Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: the environment and business -- 1 Environment and business: the nature of the relationships -- The basic elements-business, environment and environmentalism -- Impact of business on the environment -- The environment influencing business -- Business cultures and ethics -- The globalization of business -- Environmental and political standpoints -- Summary points -- Further reading -- Discussion points -- Exercise -- 2 The changing relationships through time -- The changing environment -- Doing business over the last two hundred years: a case study of the UK -- Developments in the three industrial sectors -- The birth and growth of environmentalism -- Summary points -- Further reading -- Discussion points -- Exercise -- 3 Environmental business perspectives: assets, costs and externalities -- How business works-internal and external relationships -- The concept of environmental assets -- Environmental business costs -- Public environmental costs -- The importance of environmental externalities for business -- Subsidies and compensation -- Transformations -- Further factors causing friction -- Measuring and valuing the environment -- Summary -- Further reading -- Discussion points -- Exercises -- 4 Environmental business necessities: the pressures which cannot be ignored -- The relationship between business and environmental goals -- Real, anticipated and perceived pressures -- Pressures on business from the past, present and future -- Physical pressures -- Why direct environmental pressures are often overlooked by business -- Changing environmental conditions -- Political pressures -- Environmental legislation -- Legislative enforcement and interpretation -- Economic pressures -- Sociocultural pressures.

Technological pressures -- Environmental impact assessment -- Summary -- Further reading -- Discussion points -- Exercises -- 5 Environmental business opportunities: business becomes pro-active -- How do environmental business opportunities arise? -- What could an opportunity mean for a business? -- How businesses see opportunities -- Constraints to seizing opportunities -- Physical opportunities -- Legislative and planning opportunities -- Planning laws -- Case study: mushroom picking in Washington State -- Social opportunities -- Green consumers -- The technical fix route to opportunities -- Summary -- Further reading -- Discussion points -- Exercises -- 6 Primary industries: using resources directly -- Relationships between resources, environment and business -- Primary industries and resource management -- Environmental impacts of primary industry -- Agriculture-what is it? -- Costs, assets and externalities -- Farming as a business and as a way of life -- Environmental concern about farming -- Agri-environmental schemes -- The pressures on farming -- Opportunities for farming -- Sustainable farming -- Summary -- Further reading -- Discussion points -- Exercises -- 7 Secondary industries: adding value and carrying the burden -- What are the secondary industries? -- Bringing the resources together -- Manufacturing processes -- Environmental implications of products after manufacture -- Business practices -- Some characteristics of the construction industry -- The construction cycle -- Summary -- Further reading -- Discussion points -- Exercises -- 8 Tertiary industries: the hidden environmental issues -- The importance of the tertiary sector -- Environmental impacts of the service sector -- Retailing and the environment-why retailing matters -- Characteristics of modern retailing -- Retail impact on the environment.

Case study: Sainsbury's environmental impact -- Environmental concern by retailers -- Environmental pressures on retailing -- Environmental opportunities for retailing -- Summary -- Further reading -- Discussion points -- Exercises -- 9 Environmental business -- Conservation and business -- Business methods for a conservation organization -- The conservation multiplier -- Case study of the English country house-conservation or commerce? -- Environmental damage limitation and repair businesses (EDLRB) -- Environmental business services -- Summary -- Further reading -- Business and environment online: some websites -- Discussion points -- Exercises -- 10 Environment and business: the future of the relationships -- The shape of the future-trends and patterns for the twenty-first century -- Future business impacts on the environment -- Future environmental impact on business -- Future impacts of environmentalism on business -- Future business impacts on environmentalism -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Discussion points -- Exercise -- Websites -- Bibliography -- Index.