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The range of sustainability objectives has now developed from relatively simple issues of environmental protection to a full array of interwoven social, economic and ecological issues, nationally and internationally. The involved process of sustainable development has now become a permanent and increasingly complex process. In this insightful book, Keijzers provides a concise and authoritative introduction to the evolution of the collaborative stakeholder approach to sustainable development in the context of changing environmental policies. Author Keijzers examines the evolving range of issues of sustainability, and the related change of processes within governments and businesses. Governments continue to fine-tune policies for the sustainable development of society. Similarly the business community is continually striving towards enhanced corporate, ecological and social responsibility. Keijzers investigates these change processes in both the public and private sectors.
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Business, Government and Sustainable Development
Today sustainability thinking encompasses a wide range of national and international ecological concerns, socio-economic issues and topics on democratic institutional development. The involved policy processes demand the engagement of an equally diverse group of actors. This book analyses a new stage emerging in the development of sustainability policies from the Netherlands and shows how this phase poses new strategic questions to business and governments. The author highlights the increasing complexity of the changing process towards sustainable development and illustrates the importance of collaboration between businesses, governments and non-governmental organisations in the design and implementation of shared strategies for sustainable development. The book then moves to questions of business administration related to the strategic management of the shift to sustainable business. It demonstrates how businesses can arrange internal and external organisational processes for the development of strategies to utilise the potential of sustainable development. It illustrates the importance of stakeholder collaboration for better achievement of sustainable business objectives. This book shows sustainable business to be an inspiring, innovative and rewarding aspect of entrepreneurship and will be essential reading for students and researchers of sustainable development, environmental management and the evolution of environmental policy. Gerard Keijzers is Professor of Sustainable Entrepreneurship at Nyenrode University, The Netherlands Business School. He gained practical experience in this field of work during the 1990s when he was Director for Strategy in the Dutch Ministry of Environment and a member of the OECD group on environmental performance in Paris, France.
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