Understanding Sustainability Principles and ESG Policies
eBook - ePub

Understanding Sustainability Principles and ESG Policies

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Public and Corporate Responses to Climate Change

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eBook - ePub

Understanding Sustainability Principles and ESG Policies

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Public and Corporate Responses to Climate Change

About this book

This textbook explores sustainability, climate change, and the corporate responsibility movement from a broad array of perspectives, including the challenges, risks, and opportunities of ESG policies, energy and environmental science, economics and philosophy, and sound public and private sector management. There is no intergenerational issue that is more pressing than the challenge of sustainability and climate change. It is a concern that will only worsen within any reader's lifetime, especially if we fail to act. At the same time, there is growing concern among corporations arising from the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) paradigm that includes climate risk, future profits, and stakeholder expectations. Many of our leading institutions also increasingly acknowledge a responsibility for corporate decisions since the onset of the Industrial Revolution that plays no small role in bringing us to the existential precipice of our day. This book  provides necessary tools of sufficient sophistication to address complex intergenerational issues, such as global warming, economic justice and fairness, appropriate intergenerational planning, sustainable finance, corporate risk management, and governance.

 

The book offers a vital resource for students, shareholders, sustainability practitioners, agencies, and advocates interested in climate action, intergenerational accountability, and economic sustainability. 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Part I. A Definition of Sustainability
  4. Part II. The Science of Sustainability
  5. Part III. The Economics of Sustainability
  6. Part IV. Sustainability and Public Policy
  7. Part V. Attainment of ESG Goals—A Public and Private Partnership
  8. Back Matter