Environmental sustainability is generating increased concern among business executives, governments, consumers, and management scholars. Amidst the stakeholders' struggle and the challenges and opportunities from environmental concerns, HRM function joins the ongoing discussions and debates. The...

The relationships between agriculture, the environment, and development are deep and complex. By 2050 a 70 per cent increase in production will be needed to feed an additional 2.7 billion people on an already degraded natural resource base. In light of this and amid the realities of climate...

We use a North-South model with property right differences and resource dynamics to study the effects of trade on resource use and welfare. Autarky is likely to Pareto-dominate free trade in the long run when the environment is quite fragile, and the result is reversed when the environment is...

Nowadays the reduction or elimination of waste has become a major environmental concern among industrialized countries and a priority for companies. In this work it is carried out a review of the postulates of the classical economic model, existing until a few dates, in connection with the...

Investment in pollution prevention technologies are often made under significant uncertainty about the future pay-off from the investments. However, as time passes some of the uncertainties may be resolved by new information, implying that the timing of investments becomes an important issue for...

According to classic economic views of social responsibility as esposed by Milton Friedman, one would expect markets to penalize companies for undertaking social or environmental initiatives beyond minimal compliance with legal requirements, because such activities arguably may divert a firm's...

This short encyclopedic article provides a theoretical introduction to the 'Business Case for Sustainability' concept, its drivers, key challenges and future issues. A business case for sustainability intends and realizes economic success through (and not just with) an intelligent design of...

Campus greening is often the first step universities take towards sustainability. However, the diffusion of sustainability reporting methodologies and rankings is still at an early stage, and is biased in mainly measuring energy efficiency indicators while omitting basic features enabling...

By now, does not suffice to evaluate companies only from an economic point of view, but it is necessary to look at the business and the social and environmental context. Environmental degradation and depletion of natural resources is also reflected in the growth of interest in the area of...

It is an imperative to find a proper way to maintain a balance between the economic development and natural environment's carrying capacity, which is needed for the wellbeing and sustenance of human as well as non-human world. Balancing the economic growth and environmental quality has always...