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The Shifting Ground of Globalization

Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A.

By: Thiago Aguiar

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The Shifting Ground of Globalization

Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A.

By: Thiago Aguiar

In The Shifting Ground of Globalization, Thiago Aguiar describes the transformation of the Brazilian mining company into a Transnational Corporation and its consequences for workers, communities, and the environment in the first decades of the twenty-first century.

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9004531947

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9789004531949

Sustainable procurement

The power of public and private consumption for an inclusive green economy

By: Luciana Stocco Betiol,Thiago Hector Kanashiro Uehara,Florence Karine Laloe,Gabriela Alem Appugliese,Sergio Adeodato,Ligia Ramos,Mario Prestes Monzoni Neto

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Sustainable procurement

The power of public and private consumption for an inclusive green economy

By: Luciana Stocco Betiol,Thiago Hector Kanashiro Uehara,Florence Karine Laloe,Gabriela Alem Appugliese,Sergio Adeodato,Ligia Ramos,Mario Prestes Monzoni Neto

“It's a fight against time." That is how the book begins, presenting a historical background of how the topic of sustainable production and consumption was included in the global agenda and reached Brazil. It is clear in the work who and what the potential actors and instruments that interact for that purpose are. In a fun way, thematic infographics show the impact from consumption and production, inspired by Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In Chapters 2 and 3, readers will find inspiring examples of institutional procurement collected through exclusive interviews, news articles, corporate reports and scientific articles describing successful experiences in the public and private sectors, highlighting which institutions broke the resistance and became protagonists in the use of transformation potential through sustainable consumption and production. In Chapter 4, under a guidance perspective, two tools are recommended for continuously improving management of public and business procurement - the former was developed by ICLEI, for the Procura+ campaign, and the latter by the UN Global Compact. Also, propositions are presented in order to incorporate sustainability attributes in the procurement and supply management systems. Based on our experiences with consultancies and projects in partnership with governments, business platforms and academic researches, a survey was conducted with about 50 institutions, among public bodies and businesses, organizing lessons learnt and calling attention for facilitators and barriers of institutional consumption aimed at sustainability. Among the institutions we surveyed, we picked up the examples described in this work. Finally, in Chapter 5, under an integrated perspective of sectors and actors, including individual consumers, we made a critical analysis of the advancements and challenges faced in the past years, and point to guidelines for the future of the so-wanted 'inclusive green economy', considering institutional procurement as an essential tool to (re)build a global scenario that is more favorable to sustainable development.

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Public Administration and Citizenship Program

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8587426311

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Chemical Electrostatics

New Ideas on Electrostatic Charging: Mechanisms and Consequences

By: Fernando Galembeck,Thiago A. L. Burgo

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Chemical Electrostatics

New Ideas on Electrostatic Charging: Mechanisms and Consequences

By: Fernando Galembeck,Thiago A. L. Burgo

This book provides new clues for understanding electrostatic charging in solids and liquids, resulting from the surge of research in this active area of science that is taking place since the 1990's but is still largely unknown to most researchers, lecturers and engineers. Written by a leading researcher in this field, this book describes the formation and properties of the Earth capacitor, the production of environmental electricity and its effect on natural and anthropic systems and examines many situations in which water may play a decisive role in electrostatic behavior. The authors present an informed critique of the long-held assumption that pure substances should be electroneutral. In this regard, the authors show that charge partition and accumulation is expected considering the electrochemical potential under non-zero electrostatic potential, which prevails at Earth surface. This book provides conceptual tools to guide the reader through the complexities and consequences of electrostatic phenomena while covering exciting current topics such as energy scavenging from the environment, electrostatic based green production, energy-saving processes, electrochemistry at the solid-gas interface, therapeutic electrostatic treatments, applications in sanitation and pest control and control of atmospheric electricity and its use in climate engineering.

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Springer

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3319523740

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The Shifting Ground of Globalization

Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A.

By: Thiago Aguiar

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The Shifting Ground of Globalization

The Shifting Ground of Globalization

Sustainable procurement

Sustainable procurement

Chemical Electrostatics

Chemical Electrostatics

The Shifting Ground of Globalization

The Shifting Ground of Globalization

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