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  • Sustainability and Energy Politics

    Ecological Modernisation and Corporate Social Responsibility

    by Giorel Curran ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author explores the fraught politics of energy transitions in an age of climate change. She does so through an ecological modernisation and corporate social responsibility lens which she contends shapes and underpins sustainability today. Case studies cover climate policy, unconventional gas and renewable energy. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • The Greenwash Effect

    Corporate Deception, Celebrity Environmentalists, and What Big Business Isn?t Telling You about Their Green Products and Brands

    by Guy Pearse ...
    Going green is the new black for big business. But how real is the climate-friendly revolution that’s being advertised? Toyota would like us to think that Mother Nature drives a Prius, Ford wants us to Join the Green Revolution,” and McDonald’s has painted its golden arches green. Facebook has even friended” Greenpeace. All across the globe big corporations are spending big bucks trying to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Eco-Business

    A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability

    by Peter Dauvergne, Jane Lister ...
    Two experts explain the consequences for the planet when corporations use sustainability as a business tool.McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever seeks to achieve 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing by 2020. Walmart has pledged to become carbon neutral. Big ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Waste to Wealth

    The Circular Economy Advantage

    by Peter Lacy, Jakob Rutqvist ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Turnaround Challenge

    Business and the City of the Future

    by Michael Blowfield, Leo Johnson ...
    Do we have the rights to optimism? Can capitalism deliver a next great wave of growth? The future, wrote William Gibson, is already here. It just isn't evenly distributed yet. Lucid and polemical, Turnaround Challenge is a dig into that future and its meaning for business. It dissects the nexus of social, economic, environmental and governance crises confronting us, and a series of colliding ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Fraud and Carbon Markets

    The Carbon Connection

    by Marius-Christian Frunza ...
    Series series Environmental Market Insights
    The VAT Carousel Fraud has seriously undermined the financial integrity of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). This timely book is the first to give an overview of fraud in the carbon market. Written by a former broker, it presents unique material on the carbon fraud mechanics and analyses the missing trader fraud (VAT fraud) on European carbon allowances markets with a focus on ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Climate-Challenged Society

    by John S. Dryzek, Richard B. Norgaard, David Schlosberg ...
    This book is an original, accessible, and thought-provoking introduction to the severe and broad-ranging challenges that climate change presents and how societies can respond. It synthesizes and deploys cutting-edge scholarship on the range of social, economic, political, and philosophical issues surrounding climate change. The treatment is introductory, but the book is written "with attitude", ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A Good Disruption

    Redefining Growth in the Twenty-First Century

    by Martin Stuchtey, Per-Anders Enkvist, Klaus Zumwinkel ...
    A Good Disruption describes how disruptive technology can be used to combat the economic challenges of our age and sets out an inspirational vision of a more effective and sustainable growth model.Disruptive technology is one of the defining economic trends of our age, transforming one major industry after another. But what is the true impact of such disruption on the world's economies, and does ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Ecology, Sustainable Development and Accounting

    by Seleshi Sisaye ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    Accounting literature has viewed sustainability in terms of social, economic and environmental performances. There have been concerns that the relationship between sustainability, accounting and organizational performance cannot be explained unless we can deduce patterns of administrative behaviour that chronicle management practices.Ecology, Sustainable Development and Accounting argues that, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Beyond Certification

    by Scott Poynton ...
    Series series DoShorts
    This book is free to download in PDF and EPub formats.Is certification the solution? Can it deliver urgently needed improvements to complex problems like deforestation and the exploitation of people? In this controversial new book, Scott Poynton, founder of The Forest Trust, makes a compelling case for a new approach to social and environmental problems that goes "beyond certification" ... Read more

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  • Sustainagility

    How Smart Innovation and Agile Companies will Help Protect our Future

    by Patrick Dixon, Johan Gorecki ...
    Sustainagility is about the ability to solve some of the world's most complex sustainability challenges with rapidly evolving business innovations, applications, methods, products and processes, adapted to changing situations. The book looks at how innovation and agility can save the world from the environmental disasters that face it. In addition, it sets forth positive ways in which businesses ... Read more

    $37.79 USD