Sustentabilidad ambiental en la industria
Sustentabilidad ambiental en la industria

Author: Ismael Aguilar Barajas

Publisher: El Colegio de Mexico

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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El tema del desarrollo sustentable ha venido discutiendose profusamente en las ultimas dos decadas a nivel internacional y nacional. Participando en el debate, el desarrollo sustentable se concibe en este libro como un vieje y no como un destino final. A pesar de los indudables progresos, todavia se necesita mayor claridad conceptual y su incorporacion en mejores politicas. El avance hacia la sustentabilidad ambiental es un gran desafio para el bienestar de las sociedades. Ello requiere, entre otras medidas, la formulacion de politicas ambientales con objetivos realistas, la ampliacion de la infraestructura ambiental y la mejor integracion de las preocupaciones ambientales en las decisiones economicas y sociales. En este volumen se demuestra que la transicion a la sustentabilidad ambiental de la industria necesita esta incorporacion. Mas aun, en varios capitulos queda claro que la buena reputacion social y ambiental de una empresa puede resultarle a ella misma un activo muy valioso como parte de su estrategia competitiva. Este libro pretende contribuir al entendimiento de la problematica ambiental industrial, especialmente en Mexico, al centrarse en asuntos particulares y diferenciar esta problematica por ramas, regiones y periodos, entre otras categorias.

Sewer of Progress
Sewer of Progress

Author: Cindy Mcculligh

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2023-07-25

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0262374943

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A creative and comprehensive exploration of the institutional forces undermining the management of environments critical to public health. For almost two decades, the citizens of Western Mexico have called for a cleanup of the Santiago River, a water source so polluted it emanates an overwhelming acidic stench. Toxic clouds of foam lift off the river in a strong wind. In Sewer of Progress, Cindy McCulligh examines why industrial dumping continues in the Santiago despite the corporate embrace of social responsibility and regulatory frameworks intended to mitigate environmental damage. The fault, she finds, lies in a disingenuous discourse of progress and development that privileges capitalist growth over the health and well-being of ecosystems. Rooted in research on institutional behavior and corporate business practices, Sewer of Progress exposes a type of regulatory greenwashing that allows authorities to deflect accusations of environmental dumping while “regulated” dumping continues in an environment of legal certainty. For transnational corporations, this type of simulation allows companies to take advantage of double standards in environmental regulations, while presenting themselves as socially responsible and green global actors. Through this inversion, the Santiago and other rivers in Mexico have become sewers for urban and industrial waste. Institutionalized corruption, a concept McCulligh introduces in the book, is the main culprit, a system that permits and normalizes environmental degradation, specifically in the creation and enforcement of a regulatory framework for wastewater discharge that prioritizes private interests over the common good. Through a research paradigm based in institutional ethnography and political ecology, Sewer of Progress provides a critical, in-depth look at the power relations subverting the role of the state in environmental regulation and the maintenance of public health.

Monitoreo ambiental y uso sustentable de las tierras del Cono Sur
Monitoreo ambiental y uso sustentable de las tierras del Cono Sur

Author: Ernesto Viglizzo

Publisher: IICA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9789290393092

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Monitoramento e avaliacao de impacto ambiental na agricultura; el uso sustentable de las tierras en el Cono Sur: la cooperacion cientifica como base para orientar politicas regionales de ordenamiento territorial; sistemas de informacion geografica su situacion actual y disponibilidad de datos en la Republica Argentina; monitoreo ambiental y uso sustentable de las tierras en Bolivia; Brasil - diagnostico da situacion nacional; antecedentes generales de los recursos naturales de Chile; analisis de sistemas y modelacion: la experiencia del INIA Chile; disponibilidad de datos y levantamientos basicos de los recursos naturales del Paraguay; mejoramiento ambiental. Uso sustentable de la tierra.

Promoting Sustainable Management Through Technological Innovation
Promoting Sustainable Management Through Technological Innovation

Author: Lamba Sahdev, Supriya

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2023-10-06

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1668499800

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The world is facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges that threaten our ability to achieve a sustainable future for all. Issues like climate change, resource depletion, and social inequality require urgent action, but technology, while a potential solution, also introduces new risks. Promoting Sustainable Management Through Technological Innovation offers a comprehensive solution by exploring the benefits and risks of technology, emphasizing ethical considerations, and providing insights and recommendations for policymakers, business leaders, and researchers to harness technological innovation for sustainability. This book contributes to the ongoing conversation around sustainable development by guiding policymakers in developing effective policies, assisting business leaders in implementing sustainable practices, and providing researchers with a comprehensive overview of current research. It serves as a valuable resource for academic scholars and professionals interested in the intersection of technology and sustainability. Policymakers can shape policies promoting sustainability, business leaders can integrate sustainable practices and innovation, researchers can gain insights for further investigation, and educators can utilize it in sustainability and technology courses. Overall, the book serves as a key reference, guiding readers toward responsible and effective solutions that leverage technology for a more sustainable future.

Estrategias tecnológicas para la industria de la hostelería
Estrategias tecnológicas para la industria de la hostelería

Author: Peter D. Nyheim

Publisher: Ediciones Universidad Católica de Salta

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 9506231818

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Los procesos comerciales en la industria de la hostelería, como toda industria en la actualidad, están atravesados por las nuevas tecnologías que aportan rapidez, eficiencia y posibilidad de control al ámbito de la gestión. La industria del turismo, y en especial todo lo relacionado con el hospedaje y la alimentación del viajero, se mueve con una fuerte dinámica, y la rapidez de la respuesta es uno de los aspectos prioritarios junto con la necesidad de lograr la total satisfacción de las demandas tanto de clientes como de proveedores. En todos estos procesos, las tecnologías de la información (TI), los sistemas de información (IS) y los sistemas de gestión de la información (MIS) son la herramienta clave en el éxito de los procesos vinculados tanto en las operaciones diarias como en la planificación. Este libro, dirigido tanto a estudiantes como a profesionales vinculados a la hostelería, es el resultado de una colaboración entre autores que han vivido las situaciones que se plantean en él. Cada capítulo cuenta con entrevistas a líderes de la industria en las que se reconocen casos concretos de aplicación de tecnología en la hostelería. Sin dudas, las nuevas tecnologías ofrecen un mayor número de oportunidades tanto a gerentes como a clientes; desde hacer una reserva a través de una aplicación, hasta la experimentación de un servicio mediante recursos tecnológicos de realidad aumentada. De ahí la importancia, necesidad y pertinencia de este libro, que alcanza con esta su tercera edición, primera en español.

Resource Radicals
Resource Radicals

Author: Thea Riofrancos

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2020-07-17

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1478012129

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In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the “twenty-first-century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the extraction of natural resources. Each side declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of socioeconomic equality, popular empowerment, and anti-imperialism. In Resource Radicals, Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms: on the one hand, the administration's resource nationalism and focus on economic development; and on the other, the anti-extractivism of grassroots activists who condemned the government's disregard for nature and indigenous communities. In this archival and ethnographic study, Riofrancos expands the study of resource politics by decentering state resource policy and locating it in a field of political struggle populated by actors with conflicting visions of resource extraction. She demonstrates how Ecuador's commodity-dependent economy and history of indigenous uprisings offer a unique opportunity to understand development, democracy, and the ecological foundations of global capitalism.

Applied Technologies
Applied Technologies

Author: Miguel Botto-Tobar

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-01-27

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 303124978X

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This three-volume set CCIS 1755-1757 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2022, held in Quito, Ecuador, in November 2022. The 112 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 415 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: human computing and information science, IT financial and business management.