Global sustainability as a business imperative
By: edited by James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel
Series: Palgrave Series on global sustainability
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780230102811
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How business, resources, and people fit together in a sustainability model / James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel; title: Business logic for sustainability / Aileen M. Ionescu-Somers; title: Sustainability as a business model / Wendy Stubbs; title: Investing in sustainable entrepreneurship and business ventures in the developing world : key lessons and experiences of the ecoenterprises fund / Tammy E. Newmark and Jacob Park; title: Sustainability in business curricula : toward a deeper understanding and; title: Implementation / Blanca Luisa Delgado-Márquez, J. Alberto Aragón-Correa, and Nuria E. Hurtado-Torres; title: The contribution of interdisciplinary skills to the sustainability of business : when artists, engineers, and managers work together to serve enterprises / Vera Ivanaj and Silvester Ivanaj; title: Public disclosure of corporate environmental performance : pollutant releases and transfer registers (PRTRS) / Javier Delgado-Ceballos and Antonio Rueda-Manzanares; title: The adjustment of corporate governance structures for global sustainability / Natalia Ortiz-de-Mandojana, Javier Aguilera-Caracuel, and J. Alberto Aragón-Correa; title: Taxes and sustainability / John L. Stancil; title: Why changing the way we use energy is essential for global sustainability / Richard H. Jones; title: From carbon to carbohydrates : toward sustainability in the plastics industry / Avrath Chadha; title: Informal waste-pickers in Latin America : sustainable and equitable solutions in the dumps / Candace A. Martinez; title: Sustainability of the wine industry: New Zealand, Australia, and the United States / Anatoly Zhuplev and Cynthia Aguirre; title: New trends for sustainable consumption : the farmer's market as a business imperative for the re-education of consumers / Alessio Cavicchi and Benedetto Rocchi; title: Participation of agribusiness stakeholders in global sustainability questions : the case of climate change and bioenergy of Brazil / Denise Barros de Azevedo, Eugênio Ávila Pedrozo, and Guilherme Cunha Malafaia.