Understanding sustainability principles and ESG policies : a multidisciplinary approach to public and corporate responses to climate change / Colin Read.
Read, Colin, 1959-
2023
HC79.E5
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Title
Understanding sustainability principles and ESG policies : a multidisciplinary approach to public and corporate responses to climate change / Colin Read.
Author
Read, Colin, 1959-
ISBN
9783031344831 (electronic bk.)
3031344839 (electronic bk.)
3031344820
9783031344824
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34483-1
Publication Details
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-031-34483-1 doi
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HC79.E5
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.2
Summary
This textbook explores sustainability, climate change, and the corporate responsibility movement from a broad array of perspectives, including the challenges, risks, and opportunities of ESG policies, energy and environmental science, economics and philosophy, and sound public and private sector management. There is no intergenerational issue that is more pressing than the challenge of sustainability and climate change. It is a concern that will only worsen within any readers lifetime, especially if we fail to act. At the same time, there is growing concern among corporations arising from the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) paradigm that includes climate risk, future profits, and stakeholder expectations. Many of our leading institutions also increasingly acknowledge a responsibility for corporate decisions since the onset of the Industrial Revolution that plays no small role in bringing us to the existential precipice of our day. This book provides necessary tools of sufficient sophistication to address complex intergenerational issues, such as global warming, economic justice and fairness, appropriate intergenerational planning, sustainable finance, corporate risk management, and governance. The book offers a vital resource for students, shareholders, sustainability practitioners, agencies, and advocates interested in climate action, intergenerational accountability, and economic sustainability. Colin Read has been teaching economics and finance for forty years, most recently as a Professor of Economics and Finance at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. He also acts as a voice of ESG awareness on a number of corporate boards and consults on sustainability issues. He has written over a dozen books on economics and finance, with his most recent title The Bitcoin Dilemma that describes the financial benefits and environmental costs of cryptocurrencies.
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UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES AND ESG POLICIES.
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Intro
Preface
Introduction
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Part I A Definition of Sustainability
1 Competing Ideals and an Emerging Consensus
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethic1
The Malthusian Trap
The Scientific Study of the Ecosystem and the Ecology Movement
A Brief Political History of Environmental Awareness
Summary
Notes
2 Population Dynamics and Systems-A Limits to Growth
The Isolated State
Malthusian Population Growth3
The Club of Rome Analysis of the Limits to Growth
Summary
Appendix: A Complex Ecosystem
Notes

3 An Operational Definition of Sustainability
The Three Pillars of Sustainable Development
The Environmental, Social, and Governance Approach
The Global Compact
Similarities and Differences of the Three Approaches
Summary
Notes
4 The Planet's Balance Sheet and Nature's Bank
Summary
Notes
Part II The Science of Sustainability
5 Cosmology, Entropy, and Sustainability
Entropy
Chemical Reactions
Energy Vocabulary
Chemical Energy
Summary
6 Biology and Ecosystem Science
Basic Ecosystem Science
The Ocean Ecosystem Equilibrium

The Boreal Forest Ecosystem Equilibrium
The Soil Carbon Sink
Ecosystem Management
Summary
Notes
7 Sustainable Energy from the Sun and Earth's Core
A Brief History of Photovoltaics
Wind
Water Power
Geothermal Power
Energy for Transportation
Biomass and Bioproduction
Summary
Notes
8 Nuclear Power
Gen I Plants
Breeder Reactors
Generation III Plants
Small Modular Reactors
Generation IV Plants
Fusion
Summary
9 Energy Storage and Efficiency
Battery Storage
Flow Batteries
Pumped Hydro
Flywheels and Compressed Gases

Latent Heat
Thermal Energy Storage
Thermo-Chemical Storage
The Hydrogen Economy
Fuel Cells
Energy Distribution
Energy Efficiency
Summary
Notes
10 The Natural History of Fossil Fuels
Various Types of Hydrocarbons
Refining
Summary
Note
Part III The Economics of Sustainability
11 A Brief History of Time in Economic Decision-Making
The Indifference Curve
The Budget Constraint
A New Application for an Old Technique
Income Statements and Balance Sheets
Summary

Appendix: An Extension of Fisher's Intertemporal Model to Include Production over Many Periods.
Notes
12 Discounting and Extraction of Depletable Resources
The Marginal User Cost
Backstop Technologies and Substitutes
The Schumpeter Growth Paradigm
Summary
Appendix
Introduction to the Open Access Problem
The Monopolist's Resource Extraction Trajectory
More on Surpluses
Notes
13 Discounting and Renewable Resource Extraction
Summary
Appendix
14 The Tragedy of the Commons and the Coase Theorem
The Establishment of Property Rights and the Coase Theorem

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