Energy and sustainability strategies are about hard-core business decisions and going back to the basics of managing resources and resource use.
Economists (including Mr Coase) have tended to emphasise property rights as a solution to the problem of managing common resources.
Every company has a business strategy, a risk strategy, a strategy for growing markets, for managing human resources and so forth.
Emomali Rahmon, President of Tajikistan congratulated UNESCO for its commitment and expressed his conviction that managing water resources peacefully is vital for sustainable development.
Creation and implementation of some permanent instruments for raising and managing financial resources, communication and information tools, capacity building and training activities, and project planning and monitoring.
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Experience in formulating, implementing and managing water resources development projects.
Managing certain resources at the enterprise level is not easy.
On June 2, 2011, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released a draft "National Action Plan: Priorities for Managing Freshwater Resources in a Changing Climate, " for public review and comment.
Despite a country founded by risk-takers, our schools are the antithesis of American culture--bound by arcane rules, operating regardless of outcomes, eschewing creative technologies and managing human resources like spokes in a wheel, without differentiation or reward.
Governments who join the partnership are called on to develop concrete commitments around open government to address at least one of five grand challenges (improving public services, increasing public integrity, more effectively managing public resources, creating safer communities, increasing corporate accountability).
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It cites as its main aims the strengthening of Bolivia's health system and the provision of "equal access to health care by eliminating social exclusion", as well as improving "the livelihoods of economically and socially disadvantaged people by increasing income and managing natural resources".
In a statement, she said that Mr Pinho was removed because of his "difficulties in managing the human resources at his disposal".
The importance of cooperation in managing limited water resources in a world where demand is rapidly growing, cannot be underestimated: some 145 countries share a major river basin with at least one other nation.
The event explored the importance of an interdisciplinary catchment based approach to managing and protecting water resources.
The question is: would you hire someone who has the edge with managing cloud-based resources for a line of business?
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In British Columbia, officials have presented a plan to involve natives in protecting and managing disputed land and resources while the talks continue.
The aim of IHP is also to improve the scientific and technological basis on which to build sound managing methods for water resources, respectful of the environment.
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Mr Gove is urging local authorities to "target resources at managing the shortfalls in pupils' places wherever they are most needed" and to take into account "the views of parents".
"You can't just plant trees, walk away and let them grow, " says Tom Johnson, a managing director at Timberland Investment Resources, an Atlanta TIMO.
Inherent in all these games, whether their goal is vanquishing evil elves or raising corn, are the kinds of abilities needed to solve complex problems, including leading and managing, handling logistics and resources, prioritizing tasks, making sense of rapidly changing data and learning from mistakes.
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Investors are warming up to technology that promises to produce healthier crop efficiently and promote local consumption, given the challenge of managing the existing land, water and other resources to feed a growing population worldwide.
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This means they know their abilities as well as their limitations, and very often they have devised strategies for handling shortcomings by managing their time, their people and their resources in ways that accent their strengths and downplay their deficiencies.
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Tuckwell worked in the resource sector for a little more than two decades and was managing director of a company he founded named Investor Resources Ltd. in Australia back in 2002, when the ETF had its origins.
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But since real-estate professionals tend to be salespeople at heart and the market for sales aces is growing, making a switch to sales roles in other, more robust industries such as insurance, pharmaceuticals and computer software, is usually possible, says Jay Hargis, founder and managing partner of Talent Insight Group, a human-resources consulting firm.
They are expected to be mostly internal coordinators of resources and end up, for the most part, just managing the RFP process.
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Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan among others showed how to run big organizations by delivering mass production through managing the supply chain, parsing and manufacturing demand, controlling employees as human resources, and steadily increasing efficiency through economies of scale.
"The acquisition of Kingway gives us greater access to high growth and attractive regional markets in China, thereby enhancing China Resources Snow Breweries Limited competitive position, " said Ari Mervis, managing director of SABMiller Asia-Pacific.
What if your years of managing a Burger King in high school counted toward credit for a business degree in human resources?
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Neo-Malthusians argue that key economic resources remain limited and that market behavior continues to be oriented around maximizing profits by managing scarcity.
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