Intrinsic Capability

Implementing Intrinsic Sustainable Development for an Ecological Civilisation

What would a new approach to tackling urgent global issues like poverty, pollution, habitat loss and climate change look like? How can each of us make the most of the opportunities already present in our rapidly changing world?

With a focus on the roles of knowledge-building and knowledge traditions — the ways we think —, we get closer to what is intrinsic in the functioning of our world and of ourselves.

Topics covered include ecological business and marketing, ecological accounting; changing values in UK businesses; new business models for sustainability in Indian agriculture; sustainability in Latin America, Russia and Vietnam; mobilising the masses through dynamic citizenship in Sweden and Sarajevo; an investigation of the role of artistic collectives for sustainability in Brazil; developing Nairobi in accordance with a Triple Top Line Approach; an examination of two theoretical cultures in Europe and Africa; the emerging Chinese Eco-civilisation; and educating for sustainability in Singapore and Tasmania.

Contents:

• Introduction (Frank Birkin and Thomas Polesie)

• Traditions:

  • Strategies for Epistemic Survival: Slave and Scholar Rebels in the Boundaries of Hispanic America (Alejandro Balanzo and Mónica Ramos-Mejía)
  • A Russian Perspective on the Limitation of Existing Account Reporting Practices for Business Development and Management (Tatiana Dyukina and Olga Cam)

• Ecocentric Business and Marketing:

  • Sustainability, Epistemology, Ecocentric Business and Marketing Strategy: Ideology, Reality and Vision (Helen Borland, Adam Lindgreen, Véronique Ambrosini and Joëlle Vanhamme)

• Towards an Ecological Accounting:

  • Towards an Ecological Accounting: Tensions and Possibilities in Social and Environmental Accounting (Rob Gray)

• Ecological Civilisation:

  • China's Emerging Ecological Civilisation (Liu Zhen, Mingyue Fan and John Margerison)
  • Can Vietnamese Traditional Values Drive 'Sustainability'? An Emic Perspective (Lien Le Monkhouse)

• African Development and Management:

  • Development in Nairobi: Three Into One Does Not GO! (Collins S Makunda)
  • A Tale of Two Theoretical Cultures: Expanding the Application of Habermas' Communicative Action and Post-colonial Theories in Management Studies and Practices in Africa (Sharif M Khalid and Adeyinka A Adewale)

• Educating for Sustainability:

  • Concepts and Meanings of Education for Sustainability (Christopher Lim Gin Swee and Kim Beasy)

• Emerging Business Values:

  • Changing Values (Nick Birkinshaw)
  • Social Entrepreneurship in the Agrifood Sector: Smallholder Farmer Co-operatives (Sanjay V Lanka)

• Mobilising Citizens:

  • Dynamic Citizenship: Participatory Democracy on Local Level (Per-Eric Ullberg-Ornell)
  • Engaging Imaginaries: The Role of Artistic Collectives for Transdisciplinary Sustainability (Andressa Schröder)

• A Reflection (Frank Birkin and Thomas Polesie)

Readership: Graduate students in sustainable business, CSR and environmental sciences; social and natural scientists; business professionals and accountants.
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