- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (106 entries) : 17 images, digital files.
- Summary
- Contains rich analysis of how sustainability is being factored into industries across the globe, with enlightening case studies of businesses serving as agents of change.
- Series Statement
- Encyclopedia of sustainability ; v. 2
- Uniform Title
- Berkshire encyclopedia of sustainability. Volume 2, The business of sustainability (Online)
- Encyclopedia of sustainability ; v. 2.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical referenceses.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on title page of print version.
- Contents
- Accounting -- Activism : NGOs -- Agriculture -- Airline industry -- Automobile industry -- Base of the pyramid -- Bicycle industry -- Biomimicry -- Biotechnology industry -- Building standards, green -- Cap-and-trade legislation -- Cement industry -- Chemistry, green -- Climate change disclosure -- Community capital -- Consumer behavior -- Corporate citizenship -- Cradle to cradle -- CSR and CSR 2.0 -- Data centers -- Design, industrial -- Design, landscape -- Development, rural : developed world -- Development, rural : developing world -- Development, sustainable -- Development, urban -- Ecolabeling -- Ecological economics -- Ecosystem services -- Education, business -- Education, higher -- Energy efficiency -- Energy industries : overview of renewables -- Energy industries : bioenergy -- Energy industries : coal -- Energy industries : geothermal -- Energy industries : hydroelectric -- Energy industries : hydrogen and fuel cells -- Energy industries : natural gas -- Energy industries : nuclear -- Energy industries : oil -- Energy industries : solar -- Energy industries : wave and tidal -- Energy industries : wind -- Equator principles -- Facilities management -- Fair trade -- Fast food industry -- Financial services industry -- Forest management industry -- Free trade -- Global reporting initiative (GRI) -- Green GDP -- Green-collar jobs -- Greenwashing -- Health care industry -- Health, public and environmental -- Hospitality industry -- Human rights -- Information and communication technologies (ICT) -- Integrated product development (IPD) -- Investment, cleantech -- Investment, socially responsible (SRI) -- Leadership -- Lifecycle assessments (LCAs) -- Local living economies -- Manufacturing practices -- Marketing -- Mining -- Municipalities -- Natural capitalism -- Natural step framework, the (TNSF) -- Packaging -- Peace through commerce : the role of the corporation -- Performance metrics -- Pharmaceutical industry -- Poverty -- Product-service systems (PSSs) -- Property and construction industry -- Public transportation -- Public-private partnerships -- Remanufacturing -- Risk management -- Smart growth -- Social enterprise -- Sporting goods industry -- Stakeholder theory -- Steel industry -- Supply chain management -- Sustainable value creation -- Telecommunications industry -- Textiles industry -- Transparency -- Travel and tourism industry -- Triple bottom line -- True cost economics -- United Nations Global Compact -- Water use and rights -- Zero waste.
- OCLC
- ssj0000412681
- Title
Berkshire encyclopedia of sustainability. Volume 2, The business of sustainability [electronic resource] / Chris Laszlo ... [et al.], editors.
- Imprint
Great Barrington, Mass. : Berkshire Pub. Group, c2010 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2011.)
- Series
Encyclopedia of sustainability ; v. 2
Encyclopedia of sustainability ; v. 2.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical referenceses.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on title page of print version.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Laszlo, Christopher.
Credo Reference (Firm)
- Other Form:
Print version: 1933782137 9781933782133 xxvi, 502 p. : ill.