This book is about fiduciary law's influence on the financial economy's environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability.
This book explores how the State can play a role as an enabler of citizens-led social innovations, to accelerate the shift to sustainable and socially just lifestyles.
This book examines the spectrum of green behaviors in organizational settings, focusing on the contribution that employees make through their environmental engagement.
As we witness a series of social, political, cultural, and economic changes/disruptions this book examines the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the way emerging technologies are impacting our lives and changing society.
This book explores topics related to sustainability, including the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and accountability in various activities.
Developing the Prosocial Entrepreneur critically examines the current unsustainable business model of entrepreneur education and training that often prioritises unlimited growth and consumption and does not consider the negative impacts business decisions have on our health and the environment.
The changemaker's guide to catalyzing environmental behaviour change for a healthy futureTo tackle our urgent environmental problems and achieve positive, durable change, we must design solutions based directly on how people think, make decisions, and act.
Future First is a practical guide for any business leader who wants to build, expand, or reinvent their company by finding new value in global challenges.
Constructing roads in Madagascar; forestry along Canada's Pacific Coast; water and sanitation projects in South Africa; community banking in the United States; constructing a new global system for corporate reporting.
This book is a review of the development of the WTO dispute resolution procedure and the power and influence it has gained over the practises of the member countries as well as in other international treaties.
This book provides the first in-depth investigation of how non-timber forest products are an integral part of local, national, and global bioeconomies.
Mary Barra's quest to move GM to a manufacturer of electric cars has captured the attention of automobile aficionados, green-business advocates, and leaders of all types who have to admire Mary's toughness in moving forward despite the overwhelming obstacles in her path.
Impact Investing for a Sustainable Planet guides investors in supporting entrepreneurs to scale business models which maximize positive impact outcomes, including climate- and nature-based solutions.
This book analyses the determining factors behind productivity and innovation amongst Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore, and within the context of South East Asia, in order to offer recommendations for increasing productivity and aiding economic growth.
There has been much written on the importance of responsibility accounting and integrated reporting to ensure business accountability, but not on how to be a responsible accountant.
This volume contains a collection of articles that include both case studies and theoretical insights applicable to the tourism development challenges of tropical coastal and island destinations throughout the world.
This book deals with the main challenges of sustainable development and the role of sustainable business and corporate social responsibility in implementing these challenges through sustainable leadership and innovations.
Exploring the Sustainability Development Goal for Responsible Consumption and Production, this volume provides insights from the performing arts, festivals and events, film industry, and fashion sectors.
This book explores how the interrelated concepts of responsible citizenship, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainability can be interpreted, researched and taught.
Using a philosophical and interdisciplinary approach, this book looks at how accountability can provide solutions to our current environmental and global political problems.
In an era marked by financial scandals, corporate crises, and rapid technological advancements, this textbook equips readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the complexities of corporate governance effectively.
This book provides a detailed look at REDD+ business case studies and best practice and highlights the future of REDD+ in providing a promising mechanism for financing forest conservation while increasing the sustainability and profitability of forward-thinking companies.
This book explores the role of the insurance industry in contributing to, and responding to, the harms that climate change has brought and will bring either directly or indirectly.
Understanding the complexity of sustainability is crucial for the leadership of business organizations, national governments, and non-governmental organizations.
Decades of research and discussion have shown that the human population growth and our increased consumption of natural resources cannot continue - there are limits to growth.
Customers are increasingly seeking "e;low-cost, high-quality"e; or what is known as frugal products that meet the buyer's needs while reducing the associated cost of ownership.
This book is the first to explore the application of system leadership to promote sustainable solutions for contemporary and future environmental and social problems.
Sustainable Action and Motivation proposes individual competencies and institutional policies that can help overcome the motivational hurdles that hamper sustainable action.
The case studies in this second volume focus on entrepreneurs targeting sustainability issues, and how their personal values shape strategies and initiatives.
The Causes of Tropical Deforestation (1994) is an analysis of the problem of deforestation, using statistical technique - a form of 'environ-metrics' - to discover the true causes of an issue whose basis is hotly debated, and attributed to causes as varied as poverty, external debt, multinational logging companies, government corruption, the IMF, population growth, and non-sustainable agriculture.
