Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.1 Environmental Management: Readings and Cases Edited by Michael V. Russo
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 Part 1 Perspectives on the Environmental Challenge
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.3 Reading 1 Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World Stuart L. Hart
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.4 Ecological Footprints Source: Donella Meadows, “Our Footprints’ Are Treading Too Much Earth,” Charleston (S.C.) Gazette, April 1, 1996.
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.5 Major Challenges to Sustainability
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.6 Total Environmental Burden Where: EB= Environmental Burden P = Population A = Affluence T = Technology EB = P x A x T
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.7 The Sustainability Portfolio
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.8 Building Sustainable Business Strategies Megacities
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.9 Reading 2 Building a New Economy Lester R. Brown and Jennifer Mitchell
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.10 Three Key Environmental Issues The world’s population continues to grow –The United Nations estimates that world population with grow from 5.8 billion to 9.4 billion by 2050 Global demand for food, water and other natural resources is rising –Currently, most natural systems are under stress The earth’s climate is changing –Evidence exists that a significant amount of the increase in temperature since the industrial revolution is caused by human economic activity
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.11 Sixteen Countries With Zero Population Growth, 1997