The past, present and future of sustainable management [electronic resource] : from the conservation movement to climate change / Stephen Cummings, Todd Bridgman.

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The past, present and future of sustainable management [electronic resource] : from the conservation movement to climate change / Stephen Cummings, Todd Bridgman.

9783030710767 (electronic bk.)
3030710769 (electronic bk.)
3030710750
9783030710750

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

English

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10.1007/978-3-030-71076-7 doi

HD75.6

658.408

We might think sustainable management is a new idea, created in the 1960s by enlightened modern scientists. We might think that it puts us on a new path, beyond what management was originally about. But this is not true. Sustainable management is as old as civilization and was a foundation stone of management science as it was formed in the first decade of the 20th century. Recovering this forgotten past provides deeper roots and greater traction to advance sustainable management in our own times. This book charts a history of sustainable management from premodern times, through the birth of management science as an offshoot of the conservation movement, to the present day. The authors argue that modern tools like Triple Bottom Line reporting and multiple Sustainable Development Goals may be less useful than a return to a more fundamental and holistic view of management.

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