Encyclopaedia of Green Business Management and Development (10 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I. Introduction to green business management and development: Preface. 1. Greening of business: different perspectives. 2. Property rights and the environment. 3. Environment, development, technology, energy and economy. 4. Towards meeting the objectives of earth Summit. 5. Eco-labelling, product certification, cleaner production and green consumerism. 6. Environmental management and administration: understanding linkages and policies. 7. Steering business towards sustainability: elements and dimensions.

Vol II. Functions and strategies for green business and development: 8. Green business: concepts, strategies and rules for the game. 9. Introduction to eco-efficiency: establishing links to sustainable development. 10. Industrial ecology and global environmental challenges: Germany\'s case. 11. Governance and globalization: A UN perspective. 12. Energy-economy interaction: technology transfer and other policy approaches. 13. Major case studies in eco-efficiency. 14. Business leadership, eco-efficiency and sustainable development. 15. Sustainable product development: life cycle analysis and design for environment. 16. Eco-efficiency and green business. 17. Green business: paradigm shift and performance evaluation. 18. Greening business: major functions, challenges and strategies.

Vol. III. Planning and policy initiatives for green business: 19. Green business management and leadership: initiatives and action plans. 20. Perspectives on green business: socio-political and legal context. 21. Sustainable product development: policy and process. 22. Global environmental institutions and policies. 23. Environmental policies and politics in the United States and Canada. 24. Environmental policies in the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy. 25. Environmental policy in Australia. 26. Environmental management and governance: prospects for cooperative intergovernmental policies.

Vol. IV. Environmental management and networking business organisations: 27. Environmental management, audit and sustainable development. 28. Green business, industry and professional organizations. 29. Environmental business opportunities. 30. Markets and mindsets: challenges for green business. 31. Green institutions: essential ingredients. 32. Greening of institutions. 33. Purchasing product and services for institutions. 34. Greening institutional infrastructure and research facilities.

Vol. V. Green Business and Johannesburg Summit: 35. Environmentally sustainable business: different perspectives. 36. Sustainable development, public participation and human society. 37. World Summit for sustainable development: framework for action. 38. Need for Environmentalist Business Management (EBM) and its practical aspect. 39. Environmentalist business management: an European experience. 40. Checklist for environmentalist business management. 41. Significance for Europe of environmentalist business management. 42. WSSD: creating an enabling environment. 43. WSSD: Designing priority areas for action. 44. World business council for sustainable development and greening of business. 45. WBCSD, UNEP, global sustainable production and consumption system. 46. Global business perspective on environment and development.

Vol. VI. Industry\'s environmental compliance and self-regulation: 47. Institutional aspects of industry environmental compliance. 48. Developing a training module and UNEP. 49. Role of permits in industry environmental compliance. 50. Self-monitoring, inspections and enforcement measures in industry for environmental compliance. 51. Human and financial resources and industry environmental compliance. 52. Environmental management by global industries. 53. Global corporate environmental management and cost accounting. 54. Benchmark rating of international industry association environmental principles. 55. Risk reduction, human rights and environment justice. 56. Human rights and the environment: a third world perspective. 57. Occupational health, safety and human rights.

Vol. VII. Cleaner production for green business: 58. Ecolabelling developing countries and India. 59. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analysis and design. 60. Design for recycling: a case study of plastic industry. 61. Product impact assessment: case study of automobile and lighting industries.

Vol. VIII. Globalization, trade, environment and sustainability: 62. Environmental impacts of globalization and trade. 63. Global environmental accords: strategies for sustainability and institutional innovation. 64. Linkages among globalization, trade and environment. 65. Theory, methods and policy: understanding the linkages among globalization, trade and environment. 66. Global environmental problems and their cost-effective abatement. 67. Industrial ecology and corporate environmental management. 68. Developing countries, strategies for energy efficiency and sustainability. 69. Environmentally sustainable development and good governance.

Vol. IX. Leadership, best practices and global outreach for green business: 70. Green business leadership, awards and environmental mentoring. 71. Green business policy initiatives, tools, programmes. 72. Green business network and global outreach. 73. Green business: best management and governance practices. 74. Obstacles and opportunities for a consumer ecolabel. 75. World Bank, its partners and sustainable development. 76. Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) and environmental performance. 77. MDB environmental policies, practices and performances.

Vol. X. Laws, policies and recommendations for green business: 78. Green business code: an environmental governance perspectives. 79. Corporate environmental governance. 80. Principles for environmental policy and sustainable development: challenges for business leaders. 81. Green business and political economy of environmental governance. 82. Industries, trade and environmental laws and policies in India. 83. Diffusion of innovation for environmentally compatible technology. 84. New age opportunities and sustainable technologies. 85. Role and environmentally sustainable business in local and regional development. Bibliography.

"Thirty years ago the idea of introducing green business and green products would have been regarded by most business leaders, at best, as a contribution to science fiction or, at worst, as a futile demonstration of an unnecessary concern with irrelevant issues and arguments that would hinder economic efficiency as growth.

Today, many of the views that were advanced during the 1960s and 1970s regarding the possible finite nature of the capability of the environment to absorb the damage imposed by pollution, excessive resource consumption and other consequences of industrialisation are now accepted as proven facts. The scientific demonstration of the existence of very real limits to growth has been accompanied by a marked change in the attitudes of governments and businesses towards the environment.

In these companies the environmental dimension is no longer viewed as an expensive luxury; rather, it is seen as a vital component in responsible corporate behaviour. This implies a transformation in attitudes, away from the old style approach of how little can we get away with in order to comply with minimalist environmental regulations, and towards a view that places environment at the centre of corporate planning and business activity.

The 10 volumes Encyclopaedia of Green Business Management and Development deals with the Green philosophies, Eco-labelling, products certification, cleaner production, green consumerism, Eco-efficiency, sustainable development, green governance, green institutions, green infrastructure green industrialization, human resource management and development policies for greening and cleaning activities, risk management, human rights and environmental justice, global environmental accords.

This encyclopaedia will be quite useful for MBA curriculum with specialization in green business besides a reference manual for public and private sector industrial units in India and abroad." (jacket)