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Dilemmas in Responsible Investment

Céline Louche and Steve Lydenberg

June 2011

The first book specifically written for teaching and professional training in responsible investment.

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Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles

Values, Design, Production and Consumption

Edited by Miguel Angel Gardetti and Ana Laura Torres

March 2013

This significant and wide-ranging book explores the different dimensions of the textile, clothing and fashion industry.

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Natural Corporate Management

From the Big Bang to Wall Street

William C. Frederick

November 2012

This ground-breaking book lets us in on the secret of the changing face of corporate management, providing an agenda of corporate actions to promote long-term sustainability and economic well-being for business, its stakeholders and citizens everywhere.

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Corporate Responsibility Coalitions

The Past, Present, and Future of Alliances for Sustainable Capitalism

David Grayson and Jane Nelson

January 2013

The first book to chronicle the progress and potential of business-led corporate responsibility coalitions.

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The Sustainable Business (2nd Edition)

A Practitioner's Guide to Achieving Long-Term Profitability and Competitiveness

Jonathan T. Scott

January 2013

The fundamentals of sustainability (waste elimination and resource extension) from a business application angle

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The Sustainable Business Workbook

Waste Elimination

Jonathan T. Scott and Walter R. Stahel

Janruary 2013

The companion to The Sustainable Business. Use this Workbook to increase your knowledge and understanding, subject-specific skills and personal and transferable skills

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Microfranchising

How Social Entrepreneurs are Building a New Road to Development

Edited by Nicolas Sireau

February 2011

Recently, social entrepreneurs have turned to the franchise model as one of the responses to Africa’s endemic economic stagnation. And the results have been inspiring....

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Changing Business from the Inside Out

A Treehugger’s Guide to Working in Corporations

Timothy J. Mohin

May 2012

Activists can accomplish more for the planet and society by serving as a voice of responsibility within the corporation rather than waving placards outside the factory gates. Corporations are clearly the drivers of the world economy, and the corporate responsibility practitioner has an essential role in bringing ethical and sustainable values to the C-suite..

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The Three Levels of Sustainability

Elena Cavagnaro and George Curiel

January 2012

The missing link in current debates around sustainability.

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability

Edited by Marcus Wagner

March 2012

High-quality research illuminating the relationship between the three fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability.

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Leadership for Sustainability

An Action Research Approach

Judi Marshall, Gill Coleman and Peter Reason

April 2011

Shows what an action research based practice of leadership for sustainability looks like and provides a sense of the personal and professional contributions and challenges this involves.

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The Global Carbon Crisis

Emerging Carbon Constraints and Strategic Management Options

Timo Busch and Paul Shrivastava

July 2011

Gets the message of the carbon crisis across to a business audience, succinctly translating important insights from the natural sciences, economics and equity discussions.

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Local Content in Procurement

Creating Local Jobs and Competitive Domestic Industries in Supply Chains

Dr Michael Warner

September 2011

Acknowledging that the employment and industrial benefits of large-scale procurement have been sorely overlooked, this book is both a how-to manual and a thoughtful insight into the challenge of creating sustainable jobs and competitive national industries through expenditure on bought-in goods and services.

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What is Sustainable Technology?

Perceptions, Paradoxes and Possibilities

Edited by Karel Mulder, Didac Ferrer and Harro van Lente

September 2011

The sustainability impact of a technology is often much more complicated and ambivalent than one might expect. This provocative book explores the dilemmas and paradoxes that face today’s designers of technology.

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From Me to We

The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life

Bob Doppelt

March 2012

"This is a thoughtful, timely and hugely significant contribution to today’s all-important politics of transformation." - Jonathon Porritt.

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The Corporate Responsibility Movement

Five Years of Global Corporate Responsibility Analysis from Lifeworth, 2001-2005

Jem Bendell et al.

March 2009

The highly praised Lifeworth Annual Reviews on CSR, now in one volume, with new overviews and analysis.

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The Map of Meaning

A Guide to Sustaining our Humanity in the World of Work

Marjolein Lips-Wiersma and Lani Morris

September 2011

A clear, simple and profound framework of the dimensions and process of living and working meaningfully..

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Evolving Partnerships

A Guide to Working with Business for Greater Social Change

Jem Bendell 

July 2011

Partnerships can work, but can they work better? This accessible guidebook distils the author’s key learnings on the advanced strategic planning of cross-sectoral partnerships.

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Embedded Sustainability

The Next Big Competitive Advantage

Chris Laszlo and Nadya Zhexembayeva

March 2011

Embedded Sustainability is a new way of thinking about strategy. And it’s vital for every sector of the economy – whether managers realize it or not..

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Sustainable Development for Engineers

A Handbook and Resource Guide

Edited by Karel Mulder

April 2006

“Excellent basic sustainable development and sustainability text for all — highly recommended.” Eagle Bulletin.

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The Social and Behavioural Aspects of Climate Change

Linking Vulnerability, Adaptation and Mitigation

Edited by Pim Martens and Chiung Ting Chang

September 2010

There is now a growing need for multi-disciplinary research and for the science of climate change to be usefully translated for policy-makers.

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Innovative CSR

From Risk Management to Value Creation

Edited by Céline Louche, Samuel O. Idowu and Walter Leal Filho

May 2010

"... utterly riveting, highly readable and well-structured ... Each paper is a gem." CSRwire

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New Perspectives on Human Security

Edited by Malcolm McIntosh and Alan Hunter

October 2010

New light on the human security agenda. With accelerating economic globalisation and information flows there is a need to revisit the concept. A new paradigm of Sustainable Human Security is required.

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The Corporate Responsibility Code Book

Revised Second Edition

Deborah Leipziger

July 2010

Revised second edition of the key reference text on corporate codes of conduct.

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System Innovation for Sustainability 3

Case Studies in Sustainable Consumption and Production — Food and Agriculture

Edited by Ursula Tischner, Eivind Stø, Unni Kjærnes and Arnold Tukker

July 2010

How can food production and consumption systems stay within the limits of the carrying capacity of our natural environment?

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The World Guide to CSR

A Country-by-Country Analysis of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility

Edited by Wayne Visser and Nick Tolhurst

June 2010

The first book to provide comparable national profiles that describe the evolution and practice of CSR for 58 countries and 5 global regions.

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Corporate Community Involvement

The Definitive Guide to Maximizing Your Business' Societal Engagement

Nick Lakin and Veronica Scheubel

March 2010

"I can't imagine a better guidebook for any company that plans to enter or improve its community relations" - Philip Kotler

A hands-on guide for those who want to do Community Involvement better: What works? Who to partner with? How can we make a difference?

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Getting it Right

Making Corporate–Community Relations Work

Luc Zandvliet and Mary B. Anderson

April 2009

Corporate–community relations in poor, unstable countries is an area fraught with problems for managers despite the best intentions. Based on seven years of on-the-ground research, this book will help corporate managers get it right.

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Stakeholder Politics

Social Capital, Sustainable Development, and the Corporation

Robert Boutilier

January 2009

"Stakeholder Politics can make a real difference to your business." - R. Edward Freeman

When corporate management tries to engage with stakeholders, they often encounter a world of hardball politics full of hostile activists, self-interested elites and unpredictable attacks. This 'how to' guide teaches managers how to both play stakeholder politics and collaborate with stakeholders towards sustainability goals - and identify and improve the social capital patterns in their own networks.

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Leading Change toward Sustainability [2nd edn]

A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society

Bob Doppelt

January 2010

One of the best books ever written about change management, leadership and sustainability in a new revised edition with a focus on de-carbonisation.

Ranked as “one of the best ten publications on sustainable development” (GlobeScan Survey of Sustainability Experts, 2004).

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Hybrid Organizations

New Business Models for Environmental Leadership

Brewster Boyd, Nina Henning, Emily Reyna, Daniel E. Wang, and Matthew D. Welch

June 2009

A glimpse into the future. Best-in-class case studies show how these new orgaizational models can achieve market- and mission-driven goals.

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Profession and Purpose

A Resource Guide for MBA Careers in Sustainability

Katie Kross

September 2009

The sustainability coach MBAs have been waiting for.

 “Profession and Purpose is an essential resource for connecting MBA students and graduates with careers that will literally reinvent the way business is done in the future.” - Hunter Lovins

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Sustainable Value

How the World's Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good

Chris Laszlo

January 2008

Using management fable, case studies and toolkit, Chris Laszlo shows how business can action "Sustainable Value".

“In the swelling sea of sustainability literature, Chris Laszlo’s Sustainable Value offers an island of clarity and focus.” - Stuart Hart

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Total Responsibility Management

The Manual

Sandra Waddock and Charles Bodwell

February 2007

“This compact book ... contains all one needs to know about getting a company up to speed on being a socially responsible operation ... It’s all there in this one small package — enough practical wisdom to guide business practice in needed and desirable directions.” - William C. Frederick

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The Difference Makers

How Social and Institutional Entrepreneurs Created the Corporate Responsibility Movement

Sandra Waddock

May 2008

It is not often that we have the opportunity to hear from the early pioneers of a social movement about how it grew and evolved. This book tells the stories of these social and institutional entrepreneurs and the organizations they have founded and led, largely in their own words.

"This is a remarkable book" - William C. Frederick

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Make Poverty Business

Increase Profits and Reduce Risks by Engaging with the Poor

Craig Wilson and Peter Wilson

November 2006

 "Entertaining, well written and refreshingly free of management jargon, this is an engaging contribution to the debate on development." - William Keegan, Senior Economics Commentator, The Observer

eBook available in the following formats: PDF | ePub

Sustainable Resource Management

Global Trends, Visions and Policies

Contributing Editors: Stefan Bringezu and Raimund Bleischwitz

September 2009

Radical perspectives on how the global economy should use natural resources in intelligent ways. Based on exhaustive research by Germany’s Wuppertal Institute

eBook available in the following formats: PDF

Sustainable Growth and Resource Productivity

Economic and Global Policy Issues

Edited by Raimund Bleischwitz, Paul J.J. Welfens and ZhongXiang Zhang

September 2009

Why resources are back on the agenda — a comprehensive overview of global issues of raw materials supply and resource use.

eBook available in the following formats: PDF

Raising the Bar

Creating Value with the UN Global Compact

Edited by Claude Fussler, Aron Cramer and Sebastian van der Vegt

June 2004

This book fills a critical void between support for the UN Global Compact Principles and the need for this support to be translated into the day-to-day running of business to create value and improve performance.

eBook available in the following formats: PDF

Terms for Endearment

Business, NGOs and Sustainable Development

Contributing Editor: Jem Bendell

July 2000

"Terms for Endearment breaks the mould." - Anita Roddick

"a true treasure chest" - Georg Kell.

eBook available in the following formats: PDF

Business Guide to Partnering with NGOs and the United Nations

2007/2008

A Report by the Global Compact, Dalberg Global Development Advisors and the Financial Times

May 2008

A comprehensive and accessible market-based assessment of leading non-profit social actors and agencies of the United Nations that have demonstrated competency in partnering with companies.

eBook available in the following formats: PDF