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Increased concern about the natural environment has led to an urgent call for organizations to take action toward environmental stewardship. This Second Edition of the groundbreaking Environmental Management: Readings and Cases will inspire readers to find creative solutions to the challenges of maintaining sustainable enterprise while restoring our ecological community. Featuring a highly esteemed group of contributors with content from premier journals --including Harvard Business Review - this comprehensive reader fills a major gap in the teaching of business and the environment. New to the Second Edition:

More than two-thirds of the book consists of new material, addressing emerging and timely topics like environmental regulation, green marketing, environmental strategy, and more The book features 11 new cases, providing a platform for lively classroom discussion This edition adds a stronger international component, highlighting the global nature of environmental management

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Intended Audience This reader serves as a stand-alone or supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses such as Environmental Management, Green Marketing, Clean Production, Environmental Policy and Strategy, and other courses in business and environmental studies.

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• Preface
• Part I The Big Picture
• 1 Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World
• Thinking Globally and Inclusively About Sustainable Business Practices
• 2 The Business Case for Climate Protection
• Why Businesses Should Proactively Address the Climate Change Challenge
• 3 Scorched Earth: Will Environmental Risks in China Overwhelm Its Opportunities?
• The China Factor in the Environmental Equation
• 4 The Triple Bottom Line: Sustainability's Accountants
• The Imperative for Companies to Perform Well on Multiple Dimensions
• Part II Institutional and International Perspectives
• 5 The Tragedy of the Commons
• The Classic Discussion of Population and Common Resources
• 6 EPA and the Evolution of Federal Regulation
• Regulation and Economic Models for Meeting Pollution Reduction Goals
• 7 Discounting the Future: Economics and Ethics
• A Critical Analysis of the Practice of Discounting in Economic Analysis
• 8 Measuring Nations' Environmental Sustainability
• Quantifying and Ranking National Environmental Performance
• 9 Bridging the Trade-Environment Debate
• Capturing the Benefits of Free Trade While Protecting the Environment
• 10 Raising Global Standards: Hazardous Substances and E-Waste Management in the European Union
• A European Approach to Toxics Regulation
• Part III Managing to be Environmentally Responsive
• 11 Strategy Originates Within the Organization
• Behavioral and Cultural Dimensions in Environmental Strategy
• 12 Objection-Handling Clinic on Inhibiters to the Next Wave
• A Script for Overcoming Organizational Nay-Sayers
• 13 The Next Industrial Revolution
• Capitalism that Recognizes and Appreciates Living Systems
• 14 Environmental Product Differentiation: Implications for Corporate Strategy
• When Will a Green Product Strategy Pay Off?
• 15 Transparency, Openness, and Accountability: A Imperative
• Appreciating the Need for Broad Access to More Information
• 16 A Primer on the Global Reporting Initiative
• The Emerging Standard for Company Sustainability Report
• 17 The Eco-Advantage
• Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainability Opportunities
• 18 Excerpts from the 2006 Understanding the LOHAS Market Report - The Natural Marketing Institute
• Appreciating the Characteristics of Green Consumers
• 19 Avoiding Green Marketing Myopia: Ways to Improve Consumer Appeal for Environmentally Preferable Products
• How Win in the Marketplace for Green Products
• 20 How Corporations and Environmental Groups Collaborate
• How Stakeholders Collaborations Can Improve Environmental Outcomes
• 21 The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
• The Vast Potential in Serving the World's Poor
• Part IV Technical Perspectives
• 22 A Framework for Management
• Unifying Scientific Principles with Sustainability
• 23 An Introduction to Environmental Accounting as A Business Management Tool - Environmental Protection Agency
• A Tool Kit for Incorporating the Environment into Accounting Practice
• 24 Note on Life-Cycle Analysis
• A Methodology for Identifying All Costs Across the Life of Products
• 25 The LCA Impact and Interpretation Stages
• Quantifying Life Cycle Impacts and Comparing Alternatives
• 26 A World of Abundance
• Viewing Environmental Stewardship as a Design Challenge
• 27 Environmental Management Systems and Eco-Control
• Tools for Bringing Environmental Performance to Facility Operations
• Part V Cases
• 28 Pacific Lumber Company
• 29 Oil in the Ecuadorean Rainforest
• 30 Hindustan Lever (A): Leaping a Millennium
• 31 Cost Accounting and Hazardous Waste at Specialty Glass, Inc.
• 32 Southern Company: Acid Rain
• 33 Seventh Generation: Balancing Customer Expectations with Supply Chain Realities
• 34 Environment Product Differentiation by the Hayward Lumber Company
• 35 Coastwide Laboratories: Clean and Green
• 36 Transforming the Global Fishing Industry: The Marine Stewardship Council at Full Sail?
• 37 Phoenix Organic: Valuing Sustainability while Desiring Growth
• 38 Deja Shoe (A)
• 39 Supply Chain Strategy and Sustainability: The Migros Palm Oil Case
• 40 Benziger Family Winery
• 41 The WEEE Challenge
• 42 Cascades Environmental Strategy in 2006: At the Crossroads
• 43 Procter & Gamble Inc: Disposable and Reusable Diapers-A Life-Cycle Analysis Management Institute for Environment and Business
• 44 Alpha Motors, Ltd.: Integrating Life-Cycle Environmental Concerns Into Product Design
• About the Editor

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Michael V. Russois the Charles H. Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management at the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. He also serves as Founding Director of the Sustainable Supply Chain Management Center at the Lundquist College. A registered professional civil engineer, he spent several years commercializing alternative energy while at Pacific Gas and Electric Company. He came to Oregon after receiving his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989.

Mike's academic research focuses on the interaction of national and international environmental, social, and political policies, and strategic management. His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals, and his research on the bottom-line effects of corporate greening received the 1998 Moskowitz Prize in Social Investing. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation to study international voluntary environmental regulation under the ISO 14000 standards and from the Dreyfus Foundation to write business cases that incorporate green chemistry issues. One case written under the Dreyfus Foundation grant and included in this collection, "Seventh Generation: Balancing Customer Expectations with Supply Chain Realities," won the 2007 oikos Sustainability Case Writing Competition.

Mike is actively involved in profession service. Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal , and Organization & Environment. In 2005, he completed his term as Chair of the Organizations and Natural Environment Interest Group of the Academy of Management.

Mike lives in Eugene with his wife Wendy and their sons Andy and David. In his spare time, he enjoys outdoor activities, reading, the arts, and a good bottle of red wine. A native San Franciscan, he is increasingly sure that his tombstone will read, "Have the Giants Won the World Series Yet?"