technology and fuel choices widen, understanding the environmental implications of investment choices becomes ever more important. The objective of this paper is to expand previous analysis of the external costs of electric power generation in South Africa. We present a quantitative analysis of air pollution impacts on human health, damages from greenhouse gas emissions, and the avoided health costs from electrification, as well as discussing other impacts qualitatively. The central estimate of total external
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Case Outline of JetBlue Airways Corporation I. Problem: The main problem facing JetBlue Airways Corporation is: how to maintain low-costs structure and continue enlarging its market share in the competitive airline industry with increasing fuel costs. II. Strategic Considerations A. Industry Analysis 1. History a). American aviation pioneers attempted to start airlines using airships in the mid-19th industry. b). Aktiengesellschaft was world’s first airline
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Climate Change Impacts & Risk Management A Guide for Business and Government Published by the Australian Greenhouse Office, in the Department of the Environment and Heritage. ISBN: 1 921120 56 8 © Commonwealth of Australia 2006 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced by any process without prior written permission from the Commonwealth, available from the Department of the Environment and Heritage. Requests and inquiries
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includes some illustrative case studies and business activities from 2013. For news on CCe’s sustainability initiatives and further resources, see our website www.cokecce.com. RepoRting boundARies And stAndARds Unless otherwise indicated, the environmental and workplace data in this report covers all operations owned or controlled (production, sales/distribution, combination sales/production facilities, administrative offices and fleet) by Coca-Cola Enterprises. Our workplace, community and carbon
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Emerging Road Safety Problems in Urban Areas of Bangladesh Dr. Md. Mazharul Hoque1, S. M. Sohel Mahmud2, Abdus Shakur Qazi2 ABSTRACT: Developing countries like Bangladesh are experiencing very serious road safety problems. Latest studies revealed that there are 10000-12000 deaths from road traffic injuries each year in Bangladesh, nearly 25 percent occurring in the urban areas. Urban road accidents are a very serious and growing problem with vast majority of road accident fatalities comprising vulnerable
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Introduction The present economic situation in the globalized world generates very efficient processes in international companies with large profits for managers but with a relevant risk in economic and noneconomic ambit to eliminate any negative impacts of the crisis from one country to another. In this case, it is necessary to enact and apply ethics principles in international companies into their day-to- day praxis and above all influence citizens (consumers) and official state institutions of
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Dissertations Graduate College 8-1-2012 Deepwater, Deep Ties, Deep Trouble: A StateCorporate Environmental Crime Analysis of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Elizabeth A. Bradshaw Western Michigan University, brads2ea@cmich.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations Recommended Citation Bradshaw, Elizabeth A., "Deepwater, Deep Ties, Deep Trouble: A State-Corporate Environmental Crime Analysis of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill" (2012). Dissertations. Paper 53
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ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers THE VISION FOR CIVIL ENGINEERING IN 2025 BASED ON THE SUMMIT ON THE FUTURE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING June 21 – 22, 2006 Prepared by the Task Committee to Plan a Summit on the The Future of the Civil Engineering Profession January 5, 2007 (Final draft prepared by TC) Contents Executive Summary ...................................................... 1 2006: Status, Concerns, and Opportunities in the Civil Engineering Profession .............................
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Summary………………………………………………………………………...4 2.0 Company History…………………………………………………………………………...5 2.1 Background…………………………………………………………………………………6 2.2 Purpose of this Study……………………………………………………………………….8 3.0 External Analysis…………………………………………………………………………...9 3.1 General Environmental Analysis…………………………………………………………..10 3.1.1. Demographic Segment…………………………………………………………………..10 3.1.2. Economic Segment………………………………………………………………………12 3.1.3. Political/Legal Segment………………………………………………………………….12 3.1.4. Socio-Cultural Segment…………………………………………………………………
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Chapter FIVE gLOBALIZATION AND SOCIETY OBJECTIVES • To identify problems in evaluating the activities of MNEs • To evaluate the major economic impacts of MNEs on home and host countries • To establish the foundations for responsible behavior • To discuss some key issues of globalization and society—ethics and bribery, the environment, pharmaceuticals, and labor issues • To examine corporate responses to globalization Chapter Overview Globalization has become a major socioeconomic
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