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- Gives readers ‘inside knowledge’ of corporate water strategies in different corporate sectors
- Unveils how corporate water strategies acquire legitimacy, preparing readers to take a critical outlook
- Illustrates how local corporate water strategies influence global water governance objectives
Part of the book series: Water Governance - Concepts, Methods, and Practice (WGCMP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Incorporation
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Involvement
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive assessment of how local corporate water strategies influence global water governance objectives. In various geographies, companies spearhead a quest for more sustainable water management within and beyond their own operations. This book critically examines such strategies and provides an overarching analysis of the effects that mounting corporate involvement has had on the global water discourse.
More specifically, it explains why companies from the food, beverage, textile, and mining sectors have started to incorporate water management objectives into their business strategies, how companies work in partnerships with other stakeholders to realize these objectives, and how these actions acquire wider political legitimacy. It presents insightful interview material from business leaders and other high-level stakeholders.
Readers will gain the necessary knowledge to develop a critical view and respond appropriately.
Keywords
- Resources Management
- Corporate water strategies
- Water Politics
- Influence of companies on water policy
- Political Legitimacy of Water Corporations
- Corporate water stewardship
- Water in business strategies
- Corporate water stakeholders
- water policy
- water quality and water pollution
- natural resources and energy economics
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Thérèse Rudebeck
About the author
Dr Rudebeck holds a PhD and an MPhil in Geography from University of Cambridge. She received her M.A. in Sustainable Development and International Relations from the University of St Andrews. Alongside her research, she has worked with the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), the Global Water Partnership (GWP), the 2030 Water Resources Group (WRG), and the European Water Stewardship (EWS).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Corporations as Custodians of the Public Good?
Book Subtitle: Exploring the Intersection of Corporate Water Stewardship and Global Water Governance
Authors: Thérèse Rudebeck
Series Title: Water Governance - Concepts, Methods, and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13225-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13224-8Published: 28 March 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13227-9Published: 06 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13225-5Published: 20 March 2019
Series ISSN: 2365-4961
Series E-ISSN: 2365-497X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environmental Politics, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Corporate Environmental Management, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Sustainable Development, Natural Resources