at the issue of childcare provision how the policy process works the different types of childcare provision past and present and implementation and operation of childcare schemes. | The Autonomous State of Childcare Policy and the Policy Process in Britain

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Psychology for Sustainability

Psychology for Sustainability

Psychology for Sustainability applies psychological science to so-called environmental problems that manifest when human behavior disrupts and degrades natural systems. Drawing on environmental psychology ecopsychology conservation psychology and related disciplines the authors provide an extensive review of relevant theory and research in a lively and easy-to-read style. This edition represents a substantial revision and expansion spurred by a burgeoning body of research and by global ecological political and social developments. Particular attention is paid to environmental justice and collective action for systems change. More than one-third of the content is entirely new and there are more than nine hundred new references. This edition also features a new full-color design and over two hundred full-color figures tables and photos. Timely topics include climate change biodiversity loss environmental racism Indigenous perspectives social media and COVID-19 and other pandemics. Content retained from the previous edition has been updated throughout. The twelve chapters are organized into four parts: What on Earth Are We Doing includes a prologue on psychology as a sustainability science followed by three chapters that provide an overview of the ecological crisis and its historical origins and a vision for a sustainable future. Psychology for a Sustainable Future encompasses five chapters on research methods theory and findings pertinent to understanding and shifting unsustainable behavior. What’s Good for the Planet is Good for Us includes two chapters that address the reciprocal relationship between planetary and human health. Being the Change We Want to See introduces two new chapters to inspire readers to take what they have learned and apply it as changemakers in the world. The first is about collective action for systemic change. The second presents a positive psychology perspective on how to tackle the ecological crisis in a way that promotes wellbeing and resilience and is personally meaningful and fulfilling. Carefully tailored to the length of a standard college semester Psychology for Sustainability is essential reading for courses on sustainability across disciplines. It will be invaluable to people outside academia as well including policymakers legislators and those working on sustainable communities. The text is also supplemented with online resources for instructors.

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Intercultural Communication for Global Business How Leaders Communicate for Success

Intercultural Communication for Global Business How Leaders Communicate for Success

As concise and practical as ever this new edition brings together principles and new theories in intercultural communication focusing on communication as the foundation for management and global leadership. Grounded in the need for building awareness and knowledge practicing mindfulness and then working on skill development this text examines the concepts associated with understanding culture and communication in the global business environment to help readers: understand intercultural communication processes; improve self-awareness and communication in intercultural settings; expand skills in identifying analyzing and solving intercultural communication challenges at work; and evaluate whether one’s communication has been effective. This fully updated new edition also includes completely updated case studies with an increased emphasis on non-US perspectives to show real-world applications across the globe. Richly illustrated with new examples and activities this text is the ideal companion for any business student or manager dedicated to communicating more effectively in a globalized society. | Intercultural Communication for Global Business How Leaders Communicate for Success

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Literature for Young Adults Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

Literature for Young Adults Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

Now in its second edition this book explores a great variety of genres and formats of young adult literature while placing special emphasis on contemporary works with nontraditional themes protagonists and literary conventions that are well suited to young adult readers. It looks at the ways in which contemporary readers can access literature and share the works they're reading and it shows teachers the resources that are available especially online for choosing and using good literature in the classroom and for recommending books for their students’ personal reading. In addition to traditional genre chapters this book includes chapters on literary nonfiction; poetry short stories and drama; and film. Graphic novels diversity issues and uses of technology are also included throughout the text. The book's discussion of literary language—including traditional elements as well as metafictive terms—enables readers to share in a literary conversation with their peers (and others) when communicating about books. This book is an essential resource for preservice educators to help young adults understand and appreciate the excellent literature that is available to them. New to the second edition: New popular authors books and movies with a greater focus on diversity of literature Updated coverage of new trends such as metafiction a renewed focus on nonfiction and retellings of canonical works Increased attention to graphic novels and multimodal texts throughout the book eResources with downloadable materials including book lists awards lists and Focus Questions | Literature for Young Adults Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers

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Solar Heating Systems for Houses A Design Handbook for Solar Combisystems

Solar Heating Systems for Houses A Design Handbook for Solar Combisystems

The use of solar collectors for domestic hot water over the past 20 years has demonstrated that solar heating systems are now founded on a reliable and mature technology. However the development of similar but more complex systems to provide both domestic hot water and space heating (solar combisystems) resulted in a diverse range of different designs that were not carefully optimized to reflect local climate and practice. Application of energy-efficient building strategies such as improved thermal insulation and use of low temperature heat supply systems is becoming increasingly common. This trend combined with growing environmental awareness and the subsidies available in certain countries favours an increase in market share for solar combisystems. The need for guidelines in selecting the appropriate system and designing this system according to the specific needs of the building and the local environment is therefore now increasingly pressing. This book fills that need. | Solar Heating Systems for Houses A Design Handbook for Solar Combisystems

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Coaching for Sports Performance

Coaching for Sports Performance

Coaching for Sports Performance provides a practical overview of the many disciplines necessary to be an effective coach. Using experts from across the sports science fields this book teaches readers the core concepts in a practical easy to understand style separated into four sections. Part I explains the fundamentals of effective coaching including the development of coaching philosophies best practices for coaching effectively how athletic technique matures and what coaches can and cannot do in specific health-related situations. Part II provides practical ways to improve athletic performance where readers learn the fundamentals of biomechanics and how to use technology to analyze performance the physiological functions and adaptations to exercise how the body can be physically trained and properly fueled and mental strategies to optimize athletic outcomes. Part III introduces the business side of coaching the important responsibilities involved in sport management and practical methods for marketing as well as working with the media. Last Part IV offers specific strategies for coaching across age and skill levels. Chapters are split into youth and high school collegiate and professional athletes and the nuances of coaching each level are explained. Being called Coach is an honor but with this title comes the responsibility of being professional knowledgeable and effective. Coaching for Sports Performance provides the platform for becoming a successful coach and assisting athletes in achieving their potential. Coaching for Sports Performance provides a practical overview of the many disciplines necessary to be an effective coach.

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Producing for TV and Emerging Media A Real-World Approach for Producers

Producing for TV and Emerging Media A Real-World Approach for Producers

Gain a thorough understanding of the nuanced and multidimensional role producers play in television and emerging media today to harness the creative technical interpersonal and financial skills essential for success in this vibrant and challenging field. Producing for TV and New Media Fourth edition is your guide to avoiding the obstacles and pitfalls commonly encountered by new and aspiring producers. This fourth edition has been updated to include: Focus on Emerging Media sections that highlight emerging media web video mobile format media and streaming media Sample production forms and contracts Review questions accompanying each interview and chapter Interviews with industry professionals that offer practical insight into cutting-edge developments in television and emerging media production Fresh analysis of emerging media technologies and streaming media markets Written especially for new and aspiring producers with an insight that simply cannot be found in any other book this new edition of a text used by professors and professionals alike is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to find success as a television or emerging media producer. | Producing for TV and Emerging Media A Real-World Approach for Producers

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Adobe Photoshop 2020 for Photographers

Adobe Photoshop 2020 for Photographers

Adobe Photoshop 2020 for Photographers by acclaimed digital imaging professional Martin Evening has been revamped to include detailed instruction for all of the updates to Photoshop on Adobe’s Creative Cloud including significant new features such as Cloud document saving the new Content-Area Fill and the Texture slider and Depth Range Mask for Camera Raw. This guide covers all the tools and techniques photographers and professional image editors need to know when using Photoshop from workflow guidance to core skills to advanced techniques for professional results. Using clear succinct instruction and real world examples this guide is the essential reference for Photoshop users. The accompanying website has been updated with new sample images tutorial videos and bonus chapters. | Adobe Photoshop 2020 for Photographers

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Instructional Models for Physical Education

Instructional Models for Physical Education

No single instructional method can meet all of the student learning needs expressed in the SHAPE America National Standards for Physical Education. This new edition provides pedagogical knowledge and resources that support physical education teachers’ selection and use of instructional models and gives physical educators a plan for incorporating these models into their teaching. Presented in two sections Instructional Models for Physical Education 4E first presents the rationale pedagogical knowledge and selection processes for Model-Based Instruction (MBI). MBI is the commitment to use one instructional plan throughout a unit of instruction. The second section provides pedagogical knowledge for the selection implementation and assessment of instructional models used in P–12 physical education. This edition has been updated to be in alignment with the SHAPE America National Standards for Physical Education. It includes new sections on differentiated instruction and practical applications. A companion website contains additional examples and information for each model. The book includes everything the reader needs for planning implementing and assessing when teaching with instructional models. It helps readers incorporate research-based practices in their lessons adapt activities and teach to standards. This text can be used as the stand-alone text for courses on physical education teaching methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

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Ethics for Behavior Analysts

Ethics for Behavior Analysts

This fully updated fourth edition of Jon S. Bailey and Mary R. Burch’s bestselling Ethics for Behavior Analysts is an invaluable guide to understanding and implementing the newly revised Behavior Analyst Certification Board® (BACB) Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts. Featured in this new edition are explanations of each code standard along with case studies drawn from questions submitted to Bailey's ABA Ethics Hotline (with permission of the writers of the cases) along with edited responses. New chapters include significant changes in this code an elaboration of the core ethical principles and the distinction between a client and stakeholder. Further new features include a chapter on ethical decision-making including flowcharts demonstrating how to arrive at ethical decisions. Additional new chapters focus on finding an ethical place to work an updated code of ethics for organizations and how to file a Notice of Alleged Violation. This text is the go-to ethics resource for behavior analysts in training and in practice.

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Building for Well-Being Exploring Health-Focused Rating Systems for Design and Construction Professionals

Building for Well-Being Exploring Health-Focused Rating Systems for Design and Construction Professionals

Building for Well-Being is the first introduction to health-focused building standards for design and construction professionals. More than a summary of the state of the field this practical resource guides designers builders developers and owners through considerations for incorporating WELL® Fitwel® and other systems from the planning phase to ground-breaking and beyond. Side-by-side comparisons of established and emerging health-focused standards empower building professionals to select the most appropriate certifications for their projects. Drawing on the authors’ backgrounds in sustainable design and public health chapters on the evolution of the green building movement and the relationship between health and the built environment provide vital context for understanding health-focused standards and certifications. The final chapter looks toward the future of health and the built environment. | Building for Well-Being Exploring Health-Focused Rating Systems for Design and Construction Professionals

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Practical Handbook for Professional Investigators

Practical Handbook for Professional Investigators

An increase in fraud cases has escalated government accountability and corporate oversight and media attention on cases ranging from missing persons to white-collar crime has increased the visibility of professional investigators. This has resulted in a great source of increased work for the profession. The third edition of Practical Handbook for Professional Investigators continues to supply an up-to-date nuts-and-bolts learning tool for students and an everyday reference for investigative professionals at all levels. More relevant than ever this edition adds two new chapters on death and terrorism investigations and several new sections including: Insurance fraud fire and arson investigation and liability claims investigation Indicators of online marital infidelity Obtaining governmental records to locate people and sample reports for skip tracing Practical considerations for surveillance and procedures for interception of wire or oral communications Service of subpoenas for witnesses in federal courts Testifying in court—including witness and evidence preparation trial tactics used by attorneys and an investigator’s rights as a witness The Rules of Professional Conduct Niche markets in the investigative industry Managing and marketing an investigative practice running a paperless office and customer retention An unparalleled guide to the ins and outs of private investigation Practical Handbook for Professional Investigators Third Edition belongs on the shelf of every professional and trainee. Rory McMahon appeared on Al Jazeera America to discuss his investigation company The Grafton Group.

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Risk Management for Events

Risk Management for Events

Risk Management for Events is a comprehensive and practical guide that supports academic and professional development programs to prepare individuals for entering or advancement in the international events industry. Events of all types are produced every day for all manner of purposes attracting all sorts of people. Creating and managing the environment in which these people will gather carries with it awesome responsibilities — legal ethical and financial. To provide a safe and secure setting and to operate in a manner that ensures that the hosting organizations or individuals achieve their objectives in a proper and profitable way event risk management must be fully integrated into all event plans and throughout the event management process. This new edition has been revised and updated to include: New case studies and examples from a wide range of international destinations and different types of events. Updated statistics and data throughout. New content on emergent risk on-site decision-making terrorism and public health including the COVID-19 pandemic and corruption within events. Updated online material including a case study archive and weblinks to useful resources. This will be an invaluable resource for all those studying events management.

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Planning for Population Change

Planning for Population Change

Originally published in 1986 this book explores many important aspects of the relationship between population change and planning exploring the impact of population change on service provision and its impact on the policy-making process. In all countries whether their population is expanding. ageing or stagnating population mobility is an important cause of economic and social development. This book argues that there is a need for greater sensitivity about population change in policy-making and service provision and suggests ways of achieving this. | Planning for Population Change

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Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching

Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching

Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching is a clear comprehensive book on the integration of non-aversive behavior analysis principles into classrooms and other school settings. Carefully revised and updated throughout this third edition includes new content on precision teaching and a new chapter on how teachers can provide appropriate education for students with special disabilities who are included in their classrooms. Focused on merging behavior management with effective student instruction and illustrated with examples from real teachers’ experiences the book is an ideal primary resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in teacher education special education school psychology and school counseling as well as for preparation toward the BACB Credentialing Exam.

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Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding Essential Content Knowledge and Instructional Strategies for Teachers

Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding Essential Content Knowledge and Instructional Strategies for Teachers

Written in a user-friendly conversational style the fourth edition of this groundbreaking text helps pre-service and in-service mathematics teachers build the comfort and confidence they need to begin talking to children about fractions and ratios distilling complex ideas and translating research into usable ideas for the classroom. For two decades Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding has pushed readers beyond the limits of their current understanding of fractions and rational numbers challenging them to refine and explain their thinking without falling back on rules and procedures they have relied on throughout their lives. All of the material offered in the book has been used with students and is presented so that readers can see the brilliance of their insights as well as the issues that challenge their understanding. Each chapter includes children’s strategies and samples of student work for teacher analysis as well as activities for practicing each thinking strategy designed to be solved without rules or algorithms using reasoning alone. The fourth edition of this popular text has been updated throughout and includes new examples of student work updated artwork and more. As with previous editions an equally valuable component of this text is the companion book MORE! Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding (2012) a supplement that is not merely an answer key but a resource that provides the scaffolding for the groundbreaking approach to fraction and ratio instruction explored here. MORE! includes in-depth discussions of selected problems in the main text supplementary activities Praxis preparation questions more student work and templates for key manipulatives. | Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding Essential Content Knowledge and Instructional Strategies for Teachers

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Georgian Houses for All

Georgian Houses for All

First published in 1978 Georgian Houses for All describes how little Gregorian houses came into being and how the original inhabitants used them. Gregorian houses at their smallest and simplest can be seen everywhere in the British Isles – detached semi-detached and joined together in terraces. There are probably still over a million of them built during a period of 130 years without the direct aid of architects. John Woodforde points out that an instinctive wish for a symmetrical front seems to be shown by young children’s drawings of houses these being generally balanced and orderly. The Georgians’ love of symmetry marked in their way of hanging pictures was part of a desire for private order amongst public disorder a desire to have one small sphere in which nature was fully controlled. John Woodforde reminds us that in the present-day return to terrace-house building the Georgian version remains a valuable guide. The book will be of interest to students of architecture urban planning and history.

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Social Sustainability for Business

Social Sustainability for Business

Social Sustainability for Business demonstrates the need for a transformational change to the way businesses across the globe operate. What has become the standard accepted business model with a focus on corporate profit shareholder wealth maximization and GDP growth is no longer a sustainable business model for workers consumers communities society the planet or any of its inhabitants and ecosystems. The authors argue that the current commercial system depletes natural resources denigrates human rights and inhibits positive social and technological innovation. To address these issues they focus on societal goals—such as a sustainable planet meeting human rights of workers and safe products for consumers—and outline steps that organizations and individuals must take to achieve them. Readers will gain insight into the psychological barriers to and influences on sustainable behavior. They will also learn how reconsidering corporate social responsibility and business ethics can stop and reverse the destruction of a profit-based approach. Cases on modern examples of sustainability or lack thereof explain how establishing and maintaining a socially sustainable business system can protect the environment meet the rights of its people and ensure that their needs are met tomorrow. End-of-chapter and end-of-case discussion questions will help students in sustainability classes to think critically about the practical impact of the topics discussed.

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