THE EARTHSCAN READER IN BUSINESS & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

A study of business and sustainable development. It contains contributions on issues rapidly coming to dominate business strategy and organization, including: resource efficiency; clean production; life cycle analysis; social and environmental accountability; corporate reporting; and trade. Contents: Section 1 Overview: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford Beyond Greening, Strategies for a Sustainable World - Stuart L. Hart • The "Triple Bottom Line for 21st-century Business" - John Elkington. Section 2 Business Opportunities: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford • Bringing the Environment Down to Earth - Forest Reinhardt • The Imperfect Market - Ernst Ulrich von Weizs cker, Amory B Lovins and L Hunter Lovins • A Road Map for Natural Capitalism - Amory B Lovins, L Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken • The Firm, its Routines and the Environment - H Landis Gabel and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagne. Section 3 Environmental and Social Accounting: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford • What is Social Accounting? - Rob Gray, Dave Owen and Carol Adams • The Green Bottom Line - Martin Bennett and Peter James • Struggling with the Praxis of Social Accounting: Stakeholders, Accountability, Audits and Procedures - Rob Gray, Colin Dey, Dave Owen, Richard Evans and Simon Zadek • Balancing Performance, Ethics and Accountability - Simon Zadek. Section 4 Critical Perspectives: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford • Multinational Corporations' Impacts on the Environment and Communities in the Developing World - a Synthesis of the Contemporary Debate - Titus Moser and Damian Miller • The Responsibility of Business to the Whole - David C. Korten • Global Spin - Sharon Beder • Mixed Messages - Carl Frankel • Getting Engaged - Business-NGO Relations on Sustainable Development - David F. Murphy and Jem Bendell. Section 5 Trade and Sustainable Development: Introduction - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford16. Business, Trade and the Environment - an Agenda for Stability in World Trade - Paul Ekins • Reaping the Benefits - Trade Opportunities of Developing-country Producers from Sustainable Consumption and Production - Nick Robins and Sarah Roberts • Conclusion - Win-Win Revisited, a Buddhist Perspective - Richard Starkey and Richard Welford.