The Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development
Richard Welford and Richard Starkey
Series: Earthscan Reader Series
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This Reader contains a comprehensive collection of recent work by leading authors in the field of business and sustainable development. With 17 chapters organized thematically into sections covering 'business opportunities', 'environmental and social accounting', 'critical perspectives' and 'trade and sustainable development', The Earthscan Reader in Business and Sustainable Development is essential reading for all those with an interest in the role that business can play in moving society towards a sustainable future.
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'For anyone interested in what is now called 'the business case' for sustainable development, this Earthscan Reader arrives at just the right time. It probes, elaborates and rigorously challenges what this business case really amounts to, giving us powerful reasons both to question the depth of current business engagement, and to hope for real leadership from the business community in the pursuit of a sustainable future.'
Jonathon Porritt, Programme Director, Forum for the Future.
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Richard Starkey is senior researcher at the Centre for Corporate Environmental Management at the University of Huddersfield.
Richard Welford is professor or Corporate Environmental Management at the University of Huddersfield.
Introduction * Section 1: Overview - Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World * The 'Triple Bottom Line for 21st-Century Business' * Section 2: Business Opportunities - Bringing the Environment Down to Earth * The Imperfect Market * A Road Map for Natural Capitalism * The Firm, its Routines and the Environment * Section 3: Environmental and Social Accounting - What is Social Accounting? * The Green Bottom Line * Struggling with the Praxis of Social Accounting: Stakeholders, Accountability, Audits and Procedures * Balancing Performance, Ethics and Accountability * Section 4: Critical Perspectives – Multinational Corporations' Impacts on the Environment and Communities in the Developing World: a Synthesis of the Contemporary Debate * The Responsibility of Business to the Whole * Global Spin * Mixed Messages * Getting Engaged: Business-NGO Relations on Sustainable Development * Section 5: Trade and Sustainable Development - Business, and the Environment: Agenda for Stability in World Trade * Reaping the Benefits: Trade Opportunities of Developing-country Producers from Sustainable Consumption and Production * Conclusion: Win-Win Revisited: a Buddhist Perspective * Index