Author Description

"Environment and Business examines in depth the ways in which business, industry, the physical environment, environmentalism and social change have evolved alongside each other. Business responses to environmental influences fall within a spectrum, between attempts to ignore external pressures, to viewing the changes as an opportunity. Business is not seen as a uniform activity. Many books restrict their coverage to manufacturing industries' relationship with the environment - this innovative text widens the debate. Special attention is paid to both the primary industries which are in close contact with the environment and to the tertiary industries which now make up the bulk of the economy and which are shown to be subject to environmental influences in numerous ways." "Environment and Business assumes no previous knowledge of business studies, to discuss how businesses and the environment interact. It introduces students to a range of beliefs, rather than advocating a single approach. The authors use boxed case studies to highlight how business practice and the environment interact at levels from local to global, with examples from multinational companies, government bodies, national charities and local enterprise." --Book Jacket.