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...

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

This guide to corporate environmental management explores the various organisational and cultural concepts which firmly place the corporate environmental management agenda within the human dimension.

No technique or technology can be successful without the human element: the cooperation of everyone involved in the organisation. This book explores the various organizational and cultural concepts which firmly place the corporate environmental management agenda within the human dimension.

Examines the complex issues faced when we make a genuine commitment to move towards sustainable development. This book tackles the nature of the international economic order and the efficacy of free trade and globalization in response to the recognition that businesses and organizations must effect real change to ensure a sustainable future.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of business in safeguarding the environment. It introduces the general issues and context, and then gives a detailed, critical examination of all the key tools of corporate environmental management, including environmental management systems and standards; environmental policies, guidelines and charters; environmental auditing; life-cycle assessment; the measurement of environmental performance; and environmental reporting. The book emphasises systems-based environmental management, and also considers how such an approach might be integrated...