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Environmental Management
Readings and Cases

Second Edition


September 2008 | 680 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Increased concern about the natural environment has led to an urgent call for organizations to take action toward environmental stewardship. This Second Edition of the groundbreaking Environmental Management: Readings and Cases will inspire readers to find creative solutions to the challenges of maintaining sustainable enterprise while restoring our ecological community. Featuring a highly esteemed group of contributors with content from premier journals —including Harvard Business Review –this comprehensive reader fills a major gap in the teaching of business and the environment.

New to the Second Edition:

  • More than two-thirds of the book consists of new material, addressing emerging and timely topics like environmental regulation, green marketing, environmental strategy, and more
  • The book features 11 new cases, providing a platform for lively classroom discussion
  • This edition adds a stronger international component, highlighting the global nature of environmental management

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Instructor Resources on CD provide in-depth teaching notes for both the readings and the cases, course development guides including outlines, and helpful charts providing visual links between readings, cases that have been developed by the author, and popular topics. IRCDs are available to qualified instructors only by contacting Customer Care at 1-800-818-SAGE (7243) between 6 am – 5 pm, PT.

Intended Audience
This reader serves as a stand-alone or supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate or graduate courses such as Environmental Management, Green Marketing, Clean Production, Environmental Policy and Strategy, and other courses in business and environmental studies.


 
Preface
 
PART I The Big Picture
Stuart L. Hart
1. Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World
Thinking Globally and Inclusively About Sustainable Business Practices

 
L. Hunter Lovins
2. The Business Case for Climate Protection
Why Businesses Should Proactively Address the Climate Change Challenge

 
Elizabeth Economy and Kenneth Lieberthal
3. Scorched Earth: Will Environmental Risks in China Overwhelm Its Opportunities?
The China Factor in the Environmental Equation

 
John Elkington
4. The Triple Bottom Line: Sustainability’s Accountants
The Imperative for Companies to Perform Well on Multiple Dimensions

 
 
PART II Institutional and International Perspectives
Garrett Hardin
5. The Tragedy of the Commons
The Classic Discussion of Population and Common Resources

 
Paul R. Portney
6. EPA and the Evolution of Federal Regulation
Regulation and Economic Models for Meeting Pollution Reduction Goals

 
Timothy J. Brennan
7. Discounting the Future: Economics and Ethics
A Critical Analysis of the Practice of Discounting in Economic Analysis

 
Marc A. Levy
8. Measuring Nations’ Environmental Sustainability
Quantifying and Ranking National Environmental Performance

 
Daniel C. Esty
9. Bridging the Trade-Environment Debate
Capturing the Benefits of Free Trade While Protecting the Environment

 
Henrik Selin and Stacy D. VanDeveer
10. Raising Global Standards: Hazardous Substances and E-Waste Management in the European Union
A European Approach to Toxics Regulation

 
 
PART III Managing to be Environmentally Responsive
Andrew W. Hoffman
11. Strategy Originates Within the Organization
Behavioral and Cultural Dimensions in Environmental Strategy

 
Bob Willard
12. Objection-Handling Clinic on Inhibiters to the Next Wave
A Script for Overcoming Organizational Nay-Sayers

 
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
13. The Next Industrial Revolution
Capitalism that Recognizes and Appreciates Living Systems

 
Forest Reinhardt
14. Environmental Product Differentiation: Implications for Corporate Strategy
When Will a Green Product Strategy Pay Off?

 
David L. Rainey
15. Transparency, Openness, and Accountability: A Imperative
Appreciating the Need for Broad Access to More Information

 
Kellie Fox, Beth Littlehales, and Ryan Keenan
16. A Primer on the Global Reporting Initiative
The Emerging Standard for Company Sustainability Report

 
Inc. Magazine
17. The Eco-Advantage
Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainability Opportunities

 
The Natural Marketing Institute
18. Excerpts from the 2006 Understanding the LOHAS Market Report
Appreciating the Characteristics of Green Consumers

 
Jacquelyn A. Ottman, Edwin R. Stafford, and Cathy L. Hartmann
19. Avoiding Green Marketing Myopia: Ways to Improve Consumer Appeal for Environmentally Preferable Products
How Win in the Marketplace for Green Products

 
Dennis A. Rondinelli and Ted London
20. How Corporations and Environmental Groups Collaborate
How Stakeholders Collaborations Can Improve Environmental Outcomes

 
C. K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart
21. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
The Vast Potential in Serving the World’s Poor

 
 
PART IV Technical Perspectives
Brain Nattrass and Mary Altomare
22 A Framework for Management
Unifying Scientific Principles with Sustainability

 
Environmental Protection Agency
23. An Introduction to Environmental Accounting as A Business Management Tool
A Tool Kit for Incorporating the Environment into Accounting Practice

 
Susan Svoboda
24. Note on Life-Cycle Analysis
A Methodology for Identifying All Costs Across the Life of Products

 
Thomas E. Graedel and Braden R. Allenby
25. The LCA Impact and Interpretation Stages
Quantifying Life Cycle Impacts and Comparing Alternatives

 
William McDonough and Michael Braungart
26. A World of Abundance
Viewing Environmental Stewardship as a Design Challenge

 
Stefan Schaltegger, Roger Burritt, and Holger Petersen
27. Environmental Management Systems and Eco-Control
Tools for Bringing Environmental Performance to Facility Operations

 
 
PART V Cases
Michael V. Russo
28. Pacific Lumber Company
Christopher A. Cummings, Barbara L. Marcus, R. Edward Freeman, and Jason Lunday
29. Oil in the Ecuadorean Rainforest
Aileen Ionescu-Somers, Wolfgang Amann, and Ulrich Steger
30. Hindustan Lever (A): Leaping a Millennium
Christopher H. Stinson
31. Cost Accounting and Hazardous Waste at Specialty Glass, Inc.
Forest Reinhardt
32. Southern Company: Acid Rain
Daniel R.Goldstein and Michael V. Russo
33. Seventh Generation: Balancing Customer Expectations with Supply Chain Realities
Magali Delmas and Erica Plambeck
34. Environment Product Differentiation by the Hayward Lumber Company
Derek O. Reiber and Michael V. Russo
35. Coastwide Laboratories: Clean and Green
Alexander Nick, Oliver Salzmann, and Ulrich Steger
36. Transforming the Global Fishing Industry: The Marine Stewardship Council at Full Sail?
Eva Collins, Steve Bowden, and Kate Kearins
37. Phoenix Organic: Valuing Sustainability while Desiring Growth
Paul Hardy and Stuart L. Hart
38. Deja Shoe (A)
Jens Hamprecht and Daniel Corsten
39. Supply Chain Strategy and Sustainability: The Migros Palm Oil Case
Murray Silverman and Tom Lanphar
40. Benziger Family Winery
Panfeng Chen, Priya Narayan, and Luk N. Wassenhove
41. The WEEE Challenge
Pierre Batellier and Emmanuel Raufflet
42. Cascades Environmental Strategy in 2006: At the Crossroads
 
43. Procter & Gamble Inc: Disposable and Reusable Diapers—A Life-Cycle Analysis Management Institute for Environment and Business
Sandra Rothenberg, Michael Lenox, Benjamin Jordan, and Frank Field III
44. Alpha Motors, Ltd.: Integrating Life-Cycle Environmental Concerns Into Product Design
 
About the Editor

The book is extremely interesting since its approach is based in a set of case studies thus making the understanding of the subjects more appealing

Professor Alzira Dinis
Faculty of Science and Technology, Fernando Pessoa University
May 6, 2014

The book provides a good mixture of theoretical and practical material from a wide range of perspectives. Whilst it is not necessarily suited as a core text, it is definitely valuable material in supplementing essential texts.

Dr Sigrun Wagner
School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London
June 27, 2012

It supports the course rather well but does not cover all aspects of CSR.

Professor Gyongyi Kovacs
Marketing, Hanken School of Economics
September 20, 2010

Although this book's content is too specific, while at the same time too comprehensive for my course, I think it has volumes of great information. The chapter most applicable to the course I teach is chapter 5. In addition, my course is based to a large degree on "place-based" environmental education because it is an introductory course.

This book would make a great text for course with global perspectives and those that are upper level courses.

Dr Jeffrey Walsh
Recreation Dept, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
January 26, 2010