Steering business toward sustainability / Fritjof Capra and Gunter Pauli (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Capra, Fritjof.

Pauli, Gunter A.

United Nations University.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Economic development.

Industrial management--Environmental aspects.

Industrial management.

Social responsibility of business.

Physical Description:

xi, 191 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sustainability, in its ecological and social components, poses businesses an inescapable challenge: without sustainability there will be an end to profits. Hence, business people have a strong self-interest in minimizing the ecological damage of their operations. In this book, business executives, economists, ecologists, and other thinkers outline new practical approaches that businesses and society must take to meet this challenge.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Executive Summary

Preface

Introduction

1 The Challenge

2 NGOs as a Driving Force

Part One: Education

3 Educating the Executive and Students

4 The Learning Process Within Corporations

5 Assessing Corporate Environmental Performance

6 Media, Community, and Business

Part Two: Incentives

7 The Role of Government

8 Ecological Tax Reform

9 New Concepts of Fiduciary Responsibility

Part Three: Implementation

10 Industrial Clusters of the Twenty-.rst Century

11 Living Machines

12 The Next Hundred Years

Afterword

Appendix

Essential Reading List for Executives.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191).

ISBN:

0-585-20025-4

OCLC:

923704319