An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management : Striving for Sustainability / / Stefan Schaltegger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910794935203321
• Autore: Schaltegger Stefan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Taylor and Francis, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-351-28143-7; 1-351-28144-5; 1-351-28142-9
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): BurrittRoger; PetersenHolger
• Disciplina: 658.408
• Soggetti: Industrial management - Environmental aspects; Social responsibility of business
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part, 1 Overview -- chapter 1 Purpose, structure and contents of this textbook / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 2 Management and business companies / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 3 Environmental orientation / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 4 Sustainable development / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 5 Business management on its way to sustainability / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 6 Business management and its stakeholders / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- part, 2 Success factors and fields of action / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 7 Balanced socioeconomic management of the environmental challenge / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 8 Markets, efficiency and eco-efficiency / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 9 Systems of legal regulation, environmental norms and standards / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 10 Partnerships and legitimacy / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 11 Political arenas / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- part, 3 Strategic ; environmental management / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 12 Strategic process and strategic options / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 13 Basic corporate environmental strategies / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 14 Competitive strategies / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 15 Risk management strategies / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- part, 4 Concepts and tools of corporate environmental management / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 16 Eco-marketing / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 17 Environmental accounting / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 18 Environmental management systems and eco-control / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen -- chapter 19 Outlook and future of corporate environmental management / Stefan Schaltegger Roger Burritt Holger Petersen.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This book is designed to meet the urgent need for a comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text on corporate environmental management. It aims to become the standard textbook for courses examining how business can take the environment into account while also providing an accessible and thorough overview of this increasingly multidisciplinary subject for practitioners. Written by the internationally acknowledged experts Stefan Schaltegger and Roger Burritt (authors of the highly influential Contemporary Environmental Accounting) along with Holger Petersen, the book invites the reader to join in an exploration of the ways in which companies can engage in environmental management and why such engagement can be profitable for business. The reader is invited to: examine whether the contents reflect their own experience, takes their experience further, or opposes their own views; note which of the ideas presented are especially important, add to those ideas, or encourage a reaction (positive or negative); answer questions creatively (based on their own perspective of the issues); encourage themselves to be inspired by questions, which can be investigated further through other written sources of information, such as books you will be guided to through the bibliography, the Internet or the general media; and think about and plan the ways in which the knowledge provided can be implemented in your own situation. The book is organised into four main sections. First, the fundamental ideas and linkages behind business management, the environment and sustainable development are briefly but clearly sketched. The second part of the book outlines the criteria against which environmentally oriented business management can be assessed and the fields of action in which success can be achieved. The third part presents a discussion and examples of strategies for environmental management, which are linked, in the fourth part, to the essential tools of environmental management, especially green marketing, environmental accounting and eco-control. The book is full of case studies and examples related to the main contents of each chapter and each chapter provides a number of questions for the student or reader to address. An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management is both a textbook and a sourcebook. The reader can either work through the material in a structured way or dip into the content and follow up on specific areas of interest. The materials are designed to be used for understanding and reference, rather than to be learned by heart. The primary aim is for the reader to obtain a practical understanding of the relationship between management and environmental issues which can be applied in day-to-day situations-whether as part of a student's wider view of management or within the practitioner's real-world situation. It will be ; essential reading for many years to come."--Provided by publisher.

Templer and the road to Malayan independence : the man and his time / / Leon Comber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968346603321
• Autore: Comber Leon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, , 2015
• ISBN: 9789814620116; 9814620114
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvi, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 959.5104
• Soggetti: Malaya History Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960; Malaya Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- FOREWORD / Shamsul, A.B. -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Map of Malaya -- PROLOGUE -- 1. THE BACKGROUND -- 2. THE EARLY DAYS -- 3. THE TEMPLER PLAN -- 4. Victor Purcell and Francis Carnell, Honorary MCA Political Advisers, August-September 1952 -- 5. General Sir Gerald Templer, the MCA, and the Kinta Valley Home Guard (1952-54) -- 6. THE CASE OF LEE MENG - A CAUSE CÉLÈBRE -- 7. THE ROAD TO SELF-GOVERNMENT -- 8. CONCLUSION -- Appendix A. Directive to General Sir Gerald Templer by the British Government -- Appendix B. General Sir Gerald Templer: A Short Bibliographical Note -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Sommario/riassunto: Dr Comber's account of General Templer's administration in Malaya as High Commissioner and Director of Operations (1952–54) during the Malayan Emergency departs from the usually accepted orthodox assessment of his time in Malaya by focusing on the political and socioeconomic aspects of his governance rather than the military. In doing so, Dr Comber has relied mainly on primary and other first-hand sources, including the confidential reports sent from Malaya by the ; Australian Commission to the Australian government in Canberra, and the private papers of some of the leading Malayan politicians of the time with whom Templer had dealings which have been deposited in the ISEAS Library, Singapore, many of which have not been used before.<br>The evidence and facts that Dr Comber marshals in this study reflect well the reservations that were often felt about General Templer's authoritarian form of government. While he was a good general and had an impressive military record, his administration in Malaya was marred by a lack of understanding of the background to Malaya's history and the subtleties that are inherent in its culture and way of life which would have enabled him to come to terms more easily with the aspirations of the Malayan people for self-government and independence.