Green Growth: Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy
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Green Growth: Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy by Diego A Vazquez-Brust
This volume is a practical guide that helps the reader build a quick, evidence-based understanding of green-growth strategies and challenges. Its cogent analysis of real-life case studies enables policy makers and company executives identify successful strategies they can adopt, and pitfalls they can avoid, in drafting and implementing green growth policies. The contributors' empirical assessment of these studies identifies the structural conditions required for economic growth to be compatible with environmental sustainability and how the transition to a new economic paradigm should be managed. A crucial addition to the debate now beginning in earnest around the world, this volume attempts to understand how we can nurture a new-born model of sustainable growth and help it evolve to maturity.
Joseph Sarkis is a Professor of Management within Worcester Polytechnic Institute's School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo. He was also a faculty member at Clark University and the University of Texas at Arlington. His teaching and research interests include topics in Business and the Natural Environment, Operations, Logistics, Technology, Information and Supply Chain Management. He has also taught courses on topics in Sustainability, Business and the Natural Environment. He has published over 175 papers in peer reviewed journals on topics ranging from manufacturing and production technology to service, nonprofit and governmental settings. He has also published over 150 additional papers as chapters in books and in conference proceedings. He has published 7 books. He is editor of Management Research Review. He is editor of the social issues and sustainability department for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He is a General Editor for the Journal of Green Building. Dr. Sarkis has served as Guest Editor of over a dozen special issues on Sustainability and Business topics in such journals as the European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Sciences, Journal of Cleaner Production, Business Strategy and the Environment, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Greener Management International, and Information Systems Frontiers. He also serves on the editorial boards for a broad variety of journals including sustainability, operations and supply chain management, technology management, production, and information systems journals. He has served as a visiting scholar at various international locations including Cardiff University's BRASS center, the University of Oviedo in Spain, Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, and in the EU Erasmus Mondus MESPOM program. He has also been a Sea-Sky Scholar at Dalian University of Technology in China. He is an AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789400744165 |
| ISBN 10 | 9400744161 |
| Title | Green Growth: Managing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy |
| Author | Diego A Vazquez-Brust |
| Series | Greening Of Industry Networks Studies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 2012-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 342 |
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