Clean and competitive? : motivating environmental performance in industry
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Clean and competitive? : motivating environmental performance in industry
Earthscan, 1997
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Clean & competitive?
Clean & competitive?
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: pbk ISBN 9781853834905
Description
Reconciling wealth creation and environmental care is one of the key challenges in the pursuit of sustainable development. Companies considering greener modes of operation are mindful of their formal responsibilities to advance shareholders' interests. The age of globalization and intensified competition has increased disincentives to be 'green' for its own sake. And yet, a surprisingly high proportion of large companies have put in place environmental management regimes and invest considerable time and resources in them. However, the public continues to believe that these companies are failing to take their environmental responsibilities seriously, and campaigners are unimpressed with the results of industrial self-regulation. In short, there is a gulf in perception between industry and the consumer.
Clean and Competitive explores the challenge of motivating industry to address environmental issues, drawing on work undertaken by Sussex University's Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and the Centre for the Exploitation of Science and Technology (CEST). The authors explore in detail industrial responses to prominent environmental issues, including: climate change, air quality, water pollution, waste minimization, and product recycling. They assess various approaches to environmental problems, such as: traditional regulation, partnership, voluntary agreements, and market-based instruments. Finally, they recommend practical ways forward for addressing an ever more complex environmental agenda.
This thoughtful and articulate text is recommended for students on environmental management courses, policy makers, and environmental managers within industry.
Table of Contents
- The Business-Environment Debate * Managing the Environment * Global Environmental Issues: Ozone Depletion and Climate Change * National Environmental Issues: Acid Rain
- Air Quality and Road Transport
- and Volatile Organic Compounds * Regional and Local Environmental Issues: Water Quality and Contaminated Land * Integrated Pollution Control * Waste Minimization: a Route to Profit and Cleaner Production * Voluntary Approaches to Environmental Management: End-of-Life Electrical and Electronic Equipments Recycling * Economic Instruments * Next Steps * Endnotes * Selected Bibliography * Index
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: hbk ISBN 9781853834912
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This title seeks to examine how wealth creation can be made compatible with preserving the environment and achieving sustainable economic development. The question of business motivation is seen as the central issue. The authors analyze what needs to be done for businesses to increase profitability and reduce environmental impact and how most effectively to influence management to achieve it. They look at the mix of public and private initiatives from regulation through partnership and from voluntary schemes to market forces.
Table of Contents
- Managing the environment
- global environmental issues - ozone depletion and climate change
- national environmental issues - acid rain, air quality and transport
- local environmental issues - water quality and contaminated land
- integrated pollution control
- waste minimization
- voluntary approaches
- economic instruments
- next steps.
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