Sustainable Economy

The following sections are included:

• CONTENTS

• CONTRIBUTORS

The following sections are included:

• A Feasible Economic Paradigm

• Have We Put Back Equivalent Value for What We Have Taken?

• Profit, True or False?

• Can We Rely on Government for Re-distribution?

• It is All About Making Changes

• A Candle of Hope

The following sections are included:

• Is the "Increase of Profit" the Sole Corporate Social Responsibility?

• Historical Perspectives on Business Social Responsibility

• The Issue of Corporate Profit
  • Profit driven corporate practice on the basis of accounting practice and the issue of accounting bias

• The Challenge of Corporate Profit and Social Inequality
  • There is a thin line between failing corporate social responsibility and corporate crime
    • Is social responsibility a waste?
    • Corporate social responsibility and global economic crisis
      • Causes of the financial crisis part 1: changing attitudes to personal finances and the credit card
      • Causes of the financial crisis part 2: easy mortgage loans on housing
      • Causes of the financial crisis part 3: the lost of trust and confidence — we don't believe any more
      • The emerging economic power, how China views corporate social responsibility
  • One: Purpose
  • Two: Corporate Social Responsibility in Brief
  • Three: Ethics, and the Basics of Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Four: Corporate Social Responsibility Support Ethics
  • Province Introduces Legislation Regarding Abitibi Bowater

The following sections are included:

• A "Theory" Against the Mainstream

• Toward Entrepreneurially Driven "Capitalism"

• Uncovering the Subtlety of Implied "Dialectics"

• Legacy and Topical Relevance in Today's Perspective

• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Overview of the Field of Family Business
  • Research themes and definitions

• Succession, Conflict and Sustainability

• Complexity of Family Business: Eight Factors

• Values, Entrepreneurship and Family Firms

• Conflict, Succession and Ownership

• Drivers of Family Firm Sustainability
  • Conservative orientation: beneficial and hazard
  • Innovation, strategic orientation and sustainability
  • Sustainability as tacit knowledge
  • Sustainability: managing family, firm and wealth
  • Identity, ownership and sustainability
  • Sustainability: planning for change over time
  • Long-term sustainability: inheritance and succession
  • Sustainability: managing transitions
  • Building for the future

• Sustaining for the Generations

• Sustainability: Managing Change Process

• Conclusion

• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Definitions of Poverty
  • Absolute and relative poverty
  • Moderate or extreme poverty

• Rationale for Treating Poverty as a Priority Subject

• Scope and Scale of Poverty
  • Global overview
  • Regional perspectives

• Possible Causes of Inequality and Poverty
  • Environmental factors
  • Economic factors
  • Healthcare
  • Governance
  • Demographics and social factors

• Effects of Poverty

• Implications for Change

• Poverty Reduction/Alleviation
  • Employment
  • Economic growth
  • Market reforms (free market)
  • Fair trade
  • Direct aid
  • Development aid
  • Other approaches
  • Improving the environment and access of the poor

• Conclusion

• References

The following sections are included:

• The Effects of Globalization on Health

• The Impact of Globalization on the Health of Seemingly Disparate Groups

• Exploitation of the Health of Vulnerable Populations in the Modern Era

• From Human Organs to Human Research Subjects

• Strategies for Sustainable Health Care

• The Brazilian Response to the AIDS/HIV Crises: A Model of Sustainable Decision-Making

• Sustainability in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Health for the Industry or the World

The following sections are included:

• PART I. DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE LIGHTING FROM GASEOUS DISCHARGE
  • Introduction
    • Lighting from the dawn of civilization to the 21st century
      • Need for energy conservation and sustainability
  • How Radiation is Generated
  • The Development of Compact Fluorescent Lamps
  • The Development of Phosphors
    • Phosphors in cathode ray tubes (CRT)
      • Phosphors for general lighting applications
  • Conversion UV to Visible Using Phosphors
  • Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs)
  • Energy Conservation and Sustainable Development in Lighting
  • Advanced Ceramics and Composites for High Intensity Discharge Lamps
  • Development of Alumina to Translucency
  • Ceramic-Metal (Cermets) Composites for High Intensity Discharge Lamps
  • Development of Glass Ceramic Sealing Materials for the Ceramic Halide Lamps
  • Development of Compact White Light High Pressure Sodium Lamps
  • Development of Seals for the Ceramic Metal Halide (CMH) Lamps
  • Materials Systems Investigated to Produce Refractory and Metal Halide Resistant Glass Seals
  • Conclusions

• PART II. DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE SOLID STATE LIGHTING
  • Introduction
  • Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
  • Basic Principle of Solid State Lamps Obtained from Light Emitting Diodes
  • Materials Used for LEDs
  • Internal Efficiency of LEDs
  • Various Colors of LED and White LEDs
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion

• PART III. SUSTAINABLE DISPERSED COMBINED MICRO POWER AND HEAT GENERATION
  • Introduction
    • Rationale for combined dispersed power and heat generation
    • Technologies being developed to support micro dispersed power generation
    • Application of solid oxide fuel cell for dispersed micro power generation
    • Dispersed micro power without grid interconnection
  • Review of Fuel Cell Technologies
    • Principle of fuel cell
      • Materials development
  • Thermodynamic Efficiency and EMF of Fuel Cells
  • Types of Fuel Cells
    • PEM fuel cells
    • Alkaline fuel cell
    • Molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC)
    • Phosphoric acid fuel cell (PAFC)
    • Direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC)
      • Solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)
  • Design of Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
  • Reactions Occurring at the Interfaces of the Anode, Cathode and Electrolyte
  • Current Development of Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (ITSOFCs)
  • Current Status of Research in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Worldwide
  • Research Carried Out by the Author and His Group
  • Discussion
  • Summary

The following sections are included:

• Incorporating Ethical Reflections in Our Daily Lives and Decisions

• Integrated Approach to Decision Making and Planning

• Participatory Governance as a Way to Ensure an Integrated Approach to Decisions
  • Historic overview
  • Participation from Rio-92 to Johannesburg Summit in 2002
  • Multi-stakeholder dialogues
  • National processes
  • Processes of developing Local Agenda 21
  • Co-management of protected areas
  • Participatory budgeting

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Current Global Business Sustainability Practices

• Entrepreneurship Education

• Conclusions

• References

The following sections are included:

• Entrepreneurship
  • Introduction — the matter of definition
  • The jungle of definitions
    • The Entrepreneur
      • Self-employed with uncertain return
      • The challenges that come along with definition
    • Entrepreneur Attributes
    • Enterprise Culture
  • The unfortunate reality

• Defining Entrepreneurship, Past, Present and Future

• Evolution of Entrepreneurial Thought

• Entrepreneurism

• Stewardship-Based Economics
  • It is all because of ownership
  • Ownership-based economy
    • Consideration for human poverty
    • It is money that matters, it will make one rich or poor: the bank system
    • Resources drain and environmental health
  • Stewardship-based economics

The following sections are included:

• Schumacher — Advocate of the Small and Creative

• Still Relevant Today

• Smallness and Entrepreneurship
  • Small moves in larger organizations
  • Entrepreneurship still beautiful

• Implications for Entrepreneurship Education — The Gaps that Remain

• Conclusion

• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Innovation Based on Fresh Ideas

• The Source of Innovative Ideas

• Constraints to Workplace Innovation

• Encouraging Successful Corporate Innovation
  • Develop appropriate innovation metrics
  • Encourage experimentation and small failures
  • Expand institutional learning
  • Embrace productive friction
  • Display leadership courage

• Concluding Thoughts

• References

This paper uses a naturally occurring event as an experiment; it is almost a controlled experiment in the sense that it compares the current state of affairs in two adjacent economies which used to be one, up to World War I. After the war, German Togoland was split into two territories, one exposed to the policies of French rule (Togo) and the other to that of British Gold Coast administration (Ghana). Both are independent today, Ghana attempting to promote entrepreneurship much more so than Togo. This article examines entrepreneurial activity in both settings, explaining the lack of success of new venture programs in West Africa, and concluding with recommendations for such developing environments.

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
  • Entrepreneurship as a mean to meet social needs

• From Classic to Social Entrepreneurship

• Case Study: The Mont Saint Hilaire Nature Centre
  • The Nature Center
  • The history of the Mont Saint Hilaire Nature Centre
    • The early years (1958–1972)
    • The conservation phase (1972–1995/6)
    • A mission statement for a dual undertaking
    • The beginning of a new era
  • The Nature Centre: Exerting influence on regional ecological issues
    • Getting organized with new tools: development plan and multimedia tools
    • Nature centre partnerships with regional authorities
    • The Nature centre's partnering approach: making partnerships work

• The Nature Centre as Landscape Entrepreneur: Four Perspectives
  • Landscape entrepreneurship as a component of social entrepreneurship and organizing
  • Landscape entrepreneurship and the challenges of stakeholder engagement in the process
    • Shared values and intentions as the basis for the entrepreneurial dynamic of partnerships
  • Landscape entrepreneurship and the construction of resilience in social-ecological systems
    • Building a buffer: shifting the focus from the mountain to the landscape
    • Providing direction for self-organization: mobilizing local support
    • Building a center for learning
  • Landscape entrepreneurship as seen through the experience of implementing a UN framework for conservation
    • Framework for biosphere reserve activities: the limitations of the Seville Strategy
    • Innovative consultation
    • Learning from entrepreneurial activities at the Mont St-Hilaire biosphere reserve

• Lessons for Landscape Entrepreneurship
  • Landscape entrepreneurial system

• Conclusion
  • Tensions in landscape entrepreneurship

• References
  • Websites

The following sections are included:

• The story of four candles

• The end of the story, but not the end of our hope

The following sections are included:

• INDEX