Business and the Sustainability Challenge: An Integrated Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415882415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 536 str.

Peter N Nemetz

Opis

It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science. This integrated textbook for MBA and senior-level undergraduates offers a comprehensive overview of the issues of sustainability as they relate to business and influence corporate strategy. It also features a wide range of cases and an extensive discussion of tools to incorporate sustainability issues into strategic decision making, helping instructors and students to build and then apply a solid understanding of sustainability in business.

Spis treści

@Contents: Preface  1. Book Outline and Rationale  Part 1: Foundations  2. A brief historical overview of economic development and the environment, Part 1 - Pre and Post Agricultural Revolution  3. A brief historical overview of economic development and the environment, Part 2 - The Industrial Revolution and Sequel  Appendix: A Primer on Input-Output Analysis  4. What Are We Trying to Achieve? Measuring Wealth and Well-being Appendix One: The World Bank’s Calculation of Total Wealth  Appendix Two: Well-being indicator variables used by the OECD  5. An Overview of Environmental Economics  Appendix One: Case Study of Sulfur Dioxide Trading the U.S.  Appendix Two: The TRI and its Effects  6. An Outline of Ecological Economics  Appendix One: Valuing Ecosystem Services of North America’s Boreal Forest  Appendix Two: Case Study of Thai Shrimp Farming  7. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Measuring Environmental Benefits Appendix One: Applying Evaluation Methodology – Case Study of the U.S Clean Air Act  Appendix Two: Placing a Value on Ecosystem Services – Case Study of New York City’s Water Supply  Appendix Three: A Brief Overview of Multi-Attribute Decision Making  8. Placing a Value on Human Life  Appendix: Philip Morris’ Report to the Government of Czechoslovakia  9. Risk Analysis and the Precautionary Principle  Appendix One: Two classic examples of the framing of risk  Appendix Two: The Precautionary Principle and Global Warming  10. Some Relevant Ecological Principles  Part 2: The Private Sector  11. A Brief History of Corporate Response to Sustainability Issues  12. Waste to Profits. The Case of Consolidated Mining and Smelting Ltd.  13. Designing the Corporation of the 21^st Century. Case Study of Interface Inc.  14. Assessing Interface Inc.  Appendix: A Note on Assessing the Credibility of Corporate Sustainability Reporting  15. Eco-efficiency and other paradigms  16. Closing the Loop: Mimicking Nature – Biomimicry and Industrial Ecology  17. Thinking Systemically (I) Mass Balances and Industrial Metabolism  18. Thinking Systematically (II) Life-Cycle Analysis  19. Thinking Systemically (III): Carbon Accounting  20. Thinking Systematically (IV): LCA, Carbon Footprinting and Input-Output Analysis  21. The Search for Innovative Business Models. Case Study of Ooteel Forest Products Ltd.  22. Assessing Ooteel’s Strategic Options  Appendix: Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)  23. Defining Sustainability and its Components. Case Study of Suncor Ltd.  24. Assessing Suncor Ltd.  Appendix: A brief note on carbon capture and storage  25. Internalizing Sustainability into Corporate Strategy  26. Social Enterprise and the Social Return to Investment  27. Sustainability and Corporate Culture  28. Afterword

O autorze

Peter N. Nemetz is a Professor ofStrategy and Business Economics at The University of British Colombia, Canada.