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Sustainability, Stakeholder Governance, and Corporate Social Responsibility
Scholarly interest in the areas of sustainability, stakeholder relations and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increased considerably in recent years.In this volume, we take a step back to consider the fundamental questions that underlie and tie research across these areas together.The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of theoretical perspectives grounded in strategy, economics and sociology, employ various methodological approaches, and offer new arguments on the connections that exist between firms’ decisions relating to sustainability, CSR, and the governance of their stakeholder relations.The chapters in this volume highlight that business decisions relating to sustainability and CSR are ultimately decisions about the governance of stakeholder relations, and suggest that future work in these areas should consider more closely both the firms and their stakeholders as strategic actors driving firm decisions.
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Girl Power : Sustainability, Empowerment, and Justice
Power. Gender. Sustainability. This Element harnesses powerful new data about gender and sustainability, presents inspiring stories of empowerment, and introduces a framework for building empowerment muscles.First, from a pioneering global survey, it unveils three shocking truths about young women's empowerment.It also compiles significant data on systemic gender disempowerment intersecting environmental degradation, violence, and exclusion, as well as profound societal impact if girls and women were fully empowered.Second, from climate activist Greta Thunberg to the all girl Afghan robotics team, the #NeverAgain movement against gun violence, and the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, today's empowered girls are a transformative force for change.Each modeling a distinct skill - an empowerment muscle - seven case studies present empowerment muscles of focus, solidarity, hope, courage, advocacy, endurance, and healing.Third, unlike most works using empowerment nebulously, this Element concretizes empowerment - a set of muscles each reader can build and strengthen through 'workout' training exercises.
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Water Management : Prioritizing Justice and Sustainability
Flooding in California. Drought and famine in the Horn of Africa. Massive fish kills in Texas and Australia. “Foreverchemicals” in US drinking water. Similar headlines are sure to dominate the news in the years ahead.What is sometimesmissing from the headlines, though, is an understanding that these diverse problems are related: manifestations of seriousunderlying stresses on our water systems.These stresses require sustained attention from water managers, scientists,policymakers, and the public, even after the headlines have faded.That attention, in turn, requires a sharedunderstanding of how water systems function, the problems facing them, and the tools available to increase theirresilience. This text fills that need by providing the necessary knowledge base for understanding and managing complex waterproblems.It is geared primarily towards students in water management courses at the undergraduate and graduate levelsbut will also be a helpful resource for practicing water professionals who want to get new ideas or a broader view of thesubject. Rather than focusing on one type of water problem (as many water books do), this text explores the entire gamut of waterissues, from dams to desalination, from flooding to famine, from prior appropriation to pumped storage, from sanitationto stormwater. And rather than teaching from one disciplinary perspective (as many water books do), it looks at waterproblems through a variety of lenses: hydrology, climate science, ecology, and engineering, but also law, economics,history, and environmental justice.The result is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to one of the most critical anddemanding challenges of our time: developing just and sustainable solutions to water management.
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Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance : Multidisciplinary Perspectives
The inaction of nation states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment.By contrast, cities are sites of action and innovation.In Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance, contributors researching in the areas of law, urban planning, geography, and philosophy identify approaches for tackling many of the most challenging environmental problems facing cities today. Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance facilitates two strands of dialogue about climate change.First, it integrates legal perspectives into policy debates about urban sustainability and governance, from which law has typically stood apart.Second, it brings case studies from Quebec into a rare conversation with examples drawn from elsewhere in Canada. The collection proposes humane and inclusive processes for arriving at effective policy outcomes.Some chapters examine governance mechanisms that reconcile clashes of incommensurable values and resolve conflicts about collective interests.Other chapters provide platforms for social movements that have faced obstacles to communicating to a broad public.The collection’s proposals respond to drastic changes in urban environments.Some changes are imminent. Others are upon us already. All threaten the present and future well-being of urban communities.
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What is sustainability?
Sustainability is the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It involves finding a balance between social, economic, and environmental factors to ensure that resources are used in a way that preserves them for the long term. This can include practices such as reducing waste, conserving natural resources, and promoting renewable energy sources. Overall, sustainability aims to create a world where people and the planet can thrive together for generations to come.
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What distinguishes strong sustainability from the normal concept of sustainability?
Strong sustainability goes beyond the traditional concept of sustainability by emphasizing the importance of maintaining the integrity of natural systems and the well-being of future generations. It recognizes that certain natural resources and ecological processes are irreplaceable and cannot be substituted by human-made alternatives. Strong sustainability also prioritizes the protection of biodiversity and the resilience of ecosystems, rather than solely focusing on reducing environmental impacts or achieving short-term economic gains. In essence, strong sustainability requires a more holistic and long-term approach to environmental and social stewardship, placing a greater emphasis on intergenerational equity and the preservation of essential ecological functions.
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What are sustainability strategies?
Sustainability strategies are plans and actions implemented by organizations to minimize their negative impact on the environment, society, and economy, while maximizing their positive contributions. These strategies often involve setting goals for reducing carbon emissions, waste, and resource consumption, as well as promoting social responsibility and ethical business practices. Sustainability strategies can also include efforts to engage with stakeholders, such as employees, customers, and local communities, to ensure that their needs and concerns are taken into account. Overall, sustainability strategies aim to create long-term value for both the organization and the broader ecosystem in which it operates.
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What is economic sustainability?
Economic sustainability refers to the ability of an economy to support current and future generations by balancing economic growth with social and environmental responsibility. It involves ensuring that resources are used efficiently and equitably to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. This includes promoting long-term economic development, reducing inequality, and minimizing negative impacts on the environment. Overall, economic sustainability aims to create a stable and resilient economy that can thrive over the long term.
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Governance, Stewardship and Sustainability : Theory, Practice and Evidence
The first introductory practical guide of its kind, this book brings together principles of corporate governance, investor stewardship and enterprise sustainability in the context of institutional investment. Stewardship codes are developing in diverse markets to provide a framework for responsible institutional investment practices and fiduciary duties for beneficiaries.While codes provide a starting point, the application of stewardship in practical terms can be challenging for many institutional investors.Written by two well-known corporate governance experts, George Dallas and Mike Lubrano, and based on the ICGN training course on stewardship that they developed, this book gives needed clarity, rigor and guidance to practitioners about what we know—and don't know—about stewardship, governance and sustainability.It explores the theoretical foundations of stewardship, linking these to day-to-day decision-making and providing real-life examples and practical tools to evaluate issues that arise for companies from an environmental, social and governance perspective and generate ideas about how to make investor stewardship a practical reality in similar cases. Investor stewardship and ESG professionals, portfolio managers, senior managers, regulators and finance students will appreciate this unique guide to developing, refining and operationalising investor stewardship capabilities in line with the respected and internationally recognised ICGN policy framework.
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Cultivating Food Justice : Race, Class, and Sustainability
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives. Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement urges us to support sustainable agriculture by eating fresh food produced on local family farms.But many low-income neighborhoods and communities of color have been systematically deprived of access to healthy and sustainable food.These communities have been actively prevented from producing their own food and often live in "food deserts" where fast food is more common than fresh food.Cultivating Food Justice describes their efforts to envision and create environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives to the food system.Bringing together insights from studies of environmental justice, sustainable agriculture, critical race theory, and food studies, Cultivating Food Justice highlights the ways race and class inequalities permeate the food system, from production to distribution to consumption.The studies offered in the book explore a range of important issues, including agricultural and land use policies that systematically disadvantage Native American, African American, Latino/a, and Asian American farmers and farmworkers; access problems in both urban and rural areas; efforts to create sustainable local food systems in low-income communities of color; and future directions for the food justice movement.These diverse accounts of the relationships among food, environmentalism, justice, race, and identity will help guide efforts to achieve a just and sustainable agriculture.
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The New Environmental Economics : Sustainability and Justice
Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness.When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of efficiency that leaves aside issues of distributional analysis and justice. The aim of this lucid textbook is to provide a framework that prioritizes human well-being within the limits of the biosphere, and to rethink economic analysis and policy in the light of not just efficiency but equity.Leading economist Éloi Laurent systematically ties together sustainability and justice issues in covering a wide range of topics, from biodiversity and ecosystems, energy and climate change, environmental health and environmental justice, to new indicators of well-being and sustainability beyond GDP and growth, social-ecological transition, and sustainable urban systems. This book equips readers with ideas and tools from various disciplines alongside economics, such as history, political science, and philosophy, and invites them to apply those insights in order to understand and eventually tackle pressing twenty-first-century challenges.It will be an invaluable resource for students of environmental economics and policy, and sustainable development.
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The Vegetarian Myth : Food, Justice and Sustainability
The vegetarian diet is praised for being sustainable and animal-friendly, but after 20 years of being a vegan, Lierre Keith has changed her opinion.Contravening popular opinion, she bravely argues that agriculture is a relentless assault against the planet.In service to annual grains, humans have devastated prairies and forests, driven countless species extinct, altered the climate, and destroyed the topsoil - the basis of growth and life itself.
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What does political sustainability mean?
Political sustainability refers to the ability of a political system or government to maintain stability and continuity over time. It involves ensuring that policies and decisions are made with the long-term well-being of society in mind, rather than focusing solely on short-term gains. Political sustainability also involves fostering trust and cooperation among different political actors, as well as promoting transparency and accountability in governance to ensure the system's resilience and effectiveness.
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Is sustainability important to you?
Yes, sustainability is very important to me. I believe that we have a responsibility to take care of the environment and ensure that future generations have a healthy planet to live on. I try to make sustainable choices in my daily life, such as reducing waste, conserving energy, and supporting eco-friendly products and practices. I believe that small individual actions can make a big difference in creating a more sustainable world.
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What is a sustainability triangle?
A sustainability triangle is a concept that represents the interconnected relationship between environmental, social, and economic sustainability. It emphasizes the idea that in order for a system or activity to be truly sustainable, it must consider and balance all three aspects. Environmental sustainability focuses on minimizing negative impacts on the natural world, social sustainability looks at the well-being and equity of people, and economic sustainability considers the financial viability of a system. The sustainability triangle encourages a holistic approach to decision-making and problem-solving, taking into account the long-term implications on the environment, society, and economy.
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What about sustainability in banks?
Sustainability in banks refers to their commitment to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles in their operations and decision-making processes. Banks can promote sustainability by incorporating ESG criteria into their lending and investment practices, supporting green initiatives, and reducing their own carbon footprint. By integrating sustainability into their business models, banks can contribute to a more sustainable and responsible financial system that addresses key global challenges such as climate change and social inequality. Additionally, banks that prioritize sustainability may also benefit from improved risk management, enhanced reputation, and increased customer loyalty.
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