The Economics and Business of Sustainability

Nemetz, Peter N.

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Routledge

Corporate Strategy and Sustainability: From Excellence to Fraud

Business and the Sustainability Challenge: An Integrated Perspective

It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science. This integrated textbook for MBA and senior-level undergraduates offers a comprehensive overview of the issues of sustainability as they relate to business and influence corporate strategy. It also features a wide range of cases and an extensive discussion of tools to incorporate sustainability issues into strategic decision making, helping instructors and students to build and then apply a solid understanding of sustainability in business.

Using three major illustrative case studies, here is an integrated treatment of the major theoretical and practical issues involved in the use of economic incentives for energy conservation. While a principal focus is on electricity use in North American residential and commercial sectors, additional discussion is provided on fuels, conservation measures, industrial energy use, and related European experience.

Economic Incentives for Energy Conservation

Science & Math

Hankey, Marilyn

Biological Sciences

Wiley-Interscience

Throughout history, forests have played a central role in the development of human civilization -- providing everything from fuel and structural materials to a multitude of paper products. It is, however, becoming increasingly apparent that the forests and their wealth of resources bear directly upon many of the most pressing social, economic, and environmental concerns of our time. This volume draws together forty of the foremost experts in forest policy to address the diverse range of issues which characterize the intimate relationship between forests and humankind. These include the regional and global environment, timber supply, competitiveness and international trade, social impacts, multiple and competing resource use, and the Third World.

Emerging Issues in Forest Policy

Hyde, William F.

Business & Money

Univ of British Columbia Pr

This text provides a comprehensive guide to sustainable development for business school students at both the senior and MBA levels. It includes an overview of the basic concepts of sustainable development, ten discipline-based chapters and 13 case studies.

Bringing Business on Board: Sustainable Development and the B-School Curriculum

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of Washington Press

Using a cross-disciplinary, science- and economics-based approach, this book provides a sobering and comprehensive assessment of the multifaceted barriers to achieving sustainability at a global level. 
Organized into three parts, the book defines sustainability in part I and sets the context of the historical and current difficulties facing the world today. In parts II and III, it outlines the sustainability challenges faced in transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture, and then in turn addresses the solutions, conditional solutions, and nonsolutions to these challenges. These include electric and autonomous automobiles, nuclear power, renewable energy, geoengineering, and carbon capture and storage. The author attempts to differentiate among those proposed solutions and discusses which are most promising and which are infeasible, counterproductive, and potentially a waste of time and money. In each of the book’s chapters, the scientific evidence is presented in detail, in keeping with the advice of the young Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, to let the science speak for itself. The author outlines why sustainability is unlikely to be achieved in several key areas of human endeavor and readers are challenged to weigh the scientific evidence for themselves. 
Using an economic business-based approach, this book introduces students and general readers to the challenges of sustainability and the environmental difficulties facing humanity today.

Unsustainable World

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