Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

Beyond the Bottom Line: Integrating the UN Global Compact into Management Practice is the first book to look at how the Ten UN Global Compact Principles and the sustainability agenda can be incorporated into business practice.

The book includes seventeen excellent researched and documented papers that reflect the diversity of thought, ideas and experiences related to IWRM.

How can responsible business work in the highly competitive areas of innovation?

The Autonomous Vehicle (AV) has been strongly heralded as the most exciting innovation in automobility for decades.

Supporters of environmental well-being and climate resilience are awakening and mobilizing - cities, states, business, academia, community-based organizations, and the military.

The wind power business has grown from a niche sector within the energy industry to a global industry that attracts substantial investment.

There is a huge scarcity of good, practical resources for designers and students interested in minimizing the environmental impacts of products.

With the rapidly growing importance of sustainability and corporate responsibility in a globalised world, management schools are increasingly integrating long-term economic, environmental and social issues into their teaching and research.

Sustainable development is a complex issue and despite many studies and publications in recent years, it remains poorly recognised on best practices in core business areas.

Multi-actor partnerships are promoted as central to the achievement of sustainable development.

As the economic crisis of 2008/09 unfolded, it became apparent that the huge mountains of debt being built up by central governments were unsustainable and that savage cuts would be needed to balance budgets.

ResponsAbility challenges conventional thinking about our governance and legal frameworks.

The social role of sport enterprises is being increasingly recognized at both local and global levels.

Accounting sustainably involves accounting for and to the natural environment, and accounting for and to society, including groups currently oppressed or disadvantaged by unsustainable processes and practices.

Corporate social responsibility is now an established agenda for large companies, with a new profession emerging that engages in the social and environmental contribution of business.

Sustainability Accounting and Reporting: Theory and Practice provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and applying the latest global framework for disclosing sustainability-related risks and opportunities by public-sector business entities, irrespective of whether the entity follows IFRS or GAAP.

The UN Global Compact complements other corporate citizenship initiatives by promoting dialogue on the relationship between business and society.

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

In her book, Dr Ulpiana Kocollari presents a unique contribution to the debate on Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability by clearly expressing how the configuration of a firm's social dimension can help identify inclusive corporate governance models, define innovative management processes and reshape performance measurement systems for the evaluation and assessment of sustainable economic, social and environmental results.

Managers of multinational organizations are struggling to win the strategic competition for the hearts and minds of external stakeholders.

This book argues that society must rethink the notion of formal employment and instead introduce and spread the notion of "e;meaningful work"e; so that societies can become independent of economic growth.

Moving beyond most conventional thinking about energy security in Europe which revolves around stability of supplies and the reliability of suppliers, this book presents the history of European policy-making regarding energy resources, including recent controversies about shale gas and fracking.

Sustainability reporting can help companies make more money.

Management and the Sustainability Paradox is about how humans became disconnected from their ecological environment throughout evolutionary history.

Better Corporate Reporting outlines the latest frameworks for enhancing non-financial and sustainability reporting.

Africa is endowed with commercially viable quantities of several minerals and metals, and, more than ever before, African countries wish to harness their mineral resources for their economic development.

This volume provides a platform for localized perspectives on CSR in developing countries across the globe.

This is the decade for climate action.

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.

Sustainable commercial fishing, species conservation, and bycatch are contentious topics.

Environment, health and safety (EHS) management has become increasingly important in the past 10 years, especially within high risk and high reliability organizations.

The business case for sustainability or corporate responsibility will never be strong enough to support an isolated business in its competition against the unscrupulous.

Environmental sustainability is increasingly important to organisations, whether for regulatory, financial or ethical reasons.

When this classic text was first published in 1992, it provided a unique focus for the burgeoning concern for sustainability and sustainable organizational practices.

Business as an Instrument for Societal Change: In Conversation with the Dalai Lama is the result of two decades of research and dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other leaders in business, government, science and education.

Green Innovation in Central and Eastern Europe aims to explore the crucial role of green innovation in guiding organisations towards sustainable development amidst contemporary environmental challenges.

Corporate sustainability, now regarded as a vitally important topic on the agenda for businesses, has in recent years not only become embedded in postgraduate study, but is now also widely taught at the undergraduate level in business schools.

Climate change skeptics and business pundits alike are convinced that any public policy instruments used to curtail environmental degradation are antithetical to the interests of the corporate community.

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy.

This book addresses hegemonic ruling class masculinity and emphasized femininity within renewables organisational governance, and critiques Anglo-Celtic male privilege, as a barrier to women's leadership participation.

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

The value chain is the tried and true foundation of any profitable business.

The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise is the first comprehensive global compendium that clearly describes the national approaches to sustainable enterprise.

Tapping into proven strategies, mechanisms and patterns that have been fine-tuned over 3.

In the first decades of the twenty-first century, the theory and practice of corporate citizenship and responsibility adapted significantly.

Identifying, measuring and improving social impact is a significant challenge for corporate and private foundations, charities, NGOs and corporations.

Taken from a report for the Electric Power Research Institute, Joy Dunkerley's study aims to clarify the relationship between energy consumption and economic output in industrialised countries.

Companies that have integrated a contribution to society into their business models are more likely than others to succeed for the long term.

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.