Product Description

Explores how business and the environment interact. It assumes no previous knowledge of business studies and includes boxed case-studies ranging from local enterprise to multinational companies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #785959 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-21
• Released on: 2000-09-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
"The strengths of "Environment and Business include the clarity with which the authors make their points, enhanced by frequent subtle humor, particularly from chapter 3 onward. In addition, the figures and diagrams provide very effective visual depictions of relationships among concepts described in the text, while boxes present helpful case studies. "The Professional Geographer."
""Environment and Business is a coherent textbook (with appendixes of useful web sites and further reading), and it is among the best of those now available.."
-Environment, December 2001

From the Back Cover
Increasingly, the public are becoming aware of the interactions and conflicts between business and the environment. Controversies, such as BSE, fox hunting and GM crops, highlight the growing importance these issues are assuming in everyday life. Further examples are government transport policy and the growing tourism and leisure industries. At the same time, the public are now consumers of the environment, for which they are willing to pay. Business has seen the need to take on a 'green mantle', while at the same time the environmental movement has refined its opinions of business.
Environment and Business examines in depth the ways in which business, industry, the physical environment, environmentalism and social change have evolved alongside each other. Business responses to environmental influences fall within a spectrum, between attempts to ignore external pressures, to viewing the changes as an opportunity. Business is not seen as a uniform activity. Many books restrict their coverage to the manufacturing industry's relationship with the environment, this innovative text widens the debate. Special attention is paid to both the primary industries which are in close contact with the environment and to the tertiary industries which now make up the bulk of the economy and which are shown to be subjected to environmental influences in numerous ways.
Environment and Business assumes no previous knowledge of business studies, to discuss how businesses and the environment interact. It introduces students to a range of beliefs, rather than advocating a single approach. The authors use boxed case studies to highlight how business practice and the environment interact at levels from local to global, with examples from multi-national companies, government bodies, national charities and local enterprise. The book also contains a large number of informative diagrams.

Customer Reviews

A Handbook for Environmental Business
This book provides an excellent review of the various pressures that arecontinually being places on todays businesses and the effect of suchpressures on industry.
It is a well-written guide to the current environmental problems beingfaced by businesses and covers everything from regulation and economics,environmental strategy and green marketing to the future of sustainablebusiness.
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the world ofenvironmentally sustainable business. It's a must-have.