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Environment and Business
Contributor(s): Blair, Alasdair (Author), Hitchcock, David (Author)

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 ISBN: 0415208319     ISBN-13: 9780415208314
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $53.19  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 2000
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Annotation: Environment and Toursim is an introductory text about the relationships between tourism, society and the environment. The book examines the meanings of 'tourism' and 'environment' and gives a historical overview of the growth of tourism. It discusses how the tourism industry markets physical and cultural environments, to be consumed by the tourist and the consequences of tourism on these physical and cultural environments.This volume examines in depth the ways in which business, industry, the physical environment, environmentalism and social change have evolved alongside each other.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
- Social Science | Human Geography
Dewey: 658.408
LCCN: 00038256
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.19" L (1.29 lbs) 352 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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This text examines how businesses and the environment interact. It is ideal for students with no previous knowledge of business studies. It examines in depth the ways in which business, industry, the physical environment, environmentalism and social change have evolved alongside each other. The authors use boxed case-studies to highlight how business practice and the environment interact at levels from local to global, with examples from multinational companies, government bodies, national charities and local enterprise. The book also contains a large number of informative diagrams. The case studies include:
* Shell Oil's environmental policy
* railways and the industrial revolution
* the British National Trust's business enterprises
* Sainsbury's approach to organic foods
* Australia's landcare scheme
* changing trends in retailing
* Brent Spar
* big game hunting and conservation.
 
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