Offers an overview of the principles and practice implicit in sustainable development. This textbook shows how business and science, as professional communities, are adapting to fresh information about risks to the environment. It provides various sections that develop principles such as resilience and integrity in the economy and the environment.
The 1990s have seen the development of important new approaches to sustaining corporate development and protecting the environment. Corporations are beginning to realize their responsibilities for a healthy environment. Sustainable development is viewed as an integrated, ecological, economic, and social system in which both economic growth and quality-of-life improvements can occur in a unified system complementary to the maintenance of natural capital. Sustainability Perspectives for Resources and Business shows the reader that a sound understanding of the concepts involved in sustainable development is beneficial to businesses, natural resources, and the population in general. This textbook was written to help students and professionals involved in business, science, or engineering to understand the changes occurring in the workplace. It serves as a step toward understanding how business and science, as professional communities, are adapting to new information about risks to the environment. Various chapters are devoted to resources, values, and valuation systems. Each section develops principles such as resilience and integrity in the economy and the environment.
"...The book bridges the gap between ecology/environmental science and economy. A blueprint for making good environmental and business decisions in the 21st century...describes how many issues can be resolved as win/win with a longer term perspective, dialogue, and education of all the stakeholders..."-Graham Mitchell, Director of the Ohio EPA
