Hijacking Environmentalism

Author : Richard Welford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134176779

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Hijacking Environmentalism by Richard Welford Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Welford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134176700

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Hijacking Environmentalism by Richard Welford Pdf

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.

Author : Adrian Parr
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262261586

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Hijacking Sustainability by Adrian Parr Pdf

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.

Author : Dexter Colboyd Dunphy,Andrew Griffiths,Suzanne Benn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415287413

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Organizational Change for Corporate Sustainability by Dexter Colboyd Dunphy,Andrew Griffiths,Suzanne Benn Pdf

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.

Author : Richard Welford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317836926

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Corporate Environmental Management 1 by Richard Welford Pdf

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.

Author : Alasdair Blair,David Hitchcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134619474

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Environment and Business by Alasdair Blair,David Hitchcock Pdf

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.

Author : Amartya Mukhopadhyay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000982046

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Postpositivist International Relations Theory by Amartya Mukhopadhyay Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher J. Barrow
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental management
ISBN : 9780415185615

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Environmental Management by Christopher J. Barrow Pdf

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.

Author : Rob Gray,Jan Bebbington
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781446222652

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Accounting for the Environment by Rob Gray,Jan Bebbington Pdf

`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.

Author : Jennifer Clapp And Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171885551

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Paths to a Green World The Political Economy of the Global Environment by Jennifer Clapp And Peter Dauvergne Pdf

Author : Chris Barrow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134216062

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Environmental Management for Sustainable Development by Chris Barrow Pdf

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 : Peter Dauvergne,Jane Lister
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262313070

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Eco-Business by Peter Dauvergne,Jane Lister Pdf

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-brand companies seem to be making commitments that go beyond the usual “greenwashing” efforts undertaken largely for public-relations purposes. In Eco-Business, Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister examine this new corporate embrace of sustainability, its actual accomplishments, and the consequences for the environment. For many leading-brand companies, these corporate sustainability efforts go deep, reorienting central operations and extending through global supply chains. Yet, as Dauvergne and Lister point out, these companies are doing this not for the good of the planet but for their own profits and market share in a volatile, globalized economy. They are using sustainability as a business tool. Dauvergne and Lister show that the eco-efficiencies achieved by big-brand companies limit the potential for finding deeper solutions to pressing environmental problems and reinforce runaway consumption. Eco-business promotes the sustainability of big business, not the sustainability of life on Earth.

Author : Richard Welford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317836896

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Corporate Environmental Management 2 by Richard Welford Pdf

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.

Author : Pratima Bansal,Andrew J. Hoffman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199584451

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The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment by Pratima Bansal,Andrew J. Hoffman Pdf

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

Author : Sanjay Sharma,Mark Starik
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845423623

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Stakeholders, the Environment and Society by Sanjay Sharma,Mark Starik Pdf

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