Hijacking Environmentalism : Corporate Responses to Sustainable Development

ISBN-13: 9781853833991 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 268 str.

Richard Welford

Opis

This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights the need for participation and social innovation on their part. It asserts that senior executives and middle management in large corporations have often sought, deliberately or unconsciously, to block the advancement of environmentalism. Industry has reconstructed the more radical environmental agenda to suit its own purposes, in effect hijacking it, by taking it out of its traditional discourse and placing it in a liberal-productivist framework. The book concludes by examining the way forward for more sustainable business, presenting new models that place greater emphasis on issues such as equity and ethics.

Spis treści

Part 1; Defining the Problem; Chapter 1 Introduction: What are we Doing to the World?/$rByRichard Welford; Chapter 2 From Green to Golden: the Hijacking Environmentalism/$rByRichard Welford; Chapter 3 Clouding the Crisis: the construction of Corporate Environmental Management/$rByPall Rikhardsson, Richard Welford; Chapter 4 Fading to Grey: the Use and Abuse of Corporate Executives' 'Representational Power'/$rByNick Mayhew; Part 2; Underlying Tensions; Chapter 5 Ecological Eldor ado: Eliminating Excess over Ecology/$rByTarja Ketola; Chapter 6 The Big Brothers: Transnational Corporations, Trade Organizations and Multilateral Financial Institutions/$rByEloy Casagrande Junior, Richard Welford; Chapter 7 Organizing for Sustainable Development: Structure, Culture and Social Auditing/$rByDavid Jones, Richard Welford; Part 3; Searching for Solutions; Chapter 8 Models of Sustainable Development for Business/$rByRichard Welford; Chapter 9 Rediscovering the Spiritual Dimension of Environmentalism/$rByRichard Welford; Chapter 10 Towards a More Critical Dimension for Environmental Research/$rByRichard Welford;

O autorze

Welford, Richard