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This book is about the present and future dangers of climate change and the possibilities for corporate sustainability. The work is intended as a companion for students, researchers and professionals interested in the analysis of climate change, and the many initiatives there are to develop sustainability along corporate value chains
List of contents
Chapter One:
Chapter Two: Sustainability Requires Systemic Business Transformation
Reflections on Three Decades of Corporate Sustainability
Chapter Five: The Social Impact of Climate Change: Global Poverty and Inequality and Sustainable Development
Sustainability and Changes to Corporate Governance Theory and Practice
Integrating Changing Paradigms of Business: Resolving Multi-Dimensional Strategies for Sustainability
Chapter Eight: The 21st Century Sustainable Enterprise Force Field
The Long-Term ESG Performance-and-Engagement Cycle
Corporate Sustainability and Organizational Resilience
Redefining Value Creation: Paradigm Changes in Corporate Reporting
Workers' Capital and ESG: Australian Industry Superfunds
Chapter Thirteen:
Chapter Fourteen: Corporate Sustainability Frameworks: Tools and Approaches for Managing Sustainability
Chapter Fourteen: Sustainability (or ESG) Reporting: Recent Developments and the Potential for Better, More Proactive Management Enabled by Blockchain
Chapter Fifteen: The EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive and the Corporate Narrative Disclosure Practices
Chapter Sixteen: Business, Business Model and Ecosystem: Innovation for Sustainability
Chapter Seventeen: The Intersection of Technology and Sustainability: Strategies for Industry Transformation
Chapter Eighteen: Corporate Sustainability from a Degrowth Perspective
Chapter Nineteen: Evaluating the Sustainability of Early-Stage Production System Design: A Case Study of Algal Biodiesel Production
Chapter Twenty: Natural Capital: Regenerating the Wealth of Planet Earth
About the author
Thomas Clarke is an international corporate governance and sustainability expert. He has published definitive works relating governance to sustainability. His research interests focus upon all aspects of sustainable enterprise including targets and measures for sustainability, developments in ESG policies, and the redefinition of fiduciary duties around sustainable value creation, finance for sustainable transitions, decarbonisation and the circular and regenerative economy.
Suzanne Benn is Emeritus Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at UTS Business School and was previously Professor of Education for Sustainability at Macquarie University. Her research interests range across corporate sustainability and corporate responsibility, business education for sustainability, and organisational change and development for sustainability. She has led a series of consultancy and research projects in industry on organisational change for sustainability.
Melissa Edwards in extensive applied research has explored how organisations respond to complex sustainability issues through leadership, strategic action, and business model innovation. Her recent research focuses upon the circular economy, ESG disclosures and reporting, and sustainable investment. She has collaborated with businesses across industry sectors and has translated this experience into innovative curriculum design and action learning, to embed sustainability and social impact in business leadership and development programs.
