Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in
general are amongst the hottest and most problematic topics in
contemporary business today. Increasingly, new enterprises are being
established to address key twenty-first century environmental
challenges, incumbent industries are implementing new strategies to
comply with stringent legislation to retain their licenses, and
multi-nationals are endeavouring to link tackling issues from poverty to
deforestation to their bottom line.
This textbook is one of the first to offer students a comprehensive
overview of how the world's sustainability challenges are affecting, and
being affected by business, and has been written specifically to cater
for the growing number of courses and modules at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels focused on sustainability in the business context.
The author adopts a mix of practitioner and theoretical perspectives and
offers an insightful review of the subject across three core areas: the
global business context, business management and ownership, and the
external environment. Each of these areas contains chapters on
particular aspects of sustainability and management, and draws from a
range of global case studies and exercises. This textbook serves as a
concise summary of contemporary sustainability issues for lecturers and
students wanting a single resource on the subject.
Online Resource Centre:
For Students:
Links to web resources e.g. company sustainability initiatives,
sustainability organisations
For Lecturers:
Teaching suggestions for the case studies
PowerPoint slides
Links to films, online video and other AV resources for use in the
classroom, including summaries of their content and how they could be
used
Electronic versions of figures and diagrams from the book
