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Corporate Social Responsibility auf dem Finanzmarkt
Wahrnehmung heute durch weltweit reichende Kommunikationsmedien wie das Internet sehr viel einfacher geworden ist. Außerdem sind die „NRO“ bzw. 4 „NGOs“ inzwischen in ihrem Auftreten und ihrer häufig kampagnenorientierten Öffentlichkeitsarbeit sehr viel professioneller geworden. So kann eine ziv- gesellschaftliche Organisation mithilfe medialer Aufmerksamkeit ihre Kritik schnell in einen „Business Case“ für ein Unternehmen verwandeln – jedenfalls dann, wenn es gelingt, das Kaufverhalten der Verbraucher so zu verändern, dass 5 das Unternehmen seine gute Markposition schwinden sieht. Es lässt sich daher die These formulieren, dass es gerade in der globalisierten Welt für U...
Where We Live Now
The point of departure for this collection is a translation of excerpts from Zwischenstadt by Thomas Sieverts.
Environmental Sociology
Environmental Sociology, intended for use in Environmental Sociology courses, uses sociological methods and perspectives to analyze key environmental issues. The reader is organized like an introduction to sociology reader, and comprised of readings that are accessible to and interesting for undergraduates.
Sustainable Finance and Banking
Banking and finance play a fundamental role in public policy and economic performance as well as in all forms of commerce and industry. They are crucial in determining whether society - from governments to individual consumers - succeeds in following an environmentally sustainable path. However, those working in the financial sector are largely unaware of the rationale and pressures for sustainable development and its bearing on their work, while those in the relevant research and policy areas commonly overlook how vital the financial sector is for progress. Marcel Jeucken sets out to rectify this state of affairs, in a style which is accessible to those with no experience of environmental f...
Climate Governance and Federalism
A review of federal and decentralised systems of governance, and whether these facilitate or hinder climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Drinking Water Supply and Agricultural Pollution
Agricultural pollution (with nitrates and pesticides) is one of the biggest threats to drinking water resources. At many places regional and local water authorities, together with the water supply industry, are involved in preventive action aimed at farming practices. Three national case studies (Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom) analyse these efforts within the context of problematical national agricultural policy and the need to implement EU directives on water quality. Additional case studies cover the role of the European Union, while the same problem in a different setting is analysed for the United States. The central question of how national and European governments can reinforce the control capacity of the actors at the regional and local level, is treated from the theoretical perspective of the policy network approach.
Tourism Ecolabelling
Annotation. There is currently immense interest in measuring the sustainability of tourism in general, and of ecotourism in particular. Until this time, it has been difficult for consumers to know whether claims of tourism destinations and products being "ecological and sustainable" are based on hard evidence. The tourism industry has therefore been developing methods to measure these objectively in the form of ecolabels. This book is the first substantial one to review this subject. Emphasis is placed on the criteria used in ecolabels to determine sustainability, the marketing of ecologically labelled tourism products, and the management of current ecolabels and awards.
Positional Analysis for Sustainable Development
Approaches to decision making and accounting at the national- and business levels have to be reconsidered in light of climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution of land and water, land-use changes, lack of equality and other problems. Cost-Benefit Analysis is clearly not helping to address these issues. In this book, Positional Analysis is advocated as a multidimensional and ideologically open approach. Positional Analysis is based on a political economic conceptual framework (as part of ecological economics) that differs from neoclassical ideas of individuals, firms and markets. It also raises issues of how national and business accounting can be reconfigured to meet these challenges.
Stumbling Toward Sustainability
In 1992, at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the nations of the world agreed to implement an ambitious plan for ecologically sustainable human development. This book is a comprehensive review of U.S. efforts to achieve such development since Rio. The U.S. has unquestionably begun to take steps toward sustainable development. Yet the nation is now far from being a sustainable society, and in many respects is farther away than it was in 1992. Nevertheless, legal and policy tools are available to put the U.S. on a direct path to sustainability. This book brings together 42 distinguished experts from a variety of backgrounds and academic disciplines. It is among the most thorough assessments ever conducted of U.S. law and policy concerning the environment.
