Explains how energy industry firms have hedged their bets by using paradoxical strategies to cope with the uncertainty around energy prices and climate change.
Peacemaking and the Extractive Industries addresses a significant gap in research on the political and diplomatic role of multinational corporations in peace processes in intrastate conflict: Corporate Peacemaking.
Corporate social responsibility has increased exponentially throughout the past decades and is of growing importance to the success of businesses internationally.
Die besondere Relevanz multinationaler Unternehmen im Kontext des Klimawandels ergibt sich aus deren globaler Wirkung ohne Beschränkung auf einzelne Länder.
Historically known for its significant environmental footprint, the construction industry faces increasing pressure to evolve in a landscape where environmental concerns, resource efficiency, and adaptability are paramount.
This book uses a quantitative science-based approach to explain where the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions emitted by the fashion industry are generated and it explores what strategies can be deployed to achieve Net Zero by 2050.
This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a robust model, rooted in organizational and scientific knowledge, for companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness.
This book offers the first systematic study of how the 'Anthropocene' is reported in mass media globally, drawing parallels between the use (or misuse) of the term and the media's attitude towards the associated issues of climate change and global warming.
We are entering the age of sustainability - a business era where every company, big and small, must adapt its way of doing business to meet the realities of climate change, a finite supply of natural resources, evolving attitudes about inequality, increasing digitisation and automation.
The authors argue the business case for sustainable development in this study that explores a range of issues beginning with corporate social responsibility and ending with eco-efficiency.
In addition to constituting an evolving area of inquiry within the social sciences, agricultural certification, and particularly its Fair Trade and organic components, has emerged as a significant tool for promoting rural development in the global South.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain (SC) mapping appeared as one of the critical SC capabilities that could make a striking difference in organizations' SC performance and improve sustainable operations.
In The Responsible Fashion Company, Rinaldi and Testa argue that the fashion industry is at a crossroads: the need for a global shift to a sustainable model has never been more urgent.
This book focuses on the often intertwined industries of coffee and tea, using accounts of single producer communities to highlight the transformation from plantation-style colonial agriculture towards systems that now claim to produce social and environmental benefits from the farm to the cup.
Sustainable Business: Key Issues is the first comprehensive introductory-level textbook to address the interface between environmental challenges and business solutions to provide an overview of the basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable business, and business ethics.
In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world's water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it.
As the appetite for leisure travel and events continues to grow at an exponential rate, the impact on the environment and local communities is becoming an increasing concern, not least by the users of the services.
With current environmental, social and financial challenges facing society and the economy, there has been a rapid growth in interest in the role of social and sustainable enterprise.
This book examines the presence of stochastic and deterministic convergence in ten series of greenhouse gases, aerosol precursors, and aerosols across 29 industrialized and emerging countries from 1820 to 2018.
The case studies in this second volume focus on entrepreneurs targeting sustainability issues, and how their personal values shape strategies and initiatives.
Sustainable Marketing and the Circular Economy in Poland outlines the specific challenges around formulating an organisation's marketing strategy in line with the circular economy (CE) framework.
Numerous success stories demonstrate the value of artificial intelligence, showing how companies that incorporate machine learning and cognitive interaction into traditional business processes and applications can significantly enhance user experience and increase productivity.
