The Role of Business in Global Sustainability Transformations

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-43483-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business

Drawing on contributions from more than thirty scholars and experts in the field, this book examines the role of business as an enabler, as an inhibitor, and ultimately as a co-actor in global sustainability transformations expected over the next few decades.

The Role of Business in Global Sustainability Transformations employs several theoretical perspectives and provides abundant examples and cases to discuss a variety of emerging concepts, phenomena, and trends shaping business sustainability. Weaving through the chapters, the editors present core tensions and sources of inertia towards transformative change, and acknowledge that envisioning multiple solutions and pathways are possible and desirable. They advocate for the need to align visions, actions and time horizons between policy, society and business in addressing the interlinked socio-ecological challenges that our society currently faces.

This book will be an important resource for scholars and professionals working in the field of sustainability and sustainable business, and a vital educational text for students interested in this discipline.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

D'Amato, Dalia

Toppinen, Anne

Kozak, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Part 1 – Business sustainability today

- A little chapter on the big picture

Robert Kozak, Anne Toppinen, Dalia D’Amato

- Towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in business strategy and operations

Angelina Korsunova and Kaisa Korhonen-Kurki

- Sustainable business models: state of the art and emerging avenues

Romana Rauter, Tomas Santa-Maria, and Josef-Peter Schöggl

Part 2 – Framing and managing sustainability

- Potential of the green economy discourse to advance sustainability in business

Maria Fernanda Tomaselli, Kahlil Baker, Michael Barkusky, Noriko Kusumi

- The circular bioeconomy: company-level strategic perspectives

Ari Jantunen and Anni Tuppura

- Strategies for brand owners and retailers in the circular bioeconomy transition

Fabian Schipfer, Gülsah Yilan, Francesca Govoni, Piergiuseppe Morone

- Servitization and the future of business development – Insights from the forest industry

Katja Lähtinen and Liina Häyrinen



Part 3 – Governance and policy mechanisms

- The private sector engagement paradox: the proliferation of finance and market driven sustainability tools alongside the acceleration of environmental degradation

Ben Cashore

- Intact forest landscapes and the FSC: lessons for NGO-business cooperation

William Nikolakis and Peter Wood

- The internet of trees and networked surveillance: a multi-stakeholder effort to protect the resilience of ecosystem

Mario Schultz and Peter Seele

Part 4 – Business sustainability tomorrow?

- The quandary of sustainability-oriented innovations

Eric Hansen, Jaana Korhonen, Rajat Panwar, Marko Hakovirta

- Business in a strongly sustainable society?

Iana Nesterova and Ben Robra

- The quest for the sustainable hybrid business

Ellen Stenslie

- Sustainable futures and the changing role of business vis-à-vis with society

Anne Toppinen, Robert Kozak, Dalia D’Amato

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dalia D’Amato is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki (Finland), and a member of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS). Since Autumn 2022, she has been employed by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE). Current research interests include solution-oriented sustainability narratives, such as the green, circular, and bioeconomy, and related societal and organisational transformations; business sustainability in the forest sector and other land use-intensive sectors; biodiversity-underpinned ecosystem services and the governance of socio-ecological systems.

Anne Toppinen is Professor in forest economics and business and Vice Dean of research affairs and doctoral education at the Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, at University of Helsinki (Finland). During 2018-21, she served as Director of the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS). Her research interests focus on sustainability pathways and resilience of forest-based value networks, corporate responsibility questions in a broad sense, and emergence of new sustainability-driven business models. She has published widely in the fields of corporate responsibility and forest bioeconomy.

Robert Kozak is a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. His research and teaching revolve around sustainable business management and business-based solutions to complex problems related to sustainable development, forestry, wood products, and the emerging conservation economy. He was awarded the International Union of Forest Research Organization’s Scientific Achievement Award (2014), a Doctor of Agriculture and Forestry honoris causa from the University of Helsinki (2022), and the Killam Teaching Prize (2001, 2014).