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Linking Local and Global Sustainability

  • Provides a deeper understanding of ethical underpinnings of sustainability
  • Offers a unique focus that includes both developing country initiatives and activity by multinationals
  • Takes broader societal and business institutional framework approach to sustainability as opposed to the narrower risk management approach
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    • Stephen McKenzie, Sukhbir Sandhu, Howard Harris
    Pages 1-11
  3. Philosophy and Ethics of Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
    2. Sustainability, Integrity and Judgment

      • Chris Provis
      Pages 15-27
  4. Case Studies in Sustainable Decision-Making

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
    2. Environmental Responsiveness and Cost Savings: Effect or Driver?

      • Sukhbir Sandhu, Clive Smallman, Lucie K. Ozanne, Ross Cullen
      Pages 55-70
    3. Extending Sustainable Practices Beyond Organizations to Supply Chains

      • Claudine Soosay, Andrew Fearne, Mohsen Varsei
      Pages 71-90
    4. Life Cycle Analysis and Sustained Organisation Change in Auto Repair Shops

      • Barbara Resta, Paolo Gaiardelli, Anna Pistoni
      Pages 91-110
  5. Theoretical Investigations of Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
    2. Making Sense of Local Sustainability

      • Don Clifton
      Pages 135-153
  6. Local Development, Global Sustainability: Case Studies in Development Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
    2. Impact of Oyster Farming on Rural Community Sustainability in North Vietnam

      • Janine Pierce, Wayne O’Connor
      Pages 207-224
    3. Conclusion

      • Stephen McKenzie, Sukhbir Sandhu, Howard Harris
      Pages 225-230

About this book

The book takes a holistic approach to sustainability. Acknowledging the Brundtland definition, that sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, the book is specifically concerned with the ethics of contemporary social and environmental sustainability activity and thinking. It is concerned with the role of institutions–both local and global in achieving sustainability initiatives. All twelve chapters extend sustainability–conceptually, empirically and theoretically, and in doing so provide insights into linking local and global sustainability. The book refocuses sustainability as a series of interwoven and dynamic relationships, backed by just ethical decision-making, which begin locally, and reach out to impact the global level.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Management, University of South Australia Business School, Adelaide, Australia

    Sukhbir Sandhu, Stephen McKenzie, Howard Harris

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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