Blowfield, Mick,

Business and sustainability / Michael Blowfield. - xxv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Business and Sustainability Overview -- 2. The Sustainability Challenges Confronting Business -- 3. Business in a Resource Constrained World -- 4. 5. Strategy and Execution -- 6. Innovation, Planning, and Design -- 7. Financing Sustainability -- 8. Cooperation, Collaboration, and Partnership -- 9. Next Generation Competencies -- 10. Governance -- 11. Sustainable Consumption and Production -- 12. Looking to the Future.

Climate change, the resource constrained economy, and sustainability in general are amongst the hottest and most problematic topics for contemporary businesses. This book provides a comprehensive overview of how the world's sustainability challenges are affecting and being affected by business.

9780199642984

2012537355

GBB284166


Industrial management--Environmental aspects.
Business enterprises--Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Social responsibility of business.
Social entrepreneurship.

HD30.255 / .B59 2013

658.4083 BL.B 2013