Environment & Business Books

New and Published Books

1. Innovating for Sustainability

   Green Entrepreneurship in Personal Mobility

   By Luca Berchicci

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   One of the challenges met by green entrepreneurs and product developers who have tried to develop more sustainable products is that efforts to have better products in environmental terms do not always translate into effective business cases. The purpose of this book is a better understanding of the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Zeronauts

   Breaking the Sustainability Barrier

   By John Elkington

   A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as our species broke the Sound Barrier during the 1940s and 1950s, a new breed of innovator, entrepreneur, and investor is lining up to break the...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
3. Environmental Management Accounting

   Case Studies of South-East Asian Companies

   By Christian Herzig, Tobias Viere, Stefan Schaltegger, Roger L. Burritt

   Sustainable development will not happen without substantial contributions from and leading roles of companies and business organizations. This requires the provision of adequate information on corporate social and ecological impacts and performance. For the last decade, progress has been made in...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
4. Ecotourism and Sustainable Tourism

   New Perspectives and Studies

   Edited by Jaime Seba

   There is an increased interest in ecotourism and sustainable tourism, which provides travelers with destinations and activities that have a lower negative impact on the environment. This book, a collection of articles and studies highlight many of these new trends in tourism, using...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Apple Academic Press
5. Agriculture in Urban Planning

   Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

   Edited by Mark Redwood

   This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
6. Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World

   Edited by Laura Anne German, Alain Karsenty, Anne Marie Tiani

   Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of...

   Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Leading For Regeneration

   Going Beyond Sustainability in Business Education, and Community

   By John Hardman

   This book presents the regenerative leadership framework that has emerged from doctoral research and consulting work with successful sustainability leaders and their organizations in business, education, and community. The framework synthesizes the levels of awareness, the leadership styles and...

   Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
8. Food, Globalization and Sustainability

   By Peter Oosterveer, David A. Sonnenfeld

   Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
9. Public Safety and Risk Assessment

   Improving Decision Making

   By David J. Ball, Laurence Ball-King

   Series: The Earthscan Risk in Society Series

   This book aims to encourage a more reflective, multidisciplinary approach to public safety, and the 'reenfranchisement' of those affected by this new phenomenon. Over the past decade health and safety has become a major issue of public interest. There are countless stories of health and safety...

   Published September 6th 2011 by Routledge
10. Leadership for Environmental Sustainability

    Edited by Benjamin W. Redekop

    Series: Routledge Studies in Business Ethics

    As the first book in the field of leadership studies to approach sustainability as a multi-faceted leadership challenge, Leadership for Environmental Sustainability will help to set the terms of the discussion on this topic among students, scholars, and practitioners of leadership for years to come...

    Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge