Business and Environmental Sustainability
Foundations, Challenges and Corporate Functions

Environmental sustainability is increasingly important to organisations, whether for regulatory, financial or ethical reasons. Business and Environmental Sustainability looks at the environmental aspect of sustainability for all organisations pursuing competitive advantage. The book provides theoretical foundations from science, economics, policy and strategy, introduces three environmental challenges (climate change, pollution and waste) and looks at how corporate functions can address these.

This textbook provides a thorough foundation by introducing readers to the science, reasoning and theory behind environmental sustainability and then delves into how these ideas translate into principles and business models for organisations to use. Next, it covers environmental challenges from climate change, pollution and waste, and then goes on to examine the different corporate functions (from supply chain management to human resources) to illustrate how environmental sustainability is managed and put into practice in organisations. Finally, a set of integrative case studies draws everything together and enables the reader to apply various analytical tools, with the aim of understanding how companies can not only reduce their environmental footprint but can positively contribute to environmental sustainability.

Written by an award-winning lecturer, Business and Environmental Sustainability boasts a wealth of pedagogical features, including examples from a range of industries and countries, plus a companion website with slides, quiz questions and instructor material. This will be a valuable text for students of business, management and environmental sustainability and will also be suitable for broader courses on corporate responsibility and sustainability across environmental studies, political science and engineering.

Introduction 1. Introduction: The Past and the present Part I Foundations Introduction to part I 2. Theoretical perspectives from economics and science 3. Principles, philosophies and policies for corporate environmental sustainability 4. Strategies and business models for sustainability Part II Environmental Challenges Introduction to part II 5. Climate Change 6. Pollution 7. Waste Part III Corporate Functions Introduction to part III 8. Supply chain management for sustainability 9. Design, production and operations – greener and (c)leaner 10. Marketing, communication and sustainable consumption 11. Information technology and management systems for the environment 12. Accounting – sustainability reporting, accounting and finance 13. Human resource management for environmental sustainability Part IV: Conclusion Introduction to conclusion 14. Integrative case studies 15. Conclusion: The future

Sigrun M. Wagner is Senior Lecturer in International Business and Sustainability at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, and Head of the Department for Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship in the School of Business and Management.