The Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development
Earthscan Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
390 pages
978-1-85383-639-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Figures, tables
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
605 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85383-639-8 (9781853836398)
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Content
Section 1 Overview: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford Beyond Greening, Strategies for a Sustainable World - Stuart L. Hart; The "Triple Bottom Line for 21st-century Business" - John Elkington. Section 2 Business Opportunities: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford; Bringing the Environment Down to Earth - Forest Reinhardt; The Imperfect Market - Ernst Ulrich von Weizs cker, Amory B Lovins and L Hunter Lovins; A Road Map for Natural Capitalism - Amory B Lovins, L Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken; The Firm, its Routines and the Environment - H Landis Gabel and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne. Section 3 Environmental and Social Accounting: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford; What is Social Accounting? - Rob Gray, Dave Owen and Carol Adams; The Green Bottom Line - Martin Bennett and Peter James; Struggling with the Praxis of Social Accounting: Stakeholders, Accountability, Audits and Procedures - Rob Gray, Colin Dey, Dave Owen, Richard Evans and Simon Zadek; Balancing Performance, Ethics and Accountability - Simon Zadek. Section 4 Critical Perspectives: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford; Multinational Corporations' Impacts on the Environment and Communities in the Developing World - a Synthesis of the Contemporary Debate - Titus Moser and Damian Miller; The Responsibility of Business to the Whole - David C. Korten; Global Spin - Sharon Beder; Mixed Messages - Carl Frankel; Getting Engaged - Business-NGO Relations on Sustainable Development - David F. Murphy and Jem Bendell. Section 5 Trade and Sustainable Development: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford16. Business, Trade and the Environment - an Agenda for Stability in World Trade - Paul Ekins; Reaping the Benefits - Trade Opportunities of Developing-country Producers from Sustainable Consumption and Production - Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts; Conclusion - Win-Win Revisited, a Buddhist Perspective - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford.