Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

Successful businesses are built on trust.

What is the primary purpose of business?

Digitalizing Sustainability outlines why 'business as usual' isn't working and sets out five Transformational Forces which can be used to innovate and scale sustainability solutions using digital means.

This book focuses on CSR in the public sector, in all its manifestations around the world, in order to consider its application in practice and its connections to sustainable objectives.

What is the role of the university?

The definitive guide for people wanting to make a positive difference in the world.

Logistics refers to the processes that start with resources and their acquisition, storage, and transportation to their destination.

Contested Waste' examines socio-environmental conflicts involving waste pickers in the Global South, uncovering the systemic injustices that underpin contemporary waste policies.

Product Stewardship in Action describes how and why leading companies are taking responsibility for the environmental impact of their products and packaging.

It is increasingly clear that fifty years of international development have done little to reduce poverty in Africa.

Sustainability is a concept that unifies the environment, economy, and society, and has spread as a key concept in enterprise management.

After three decades of rapid economic growth, China became the world's second largest economy in 2010 after the United States of America.

This book gives students a thorough overview of the environmental issues that impact the supply chain and details strategic methods of addressing the political, social, technological, market, and economic concerns that have caused organizations to reconsider their impact.

At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "e;green"e; capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival.

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

The main theme of this book is that, within contemporary capitalist societies a materialist outlook informed by science has triumphed creating the lack of a spiritual dimension to give meaning and purpose to the activities that are necessary for a capitalist society to function effectively.

The transformative role of culture, its ability to create value for the benefit of current and future generations, is widely recognized by academics of many disciplines, professionals and policymakers.

Are your sustainability efforts making as much impact as they could be?

We live in challenging times.

This book is ground breaking in its study of business actors in climate and energy politics.

This book offers a glimpse into the future.

Businesses that thrive in the 21st century will be those that are smart about "e;engagement"e;.

This book discusses the unique relationship between societies and businesses in the Mediterranean region, with contributions from public figures and academics from Middle Eastern and Arab societies, as well as from North America and Europe.

Fashion, a realm often associated with trends and whims, is undergoing a transformation-one that goes beyond aesthetics to embrace sustainability as a guiding principle.

Water scarcity is an increasing problem in many parts of the world, yet conventional supply-side economics and management are insufficient to deal with it.

DreamMakers: Innovating for the Greater Good profiles stories of businesses, cross-sector initiatives and movements and whole communities that are collaborating to create a flourishing world.

All organisations have a responsibility to ensure they have a minimum negative impact on the environment and act as a haven for human development that contributes to positive outcomes for society.

This monograph offers a comprehensive examination of responsible tourism, meticulously deconstructing the core tenets of socio-cultural, environmental, and economic accountability within the framework of sustainable tourism.

The era of hybrid governance is here.

The concept of the green economy has now entered mainstream policy debates and been endorsed by a range of United Nations and other organizations.

In response to the escalating demand for environmentally friendly products across diverse sectors, the discourse on Green Concepts has evolved into a number of key strategic imperatives for both researchers and corporates.

In 1989, the International Labor Organization stated that all indigenous peoples living in the postcolonial world were entitled to the right to prior consultation, over activities that could potentially impact their territories and traditional livelihoods.

First published in 1986, Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action was written as an examination of the conflicts and tensions resulting from private sector housing growth in Central Berkshire, part of Britain's 'Silicon Valley' along the M4 motorway.

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR), examining economic sciences and managements to show the complexity of the contemporary perception and development of CSR in Poland.

Since China has now become the world's largest energy consumer, its energy sector has understandably huge implications for the global economy.

This book explores sustainability marketing through the lens of stakeholder relationship-related concepts, with a particular focus on stakeholders within global value chains, relationships with the public, and those affiliated with governmental entities.

Around the turn of the millennium it had become painfully evident that development aid, charity or "e;global business-as-usual"e; were not going to be the mechanisms to alleviate global poverty.

This book addresses the roles played by food co-operatives in the attempt to build alternative food networks, drawing on an in-depth analysis of case studies in Turkey.

Structural environmental reform by firms and industries, governmental and intergovernmental agencies, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), and others is a worldwide phenomenon and the focus of this definitive collection.

Companies know how to meet the demands of shareholder value: years of managerial excellence testify to this achievement.

Successful businesses are built on trust.

This book analyzes how and under what conditions collaborating corporations can effectively manage relationships with their suppliers in order to decrease the risk of suppliers' noncompliance with codes of conduct and standards.

There are 7,000 rare diseases affecting 6%-8% of the global population.

Materiality is the lynch-pin that can align your sustainability initiatives with your organizational strategy - and form the basis of communications and reports that generate trust and transparency.

This book includes over three hundred and seventy-five short papers presented during the second EMCEI, which was held in Sousse, Tunisia in October 2019.

The Corporate Responsibility Code Book has become the go-to guide for companies trying to understand the landscape of corporate responsibility and searching for their own, unique route towards satisfying diverse stakeholders.

In contrast to the linear "e;take-make-dispose"e; model of resource consumption, a new industrial model is proposed in the form of a circular economy.

There is no bigger challenge for organizational change management in the contemporary world than achieving greater sustainability.