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Chapter 7: Determining Environmental Values: Storytelling At Bp., Jacob Massoud, David M. Boje
Chapter 7: Determining Environmental Values: Storytelling At Bp., Jacob Massoud, David M. Boje
Jacob Massoud
To enhance sustainable development research and practice the values of the researchers, project managers and participants must first be made explicit. Values in Sustainable Development introduces and compares worldviews and values from multiple countries and perspectives, providing a survey of empirical methods available to study environmental values as affected by sustainable development. The first part is methodological, looking at what values are, why they are important, and how to include values in sustainable development. The second part looks at how values differ across social contexts, religions and viewpoints demonstrating how various individuals may value nature from a variety of cultural, …
Competing For Sustainability Within Carbon Constrained World: A Strategic Climate Change Planning Framework, Ananda Wickramasinghe, Helan Gamage
Competing For Sustainability Within Carbon Constrained World: A Strategic Climate Change Planning Framework, Ananda Wickramasinghe, Helan Gamage
Ananda Wickramasinghe
Addressing issue of Green House Gas emissions with climate change is becoming one of the critical social, economic, political and ecological issues for governments and businesses. Australia's per capita emission due to electricity is five times than the world average. This study explores government and firms especially resource sector strategic initiatives to date, and how foresight will develop capability in capitalising the changing climate change challenges, structure adaptation process and how different firms' strategies enhance sustainable innovation and knowledge management. Due to short-termism, and lack of emissions target strategy and carbon trading mechanism, country's climate strategic change initiative is fairly …
A Mathematical Decision-Making Procedure To Assist In The Development Of Sustainability Plans Based On The Stars Framework, Yu-Ti Huang, Vania R. Coelho, Jacob Massoud, Susan Briski, Ana Toepel, Marcia Silva
A Mathematical Decision-Making Procedure To Assist In The Development Of Sustainability Plans Based On The Stars Framework, Yu-Ti Huang, Vania R. Coelho, Jacob Massoud, Susan Briski, Ana Toepel, Marcia Silva
Jacob Massoud
Financial Sustainability And The Imperative For Reform In Investment Organisation In Australia's Local Government , Martin Gold
Financial Sustainability And The Imperative For Reform In Investment Organisation In Australia's Local Government , Martin Gold
Martin L Gold
The losses reported from the so-called sub-prime category, and the collateral damage suffered by some councils, has brought renewed scrutiny of their financial viability and the investment practices which are employed across the local government sector. The diversity of prudential investment standards which currently apply in Australia also suggests that the investment policies expected to deliver optimal economic outcomes for ratepayers require reform. In conjunction with the moves to address the financial sustainability of the sector, this paper argues that reforms are needed to standardise investment powers, empower councils to develop appropriate investment objectives, and to centralise funds management.- 2
An Empirical Analysis Of Sustainability Of Trade Deficit: Evidence From South Asian Countries, Reetu Verma, Nelson Perera
An Empirical Analysis Of Sustainability Of Trade Deficit: Evidence From South Asian Countries, Reetu Verma, Nelson Perera
Nelson Perera
In this paper, the long-run relationship between Sri Lankan exports and imports during the period 1950 to 2006 is examined using unit root tests and cointegration techniques that allow for an endogenously determined structural break. The results failed to support the existence of a long-run equilibrium between exports and imports in Sri Lanka. This finding questions the effectiveness of Sri Lanka’s current long-term macroeconomic policies and suggests that Sri Lanka is in violation of its international budget constraint.
Xcruza's Portable Solar Cooker: Eco-Entrepreneurism Challenges In Argentina, Jacob Massoud, Chistopher Leeds
Xcruza's Portable Solar Cooker: Eco-Entrepreneurism Challenges In Argentina, Jacob Massoud, Chistopher Leeds
Jacob Massoud
Business Sustainability And Undergraduate Management Education In Australia, Josie Fisher, Ingrid Bonn
Business Sustainability And Undergraduate Management Education In Australia, Josie Fisher, Ingrid Bonn
Ingrid Bonn
There is a large and rapidly expanding academic literature arguing that there is an urgent requirement for businesses to become more sustainable. There is also a demonstrated need for managers to develop a better understanding of sustainability and the appropriate strategies required to improve business sustainability. In addition, there are international calls for educators to address sustainability in their programs. The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which business sustainability is being incorporated into undergraduate business and management courses in Australian universities. The high percentage of international students enrolled in these courses suggests our findings have …
Green Buildings: An Asset Manager's Dream Or Nightmare?, Linda Too
Green Buildings: An Asset Manager's Dream Or Nightmare?, Linda Too
Linda Too
The mounting evidence on climate change has thrust the sustainability issue to the forefront of many political agendas. Current research has provided many business cases for sustainable design and construction. While commercial green buildings have been the mainstay, the green phenomenon has also spread to educational facilities. This paper provides a case study of the new Mirvac School of Sustainable Development Building at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia. With its extensive green features, it is applying to be the first six-star rated green educational building in Australia. To this end, the management of green buildings will be a challenge for …
Sustainability- The Missing Ingredient In Strategy, Ingrid Bonn, Josie Fisher
Sustainability- The Missing Ingredient In Strategy, Ingrid Bonn, Josie Fisher
Ingrid Bonn
While strategy has been addressed in the literature since the 1960s and sustainability has received a lot of attention recently, there has been little attention paid to the question of how sustainability considerations might be integrated into an organisation's strategy. In this paper a framework that outlines how sustainability can be addressed strategically in organisations is introduced and analysed. It is argued that all three dimensions of sustainability- economic, environmental and social- must be integrated into all aspects of an organisation's strategy and need to be addressed on an ongoing basis.
Reward For Environmental Performance: Using The Scanlon Plan As Catalyst To Green Organisations, Jacob A. Massoud, Bonnie F. Daily, James W. Bishop
Reward For Environmental Performance: Using The Scanlon Plan As Catalyst To Green Organisations, Jacob A. Massoud, Bonnie F. Daily, James W. Bishop
Jacob Massoud
Triple Bottom Line Event Evaluation: A Proposed Framework For Holistic Event Evaluation, Liz Fredline, Michael Raybould, Leo Jago, Marg Deery
Triple Bottom Line Event Evaluation: A Proposed Framework For Holistic Event Evaluation, Liz Fredline, Michael Raybould, Leo Jago, Marg Deery
Michael Raybould
Although there has long been an interest in measuring the economic impacts of events, it is only relatively recently that concern about the sustainability of event tourism has driven an imperative to develop methods for evaluating and monitoring other sorts of impacts including social and environmental. This trend mirrors moves in general tourism and business more broadly where discussion about triple bottom line reporting underpins a move for enterprises to be accountable to stakeholders, not only in regard to the economic bottom line, but also with regard to their “footprint” on the environment and on society more broadly. There is …