Sustainability Perspectives for Resources and Business - Softcover

Loucks, Orie L.; Erekson, O. Homer; Bol, Jan Willem; Gorman, Raymond F.; Johnson, Pamela C.; Krenbiel, Timothy C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574440586 ISBN 13: 9781574440584

Publisher: CRC Press, 1998

Synopsis

Miami University in Oxford, Ohio offers a course entitled "Sustainability Perspectives," based on this text. The course was awarded "The Instructional Innovation Award" at the 1996 annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, an association of Decision Science professionals headquartered at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

The 1990's have seen the development of important new approaches to sustaining corporate development and protecting the environment. Corporations are beginning to realize their responsibilities for a healthy environment. Sustainable development is viewed as an integrated, ecological, economic, and social system in which both economic growth and quality-of-life improvements can occur in a unified system complementary to the maintenance of natural capital. Sustainability Perspectives for Resources and Businesses shows the reader that a sound understanding of the concepts involved in sustainable development is beneficial to businesses, natural resources, and the population in general.
This textbook was written to help students and professionals involved in business, science, or engineering to understand the changes occurring in the workplace. It serves as a step toward understanding how business and science, as professional communities, are adapting to new information about risks to the environment. Various chapters are devoted to resources, values, and valuation systems. Each section develops principles such as resilience and integrity in the economy and the environment.

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Review:

..."The book bridges the gap between ecology/environmental science and economy. A blueprint for making good environmental and business decisions in the 21st century...describes how many issues can be resolved as win/win with a longer term perspective, dialogue, and education of all the stakeholders..."-Graham Mitchell, Director of the Ohio EPA

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1574440586
• ISBN 13: 9781574440584
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396