Environmental Management and Decision Making for Business

by R. Staib (Editor)

Overview

Many of the environmental impacts made by organisations are created by early strategic planning, marketing and design decisions. This book encourages managers and students of management to explore how and when environmental decisions are made in organisations. It introduces them to the processes and tools they can use to change the environmental direction of their organisation and reduce its environmental impact on the earth. It guides the reader down the track whose destination is ecological sustainability.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349520725
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	06/28/2005
Edition description:	1st ed. 2005
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

CAROLE ADAMS Professor of Accounting and Head of School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia MARIA ATKINSON Environmental Scientist and Executive Director, Green Building Council, Australia SUZANNE BENN Senior Lecturer, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia FIONA COURT General Manager, Infrastructure Communications and Community Involvement, New South Wales Roads & Traffic Authority, Australia LORNE CUMMINGS Senior Lecturer, Accounting and Finance, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia KEN CUSSEN Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia DEXTER DUNPHY Distinguished Professor, School of Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ANDREW GRIFFITHS Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland Business School, Brisbane, Australia JAMES GUTHRIE Professor, Sydney University, Australia CRAIG MACKENZIE Head of Investor Responsibility, Insight Investment, and Senior Visiting Fellow, University College, London, UK MICHAEL POLONSKY Chair in Marketing, School of Hospitality Tourism and Marketing, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia PATRICIA RYAN Honorary Professor, Graduate School of Environment, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia RORY SULLIVAN Director, Investor Responsibility, Insight Investment, London, UK ROS TAPLIN Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, Sydney JAMES WHITE Chief Analyst, Environment and Conservation Economics, Department of Environment and Conservation, New South Wales, Australia

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Contributing Authors Introduction; R.Staib PART 1: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF MODERN BUSINESS Environmental Trends and Impacts; R.Staib Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour; R.Staib Environmental Ethics and Belief Systems; K.Cussen Politics and the Environment; R.Taplin Government Environmental Decisions; R.Staib Legislation and Institutions; P.Ryan Economics and the Environment; J.White Consumers and Community; M.Pololnsky, F.Court, R.Sullivan & C.Mackenzie Business Management and the Environment; R.Staib PART 2: CORPPORATE PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS Corporate Environmental Strategy; R.Staib Environmental Management Systems; R.Staib Green Marketing; M.Polonsky Financial Management and Accounting; L.Cummings Corporate Environment Information; R.Staib Social and Environmental Reporting; J.Guthrie & C.Adams PART 3: CULTURE AND PEOPLE Organizational Structure and Roles; A.Griffiths, S.Benn & D.Dunphy Changing Corporate Culture to an Environmental Ethos; S.Benn, A.Griffiths & D.Dunphy Interaction with External Stakeholders; F.Court PART 4: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS Environmental Decision-making; R.Staib Environmental Risk Assessment; R.Sullivan Cleaner Production; R.Staib Environmental Design Management; R.Staib Life-cycle Assessment; M.Atkinson Environmental Impact Assessment; R.Staib Environmental Auditing; R.Staib References Index