Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

The goal of this book is to define Sustainable Value Creation in terms of a set of principles that differentiate it from existing definitions of CSR, and from related concepts such as sustainability and business ethics.

Our bee populations are under threat.

Eco-industrial development is born from the realisation that the places where we work waste too much and unnecessarily pollute the land, air and water.

Agriculture is the oldest and most traditional of economic sectors, and its business has seen major leaps in innovation over the past century.

Agriculture is the oldest and most traditional of economic sectors, and its business has seen major evolutionary leaps over the past century.

To deliver on your sustainability ambitions, you need an effective management system.

This book explores the history of social impact measurement, offering justifications for the use of social impact measurement in modern society.

This unique title draws together in one volume some of the best thinking to date on the pressing social and environmental challenges we face as a society.

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the increasingly complex, interdependent nature of societal and environmental issues for governments and business.

Viele etablierte Unternehmen, die sich mit dem Thema Digitale Transformation beschäftigen, stehen bei der Entwicklung Digitaler Innovationen vor immensen Herausforderungen, da sie unter anderem wenig mit den sich verändernden Dynamiken in einer digitalen Welt vertraut sind.

This book focuses mainly on strategic decision making at a global level, which is rarely considered in approaches to sustainability.

Economic development is rooted in disruption, not in equilibrium.

India's sustained and rapid economic growth offers an opportunity to lift millions out of poverty.

This book shows how digital technologies are transforming how we locate, manage, treat, distribute, and use water.

Innovation Ecosystems and Sustainable Technologies: Enhancing Competitiveness and Sustainability draws connections between innovation ecosystems and sustainable development to seek ways of improving economic, environmental and social wellbeing based on improvements to the innovation ecosystems.

Routledge Handbook of Social and Sustainable Finance brings together an international cast of leading authorities to map out and display the disparate voices, traditions and professional communities engaged in social finance activity.

This book highlights the latest research on responsible business and its practical implications for the economy, society, academia, and politics.

This book explores themes in the rhetoric of vegetarian discourse.

This book is an essential resource for facilitators seeking to help students develop their knowledge of management practice in Italy.

This is the first book in the field of corporate social responsibility to examine the progress of a standard over a ten-year period.

As environmental legislation grows more stringent in response to the escalating climate crisis, some of the world's largest corporations have adopted fraudulent mechanisms to keep their margins of profit, and achieve improper competitive advantage.

Biomimicry, the practice of observing then mimicking nature's strategies to solve business challenges, offers a path to healthy profit while working in partnership, and even reciprocity, with the natural world.

Business Ethics: The Sustainable and Responsible Way provides a fresh, contemporary, and hands-on approach to business ethics, emphasizing practical skills.

This is the first book to consider the intersections of sport, international development and environmental sustainability.

The modern era is marked by intricate disruptions originating from diverse sources, carrying long-term implications.

Across the globe, concerns escalate about the effects of greenhouse gas emissions on global climate conditions, implications on global trade from pandemics, and the destruction of ecosystems from the exploitation of limited and non-replaceable global resources.

Part of a two-volume work, this book explores how businesses shape, and are shaped by, sustainability forces and phenomena.

Sustainable Transport Fuels Business Briefing explains, for a global business audience, the latest developments in the world of sustainable transport.

Under the pressure of climate and social changes, agriculture is called to play a fundamental role in the world food challenge of the next few decades.

Science and innovation have the power to transform our lives and the world we live in - for better or worse in ways that often transcend borders and generations: from the innovation of complex financial products that played such an important role in the recent financial crisis to current proposals to intentionally engineer our Earth s climate.

The Global North and Global South are in different stages of the journeys towards a sustainable future.

Protect the earth and your bottom line.

The war is over.

To reach environmental excellence, organizations must unlock and channel the ideas and energies of their staff.

This edited book aims to ignite both an academic and practitioner-oriented discussion regarding the question how the business and government sector can adapt to today's fast-changing climate.

European policy patterns are in a state of transformation.

Sustainable development will not happen without substantial contributions from and leading roles of companies and business organizations.

In a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with significant relevance for tourism.

Gender Equality and Responsible Business places gender equality at the heart of the responsible business agenda with the aim of contributing to CSR practice as well as research.

***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST 2021*** This timely book is a sequel to John Grant s Green Marketing Manifesto (2007) the award-winning and bestselling definitive guide to green marketing (and not greenwashing).

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This book presents high-quality cases on the actions carried out by companies to minimize the social and environmental impact of the products (goods and services) they launch on the market.

In this timely exploration of sustainable actions, Christian Berg unpacks the complexity in understanding the barriers we face in moving towards a sustainable future, providing solution perspectives for every level, from individuals to governments and supra-national organizations offering a lucid vision of a long-term and achievable goal for sustainability.

Market reform promises more environmental protection and more profitable agriculture at lower financial cost.