Unique in its integration of cases and readings, this text seeks to increase environmental awareness, sensitivity, and literacy in students. This collection of readings and cases can be used as a supplement or a primary text and is perfect for business, government and society, ethics, strategic management, and industrial ecology courses.

Table of Contents:
I. Perspectives on the Environmental Challenge 1. Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World, Stuart L. Hart Thinking Globally and Inclusively About Sustainable Business Practices 2. Building a New Economy, Lester R. Brown and Jennifer Mitchell Remaining Challenges and the Signs of Transition to a Greener Global Economy II. The Institutional Setting of Environmental Issues 3. The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold What Is the Relationship Between Humankind and the Environment? 4. Asking How Much Is Enough? Alan Durning A Critical Examination of the Culture of Consumption 5. The Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Harden The Classic Discussion of Population and Common Resources 6. EPA and the Evolution of Federal Regulation, Paul R. Portney Regulation and Economic Models for Meeting Pollution Reduction Goals 7. Costs and Benefits, Frances Cairncross How Can Environmental Costs Be Better Captured in Prices? 8. Discounting the Future: Economics and Ethics, Timothy J. Brennan A Critical Analysis of the Practice of Discounting in Economic Analysis 9. Behind the Scenes: How Policymaking in the European Community, Japan, and the United States Affects Global Negotiations, Raymond Vernon A Survey of Environmental Politicies in the Triad 10. Global Trade and the Environment, Edward Goldsmith How International Trade Imperils Environmental Quality 11. Making Trade Work for the Environment, Daniel C. Esty How the Environment Can Be Protected Through International Trade III. Managing to Be Environmentally Responsive 12. Strategic Management for a Small Planet, W. Edward Stead and Jean Garner Stead Using Environmental Capabilities to Foster Competitive Advantage 13. Corporate Obstacles to Pollution Prevention, Peter Cebon How the Sociology of the Workplace Influences Program Success 14. The Emergence of Environmental Partnerships, Frederick J. Long and Matthew B. Arnold Creating Dialog and Collaboration with Environmental Groups 15. Consumers with a Conscious, Jacquelyn A. Ottman Who Are the Green Consumers? 16. The Next Big Product Opportunity, Jacquelyn A. Ottman How Can Businesses Reach Green Consumers? IV. Principles of Corporate Ecology 17. Note on Life Cycle Analysis, Susan Svoboda A Method for Identifying Costs Across the Life of Products 18. An Introduction to Environmental Accounting as a Business Management Tool, United States Environmental Protection Agency A Tool Kit for Incorporating the Environment into Accounting Practice 19. Integrating Environment and Technology: Design for Environment, Braden R. Allenby Designing Products with Environmental Impact in Mind 20. Introduction to ISO 14000, Tom Tibor with Ira Feldman An Overview of the International Environmental Management System 21. The Natural Step to Sustainabiliy, Wingspread Journal Unifying Scientific Principles with Sustainability V. Environmental Management Cases 22. Bank of America and the Carlsbad Highlands Foreclosure (A), Ann T. Lawrence 23. Pacific Lumber Company, Michael V. Russo and Cindy Noblitt 24. The International Climate Change Partnership: An Industry Association Faces the Climate Change Issue, David L. Levy 25. Acid Rain: The Southern Company, Forest Reinhardt 26. Self (A), Scott B. Sonenshein, Michael Gorman, and Patricia Werhane 27. Self (B), Scott B. Sonenshein, Michael Gorman, and Patricia Werhane 28. Deja Shoe (A): Creating the Environmental Footwear Company, Paul Hardy 29. Proctor & Gamble Inc.: Downy Enviro-Pak, Janet Lahey, Chris Lane, and Adrian B. Ryans 30. McDonald's Environmental Strategy, Susan Svoboda and Stuart L. Hart 31. The Clamshell Controversy, Susan Svoboda 32. The Proctor & Gamble Company: Disposable and Reusable Diapers--A Life-Cycle Analysis, Management Institute for Environment and Business 33. DesignTex, Incorporated (A), Mathew M. Mehalik, Michael Gorman, Andrea Larson, and Patricia H. Werhane 34. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, Christopher A. Cummings and Frank den Hond 35. Industrial Products, Inc. (A): Measuring Environmental Performance, Richard Wells 36. Oil in the Ecuadorian Rainforest, Christopher A. Cummings, Barbara L. Marcus, R. Edward Freeman, and Jason Lunday 37. Cost Accounting and Hazardous Wastes at Specialty Glass, Inc., Christopher H. Stinson