Innovative Approaches to Global Sustainability
by Wankel, Charles; Stoner, James A.F.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-03-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
We are now at a time in human history when we must implement original and daring ideas in order to combat our environmentally destructive habits. And we must learn from these experiments at an unprecedented rate in order to ensure the survival of all life on Earth. This volume's contributors offer a variety of fresh and unique approaches to global sustainability. They recognize that working toward the goal of a socially just and ecologically sustainable existence is the only game worth playing.
Author Biography
Charles Wankel is an Associate Professor at St. Johns University and Jim Stoner is a Professor at Fordham University.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | p. vii |
| List of Tables | p. viii |
| Exploring Possibilities for Change | |
| Introduction: Exploring New Frameworks, Practices, and Initiatives for a Sustainable World | p. 3 |
| "SOAR" from the Mediocrity of Status Quo to the Heights of Global Sustainability | p. 11 |
| Innovations in Financial Thinking and Action: Beyond the Primacy of Today's Stock Price | |
| Sustainable Wealth Creation beyond Shareholder Value | p. 39 |
| Limits of Shareholder Value to Achieving Global Sustainability | p. 63 |
| Green Chemistry and EVA: A Framework for Incorporating Environmental Action into Financial Analysis | p. 83 |
| Exploring New Models for Moving Toward a Sustainable World | |
| Monkey See, Monkey Do? Some Observations on Sustainable Innovations in Zoos | p. 105 |
| Toward Environmental Sustainability: Developing Thinking and Acting Capacity within the Oil and Gas Industry | p. 123 |
| Sowing the Seeds for a Viable Future | |
| Designing Undergraduate Education on "Managing for Sustainability" | p. 159 |
| The Sustainability Coordinator: A Structural Innovation for Managing Sustainability | p. 175 |
| Notes on Contributors | p. 197 |
| Index | p. 205 |
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