The Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9781853836596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 390 str.

Richard Welford; Richard Starkey

Opis

A study of business and sustainable development. It contains contributions on issues rapidly coming to dominate business strategy and organization, including: resource efficiency; clean production; life cycle analysis; social and environmental accountability; corporate reporting; and trade. The contributors include Paul Elkins, John Elkington, Amory Lovins, Landis Gabel, Frank Popoff, Martin Bennett, Peter James, Rob Gray, Simon Zadek, Sharon Beder and Ernst von Weizsaecker

Spis treści

Introduction  Section 1: Overview Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World  The 'Triple Bottom Line for 21st-Century Business'  Section 2: Business Opportunities  Bringing the Environment Down to Earth  The Imperfect Market  A Road Map for Natural Capitalism  The Firm, its Routines and the Environment  Section 3: Environmental and Social Accounting  What is Social Accounting?  The Green Bottom Line  Struggling with the Praxis of Social Accounting: Stakeholders, Accountability, Audits and Procedures  Balancing Performance, Ethics and Accountability  Section 4: Critical Perspectives  Multinational Corporations' Impacts on the Environment and Communities in the Developing World: a Synthesis of the Contemporary Debate  The Responsibility of Business to the Whole  Global Spin  Mixed Messages  Getting Engaged: Business-NGO Relations on Sustainable Development  Section 5: Trade and Sustainable Development  Business, and the Environment: Agenda for Stability in World Trade  Reaping the Benefits: Trade Opportunities of Developing-country Producers from Sustainable Consumption and Production  Conclusion: Win-Win Revisited: a Buddhist Perspective