Product Description: Cents and Sustainability is a clear-sighted response to the 1987 call by Dr Gro Brundtland in Our Common Future to achieve a new era of economic growth that is 'forceful and at the same time socially and environmentally sustainable'...read more

Product Description: When first published in 1997, Factor Four transformed how economists, policy makers, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders thought about innovation and wealth creation. Through examples from a wide range of industrial sectors, the authors demonstrated how technical innovation could cut resource use in half while doubling wealth...read more

Product Description: Whole System Design is increasingly being seen as one of the most cost-effective ways to both increase the productivity and reduce the negative environmental impacts of an engineered system. A focus on design is critical, as the output from this stage of the project locks in most of the economic and environmental performance of the designed system throughout its life, which can span from a few years to many decades...read more

Product Description: Blueprints for Leadership Success: Management Solutions That Really Work clearly gives us the questions we must ask and the steps that we must take if our organizations are to be successful. Providing leadership: What are we trying to do? What's our organizational vision? Are our goals clear to everyone? Building teams: Do we know each other well enough to work together effectively? Are our roles and responsibilities clear? Communication: How do we effectively tell people what needs to be done? How do we talk to each other and make agreements so we understand and follow through? Performance feedback: How can we tell people what they're doing well and correct what they are not? Resolving conflicts: How do we handle the things that go wrong? Dr...read more

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Product Description: The theme of this year's conference is New Frontiers in Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing. The past few years have witnessed a crystallization of soft computing as a distinct body of concepts and techniques which is orientated toward the conception and design of intelligent systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As profound threats to ecosystems increase worldwide, ecologists must move beyond studying single communities at a single point in time. All of the dynamic, interconnected spatial and temporal processes that determine the distribution and abundance of species must be understood in order to develop new conservation and management strategies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Catalog for an exhibirion held at the Main Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center, California State University Fullerton from October 28 to December 7, 1983. The text includes essays by Dextra Frankel, Jan Butterfield and Michael H. Smith, and a brief statement by each participating artist...read more