Corporate Accountability and Sustainable Development [Hardcover]

Peter Utting (Editor), Jennifer Clapp (Editor)

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Publication Date: Aug 15 2008 | Series: Ecological Economics and Human Well-Being

The social and environmental performances of big enterprises are increasingly coming under regulatory regimes that aim to reassert social control over them to improve their social obligations. In practice, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has its limitations for long term sustainability. Thus, the corporate accountability movement has proposed a variety of regulatory movements that include obligations as opposed to responsibility. This volume provides insights into these dimensions of the interface between corporate players and questions of sustainability. The volume will be useful to teachers and graduate and post-graduate students of environmental sciences and management, environment activists, NGOs, multilateral organizations, funding organizations, policymakers, and trans-nationals especially of the developing world, as well as general readers.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Aug 15 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195697340
ISBN-13: 978-0195697346
Product Dimensions: 14 x 2 x 21.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 499 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,803,014 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Review

"This book ventures into an area not common for ecological economics readers: business economics and management...Nine chapters from diverse authors contain these proposals through theoretical, regulatory, and case study-based environmental policy analysis, covering a wide range of activities such as genetically modified organism releases, mining, financial services, retail sales, steel and paper industries, and oil spills. Utting and Clapp have put together a timely and important piece that favors ecological economics by giving it applicability and practicality, a step in the right direction for a transdiscipline that has worked hard in developing a vast theoretical framework." -- Bernardo Aguilar-Gonzalez, The Quarterly Reivew of Biology

About the Author

Peter Utting is Deputy Director of the UNRISD. Jennifer Clapp is a Professor of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.