The Natural Environment As Stakeholder: Prepared by Deborah Baker Texas Christian University
The Natural Environment As Stakeholder: Prepared by Deborah Baker Texas Christian University
The Natural Environment As Stakeholder: Prepared by Deborah Baker Texas Christian University
Chapter 15
Prepared by Deborah Baker
Texas Christian University
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Business and Society: Ethics and Stakeholder Management, 7e • Carroll & Buchholtz
Copyright ©2009 by South-Western, a division of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved
Chapter 15 Learning Outcomes
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Chapter 15 Outline
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The Sustainability Imperative
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Six Principles of Sustainable Success
Figure 15-1 6
Introduction to the Natural Environment
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Environmental Terms
Environment
Carbon Neutral
Carrying Capacity
Entropy
Ecosystem
Niche
Cycle
Threshold
Pollution
Irreversibility @ http://www.envirolink.org
Sustainability 8
Figure 15-2
Top Ten List of Environmental Issues
1. Climate Change
2. Energy
3. Water
4. Biodiversity and Land Use
5. Chemicals, Toxics, and Heavy Metals
6. Air Pollution
7. Waste Management
8. Ozone Layer Depletion
9. Oceans and Fisheries
10.Deforestation
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Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions
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Figure 15-3
Energy
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Water
• Municipal sewage
• Industrial wastes
• Urban runoff
• Agricultural runoff
• Atmospheric fallout
• Overharvesting
• Dam sedimentation
• Deforestation
• Overgrazing
• Over-irrigation 12
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Biodiversity
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Land Use
Land Degradation
• Desertification
• Deforestation
• Overgrazing
• Salinization
• Alkalization
• Soil acidification
• Urban sprawl
• Soil sealing
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Toxic Substances
Problems
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Air Pollution
• Acid rain
• Global warming
• Smog
• Depletion of the ozone layer
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Waste Management
Reduce
Re-Use
Recycle
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Waste Trends in the U.S.
Figure 15-4 18
Ozone Depletion
Ozone Watch
@ http://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html
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Oceans and Fisheries
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Responsibility for Environmental Issues
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The NIMBY Problem
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The Role of Governments
in Environmental Issues
U.S. Government Response
@ http://www.epa.gov
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International Government
Environmental Responses
International Government Response
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Other Environmental Stakeholders
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CERES Principles
Patagonia
3M Company
Stonyfield Yogurt
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Business Case for Sustainability
Cost-Benefit Analysis
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Systematic Business Responses
to the Environmental Challenge
Crisis management
Issues management
Stakeholder management
Sustainability
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Strategic Environmental Management
Figure 15-8 30
Strategic Environmental Management
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Future of Business:
Greening or Growing?
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Key Terms
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