Environmental Issues and Business: Implications of a Changing Agenda

420 Pages·1996·1.36 MB·English

by  Sally Eden

Environmental Issues and Business :
title:
Implications of a Changing Agenda
author: Eden, Sally.
publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (UK)
isbn10 | asin: 0471948721
print isbn13: 9780471948728
ebook isbn13: 9780585253978
language: English
Industrial management--Environmental
aspects--Great Britain, Social responsibility
subject
of business--Great Britain, Environmental
policy--Great Britain.
publication date: 1996
lcc: HD30.255.E34 1996eb
ddc: 658.4/08
Industrial management--Environmental
aspects--Great Britain, Social responsibility
subject:
of business--Great Britain, Environmental
policy--Great Britain.
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Environmental Issues and Business
Implications of a Changing Agenda
Sally Eden
Middlesex University, Enfield, UK
Copyright © 1996 Sally Eden
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Eden, Sally.
Environmental issues and business : implications of a changing agenda / Sally Eden.
Environmental issues and business : implications of a changing agenda / Sally Eden.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-471-94872-1
1. Industrial managementEnvironmental aspectsGreat Britain. 2. Social responsibility
of businessGreat Britain. 3. Environmental policyGreat Britain. I. Title.
HD30.255.E34 1996
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Contents
Preface ix
List of Abbreviations xi
1 1
Environmental Issues and Business: An Introduction
The development of environmental interest 2
Why does business want to be (seen to be) green? 8
Sales and savings 9
Reputation 10
Pre-emption 10
Questions of compatibility 11
Ideological divergences 15
'Green business' as a contested concept 20
The scope of this book 22
Notes 22
2 25
Pressures on Business for Environmental Change
Types of pressure 25
The legislative and political context 28
Political influences on the regulatory climate 28
Legislative and regulatory influences 31
The example of ozone depletion 34
Consumer demand 39
Green consumerism 39
Measuring the green market 41
Consumer sovereignty 43
Environmental NGOs 45
Investment, insurance and other sectoral pressures 50
Summary 53
Notes 53
Page vi
3 55
Analysing Corporate Environmental Change
Business environmental change 55
Analysing the level of business change 58
Compliance, reaction and proaction 63
Complications with classification 66
Business responsibility and the environment 69
Summary 74
Notes 75
4 77
Business and Environmental Communication
Company environmental policy 78
Environmental accountability and reporting 82
Self-regulation of environmental reporting 87
External regulation of environmental auditing and 90
reporting: BS 7750 and EMAS
Advertising and marketing 93
Environmental advertising and marketing 96
Criticisms of green advertising 100
Consumer distrust of green advertising 102
Control of green advertising 103
Eco-labelling 106
Summary 110
Notes 111
5 113
Business and the National Environmental Agenda
Self-regulation 114
The Packaging Standards Council (PSC) 117
The chemical industry's Responsible Care 119
programme
Evaluating environmental self-regulation 122
Influencing and lobbying on environmental policy 123
Analysing business influence 124
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) 128
The Institute of Directors (IOD) 131
The Advisory Committee on Business and the 133
Environment (ACBE)
Companies 137
Business and packaging regulation in the UK 138
The Consortium of the Packaging Chain (COPAC) 139
The Producer Responsibility Industry Group (PRG) 141
Summary 145
Notes 146