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Apple's ethical and social responsibilities and corporate practices

Corporations are increasingly seeking a vision in maintaining social responsibility alongside a vision in business. There are also demands for greater accountability and transparency in corporate actions of organized consumers, state representatives and grass movements (Garsten, 2003).

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Sustainable development and ecotourism in Costa Rica

give me a brief overview of what you are going to do concerning eco-tourism, sustainable development, and cultural ecology and how they apply to Costa Rica

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Moody-Stuart's analysis of business responsibility in environmental governance

Responsible Leadership is the culmination of Moody-Stuart's forty-five years of work in the oil, gas, metal, and mineral extraction industries.

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Integrated emergency management and the 2007 UK floods

In the last several years, the concept of integrated emergency management has been continually evolving. This is taking place by focusing on how communities, businesses and government officials are prepared for a host of events ranging from natural disasters to terrorism.

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Incentives to conserve marine biodiversity as impure public goods

On the surface, environmentalism might seem like an 'easy' thing to sell to the American public. After all, marine biodiversity (to take one example) might seem like an uncomplicatedly 'good' thing -- it is necessary to preserve the health of the planet and by extension, the human species.

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Economic growth and joblessness in the global economy

During the Cold War, poverty in the developing world was deemed to be a critical issue for the developed world because of the perceived (and likely very real link) between poverty and economic radicalism.

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Walmart's sustainability policy and stakeholder involvement analysis

The company publishes a fairly extensive report about its sustainability practices. One of the interesting things about Wal-Mart's sustainability practices is that they seem very focused on efficiency, with efforts dedicated to waste reduction.

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Agricultural supply and demand dynamics in the global coffee market

My good is coffee beans, which are an agricultural commodity. The first factor that goes into the supply of coffee is weather. Coffee is a relatively fussy plant, and grows well only in the tropics, at a certain altitude, and in volcanic soil (CoffeeResearch.org, 2006).

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Population growth, land capacity, and the origins of global trade

The old biological regime describes the way people made their livelihoods and achieved their status through their interactions with the land. In the 1400s, the global population was about 350 million people, 80% of whom were peasants.

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State budgeting processes: phases, authorization, and implementation

The processes of writing policy and funding policy, which are essentially distinguished by the authorization of activities to implement policy and the budgetary appropriations that will fund the activities, are imperfectly aligned.

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