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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796199203321

Titolo

Business strategies and management for sustainability / / General Editor, Chris Laszlo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Great Barrington, MA : , : Berkshire, , 2013

ISBN

1-61472-965-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 140 pages) : illstrations, maps

Collana

Berkshire essentials

Disciplina

658.4012

Soggetti

Social responsibility of business

Business enterprises - Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Base of the pyramid -- Community capital -- Consumer behavior -- Cradle to cradle -- CSR and CSR 2.0 -- Ecolabeling -- Ecological economics -- Education, business -- Facilities management -- Global reporting initiative (gRI) -- Greenwashing -- Green GDP -- Investment, socially responsible (SRI) -- Leadership -- Lifecycle assessments (LCAs) -- Manufacturing practices -- Marketing -- Natural capitalism -- Packaging -- Performance metrics -- Public-private partnerships -- Risk management -- Social enterprise -- Stakeholder theory -- Supply chain management -- Sustainable value creation -- Transparency -- Triple bottom line -- True cost economics -- United nations global compact.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores how a green economy can be created and sustained using sustainability in both the environmental and financial sense. It covers topics such as green gross domestic product, greenwashing, risk management, and local living economies that strive to operate using accountable practices. The book emphasizes social responsibility (CSR), and assesses the ways in which we can make a measurable difference in how business is conducted.