Sustainability and Green Business : Browse Selected Books

Culmination of many discussions, especially at the Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference, related to the growth and institutionalization of environmental and social entrepreneurship.

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainability

Financial considerations must factor in sustainability considerations for ongoing societal success, while sustainability issues equally need to be driven by a business case.

Management accounting plays a key role in achieving a company's sustainability, by providing reliable, relevant, accurate, and timely information to managers.

Every manager and every employee in every function can embed climate solutions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Do you want your business to step up and make a meaningful difference?

This volume offers a critical review of current trends around Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and sustainability activities in developing and emerging economies.

The interaction of sustainability governance and global value chains has crucial implications the world over.

Enter the world of the social entrepreneur. A global community of doers, thinkers and leaders who mix business with grass-roots activism to make social change possible.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring appeared and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.

No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. Thomas Dunlap traces shifting attitudes toward DDT and pesticides through scientific studies and government reports, advertisements from industry journals

Sustainable luxury is about rediscovering the old meaning of luxury - a considered purchase of a beautifully crafted object with built-in social and environmental value. The social entrepreneurs documented in this book highlight the relationship between personal values and sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation in developing and marketing luxury products.

Selling Sustainability Short provides a voice for coffee producers and value chain members to explain why the current system is failing in its mission to provide environmental, social, and economic co-benefits, and what changes are necessary to do better.