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Eco-Business: A Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability
by Dauvergne, Peter; Lister, Jane | HC | Good
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- Hardcover
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 9780262018760
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics, Référence, Political Science
- Publication Name
- Eco-Business : a Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Subject
- Consumer Guides, Green Business, Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Development / Sustainable Development
- Publication Year
- 2013
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- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 11.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 204 Pages
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Two experts explain the consequences for the planet when corporations use sustainability as a business tool. McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever seeks to achieve 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing by 2020. Walmart has pledged to become carbon neutral. Big-brand companies seem to be making commitments that go beyond the usual "greenwashing" efforts undertaken largely for public-relations purposes. In Eco-Business, Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister examine this new corporate embrace of sustainability, its actual accomplishments, and the consequences for the environment. For many leading-brand companies, these corporate sustainability efforts go deep, reorienting central operations and extending through global supply chains. Yet, as Dauvergne and Lister point out, these companies are doing this not for the good of the planet but for their own profits and market share in a volatile, globalized economy. They are using sustainability as a business tool. Dauvergne and Lister show that the eco-efficiencies achieved by big-brand companies limit the potential for finding deeper solutions to pressing environmental problems and reinforce runaway consumption. Eco-business promotes the sustainability of big business, not the sustainability of life on Earth.
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Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262018764
ISBN-13
9780262018760
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143624428
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Eco-Business : a Big-Brand Takeover of Sustainability
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Consumer Guides, Green Business, Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Development / Sustainable Development
Publication Year
2013
Type
Not Available
Subject Area
Business & Economics, Référence, Political Science
Number of Pages
204 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
11.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2012-026833
Lc Classification Number
Hc79.E5.D346 2013
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College Graduate Student
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Authoritative....A remarkably hype- and jargon-free look at the pros and cons of today's corporate eco-sustainability movement., "Eco-Business provides a wealth of examples of the business actions of all the bigplayers from Walmart and McDonald's through to Ikea and Unilever: if you want to know how Coca-Colamanages its water supply, this is the book to read. The authors are detailed and precise in issuessuch as where companies have achieved their own sustainability targets and where they have fallenshort - all of them, it seems, promising to do better while aggressively marketing products such asnappies, soft drinks and bottled waters to new consumers around the world." -- IsabelleSzmigin , Times Higher Education, Eco-Business provides a wealth of examples of the business actions of all the big players from Walmart and McDonald's through to Ikea and Unilever: if you want to know how Coca-Cola manages its water supply, this is the book to read. The authors are detailed and precise in issues such as where companies have achieved their own sustainability targets and where they have fallen short--all of them, it seems, promising to do better while aggressively marketing products such as nappies, soft drinks and bottled waters to new consumers around the world., "Eco-Business provides a wealth of examples of the business actions of all the big players from Walmart and McDonald's through to Ikea and Unilever: if you want to know how Coca-Cola manages its water supply, this is the book to read. The authors are detailed and precise in issues such as where companies have achieved their own sustainability targets and where they have fallen short - all of them, it seems, promising to do better while aggressively marketing products such as nappies, soft drinks and bottled waters to new consumers around the world." -- Isabelle Szmigin , Times Higher Education, McDonald's promises to use only beef, coffee, fish, chicken, and cooking oil obtained from sustainable sources. Coca-Cola promises to achieve water neutrality. Unilever has set a deadline of 2020 to reach 100 percent sustainable agricultural sourcing. Walmart has pledged to become carbon neutral. Today, big-brand companies seem to be making commitments that go beyond the usual "greenwashing" efforts undertaken largely for public relations purposes. In Eco-Business, Peter Dauvergne and Jane Lister examine this new corporate embrace of sustainability, its actual accomplishments, and the consequences for the environment. For many leading-brand companies, these corporate sustainability efforts go deep, reorienting central operations and extending through global supply chains. Yet, as Dauvergne and Lister point out, these companies are doing this not for the good of the planet but for their own profits and market share in a volatile, globalized economy. They are using sustainability as a business tool. Advocacy groups and governments are partnering with these companies, eager to reap the governance potential of eco-business efforts. But Dauvergne and Lister show that the acclaimed eco-efficiencies achieved by big-brand companies limit the potential for finding deeper solutions to pressing environmental problems and reinforce runaway consumption. Eco-business promotes the sustainability of big business, not the sustainability of life on Earth., Eco-Business provides a wealth of examples of the business actions of all the big players from Walmart and McDonald's through to Ikea and Unilever: if you want to know how Coca-Cola manages its water supply, this is the book to read. The authors are detailed and precise in issues such as where companies have achieved their own sustainability targets and where they have fallen short -- all of them, it seems, promising to do better while aggressively marketing products such as nappies, soft drinks and bottled waters to new consumers around the world.
Copyright Date
2013
Dewey Decimal
658.4083
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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