Hijacking Environmentalism: Corporate Responses to Sustainable Development

Author:   Richard Welford
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781853833991


Pages:   268
Publication Date:   01 March 1997
Format:   Paperback
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This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights the need for participation and social innovation on their part. It asserts that senior executives and middle management in large corporations have often sought, deliberately or unconsciously, to block the advancement of environmentalism. Industry has reconstructed the more radical environmental agenda to suit its own purposes, in effect hijacking it, by taking it out of its traditional discourse and placing it in a liberal-productivist framework. The book concludes by examining the way forward for more sustainable business, presenting new models that place greater emphasis on issues such as equity and ethics.

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Author:   Richard Welford
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Earthscan Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9781853833991


ISBN 10:   1853833991
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   01 March 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part 1; Defining the Problem; Chapter 1 Introduction: What are we Doing to the World?/$rByRichard Welford; Chapter 2 From Green to Golden: the Hijacking Environmentalism/$rByRichard Welford; Chapter 3 Clouding the Crisis: the construction of Corporate Environmental Management/$rByPall Rikhardsson, Richard Welford; Chapter 4 Fading to Grey: the Use and Abuse of Corporate Executives' 'Representational Power'/$rByNick Mayhew; Part 2; Underlying Tensions; Chapter 5 Ecological Eldor ado: Eliminating Excess over Ecology/$rByTarja Ketola; Chapter 6 The Big Brothers: Transnational Corporations, Trade Organizations and Multilateral Financial Institutions/$rByEloy Casagrande Junior, Richard Welford; Chapter 7 Organizing for Sustainable Development: Structure, Culture and Social Auditing/$rByDavid Jones, Richard Welford; Part 3; Searching for Solutions; Chapter 8 Models of Sustainable Development for Business/$rByRichard Welford; Chapter 9 Rediscovering the Spiritual Dimension of Environmentalism/$rByRichard Welford; Chapter 10 Towards a More Critical Dimension for Environmental Research/$rByRichard Welford;

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Richard Welford is Professor of Business Economics and Director of the Centre for Corporate Environmental Management at the Huddersfield University Business School, and Professor of Sustainable Management at the Norwegian School of Magement.

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