The Necessary Transition
The Journey towards the Sustainable Enterprise Economy
1st Edition
Published on 21. July 2013
Book
Hardback
252 pages
978-1-907643-91-0 (ISBN)
Description
Life on Earth for humanity and our ecosystems is at a point of great change. There is much to be learnt about previous great disruptions. The key words are *adaptation* and *transformation*. Most international companies operate across multiple social and environmental geographies, so they know this intellectual and practical landscape. And for many governments the challenges of social and environmental justice are also paramount - not least because equitable societies are best for business, and best for human well-being.
The Necessary Transition addresses the many transitions taking place around the world: from high- to low-carbon economies, from gross inequality to egalitarianism, from massive human rights abuses to socially just societies, and from high corruption to societies with high social cohesion and integrity.
The book brings together leading international researchers and practitioners to share their knowledge and expertise, and offers answers to many of the pressing questions that must be addressed in the journey towards a sustainable enterprise economy - an absolutely necessary transition for humanity.
Contributors include: Sara Parkin, Founder-Director and Trustee of the UK's Forum for the Future; Bill Champion, Managing Director, Rio Tinto Coal Australia; and Mark Swilling, co-author of "Just Transitions" and Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute, South Africa.
The key question is: "Is a transition to a sustainable future possible within the logic of conventional capitalism and 20th-century models of development?" This book provides radical perspectives from varying entry points and is essential reading for academics and practitioners interested in how we plan, speed and scale such necessary transitions.
The Necessary Transition addresses the many transitions taking place around the world: from high- to low-carbon economies, from gross inequality to egalitarianism, from massive human rights abuses to socially just societies, and from high corruption to societies with high social cohesion and integrity.
The book brings together leading international researchers and practitioners to share their knowledge and expertise, and offers answers to many of the pressing questions that must be addressed in the journey towards a sustainable enterprise economy - an absolutely necessary transition for humanity.
Contributors include: Sara Parkin, Founder-Director and Trustee of the UK's Forum for the Future; Bill Champion, Managing Director, Rio Tinto Coal Australia; and Mark Swilling, co-author of "Just Transitions" and Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute, South Africa.
The key question is: "Is a transition to a sustainable future possible within the logic of conventional capitalism and 20th-century models of development?" This book provides radical perspectives from varying entry points and is essential reading for academics and practitioners interested in how we plan, speed and scale such necessary transitions.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Saltaire
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-907643-91-0 (9781907643910)
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MALCOLM MCINTOSH is former Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at Griffith University. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship and was Special Adviser to the UN Global Compact.
Content
Foreword
Sir Tim Smit, co-founder, The Eden Project
Introduction
Malcolm McIntosh, Griffith University
Part I: History and Transition Theory
1. Contested futures: Conceptions of the next long-term development cycle
Professor Mark Swilling, Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University
2. Radical openness and contextualisation: reflections on a decade of learning for sustainability at the Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Eve Annecke, Sustainability Institute
3. The devil is in the synergy: Exhibiting transitions at the hypothetical museum of the future
Richard Cassels, Director, Climate Leadership
4. Transformations and translations of japanese business society
Kyoko Fukukawa, Bradford University School of Management, and Sunil Manghani, York St John University
Part II: Re-Seeing the world: Paradigm shifts and action
5. Occupation or action: Can they be more or less than the sum of their parts?
Sara Parkin, Founder Director, Forum for the Future
6. The pillars of peace: Identifying the elements that allow human potential to flourish
Steve Killelea, Executive Chairman and Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)
7. The wicked problem of developing a new social contract for the necessary transition
Sandra Waddock, Boston College Carroll School of Management
8. Together: The power of collaboration
Caroline Digby, The Eden Project
9. Boundary objects, HRM tools and change for sustainability
Suzanne Benn, University of Technology, Sydney, and Cathy Rusinko, Philadelphia University
Part III: Sustainable development, climate change and business & finance
10. Climate change is everyone's business
Brendan Mackey, Griffith University
11. Industry transformation through sustainable entrepreneurship: Examples in the apparel and energy industries
Stefan Schaltegger and Erik G. Hansen, Leuphana Universitaet Lueneburg
12. Public policy processes for transition to a sustainable enterprise society: The case of extractive industries
Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh, Griffith University
13. Sustainable development: Continuing to re-earn our licence to operate
Bill Champion, Managing Director, Rio Tinto Coal Australia
14. Currencies of transition: Transforming money to unleash sustainability
Jem Bendell, Institute for Leadership and Sustainability, University of Cumbria, UK and Griffith Business School, Queensland, Australia; and Thomas H. Greco, BeyondMoney.net
Sir Tim Smit, co-founder, The Eden Project
Introduction
Malcolm McIntosh, Griffith University
Part I: History and Transition Theory
1. Contested futures: Conceptions of the next long-term development cycle
Professor Mark Swilling, Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University
2. Radical openness and contextualisation: reflections on a decade of learning for sustainability at the Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Eve Annecke, Sustainability Institute
3. The devil is in the synergy: Exhibiting transitions at the hypothetical museum of the future
Richard Cassels, Director, Climate Leadership
4. Transformations and translations of japanese business society
Kyoko Fukukawa, Bradford University School of Management, and Sunil Manghani, York St John University
Part II: Re-Seeing the world: Paradigm shifts and action
5. Occupation or action: Can they be more or less than the sum of their parts?
Sara Parkin, Founder Director, Forum for the Future
6. The pillars of peace: Identifying the elements that allow human potential to flourish
Steve Killelea, Executive Chairman and Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)
7. The wicked problem of developing a new social contract for the necessary transition
Sandra Waddock, Boston College Carroll School of Management
8. Together: The power of collaboration
Caroline Digby, The Eden Project
9. Boundary objects, HRM tools and change for sustainability
Suzanne Benn, University of Technology, Sydney, and Cathy Rusinko, Philadelphia University
Part III: Sustainable development, climate change and business & finance
10. Climate change is everyone's business
Brendan Mackey, Griffith University
11. Industry transformation through sustainable entrepreneurship: Examples in the apparel and energy industries
Stefan Schaltegger and Erik G. Hansen, Leuphana Universitaet Lueneburg
12. Public policy processes for transition to a sustainable enterprise society: The case of extractive industries
Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh, Griffith University
13. Sustainable development: Continuing to re-earn our licence to operate
Bill Champion, Managing Director, Rio Tinto Coal Australia
14. Currencies of transition: Transforming money to unleash sustainability
Jem Bendell, Institute for Leadership and Sustainability, University of Cumbria, UK and Griffith Business School, Queensland, Australia; and Thomas H. Greco, BeyondMoney.net