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Organizational ethics: a practical approach
By Craig E. Johnson
Paperback: 544 pages, £47.99
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: July 2015
ISBN: 1483344401
Organizational Ethics shows how to develop ethical expertise and provides opportunities to practice problem-solving to defend decisions. Written in a reader-friendly style, the book introduces moral theories used in ethical problem-solving; examines individual motivations; looks at the ethical dilemmas of groups, teams, and leaders as well as offers strategies for creating ethical cultures and promoting social responsibility.
Chemicals without harm: policies for a sustainable world
By Ken Geiser
Hardcover: 464 pages, £41.95
Publisher: MIT Press
Publisher: July 2015
ISBN: 0262012529
Today, there are thousands of synthetic chemicals used to make clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronic devices, even children's toys, and some of these are also persistent, toxic, and dangerous to our health and the environment. Geiser develops a safer chemicals policy framework that includes characterizing, classifying, and prioritizing chemicals; generating and using new chemical information; and promoting transitions to safer chemicals.
Energy and transport in green transition
By Atle Midttun (Ed.) and Nina Witoszek (Ed.)
Hardcover: 220 pages, £85.00
Publisher: Routledge
Published: July 2015
ISBN: 1138793434
This book advocates a new, overarching vision and agenda of ecomodernity – based on a synergistic paradigm-shift in industry, politics and culture – to trigger and sustain the ecological innovation necessary to tip development in a green direction. This vision is not monolithic and reflects the diverse interests and conditions of the global population.
Development-oriented corporate social responsibility
By Dima Jamali, Charlotte Karam and Michael Blowfield
Paperback: 256 pages, £35.00
Publisher: Greenleaf Publishing
Published: July 2015
ISBN: 1783534761
Globalisation and the professionalisation of CSR have led to a surge of CSR activities claiming to support development across the globe. This book explores the multi-level and multi-stakeholder dynamics involved in shaping the complex interface between multinational corporations and possibilities for CSR-related development.
Sustainable stoke: transitions to sustainability in the surfing world
Dr Gregory Bourne (ed.) and Jess Ponting (ed.)
Kindle Edition: 3832 KB, £10.07
Publisher: University of Plymouth Press
Published: July 2015
More than 40 of the most influential figures from the surf industry, academia, non-profits, and the surfing community have contributed to create a book that explores the cutting edge of the surfing world’s transition to sustainability. Systematically explores how the surfing culture and industry impacts on social, economic and environmental areas of life at both international and local levels.
When corporations rule the world
By David C Korten
Paperback: Special Edition, 384 pages, 14.79
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler
Published: July 2015
ISBN: 1626562873
We humans live by stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society set us on a path to certain self-destruction. Korten explains the transformative impact of adopting the story that our health and well-being depend on an economy that works in partnership with the processes by which Earth’s community of life maintains the conditions of its own existence - and ours.
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