Preface1. Introduction: envisioning the prototypical company of the 21st centuryRay Anderson, Interface Inc., Atlanta, GA, USAPart 1: The transition to sustainability-oriented enterprises2. Understanding nature's services to societiesGretchen Daily, Stanford University, California, USA, and Katherine Ellison, Investigative Journalist, California, USA3. Reconsidering business from a systems perspective: the paradigm shift to sustainability-oriented enterprises and financial servicesSissel Waage, The Natural Step, California, USA4. Integrating sustainability into business strategy and operations: applying The Natural Step approach and framework and backcasting from principles of sustainabilityKarl-Henrik Robèrt, Blekinge Technical University and The Natural Step, SwedenPart 2: Case studies of evolving business initiatives5. Sustainability and dematerialisation at Hewlett PackardDavid Hudson, Consultant to Hewlett Packard, USA, and Lynelle Preston, Sustainability Manager, Hewlett Packard, USA6. Engaging in change management: transformation through sustainability strategy at Norm Thompson OutfittersDerek Smith, Norm Thompson Outfitters, Oregon, USA7. Recreating natural-resource-based businesses: sustaining the land and communities in the US New NorthwestCecilia Danks, University of Vermont, USA, and Martin Goebel and Karen Steer, Sustainable Northwest, Oregon, USA8. Growing a sustainable business: establishing and financing new ecologically and socially restorative venturesMatthew A. Klein, Verdant Power, Washington, DC, USAPart 3: Case studies from the financial services sector9. Screening for sustainability: a case study of the Dow Jones Sustainability IndexAlois Flatz, SAM Sustainable Asset Management, Switzerland10. Banking on sustainability: A case study of Shorebank Enterprise PacificJennifer Sokolove, University of California at Berkeley, USAPart 4: Reporting and accountability11. Improving sustainability disclosure: the Global Reporting Initiative GuidelinesAllen L. White, Special Advisor to the Global Reporting Initiative, USAPart 5: Pathways forward to organisational and societal change12. Organisational change for sustainability within enterprises and financial servicesSissel Waage, The Natural Step, California, USA, and Juli Torok, Independent Consultant, Berkeley, California, USA13. Catalysing action and organisational change: the role of personal and group (re)vitalisation in sustainability initiativesHilary Bradbury, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA14. Conclusion: a shift toward sustainability within companies and the financial services sectorSissel Waage, The Natural Step, California, USA
Radical ideas for generating a new perspective on the dynamics of
business systems.
"Anyone or any business seeking to begin, refine, or implement
their sustainability-related business practices should have this
book in their library."
Don Smith, Corporate Environmental Strategy
Sissel Waage is Director of the research programme at The Natural Step's US office. She has been working on sustainability, conservation and development issues for over ten years and has experience on three continents. Dr Waage has conducted research on a range of topics, including natural resource-based businesses and economies, community-based conservation, collaborative decision-making and consensus-building processes. Prior to joining The Natural Step, she worked with Sustainable Northwest and facilitated the establishment of a new community conservation-based developed organisation in rural north-eastern Oregon. Dr Waage has also served as a programme officer in the East and Southern Africa Programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), where she collaborated with public-sector and private-sector partners to design and manage conservation-based development projects. She has also worked at a forest research station and several other conservation and development organisations. Dr Waage completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, in Massachusetts. She has also studied at the University of Oslo, in Norway, as a Fulbright Scholar, and at the National University of Singapore.
"In Ants, Galileo & Gandhi ... Sissel Waage ... and her preeminent group of contributors have carefully and persuasively found a balance capturing the essence of sustainability while at the same time identifying and assessing important lessons to be learned from their experience ... Anyone or any business seeking to begin, refine, or implement their sustainability-related business practices should have this book in their library", Don Smith, Corporate Environmental Strategy Vol. 10 Issue 10, 2003 "These are smart, detailed, in-the-trenches case studies of how companies align sustainability with business success, along with the scientific and societal rationale that amplify these initiatives' importance. Mainstream managers will find both guidance and inspiration", The Green Business Letter, November 2003
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