Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Life on Land focuses on Sustainable Development Goal number fifteen (SDG#15): to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.

This book examines sustainable manufacturing, from the extraction of materials to processing, use, and disposal, and argues that significant changes in all of the above are needed for the world to progress toward a more circular economy.

This book addresses the status quo of Corporate Social Responsibility practices and their development since 2008.

Organizations in every industry are facing pressure to become more sustainable, reduce their carbon footprint and ensure resources are reused, reduced and recycled; whether that push for change is from consumers or direct from government in terms of policy, and the sports industry is no exception.

The term "e;Circular Economy"e; is becoming familiar to an increasing number of businesses.

This book presents discussions with corporate practitioners on several topics around sustainability.

Sustainable Management: A Complete Guide for Faculty and Students is both a textbook for students, as well as a teaching guide for educators.

The world's environmental future will be determined in significant part by what happens in the rapidly industrialising and urban economies of Asia.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of inclusive, sustainable development, emphasizing the critical need to integrate the perspectives and needs of people with disabilities and marginalized communities into the global sustainability transition to a sustainable future.

While the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities of small firms have been analysed to some extent, their engagement in international networks relating to CSR is less understood.

In less than a decade, activism against the fossil fuel industry has exploded across the globe.

This book explores the conquest, predation and management of human bodies and emotions by the growing capitalist digital community.

Farmers' cooperatives are very prevalent in the European Union, where they account for approximately half of agricultural trade and thus are key to articulating rural realities and in shaping the sustainability credentials of European food and farming.

An in-depth, enlightening look at the integrated reporting movement The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the forces that provide momentum to the associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved.

Managing the climate transition will be one of the biggest challenges ever faced by business and government.

This study examines the management strategies of representative companies in each country to gain insight into the value of ESG management strategies for corporate innovation and how design thinking and artistic interventions can foster creativity both internally and externally to drive corporate innovation.

This book presents a comprehensive examination of the complex journey toward achieving environmental resilience in the twenty-first century.

Nordic welfare states are often looked to by those who favor more collective and collaborative models of governance.

While public relations offers numerous assets for organization-stakeholder relationship building and for ethical corporate social responsibility and sustainability communication, it also faces challenges linked to negative perceptions of the profession which can lead to accusations of "e;greenwashing.

With deep thought and inspiring examples, this updated book engages readers by increasing their understanding and awareness of what sustainability means conceptually, practically, personally, and professionally.

Following the international success of The Fish Rots from the Head: Developing Effective Directors, this sequel from Bob Garratt explains the public's distrust of the people who govern us - the directors, owners, regulators and politicians - and how this can be changed.

Extractive Relations explores the nature of industrial power and its role in shaping what we understand to be the global mining sector.

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.

This book covers various topics related to economics and the social sciences, such as artificial intelligence, sustainability, ESG, and tax administration.

This book analyses the roots and evolution of the concept of sustainability in Europe and the European Union.

Giving Voice to Values, under the leadership of Mary Gentile, has fundamentally changed the way business ethics and values-driven leadership is taught and discussed in academic and corporate settings worldwide.

This book examines, discusses and shares over 30 years' worth of research from the Allerton Project, a research and demonstration farm in the UK which has been carrying out applied interdisciplinary research to explore and explain the need to adapt the management of farmland for environmental protection and to provide public benefits.

This book addresses the intersection of entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability (EIS), presenting high-quality research illuminating the relationship between the three fields.

This book posits that a sustainable future is possible without abandoning Capitalism.

Examines the underlying symbolic dimensions of corporate environmentalism, helping readers to separate useful environmental information from empty corporate spin.

Sustainable entrepreneurship has attracted growing attention in both scholarly and practitioner circles.

Integrated Reporting is the big new development in corporate reporting that everyone is talking about.

This book offers a pragmatic approach to the benefits of spirituality and sustainability for both individual and organizational success.

The highly acclaimed manual for changing everyday habits-now in an all-newthird edition!

Business schools have a special contribution to make in developing globally responsible, critical and independent-thinking future leaders and managers.

This book contains a collection of teaching cases that study and emphasise how twenty-first-century businesses address and satisfy the needs and wants of socially conscious consumers while remaining profitable.

By and large, corporations of the 21st century have come to realise that their obligations to societies in terms of corporate social responsibility are fourfold: economic, ethical, altruistic and strategic.

This book aims to cover the multitude of corporate approaches towards mainstreaming biodiversity conservation and ecological management in policies and action plans, and explores the roles of these efforts in achieving national and global targets for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This book explains, for a UK business audience, the technical, scientific and economic aspects of solar photovoltaics (PV) technologies.

In a world where the implications and consequences of corporate actions and decisions are potentially far-reaching and lasting, ethical standards - their observance and their breach - must be part of the language of business conduct, whether in the context of corporate transgressions, regulatory effectiveness, terms of engagement between business and their stakeholders, or the metrics used by investors in assessing performance and risk and understanding long-term value.

This book sheds new light on the role businesses can play in contributing to sustainability objectives, and how governance actors can better encourage their contributions.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the linkages between business and society by addressing key issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, ethics and governance.

Sustainable entrepreneurship has attracted growing attention in both scholarly and practitioner circles.

Environmental and social performance measurement and reporting by business has become a high-profile issue during the 1990s.

Arguably, the Human Resources (HR) function is the key partner in embedding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability initiatives in any organisation, as this can be achieved only when a company educates, engages and empowers its entire workforce.

A number of disparate but interconnected forces such as deregulation and globalization, rapid advances in communications technology and the rise in the power of the consumer and civil society have now combined to bring corporate responsibility to prominence in many corporate boardrooms.

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.