Environment and Innovation : Strategies to Promote Growth and Sustainability

This book seeks to show the role of sustainability and innovation in the business and productive sector as good strategy to improve performance and contribute to growth and sustainable development through innovative strategies applied to the management process. Different public and private organizations seek to maintain their business and market share, while developing strategies to improve environmental performance through innovation and address new challenges that seek a productive sector responsible on environmental issues. This book offers an analysis of the relationship between sustainability and innovation in production with the aim to offer strategies to improve sustainability performance.

Clara Inés Pardo Martínez, Post-Doctoral in energy and environmental policies, PhD in economics, certified auditor, with experience in advisory services, consulting, and management in areas such as the environment, quality, health and security, and energy. Activities in academic and management research on energy economics, energy efficiency, climate change, environmental systems, research methods, empirical analysis, social responsibility, and industrial productivity. Consultant for Interamerican Development Bank, World Bank, United Nations Development Program, Latin-American Organization for Energy, among others.

Alexander Cotte Poveda, PhD (c) has an Economics degree from the University Georg August Göttingen in Germany, Masters in Economics from the University of the Andes, and is an economist. He is Professor at the Universidad Santo Tomas of the Faculty of Economics, and International Consultant for the World Bank and European Union in areas such as R&D, the environmental systems, etc. He is Associate Editor of the Journal Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. He has published books and book chapters with publishers such as Springer, Taylor & Francis Group, Palgrave Macmillan.