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Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda, The: The Case For Sustainable And Responsible Business
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a buzzword in management today. And yet, skepticism often prevails, as CSR is often associated with traditional philanthropic practices enabling companies to greenwash their unethical social and environmental practices. This book offers a fresh view on today's CSR from both historical and geographical perspectives. Exploring its roots and theoretical developments in the US, the author then focuses on how CSR has spread across the world, first in Europe and later in the developing world. An updated overview of today's CSR agenda is provided with a focus on four key issues: stakeholder inclusion, employee engagement and social dialogue, human rights and environmental sustainability. With the support of multiple cases and examples taken from various continents and industries, the book adopts a sustainability-driven perspective, based on the belief that the future of CSR lies in the strategic embeddeness of key issues into the company's value chain. Finally, the book attempts to draw the contours of tomorrow's CSR by proposing a new terminology reflecting the current evolution of CSR.
Intercultural Geopoetics in Kenneth White's Open World
This work introduces Kenneth White’s geopoetics as a radical, postmodern interdisciplinary and intercultural project that reclaims the return to communication with the earth, nature, wo-man, and the self as part of a cosmic unity approach. It traces geopoetics’ beginnings, key concepts, territories and trajectories, aims, and perspectives. Geopoetics is shown here to be a cosmopolitan project for a more open and harmonious world, which buries narrow-mindedness and offers new horizons.
Microtravel
The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic imposed immobility on large sectors of the world’s population, with confinement becoming an everyday reality. The lives of those who previously enjoyed the privileges of being ‘fast castes’ ground to a halt, while at the same time the displacement of more vulnerable populations along well-established migration corridors has been radically reduced. The result has been a recalibration of the scale of journeying, with travellers slowing down their journeys and readjusting their relationship to the proximate and nearby. This situation has provided an opportunity for those who study travel and travel writing to rethink their objects of study and approaches to them. This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’, designating slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world.
Growth
Daniel Susskind traces the rich, surprisingly brief history of economic growth and responds to its ills. We cannot focus only on growth's upsides, but nor is degrowth a viable policy: the benefits of prosperity are too great to discard. Instead we must face tradeoffs, demoting growth from our top priority and reckoning with its moral challenges.
Back on the Fire
This collection of essays by Gary Snyder, now in paperback, blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date, Snyder employs fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences, and our spirits and minds broaden and mature. Snyder here writes and riffs on a wide range of topics, from our sense of place and a need to review forestry practices, to the writing life and Eastern thought. Surveying the current wisdom that fires are in some cases necessary for ecosystems of the wild, he contemplates the evolution of his view on the practice, while exploring its larger repercussions on our perceptions of nature and the great landscapes of t...
Implementing ESG into Real Estate Contracts
This book looks into different aspects of implementing ESG into real estate contracts from a European perspective. It covers general aspects, contract-type specific aspects and then property usage-type specific aspects. General topics cover legal frameworks, the social and governance perspective based on EU sustainable finance regulations. Contract-type specific questions cover different contract types. The team of authors then addresses specific issues relating to different types of property use such as office, retail, logistics, hospitality and data centres. The focus of the work is on EU, so that the content can provide food for thought for the work in different EU countries. The book thus supports practitioners in compiling their personal toolkit for use in individual cases. Content: Terms, concepts and basics of sustainability, CSR and ESG What ESG in real estate contracts means Standards for (non-financial) sustainability reporting, CSRD and ESRS Climate litigation, energy and renewables, data Sustainability and competition law, brownfields Pre-contracts and recitals ESG and real estate investment, leases, real estate financing
L'Art de marcher
« Au départ il y a un pas, puis un autre, et encore un autre, qui tels des battements sur la peau d'un tambour s'additionnent pour composer un rythme, le rythme de la marche. » Dans cet essai devenu un classique de la pensée contemporaine, Rebecca Solnit retrace à sa manière l'histoire de la marche. Avec intelligence, une dose d'humour et sa célèbre irrévérence, elle évoque l'art de marcher comme acte poétique et politique. Pèlerinages, manifestations, flâneries, promenades, nomadismes artistiques, il s'agit d'un geste fort. Mettre en mouvement son corps, c'est aussi chercher sa place dans le monde, tenter de le découvrir ou de le faire changer. Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Oristelle Bonis
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