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Author: Timo Busch ,
Paul Shrivastava
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Greenleaf Publishing
Weight: 0.560kg
ISBN: 9781906093617
ISBN 10: 190609361
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 July 2011
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The Global Carbon Crisis presents a comprehensive overview of the challenges related to climate change and its impact on business and other stakeholders. By providing concrete proposals on how companies can address this crisis through innovation and the development of sustainable business practices the book will be a very valuable guide for business executives, managers and management educators. --Jonas Haertle, Head
The Global Carbon Crisis presents a comprehensive overview of the challenges related to climate change and its impact on business and other stakeholders. By providing concrete proposals on how companies can address this crisis through innovation and the development of sustainable business practices the book will be a very valuable guide for business executives, managers and management educators.
Author Information
Dr Timo Busch is currently working at senior researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests include corporate strategies towards a low-carbon economy, organisational adaptation to climate change, and the business case of corporate environmental sustainability. He teaches at ETH, FU Berlin and Duisenberg School of Finance courses on corporate sustainability, strategy and finance. The topic of his PhD thesis was strategic management under carbon constraints. Before joining ETH Timo worked at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy focusing on corporate eco-efficiency, sustainable finance and climate change. His work has been published in international journals including the 'Journal of Industrial Ecology', 'Ecological Economics', 'Business and Society', and the 'Journal of Business Ethics'. Dr Paul Shrivastava is the David O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and Director of the David O'Brien Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is Senior Advisor on sustainability to Bucknell University and the Indian Institute of Management-Shillong, India, and serves on the Board of Trustees of DeSales University, Allentown, PA. Dr Shrivastava received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and was tenured Associate Professor of Management at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He has published 15 books and over 100 articles in professional journals, and has served on the editorial boards of leading management education journals including the 'Academy of Management Review', the 'Strategic Management Journal', 'Organization', 'Risk Management' and 'Business Strategy and the Environment', and the 'International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management'. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, and his work has been featured in the 'Los Angeles Times', the 'Philadelphia Inquirer', the 'Christian Science Monitor 'and on the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour.
