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Voluntary Initiatives : The New Politics of Corporate Greening / Robert B. Gibson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibson, Robert B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial management--Environmental aspects.
- Industrial management.
- Business enterprises--Environmental aspects.
- Business enterprises.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Genre:
- Livres numeriques.
- e-books.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For many industrial interests and governments in Canada and elsewhere, voluntary initiatives are the hot new way to win greener corporate behaviour. Such initiatives, the proponents say, are more efficient than the conventional regulatory approach and will bring significant environmental improvements while reducing corporate and government costs. Veteran environmentalist are suspicious. They see more interest in cost cutting than in environmental responsibility and anticipate a de-regulatory retreat back to the bad old days of backroom deals and reliance on corporate good will. There is also a third possibility. Voluntary initiatives could play a role in a new politics of corporate greening that embraces voluntarism but integrates this with full use of regulatory tools, public scrutiny, and other means of forcing and facilitating environmental improvements in the private sector. In Voluntary Initiatives, some of Canada's foremost experts and practitioners examine the experience of such initiatives so far, debate the promises and pitfalls, and consider implications for the future politics of corporate greening. In so doing they also begin to shed light on alternative models for political action.
- Contents:
- Questions about a gift horse / Robert B. Gibson
- Non-regulatory environmental measures / John Moffet and Francois Bregha
- Voluntary initiatives and the law / Kernaghan Webb
- A sober second look / Paul Muldoon and Ramani Nadarajoh
- Responsible care / John Moffet and Francois Bregha
- The ARET Challenge / Debora L. VanNijnatten
- A claim to sustainability / Mary Louise McAllister
- Who killed CIPSI? / Elfreda Chang, Doug Macdonald, and Joanne Wolfson
- The VCR doesn't work / Robert Hornung
- The Dofasco deal / Lynda Lukaskik
- Reluctant followers / Erin Windatt
- Beyond command and control / Bradley D. Wylynko
- Environment and value at nortel networks / Margaret G. Kerr
- Aiming low / Saeed Parto
- Standard inequities / Jennifer Clapp
- Demanding good wood / Martin von Mirback
- The new directions group position / The New Directions Group, with an introduction by Paul Griss
- Voluntary initiatives, regulations, and beyond / Robert B. Gibson.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)
- On cover: Voluntary initiatives : the new politics of ...
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-0306-2
- OCLC:
- 243585533
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