Back to ASrIA Portal
|
|
|
| |
|
Environmental Alpha: Institutional Investors and Climate Change
Edited by Angelo Calvello
The definitive guide to how institutional investors should approach the risks and opportunities associated with climate change
Environmental Alpha provides institutional investors with the comprehensive framework they need to assess the risks and investment opportunities tied to climate change.
Climate change will present institutional investors with some of the most important risks and opportunities they will face for generations to come. Climate change has the potential to affect many sectors in radically different degrees over time, and institutional investors need to have a thorough understanding of the multi-dimensional risks and opportunities that could influence nearly every investment in their portfolios. This volume is composed of contributions by leading experts in environmental investment, moving beyond the theoretical or academic nature of much of the current discussion on the topic to provide you with real-world insights into an emerging market.
- Examines the climate change-related drivers of returns (science, economics, policy, and technology) that make environmental alpha possible
- Explores fiduciary duty and climate change
- Contains in-depth explanations of each of the major categories of environmental investing and examines related environmental alpha opportunities
- Discusses practical implementation issues
- Presents real-world case studies and examples
Climate change will be one of the most important investment themes of the next twenty years; the related environmental investment opportunities will provide institutional investors with some of the greatest "alpha" opportunities for years to come. This book will put you in a better position to assess and access these opportunities.
Find out more from here.
|
|
Investing in a Sustainable World
- Why Green Is the New Color of Money on Wall Street
Edited by Matthew J. Kiernan
"Matthew Kiernan has redefined global thinking around sustainable finance
and responsible investment. Without Kiernan's work since the late 1980s,
the battle to drag institutional investors to the sustainability table
would have been immeasurably harder. Kiernan's magic, as this book gives
fine witness to, is based on a deep intellect, the confidence to
continually challenge the investment status quo and the ability to see
fundamental changes in the markets well in advance of the mainstream."
--- Paul Clements-Hunt, Head, United Nations Environment Programme Finance
Initiative (UNEP FI), Member of the Board, UN Principles for Responsible
Investment (PRI)"
Find out more from here.
|
|
Sustainable Investing
Edited by Cary Krosinsky
Sustainable Investing is fast becoming the smart way of generating long-term returns. With conventional investors now scrambling to factor in issues such as climate change, this book captures a turning point in the evolution of global finance. Bringing together leading practitioners of Sustainable Investing from across the globe, this book charts how this agenda has evolved, what impact it has today, and what prospects are emerging for the years ahead.
Find out more from here.
|
 |
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Edited by Muhammad Yunus, Karl Weber
The influential economist and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of of free markets with the quest for a more humane world. Includes stories of companies that are already doing social business.
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
International Documents on Corporate Responsibility
Edited by Stephen Tully
Law Department
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
The changing social expectations of corporations within a globalized economic environment are challenging our traditional conception of the proper commercial function. This text delimits their emergent roles and responsibilities under international law.
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Managing
the Business Case for Sustainability
The Integration of Social, Environmental and Economic
Performance
Edited by Stefan Schaltegger and Marcus Wagner
Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM)
University of Luneburg, Germany
The book presents a wide breadth of academic
and practitioner perspectives on corporate social and environmental
sustainability.
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
|
|
Responsible
Investment
Edited by Rory Sullivan and Craig Mackenzie
MOST INVESTMENT TODAY is conducted by
a relatively small number of institutional investors — pension funds
and investment managers — who manage the pensions and saving funds of
millions of ordinary people. The manner in which these institutional
investors invest and discharge their responsibilities as the owners
of companies is, therefore, of critical importance to society as a whole.
In recent years, some of the biggest
institutional investors have actively encouraged companies to improve
their management of social, ethical and environmental issues. A number
have also sought to explicitly analyse companies’ performance on these
issues and to incorporate this analysis into investment decision-making.
These activities have contributed to important changes: a number of
companies have committed to stabilising or reducing greenhouse gas emissions
from their activities and operations, labour conditions in many retail
supply chains have improved significantly, and many companies have significantly
improved their governance of corporate responsibility issues.
However, to date, there has been little
systematic analysis of fundamental questions such as: Do responsible
investment strategies systematically result in improvements in the social,
ethical and environmental performance of companies? To what extent is
it in investors’ interest to encourage higher standards of corporate
responsibility? Do responsible investment strategies enhance financial
performance for investors?
In this ground-breaking collection,
Rory Sullivan and Craig Mackenzie have brought together some of the
leading practitioners and commentators in the field of responsible investment
to explore these questions. The contributors to this book present their
views on the practicalities of implementing responsible investment strategies,
the outcomes that have been achieved, the practical issues and barriers
faced in implementing such strategies, and the challenges to be faced
if responsible investment is to become a mainstream investment approach.
The results are both unique and surprising.
This book will be mandatory reading
for all those involved in the field of social and environmentally responsible
investment, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility
whether they be academics, researchers or practitioners.
Find out more from Greenleaf
Catalogue
|
 |
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility:
Stakeholders in a Global Environment
Author: William B. Werther Jr., David
Chandler
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility:
Stakeholders in a Global Environment provides faculty and students with
a comprehensive, stand-alone text to support traditional and innovative
courses in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Integral to the book's
unique format is the real-life “mini-case-study” approach across the
spectrum of CSR topics, backed by Internet accessible references. Adopting
a stakeholder approach to CSR, the content and format of this sourcebook
defines CSR within the global communications environment in which multi-national
corporations operate today.
Find out
more from Amazon.com
|
 |
The
Market For Virtue: The Potential And Limits Of Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: David Vogel
The principles and practices of corporate
social responsibility date back more than a century , but the current
wave of global interest is unprecedented. With The Market for Virtue,
David Vogel has provided the most comprehensive analysis to date of
the contemporary CSR movement in both the United States and Europe.
Growing awareness of CSR is evident in the growth of social and ethical
investment funds, voluntary codes of corporate conduct, and companies’
self-reporting on social and environmental practices. Deep grassroots
interests can be seen in boycotts, protests, and the growing number
of organizations monitoring corporate social and environmental performance.
A renowned authority on business-government relations, Vogel offers
a thoughtful and balanced appraisal of the movement’s accomplishments
and limitations, including a critical evaluation of the business case
for CSR.
While acknowledging the movement’s achievements—most
notably in labor, human rights, and environmental conditions in developing
countries—Vogel also demonstrates that CSR’s potential to bring about
a significant change in corporate behavior is exaggerated. While corporate
social responsibility can be a useful tool alongside laws and regulations,
it cannot completely replace them.
The Market for Virtue explores the extent
to which improvements in corporate conduct can occur without more extensive
or effective government regulation—in the United States, Europe, the
Far East, and developing nations. In other words, what is the long-term
potential of business self-regulation? The improvement that can be expected
is far more modest than recent breathless writing on CSR would indicate.
At some point, many businesses must choose between doing what seems
ethically rights and what is most profitable. Since businesses are typically
found to make money—and because shareholders and capitalism demand that
they do so—the bottom line tends to win out. There is a market for virtue,
but it is limited by the substantial costs of more responsible business
behavior.
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
The Sustainability
Revolution
Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
Author: Andres R. Edwards
Sustainability has become a buzzword
in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a
range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard
for millions of individuals throughout the world who are forging the
fastest and most profound social transformation of our time - the Sustainability
Revolution. This book paints a picture of this largely unrecognized
phenomenon from the point of view of five major sectors of society,
concluding that the values emerging from sustainability work define
a major paradigm shift. The first book of its kind, it will appeal to
business and government policy makers, academics, and all interested
in sustainability.
Find out
more from Sustainability
Revolution
|
 |
The Next
Sustainability Wave : Building Boardroom Buy - in (Conscientious Commerce)
Author: Bob Willard
The
idea of sustainability has been embraced enthusiastically by some businesses
and rejected by others. The first wave of corporate converts to sustainability
was perhaps driven by a public relations crisis, regulatory pressures
or the founder's personal passion. The next wave, however, requires
different drivers if it is to build a critical mass for corporate responsibility
in the business community.
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Sustainable
Finance & Banking
The Financial Sector and the Future of the Planet
Author: Marcel Jeucken
This
book sets out to rectify the state of affairs detailed above, in a style
which is also accessible to those with no experience of environmental
or finance issues. It provides a comprehensive account of their interdependence:
why the financial sector is crucial to achieving sustainability and
why the triple bottom line of commercial, environmental and social success
points the way forward for banking.
From
a systematic assessment of major banks around the world, the book presents
a comprehensive account of current best practice, an analysis of the
differences in approach and performance, and recommendations of actions
and policies for improved performance that will contribute to sustainable
development.
Find out more from Amazon
|
 |
Corporations
and the Public Interest : Guiding the Invisible Hand
Author: Steven Lydenberg
Private
enterprise is rapidly taking hold as the world's dominant economic paradigm,
but business scandals, environmental degradation, and rampant poverty
are stark reminders that business alone - unregulated and unsupervised
- will not solve the world's problems. Using a unique market-based approach
and a socially inclusive definition of wealth, Corporations and the
Public Interest offers a refreshing new system for assessing corporations'
real commitment to the public. Steven Lydenberg's plan includes strategies
for steering companies in socially responsible directions and imposing
costs on those that neglect their responsibilities to the community.
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Pay
without Performance - The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive
Compensation
Author: Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried
Pay
without Performance presents a disconcerting portrait of executives'
power to influence their own pay -- and of the structural defects
in corporate governance that give them this power. As this book demonstrates,
boards have persistently failed to negotiate at arm¡¦s
length with the executives they are meant to oversee. Lucian Bebchuk
and Jesse Fried give a richly detailed account of how pay practices-
from option plans to retirement benefits-have decoupled compensation
from performance and camouflaged both the amount and performance-insensitivity
of pay. They show that flaws in pay arrangements and the pay-setting
process have been widespread and systemic. These problems have hurt
shareholders both by increasing pay levels and, even more importantly,
by leading to practices that dilute and distort managers' incentives.
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Managing
Reputational Risk
Author: Jenny Rayner
Managing reputational risk goes beyond PR and spin, and explains the
need for strong leadership; robust management, monitoring and reporting
mechanisms; careful customer and supplier screening; and the co-operation
of external partners. It "demystifies reputation risk management,
making it accessible to the board," according to the newsletter
of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Chapter
1. Reputation Unravelled.
Chapter 2. The Business Case for Reputation Risk Management.
Chapter 3. Risk Management: An Overview.
Chapter 4. Identifying, Prioritising and Responding to Risks.
Chapter 5. Making Reputation Risk Management Everyone's Business.
Chapter 6. Managing Threats and Opportunities to Reputation.
Chapter 7. Reputation in the Spotlight.
Chapter 8. Peace of Mind Through Audit and Assurance.
Chapter 9. Bolstering Reputation Through Transparent Reporting and Communications.
Chapter 10. Maintaining Momentum.
Chapter 11. Towards a Sustainable Reputation.
Chapter 12. Future Challenges and Opportunities.
Appendix A: The Hermes Principles.
Appendix B: Appendix to the Turnbull Report.
Appendix C: BP's Policy Commitment on Ethical Conduct.
Appendix D: Twelve Steps for Implementing a Code of Business Ethics.
340 pages, hardback
ISBN 0-471-49951-X
Publisher: Wiley
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Is Fair
Value Fair?
Editors:
Professor Henk Langendijk, Professor Dirk Swagerman and Willem Verhoog
Financial reporting from an international perspective aims to fully
prepare readers for the introduction of the International Financial
Reporting Standards in 2005. These, the authors say, will radically
change methods of financial reporting, making this volume an invaluable
tool for corporate financiers and institutional investors.
Introduction
Part I: The
future of international accounting.
- The model of Black
and Scholes is like Newtonian physics
before Einstein was born (R. Elliott).
- Current US accounting
issues (N. Strauss).
Part II: Regulations
and regulators.
- We have to produce
one set of unified high-quality global
standards (D. Tweedie).
- EFRAG: a new force
to be reckoned with in the reporting field
(J. Van Helleman).
- Not partial, but
full application of IAS (L. van der Tas). IAS and the European Union
(K. van Hulle).
- IAS and legislation
(J. Klaassen).
- Shifting towards
an Anglo-Saxon perspective on rules (E. Eeftink).
- Uniform rules
are important, but they must not block the view (J. den Hoed).
Part III: Supervision
and compliance.
- Towards a new
supervisory landscape (P. Koster).
- The Enterprise
and Companies Court as supervisory body (J. Willems), Globalisation
is OK, as long as it takes account of Dutch culture (M. van Hoepen).
- Enforcement of
IAS is crucial for the realisation of a global standard for financial
reporting (R. Vergoossen).
Willem Verhoog
Physical description: 384 pages, hardback
Publication date: March 2003
ISBN 0-470-85028-0
Publisher: Wiley
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Environmental
Ethics
Editor: Dr Rosamund Thomas
Coursebook:
Environmental ethics is an invaluable training resource presenting both
practical standards, environmental audit and 'best practice' and ideals
to which countries can aspire. Its presentation of environmental law
and sustainable management serves as a core text for MBA courses on
environmental ethics and corporate social responsibility.
Foreword
by the recent Chairman of the UK Royal Commission
on Environmental Pollution
Case-study analyses including:
the 'The Bhopal Gas Disaster'
'Industrial Quarrying in the Yorkshire Dales' (UK).
Notable contributors: Canadian
Federal Government, a Local
Agenda 21 case-study (UK local government); professor George
Frederickson on 'Social equity between generations'.
Blueprints provided for:
|
 |
Values
to Value - A Global Dialogue on Sustainable Finance
Chief
Editor: Paul Clements Hunt, Head of Unit, UNEP FI
Co-ordinating Editors: Regina Kessler and Robert Reid
Content Editors: Graham Cooper and Marni Robinson
WHAT
IS THE PRESENT STATE of sustainable finance? Who is actively involved
in the sustainable finance agenda? How can the ideals of sustainable
development be incorporated into the business practices and models of
the finance sector? How can capital markets support the ¡¥people,
planet, prosperity¡¦ ethic?
These
questions and more are addressed in the UNEP FI report entitled Values
to Value: A Global Dialogue on Sustainable Finance. Through a compilation
of essays from almost 100 sustainable finance experts and practitioners
from all over the world, this report presents an incisive look into
the minds of some of those most active players in this fascinating field.
The report is divided into thematic sections to address issues such
as Asset Management; Climate Change; Export Credit Agencies; Environmental
Management, Reporting and Indicators; and Financial Systems; along with
region-specific coverage.
The
report is based on the two-year UNEP FI ¡¥Global Tour¡¦
conference series that engaged over 1,700 finance practitioners, NGOs,
government officials and other private-sector representatives in a dialogue
on finance and sustainability. Over this two-year period the UNEP FI
team was able to gather a world-roving perspective of the various regional
approaches to sustainable finance and the key issues that apply. This
finance-sector perspective was brought to WSSD by UNEP FI and is now
captured in the Values to Value report.
If
you are involved in the sustainable finance field or would like to get
up to speed on such issues, this is the key text available today.
Values
to Value (V2V) consists of 550 pages in a ring-bound format. Within
the report package there is a CD-ROM containing over 150 presentations,
the PDF version of the actual report, along with various reports, studies
and publications that have come out of two years of UNEP FI work. The
report is divided into thematic as well as regional sections. The ¡¥Global
Outreach Tour¡¦ section consists of eight reports detailing
the key outcomes of the various region-specific and global events that
have taken place over the past two years. The second section of the
report focuses on UNEP FI¡¦s key working groups and regional
taskforces to illustrate the progress and direction that the finance
sector has taken towards adopting sustainable development ideals on
both a thematic and region-specific level. The report also includes
almost 100 articles from key experts to give incisive up-to-date perspectives
on the various issues at hand.
Published by the
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
Find out more from Greenleaf Catalogue
|
 |
The
Best Business Stories of the Year: 2004 Edition
by Andrew Leckey (Editor)
Ethics, disclosure, labor relations, executive compensation, and insider
trading are among the topics related to socially responsible investment
in this collection of business articles.
The 2004 edition of The Best Business Stories of the Year is a compendium
of articles that reveal the human stories behind the headlines. The
book features some of the best journalists being published, so it is
not surprising that the articles were brimming with crisp writing and
perspectives you cannot get from front page news. Several of the articles
hit home to me personally, as they discussed Henry Blodget, the disgraced
former Merrill Lynch (ticker: MER) stock analyst.
Many of the other articles in this year's edition of the Best Business
Stories address core issues for socially responsible investing, such
as labor relations at Wal-Mart (WMT) and Starbucks (SBUX), executive
compensation, and insider stock sales.
Paperback:
496 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x 7.99 x 5.19
Publisher: Vintage Books; (January 6, 2004)
ISBN: 140003146X
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
State
of the World 2004
by Brian Halweil, Lisa Mastny, Erik Assadourian,
Christopher Flavin, Hilary French, Gary Gardner, Danielle Nierenberg,
Sandra Postel, Michael Renner, Radhika Sarin, Janet Sawin, Amy Vickers,
Linda Starke (Editor), Worldwatch Institute, The Worldwatch Institute
In
State of the World 2004, the Worldwatch Institute's award-winning research
team focuses on consumption, pointing to the many ways in which our
consumption habits drive ecological and social deterioration, as well
as how these habits can be redirected to reinforce environmental and
social goals. As always, State of the World 2004 provides government
officials, journalists, professors, students, and concerned citizens
with a comprehensive analysis of the global environmental problems we
face along with detailed descriptions of practical, innovative solutions¡Xlike
charting the most environmentally sound path to a hydrogen-fueled economy,
or accelerating the rapidly growing conversion of farmers worldwide
to organic farming and sustainable agriculture.
Written in clear and concise language, with easy-to-read charts and
tables, State of the World 2004 presents a view of our changing world
that we, and our leaders, cannot afford to ignore.
Paperback: 272 pages ; Dimensions (in inches):
0.71 x 9.26 x 6.98
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company; (January 2004)
ISBN: 0393325393
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
What
Matters Most: How a Small Group of Pioneers Is Teaching Social Responsibility
to Big Business, and Why Big Business Is Listening
by Jeffrey
Hollender, Stephen
Fenichell
What Matters Most is a report from the front lines of a social revolution
by one of its most thoughtful and committed leaders. Based on hundreds
of interviews with activists, CSR experts and business leaders at both
small and large companies, this book takes nothing for granted and does
not hesitate to ask the tough questions. There is no better guide to
the real dilemmas, and real promise, of the corporate social responsibility
movement.
Hardcover:
240 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.06 x 9.24 x 6.36
Publisher: Basic Books; (December 23, 2003)
ISBN: 0738209023
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
The
Corporate Responsibility Code Book
by Deborah Leipziger
It
is a guide for companies trying to understand the landscape of corporate
responsibility and searching for their own, unique route towards satisfying
diverse stakeholders. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. A company
may face quite different challenges if it operates in more than part
of the world. And yet stakeholders, especially consumers and investors,
are keen for some degree of comparability with which they can evaluate
corporate performance. There are countervailing forces at work within
corporate responsibility: on the one hand is the need for convergence
in order to simplify the large numbers of codes and standards; and,
on the other hand, the need to foster diversity and innovation.
November
2003
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
How
Does it Pay to Be Green?
by Marcus Wagner
An Analysis of the Relationship between Environmental and Economic Performance
at the Firm Level and the Influence of Corporate Environmental Strategy
Choice
How Does it Pay to Be Green? provides a detailed discussion of the relationship
between environmental and economic performance and in particular the
influence of operational environmental strategy choice on this relationship.
After formulating a theoretical model of the relationship, the book
comprehensively reviews existing studies and subsequently reports the
results of two new empirical analyses of the relationship carried out
by the author.
These
two new studies use new European data and new data on operational environmental
strategies to test hypotheses derived from the theoretical model. In
the first empirical study, for an emissions-based index of environmental
performance, a predominantly negative relationship is found for the
paper industry in four European countries, whereas for an inputs-based
index no significant link is found.
The
second empirical study reported in this book analyses survey data of
British and German manufacturing firms and for the first time applies
the Environmental Shareholder Value concept to define corporate environmental
strategies. The analysis finds that for firms with a value-based environmental
strategy the relationship between environmental performance and different
dimensions of competitiveness is more positive than for firms without
such a strategy.
How
Does it Pay to Be Green? provides essential reading for practitioners
and academics on how to successfully manage the link between environmental
and economic performance and gives valuable strategic insights on how
corporate sustainability management can benefit the bottom line.
244
Seiten, Pb, Tectum Verlag 2003
ISBN 3-8288-8507-1
25,90 Euro
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
The Sustainable
Company: How to Create Lasting Value Through Social and Environmental
Performance
by Chris Laszlo
Corporate
governance and sustainability are moving from important peripheral problems
to core business concerns, as winning companies discover stakeholders
as new sources of value. Yet there are many obstacles to bringing these
issues into the mainstream of business. Concepts like sustainable development
can be confusing for operating managers, and even those who support
the underlying issues find it difficult to frame them in ways that are
useful for making business decisions. As a manager you have a responsibility
to deliver financial returns to your shareholders: how can you balance
this obligation with your responsibilities to society and the environment?
The
Sustainable Company articulates an innovative approach to meeting this
challenge in a language familiar to business. The key is to create value
for investors as well as society and the environment in an integrated
bottom line. The book provides detailed case studies of leading companies
illustrating this new paradigm in practice. The ¡§how-to¡¨
section with a tool-kit for managers elevates The Sustainable Company
above other recent eco-friendly business books, by providing the Eight
Disciplines necessary to create value for shareholders and stakeholders.
Its engaging, straightforward text tells the reader how to compete and
thrive in an increasingly complex world. The Sustainable Company is
the solutions manual for the 21st century manager.
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
| |
Socially
Responsible Investment: a Guide for Pension Funds and Institutional
Investors
by Mansley, Mark
This work covers investment from an institutional perspective. It provides
socially responsible advice and guidance on how to enhance the investment
performance of pension funds and to provide additional benefits to members
through the implementation of an effective SRI policy.
Paperback
29 April 2000
Informa UK Ltd
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Greening
Chinese Business-Barriers, Trends and Opportunities for Environmental
Management
by Ulrich Steger, Fang Zhaoben and Lu Wei
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION IN CHINA is not really different from that
in the rest of the world, except that environmental authorities are
relatively new and less established. In order to understand why corporate
environmental performance has hardly improved despite the existing regulatory
framework, empirical research on high-level executives¡¦
perceptions of environmental protection is essential.
This
unique book analyses and interprets Chinese managers¡¦
perceptions of environmental management and regulatory enforcement practices
in Chinese enterprises. Most importantly, it identifies the bottlenecks
to environmental protection in Chinese firms. It includes a detailed
analysis of the needs for management training (for example, CEO and
executive development and MBA education) in China and presents a roadmap
of how they can be met. Finally, it presents two case studies that illustrate
how Chinese corporations currently react to a wide range of different
environmental challenges, including hardening regulatory pressure, competition
and lack of capital.
Based
on an innovative research project sponsored by the UNESCO/UNDP offices
in Beijing and undertaken by the Institute for Management Development
(IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland and the Business School of the Academy
of Science and Technology (USTC), Hefei, China, Greening Chinese Business
provides the first hard empirical evidence of how Chinese managers view
environmental protection. Over 300 companies¡Xboth state-owned
enterprises and SMEs¡Xtook part in the research.
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Plan
B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble
by Lester R. Brown
Plan
B calls for a worldwide mobilization to stabilize population and climate
before they spiral out of control. It provides a plan for sustaining
economic progress worldwide.
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
The Winners
and Losers in Global Competition
Why eco-efficiency reinforces competitiveness: A study of 44 nations
The
publication by Andreas Sturm, Kaspar Muller and Mathis Wackernagel was
sponsored by Union Bancaire
Privee (UBP), a Swiss privat Bank and Swiss
Society for Environmental Protection (SGU). A German edition is available.
The
bank uses the concept presented in this publication as a bases for their
sustainable bond portfolio >Generations Futures Obligations Internationales<
(see also here).
Nations
whose consumption does not exceed the ecological capacity of their country
and who also use their natural capital efficiently will be among the
winners in the struggle for global competitiveness.
The
Winners and Losers in Global Competition explains why this is the
case.
The
analysis, building on a measure of a nation's use of ecological assets
called the ecological footprints, shows how the world as a whole is
already transgressing its ecological long-term possibilities,and how
this could be remediated using appropriate economic incentives.
In
essence, the book highlights how countries¡¦ ecological
performance will increasingly affect their economic competitiveness.
The figures and tables document how the forty-four nations analysed
perform today and what their chances are for succeed in the future.
The publication
can be ordered from the publisher (German/English)
or through amazon.com (German).
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Atlas
Series- The State of the World Atlas
by Dan Smith
"The State of the World Atlas is something else - an occasion of
wit and an act
of subversion. These are the bad dreams of the modern world, given color
and shape and submitted to a grid that can be grasped instantaneously" NEW YORK TIMES
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=4010
View a sample chapter:
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/samplechapters/03controlofspace.jpg
Series Visit: http://www.earthscan.co.uk/specialoffers.htm#atlas
|
|
Pensions and
Retirement Funds in Hong Kong
Challenges, Issues and Opportunities
by Jeremy Gadbury, Alan Taylor and Jonathan Watkin
Published by ISI
Publications, Hong Kong, Bermuda and the United Kingdom
This
is a comprehensive book yet produced on the retirement fund system in
Hong Kong, and the first detailed appraisal of the Hong Kong's Mandatory
Provident Fund system since it was introduced in December 2000. It covers
the origination and development of pension and retirement systems in
the context of other social benefits in Hong Kong, provides an insight
into the challenges facing all the various market participants (trustees,
fund managers, custodians, sponsors, employers, regulators etc), and
offers views on the way forward for this important and growing market.
The
book has been written by experts in the field with considerable experience
in pensions and investment management in government and in the private
sector. It is expected to become an authoritative reference source for
those operating both in Hong Kong and globally who are interested in
the Hong Kong experience and its application to the development of retirement
systems in other jurisdictions.
The
book will be published in North America, Asia and Europe on 1st September
2003 and is priced at US$299 including worldwide delivery. There is
a 17% discount for orders prior to publication date. The book may be
ordered direct from the publishers through their online website www.booksonbiz.com which has more detail.
Find out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
The Ecology of
Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability
by Paul Hawken
This
makes you think differently about business and its role in making our
lives richer, healthier and happier. A very optimistic and pragmatic
book. Unlike many business books, Hawken is not in denial about the
environmental crisis.
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Natural Capitalism:
Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul/Lovins Hawken (Author)
A
milestone in human understanding of capitalism. This develops many of
the themes in Ecology of Commerce as well as the pioneering work of
Amory and Hunter Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute. Take the first
steps to getting technical and doing something about the transformation
of business practices.
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
The New Global
Investors: How Shareowner s can Unlock Sustainable Prosperity Worldwide
by Robert A. G. Monks
This
champion of corporate democracy, a successful and wealthy businessman
in his own right, and world reknowned shareholder activist has bridged
the gap between socially responsible investment and corporate governance.
A must read about the increasingly influential role of pension funds
in shaping the world economy.
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
|
Socially Responsible
Investment: A Global Revolution (Society of Investment Professions)
by Russell Sparkes
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Socially Responsible
Investing : Making a Difference and Making Money
by Amy L. Domini
An excellent primer
from a US perspective, on socially responsible investment.
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
The SRI Advantage:
Why Socially Responsible Investing Has Outperformed Financially
by Peter Camejo (Editor), Ralph Nader, Robert
A. G. Monks (Introduction), Andrew T. Williams (Contributor), Stephen
Viederman (Contributor)
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
The Dollar Crisis:
Cause, Consequences, Cures
by Richard Duncan
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
 |
Investing
for Good: Making Money While Being Socially Responsible
by Peter D. Kinder, Steven D. Lydenberg
and Amy L. Domini
Find
out more from Amazon.com
|
|
Sustainable
Solutions: Developing Products and Services for the Future
Edited by Martin Charter, The Centre
for Sustainable Design, UK and Ursula Tischner, econcept, Germany
Find
out more from Greenleaf Publishing
|
|
Finance
& Natural Environment-Experience of Poland against the background
of developed market economies
The team of authors composed of specialists
from Poland, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland and Japan (Good Bankers)
with two editors Leszek Dziawgo, Professor of Nicholas Copernicus University,
Poland and Danuta Dziawgo, PhD
ISBN
83-7285-134-4, was published in English from DOM Organizatora, Poland,
87-100 Torun, Czerwona Droga 8. Book can be obtained for e-mailing to
the publisher at tnoik@tnoik.torun.pl
Price:
45 EUR or 45 USD include postage
Payment
can be made through the bank account which the customer will receive
from the publisher with the order's confirmation.
|
|
Printer-friendly version
