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Book Synopsis Hijacking Environmentalism by : Richard Welford
Download or read book Hijacking Environmentalism written by Richard Welford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights the need for participation and social innovation on their part. It asserts that senior executives and middle management in large corporations have often sought, deliberately or unconsciously, to block the advancement of environmentalism. Industry has reconstructed the more radical environmental agenda to suit its own purposes, in effect hijacking it, by taking it out of its traditional discourse and placing it in a liberal-productivist framework. The book concludes by examining the way forward for more sustainable business, presenting new models that place greater emphasis on issues such as equity and ethics.
Book Synopsis Hijacking Sustainability by : Adrian Parr
Download or read book Hijacking Sustainability written by Adrian Parr and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the sustainability movement has been co-opted: from ecobranding by Wal-Mart to the “greening” of the American military. The idea of “sustainability” has gone mainstream. Thanks to Prius-driving movie stars, it's even hip. What began as a grassroots movement to promote responsible development has become a bullet point in corporate ecobranding strategies. In Hijacking Sustainability, Adrian Parr describes how this has happened: how the goals of an environmental movement came to be mediated by corporate interests, government, and the military. Parr argues that the more popular sustainable development becomes, the more commodified it becomes; the more mainstream culture embraces the sustainability movement's concern over global warming and poverty, the more “sustainability culture” advances the profit-maximizing values of corporate capitalism. And the more issues of sustainability are aligned with those of national security, the more military values are conflated with the goals of sustainable development. Parr looks closely at five examples of the hijacking of sustainability: corporate image-greening; Hollywood activism; gated communities; the greening of the White House; and the incongruous efforts to achieve a “sustainable” army. Parr then examines key challenges to sustainability—waste disposal, disaster relief and environmental refugees, slum development, and poverty. Sustainability, Parr says, offers an alternative narrative of the collective good—an idea now compromised and endangered by corporate, military, and government interests.
Book Synopsis Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability by : Dexter Colboyd Dunphy
Download or read book Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability written by Dexter Colboyd Dunphy and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using specific examples of incremental and transformational changes, and outlining the long-term corporate benefits of sustainability, the book examines the changes required to achieve true sustainability.
Book Synopsis Corporate Environmental Management 1 by : Richard Welford
Download or read book Corporate Environmental Management 1 written by Richard Welford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of business in safeguarding the environment. It introduces general issues and context, and then gives a detailed, critical examination of all the key tools of corporate environmental management systems and standards: environmental policies, guidelines and charters, environmental auditing, life-cycle assessment, the measurement of environmental performance, and environmental reporting. The book emphasizes systems-based environmental management, and also considers how such an approach might be integrated within local authorities and small and medium-sized companies. It then extends the systems approach to cover continuous environmental improvement, building a corporate environmental profile and moving towards sustainability. Written in a clear and informative style with checklists, explanatory notes and references for further reading, the book draws on the existing environmental strategies of a number of leading firms. Each chapter is written by contributors involved in ongoing research and consultancy in their specialist area. The book's focus makes it useful reading, not only for students and researchers, but also for managers faced with the challenge of introducing environmental management strategies into their own organizations.
Book Synopsis Postpositivist International Relations Theory by : Amartya Mukhopadhyay
Download or read book Postpositivist International Relations Theory written by Amartya Mukhopadhyay and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses postpositivist theories foregrounding postpositivism against the reigning realist and positivist-pluralist orthodoxies. The book explicates seven theories, not as disparate endeavours, but as developments linked by a common thread that seeks to enunciate globalist emancipatory goals for the theoretical field and the world that these theories seek to change. It focuses on the following themes: feminism, environmentalism or green theory, the English school, critical theory, constructivism, postmodernism and postcolonialism. Additionally, a separate chapter on globalization shows that while mainstream (neo)realist international relations theories respond hostilely to globalization and liberal-pluralist theories react benignly to it, postpositivist theories positively welcome it. The book offers a competent meta-theoretical gridwork, showing on which side of the opposing disciplinary positions in the fourth debate each of the seven theories are located. It is a comprehensive guide to the postpositivist restructuring of the discipline of international relations. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of political science, international relations, history, humanities and literature.
Download or read book Stolen Harvest written by Vandana Shiva and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2001-04-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vandana Shiva charts the impact of globalised, corporate agriculture on small farmers, the environment, and the quality of the food we eat. She includes chapters on genetically engineered seeds, and the debate on shrimp farming.
Book Synopsis Environment and Business by : Alasdair Blair
Download or read book Environment and Business written by Alasdair Blair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines how businesses and the environment interact. It is ideal for students with no previous knowledge of business studies. It examines in depth the ways in which business, industry, the physical environment, environmentalism and social change have evolved alongside each other. The authors use boxed case-studies to highlight how business practice and the environment interact at levels from local to global, with examples from multinational companies, government bodies, national charities and local enterprise. The book also contains a large number of informative diagrams. The case studies include: * Shell Oil's environmental policy * railways and the industrial revolution * the British National Trust's business enterprises * Sainsbury's approach to organic foods * Australia's landcare scheme * changing trends in retailing * Brent Spar * big game hunting and conservation.
Book Synopsis Environmental Management by : Christopher J. Barrow
Download or read book Environmental Management written by Christopher J. Barrow and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Managementcovers all principles, practice and policy issues concerned with environmental management, providing a comprehensive resource and reference point for students and practitioners in the field.
Book Synopsis Accounting for the Environment by : Rob Gray
Download or read book Accounting for the Environment written by Rob Gray and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-07-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `This book is a good comprehensive text and comes highly recommended to anyone currently involved in, looking to get involved in, or just interested in environmental management, environmental accounting and reporting′ - Pacific Accounting Review This is the long-awaited 2nd edition of the benchmark publication that helped shape the developing agenda of environmental accounting. This excellent new edition provides an overview of the subject ranging from environmental management to sustainability, and integrates the major advancements that have occurred since the first edition - in both research and practice. It introduces and explains environmental issues as they relate to accountants today. This new work also places an increased emphasis on the emerging research literature in the field and reveals a consciousness of the difficulties of developing an environmental agenda in business. It makes an excellent stand-alone text for lower level students, a firm base from which the advanced student or researcher can explore research and more complex issues, and a useful guide for practitioners seeking to understand and implement environmental practice.
Book Synopsis Environmental Management for Sustainable Development by : Christopher J. Barrow
Download or read book Environmental Management for Sustainable Development written by Christopher J. Barrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the full breadth of principles, practice and policy issues concerned with environmental management, providing a comprehensive resource and reference point for students and practitioners in this field.
Book Synopsis Environmental Management for Sustainable Development by : Chris Barrow
Download or read book Environmental Management for Sustainable Development written by Chris Barrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental management is a wide, expanding, and rapidly evolving field, affecting everyone from individual citizens to businesses; governments to international agencies. Indisputably, it plays a crucial role in the quest for sustainable development. This comprehensively updated second edition explores the nature and role of environmental management, covering key principles, practices, tools, strategies and policies, offers a thorough yet understandable introduction, and points to further in-depth coverage. Among the key themes covered are: sustainable development proactive approaches the precautionary principle the ‘polluter pays’ principle the need for humans to be less vulnerable and more adaptable. Reflecting the expansion and evolution of the field, this revised edition focuses strongly on sustainable development. There has been extensive restructuring to ensure the book is accessible to those unfamiliar with environmental management and it now includes greater coverage of topics including key resources under stress, environmental management tools, climate change and urban environmental management. With rapid expansion and development of the subject it is easy for those embarking on a course of study to become disorientated, but with its well-structured coverage, effective illustrations, and foundation for further, more-focused interest, this book is easily accessible to all.
Author :Jennifer Clapp And Peter Dauvergne Publisher :Academic Foundation ISBN 13 :9788171885558 Total Pages :360 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (855 download)
Book Synopsis Paths to a Green World The Political Economy of the Global Environment by : Jennifer Clapp And Peter Dauvergne
Download or read book Paths to a Green World The Political Economy of the Global Environment written by Jennifer Clapp And Peter Dauvergne and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Corporate Environmental Management 2 by : Richard Welford
Download or read book Corporate Environmental Management 2 written by Richard Welford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in a series looking at management techniques which could be implemented by a business in order to improve its environmental performance, this text identifies the best practices and examines the key tools within the framework of corporate environmental management. Richard Welford and contributors explore the various organizational and cultural concepts which firmly place the corporate environmental management agenda within the human dimension.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment by : Pratima Bansal
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment written by Pratima Bansal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook discusses the main issues, research, and theory on business and the natural environment, and how they impact on different business functions and disciplines
Book Synopsis Refugees, Environment and Development by : Richard Black
Download or read book Refugees, Environment and Development written by Richard Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugees, Environment and Development is concerned with the complex interrelationships between forced migration, natural resource management and 'sustainable development'. The book challenges the growing rhetoric that refugees 'cause' environmental degradation, and that environmental decline is promoting a new wave of 'environmental refugees'. Drawing on examples from Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as detailed case studies of the Rwandan emergency of 1994-96, and lesser known refugee movements to Guinea and Senegal in West Africa, the book argues against a neo-Malthusian view of the relationship between population, environment and migration. The author explores alternative approaches to the dynamic processes of social and environmental change in refugee situations. This is an ideal text for undergraduate and postgraduate students concerned with environment, development and migration studies, as well as policy-makers and practitioners in the field.
Book Synopsis Capacity Building for Sustainable Development by : Valentine Udoh James
Download or read book Capacity Building for Sustainable Development written by Valentine Udoh James and published by CABI. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents over 40 cases of bamboo development across 22 major bamboo-industry countries and explores the knowledge gained from their successes and failures. It synthesises experiences and exchanges with country experts from international training courses and consultations, study tours, and seminars. Each case includes observations and summaries of discussions related to the development of bamboo-based industries in a healthy, sustainable way, and the facilitation of strategic and balanced development of bamboo in different global regions. Industrial and artisanal bamboo growing and processing is expanding worldwide and this book brings together key experiences to help inform future developments. This book provides an analysis of bamboo plant features, including strong renewability, fast-growing, and high biomass production. It also reviews important ecological functions of bamboos, such as water and soil conservation, carbon sink and storage, and adaptation to climate change, as well as addressing the diversified culture of bamboo and key issues affecting the sector. Highly illustrated and in full colour throughout, this book is an essential resource for all those interested in bamboo, from private sector investors to governmental and development agencies, academic researchers and students.
Book Synopsis Stakeholders, the Environment and Society by : Sanjay Sharma
Download or read book Stakeholders, the Environment and Society written by Sanjay Sharma and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of stakeholders is integral to corporate sustainability as society increasingly demands that corporations play a role in achieving environmental objectives in addition to building shareholder wealth. In this, the first book to gather cutting-edge
