Environmental management systems and the new policy agenda / Cary Coglianese and Jennifer Nash -- Environmental management systems: history, theory, and implementation research / Richard N.L. Andrews, et al. -- Factors that shape EMS outcomes in firms / Jennifer Nash and John R. Ehrenfeld -- Why...

"Details the often incomplete, incoherent, and ineffectual U.S. energy policy, tackling specific policy questions: Why are these components of energy policy so important? How would 'acting in time'---not waiting until politics demands action---make a difference? What should our policy actually...

Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Theorising contemporary sustainability -- Sustainability today : from fringe to mainstream -- Ecological modernisation : promises and prospects -- Corporate social responsibility : business stepping up? -- Practising contemporary sustainability --...

When new policies fail to create a new politics -- An institutional history of electricity politics and climate inaction -- Policy feedback : networked and influential advocates use the public to drive clean energy leadership in Texas -- A direct line to legislators and regulators : fossil fuel...

How we live : reality and utopia -- Fables : alternative futures for society -- The challenge of green energy -- Defining green jobs -- Forecasting green jobs -- The green war on trade -- Economic fallacies of the green economy -- Green pork and the green economy -- Green cars, trucks, and the...