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Spectacular Nature

Author : Susan G. Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052091953X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Spectacular Nature written by Susan G. Davis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold. With its trademark star, Shamu the killer whale—as well as performing dolphins, pettable sting rays, and reproductions of pristine natural worlds—the park represents a careful coordination of shows, dioramas, rides, and concessions built around the theme of ocean life. Susan Davis analyzes the Sea World experience and the forces that produce it: the theme park industry; Southern California tourism; the privatization of urban space; and the increasing integration of advertising, entertainment, and education. The result is an engaging exploration of the role played by images of nature and animals in contemporary commercial culture, and a precise account of how Sea World and its parent corporation, Anheuser-Busch, succeed. Davis argues that Sea World builds its vision of nature around customers' worries and concerns about the environment, family relations, and education. While Davis shows the many ways that Sea World monitors its audience and manipulates animals and landscapes to manufacture pleasure, she also explains the contradictions facing the enterprise in its campaign for a positive public identity. Shifting popular attitudes, animal rights activists, and environmental laws all pose practical and public relations challenges to the theme park. Davis confronts the park's vast operations with impressive insight and originality, revealing Sea World as both an industrial product and a phenomenon typical of contemporary American culture. Spectacular Nature opens an intriguing field of inquiry: the role of commercial entertainment in shaping public understandings of the environment and environmental problems.

Corporate Nature

Author : Sarah Milne
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816547017
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Corporate Nature written by Sarah Milne and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012, Cambodia’s most prominent environmental activist was brutally murdered in a high-profile conservation area in the Cardamom Mountains. Tragic and terrible, this event magnifies a crisis in humanity’s efforts to save nature: failure of the very tools and systems at hand for advancing global environmental action. Sarah Milne spent more than a decade working for and observing global conservation projects in Cambodia. During this time, she saw how big environmental NGOs can operate rather like corporations. Their core practice involves rolling out appealing and deceptively simple policy ideas, like Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). Yet, as policy ideas prove hard to implement, NGOs must also carefully curate evidence from the field to give the impression of success and effectiveness. In Corporate Nature, Milne delves inside the black box of mainstream global conservation. She reveals how big international NGOs struggle in the face of complexity—especially in settings where corruption and political violence prevail. She uses the case of Conservation International’s work in Cambodia to illustrate how apparently powerful NGOs can stumble in practice: policy ideas are transformed on the ground, while perverse side effects arise, like augmented authoritarian power, illegal logging, and Indigenous dispossession. The real power of global conservation NGOs is therefore not in their capacity to control what happens in the field but in their capacity to ignore or conceal failings. Milne argues that this produces an undesirable form of socionature, called corporate nature, that values organizational success over diverse knowledges and ethical conduct.

Corporate Environmental Management, Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Author : Khaldoon Albitar
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832535607
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Book Synopsis Corporate Environmental Management, Climate Change and Sustainable Development by : Khaldoon Albitar

Download or read book Corporate Environmental Management, Climate Change and Sustainable Development written by Khaldoon Albitar and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations action plan for sustainable development, named “Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” represents an international governance arrangement in response to the recent environmental challenges and social inequalities. Importantly, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework sets a purpose to protect human rights, end poverty, reduce inequality, protect the planet and its natural resources, and enhance sustainable economic growth. Recently, due to the deterioration in global environmental conditions, increasing stakeholder demands, and stricter regulations and law all over the world, firms have realized the importance of integrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their strategic orientations in order to enhance their environmental, social performances and keep sustainable development.

Corporate Environmental Reporting

Author : Leanne J Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042980945X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Corporate Environmental Reporting written by Leanne J Morrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores corporate environmental discourse by examining a sample of corporate environmental reports through the lens of environmental philosophy. Findings include the predominant use of a dualistic approach towards nature, which highlights the perceived ‘separateness’ of companies from the natural world. Also explored are the corporate articulations of interconnectivity and transcendence, two philosophical approaches that are also in common use in western culture. The expression of these themes reveals the discursive underpinnings of a harmful relationship with nature. Exploring the ways in which discourse informs corporate relationships with nature allows for an in-depth ‘diagnosis’ of current environmental problems. The history of environmental philosophy demonstrates how some powerful philosophical approaches have shaped the western relationship with nature over time, and continue to do so through corporate environmental reporting. Corporate Environmental Reporting: The Western Approach to Nature demonstrates how corporate reporting is used to reduce the perception of the corporate responsibility, and contributes to the erosion of broader cultural restraints against the harmful treatment of nature. As such, discourse is integral to the survival of the world which we – and other members of our biotic community – are utterly reliant on. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest both to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of accounting, management, environmental philosophy and sustainable management.

The Corporate Person

Author : Harold Everson
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780806637198
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book The Corporate Person written by Harold Everson and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellent educational tool for Lutheran social ministry organization boards and other non-profit boards.

Edmund Burke and the Natural Law

Author : Peter Stanlis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135131226X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Edmund Burke and the Natural Law written by Peter Stanlis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral, legal, and political thought presents a challenge not faced for almost two hundred years. On the surface, there would appear to be little room in the contemporary world for a widespread belief in natural law. The basic philosophies of the opposition--the rationalism of the philosophes, the utilitarianism of Bentham, the materialism of Marx--appear to have made prior philosophies irrelevant. Yet these newer philosophies themselves have been overtaken by disillusionment born of conflicts between "might" and "right." Many thoughtful people who were loyal to secular belief have become dissatisfied with the lack of normative principles and have turned once more to natural law. This first book-length study of Edmund Burke and his philosophy, originally published in 1958, explores this intellectual giant's relationship to, and belief in, the natural law. It has long been thought that Edmund Burke was an enemy of the natural law, and was a proponent of conservative utilitarianism. Peter J. Stanlis shows that, on the contrary, Burke was one of the most eloquent and profound defenders of natural law morality and politics in Western civilization. A philosopher in the classical tradition of Aristotle and Cicero, and in the Scholastic tradition of Aquinas, Burke appealed to natural law in the political problems he encountered in American, Irish, Indian, and British affairs, and in reaction to the French Revolution. This book is as relevant today as it was when it was first published, and will be mandatory reading for students of philosophy, political science, law, and history.

Nature's Revenge

Author : Josée Johnston
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nature's Revenge written by Josée Johnston and published by Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An indispensable and timely collection which confronts the core questions at the multi-scale intersections of political ecology and political economy today." - Roger Keil, York University

Abstracts of Reports of Corporations

Author : New York (State). Public Service Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Abstracts of Reports of Corporations written by New York (State). Public Service Commission and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship

Author : Andreas Georg Scherer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848442920
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship written by Andreas Georg Scherer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to know what s buzzing with corporate citizenship? Look no further. This book shows why global corporate citizenship has been called the topic of the decade and why it matters to each of us, no matter where we live. It explains in plain English the major issues and ideas percolating in current research on the topic. Trust what you discover in the book. The list of contributors to Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship reads like a Who s Who of corporate citizenship research. Thomas Donaldson, University of Pennsylvania, US This is a unique and eclectic set of essays on a vitally important (but often neglected) topic. The editors are to be congratulated in assembling a distinguished group of scholars, who carefully and expertly guide the reader through the various facets of global corporate citizenship. This is a must read for anyone interested in the social ramifications of the globalization of business activity. John H. Dunning OBE, University of Reading, UK and Rutgers University, US Start with a fact large corporations wield enormous power in the contemporary, globalized economy. Then note the hopes and fears that this fact inspired the potential to harness the profit motive to social needs, but the fear that the profit motive can just as easily wreak havoc. And finally, bring together some leading scholars from around the world to discuss the matter and the result is a hugely impressive collection of essays on one of the burning issues of our time. This volume is definitive the necessary starting point for future debate. Paul S. Adler, University of Southern California, US This volume provides an extensive and comprehensive overview of current research and theory about why and how corporations should play a more active role in fulfilling their global citizenship obligations and responsibilities. Its contributors include many of the most important and influential scholars in the field of corporate social responsibility from both Europe and the US. An important strength of this volume is the diversity and breadth of the dimensions of corporate citizenship that it explores in depth. This volume provides an important resource to scholars, managers, and activists interested in promoting corporate citizenship. David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley, US The Handbook of Research on Global Corporate Citizenship identifies and fosters key interdisciplinary research on corporate citizenship and provides a framework for further academic debate on corporate responsibility in a global society. This exciting and important Handbook provides a unique forum to discuss the consequences of the social and political mandate of business firms and examines the implications of these consequences for the theory of the firm. Leading academics have been invited from various disciplines such as management studies, economics, sociology, legal studies and political science to evaluate the concept of corporate citizenship and to analyze the role of private business in global governance and the production of global public goods. The Handbook is structured in seven sections: theoretical perspectives on corporate citizenship contemporary issues and challenges of global business regulation actors and institutions of global business regulation disciplinary perspectives on corporate citizenship implications for management theory building critical perspectives on corporate citizenship conclusions. This Handbook will be a significant read for academics, postgraduate students and managers interested in the field of corporate citizenship, regulation and corporate responsibility across the social sciences.

The Nature of Corporate Governance

Author : Janet Dine
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781006121
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Corporate Governance written by Janet Dine and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a thoughtful inquiry into the nature and rationale of corporate governance. The authors address fundamental questions including; What is the balance between ownership and control?; For whose interests should the company be run?; What is the institutional balance between shareholders, directors and other potential stakeholders, including the economy? Professor Dine and Dr Koutsias consider how these issues are dealt with by the jurisprudence of three major and greatly influential jurisdictions; the USA, the UK, and Germany, and also reflect on why and how the current corporate governance context in some states is defined by social, political and historical developments. The authors argue that corporate governance is crucial for the identity of each country. What is revealed in the work is that when national corporate governance is thriving it allows space for democracy to flourish. Corporate governance scholars, policy makers, LLM and LLB students of company law and corporate governance, NGOs involving issues of inequality, poverty and democracy will find this important book an insightful resource.

Annual Report

Author : New York (State). Public Service Commission. 2d District
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by New York (State). Public Service Commission. 2d District and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comparative Corporate Governance : A Chinese Perspective

Author : Yuwa Wei
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 904119908X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Corporate Governance : A Chinese Perspective written by Yuwa Wei and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analysis is notable for its insistence that, for a corporate governance system to work, the principles and practicalities of that system must be derived from customary cultural norms. Experience shows that imported models, although they may be enshrined in law, lead to economic stagnation unless actual practice is monitored and reformed and the laws change to reflect these necessary adjustments. Thus the model proposed here begins with the Company Law of 1994, and proceeds to show how practical experience is already providing valuable data for the task of improving the law.

Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legislative Documents of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York

Author : New York (State). Legislature
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Legislative Documents of the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the Public Service Commission, Second District

Author : New York (State). Public Service Commission. Second District
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Public Service Commission, Second District written by New York (State). Public Service Commission. Second District and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report, with accompanying documents.

The Corporate Commonwealth

Author : Henry S. Turner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022636335X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Corporate Commonwealth written by Henry S. Turner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the standing and status of corporations is much in the news, this study of the early modern history of the concept of the corporation is particularly timely. Henry S. Turner provides a new account of early modern political institutions and political concepts by turning to the history of the corporation as a type of notional person and as a way of organizing collective life. Universities, guilds, towns and cities, religious confraternities, joint-stock companies: all were legal corporations, and all enjoyed rights and freedoms that sometimes exceeded the authority of the State. Drawing on the resources of economic and colonial history, literary criticism, law, political philosophy, and the history of science, Turner reads works by Thomas More, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Thomas Hobbes, among many others, to find the resources for a new account of corporations as fictional bodies and persons endowed with identities, rights, and the capacity for action. Turner tackles a number of fascinating questions: How did early modern writers make sense of the paradoxical essence of the corporationa collectivity at once imaginary and material, coherent but unbounded, many and at the same time one? And what can the history of the corporation tell us about the history of our own moment, when public goods are increasingly privatized and citizens seek new models of association and meaningful political action? His answers will be of compelling interest to historians, political theorists, literary scholars, and others."

Human Rights and Corporations

Author : David Kinley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351929623
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Corporations written by David Kinley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The erstwhile unlikely coupling of human rights and corporations is now a typical feature of corporate/community relations. High-profile corporate infringements of human rights, the rise and rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and on-going efforts to regulate corporate behaviour through legal regimes, at both domestic and international levels, have spawned a mountain of academic literature and commentary. This volume assembles the leading essays from this body of work. Together they frame the relationship between human rights and corporations by charting its history and salient features; tackle the conceptual perspectives of the relationship and detail the practice, problems and potential of the relationship.