The business of greening / edited by Stephen Fineman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fineman, Stephen.

Series:

Global environmental change series ; 8.

Routledge research in global environmental change series ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management--Environmental aspects.

Industrial management.

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Economic development.

Sustainable development.

Environmental law.

Physical Description:

vi, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Contents:

1 The business of greening: an introduction / Stephen Fineman 1

Part 1 Constructing the environment 11

2 The manager, the business and the big wide world / Martin Purvis, Frances Drake, Jane Hunt, Deborah Millard 13

3 Buying the environment: the multiple meanings of green supply / Steve New, Ken Green, Barbara Morton 35

4 Framing environmental choices: mediating the environment in the property business / Simon Guy 54

5 Banking on the environment: risk and rationality / Andrea Coulson 78

Part 2 Regulating 95

6 Being a regulator / Stephen Fineman 97

7 Regulation matters: global environmental discourse and business response / Jane Hunt, Sujatha Raman 114

8 The business of building regulation / Sujatha Raman, Elizabeth Shove 134

Part 3 Learning and change 151

9 Smaller enterprises and the environment: organisational learning potential? / Judith Petts 153

10 Agents of change in corporate 'greening': case studies in water and electricity utilities / Anja Schaefer, Brian Harvey 169

Part 4 The green organisation? 189

11 Green myths, green realities / Stephen Fineman 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415224330

OCLC:

43790518