An Introduction to Corporate Environmental Management - Softcover

Schaltegger, Stefan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1874719659 ISBN 13: 9781874719656

Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing, 2003

Synopsis

This book is designed to meet the urgent need for a comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text on corporate environmental management. It aims to become the standard textbook for courses examining how business can take the environment into account while also providing an accessible and thorough overview of this increasingly multidisciplinary subject for practitioners. Written by the internationally acknowledged experts Stefan Schaltegger and Roger Burritt (authors of the highly influential "Contemporary Environmental Accounting") along with Holger Petersen, the book invites the reader to join in an exploration of the ways in which companies can engage in environmental management and why such engagement can be profitable for business. The reader is invited to: examine whether the contents reflect their own experience, takes their experience further, or opposes their own views; note which of the ideas presented are especially important, add to those ideas, or encourage a reaction (positive or negative); answer questions creatively (based on their own perspective of the issues); encourage themselves to be inspired by questions, which can be investigated further through other written sources of information, such as books you will be guided to through the bibliography, the Internet or the general media; and think about and plan the ways in which the knowledge provided can be implemented in your own situation. The book is organised into four main sections. First, the fundamental ideas and linkages behind business management, the environment and sustainable development are briefly but clearly sketched. The second part of the book outlines the criteria against which environmentally oriented business management can be assessed and the fields of action in which success can be achieved. The third part presents a discussion and examples of strategies for environmental management, which are linked, in the fourt

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Book Description

A comprehensive and definitive introduction and teaching text on corporate environmental management. It will become a key resource for courses examining how business can take the environment into account while also providing an accessible and thorough overview of this subject for practitioners.

About the Author

Prof. Dr Stefan Schaltegger is a full professor of Corporate Environmental Management and director of the Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) at the University of Luneburg, Germany. Between 1996 and 1998 he was an assistant professor of economics leading the chair of public economics and policy at the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he became an associate professor for management in 1998. After his PhD in Environmental Management in 1992 he spent one year as a visiting research fellow at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. His research areas include environmental accounting and information management, sustainable finance, sustainable entrepreneurship, stakeholder management and the integration of environmental economics and management. Stefan Schaltegger is member of the editorial board of the international journals Business Strategy and the Environment and Greener Management International, and of the editorial advisory board of Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, the steering committee of the European Eco-management and Accounting Network (EMAN-EU), the SustainAbility Faculty, London and the board of the RIO Impulse Management Forum, Switzerland. Stefan Schaltegger has lectured at various universities, including the Universities of Basel and Bern, the Norwegian School of Management BI, Oslo, the University of Jyvaskyla Finland, and the HCMC University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Roger L. Burritt, BA (Jt Hons) (Lancaster, UK), M. Phil (Oxford, UK), FCPA (Australia), CA (Australia), CMA (Australia), ACIB (London), is a Reader in the School of Business and Information Management and member of the National Institutes of the Environment, and Economics and Business, at The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra, Australia, where the environment, management and accounting are his main areas of research and teaching. He is also the International Co-

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1874719659
• ISBN 13: 9781874719656
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384