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Further Readings on Business & Sustainable Development

Steering Business Toward Sustainability. Llanham, MD: United Nations University Press, 1995. 191 p.

Sustainability, in its ecological and social components, poses business an inescapable challenge: without sustainability there will soon be no more profits. In this book, the authors outline new practical approaches that business and society must take to meet this challenge.

Cannibals with Forks: the Triple Bottom Line of 21st. Century Business. London, UK: SustainAbility, 1997.

Outlines the triple bottom line methodology -- accounting for a bottom line that includes economic prosperity, environmental quality and social justice.

The Ecology of Commerce : a Declaration of Sustainability. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. 250 p.

Argues that every commercial act in today’s industrial society degrades the environment, and what is needed is a business system where the opposite is true, where the everyday acts of work and production accumulate in a better world as a matter of course. Outlines a series of economic strategies and innovations.

Greening the Boardroom: Corporate Environmental Governance and Business Sustainability. Sheffield, England: Greenleaf Publishing, 1997. 251 p.

Examines corporate environmental governance issues through case studies on environ-mental strategies and leadership and the international and global dimensions of corporate environmental management. It also includes chapters on business decision-support and stakeholder theory and strategic corporate communications.

The Earthscan Reader in Business and the Environment. London, UK: Earthscan, 1996. 284 p.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to business and the environment. It includes chapters by leading writers in the field and covers such topics as business strate-gies, research, development and technology and techniques for environmental improvement.

Tomorrow: The Global Environment Magzine. Stockholm: Tomorrow Media, v. http://www.tomorrow-web.com.

Provides current information on business and sustainable development worldwide.