Front cover -- Half-title -- About the editors -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1. Metaphors for change -- Sustainable development -- Sustainable growth: DuPont's goal for the 21st century -- Life-cycle thinking: A new metaphor and a new paradigm -- Life-cycle thinking: What is it? -- Eco-efficiency -- Meeting needs, consuming resources -- Eco-efficiency: The chemicals industry -- The challenge of eco-efficiency -- Eco-efficiency: The electronics sector -- Management of chemicals in the microelectronics environment -- Eco-efficiency: Waste-free: remanufacturing -- Xerox: Environmental leadership programme -- Eco-efficiency: Harmonious co-existence -- Environmental management of Canon group -- Eco-effectiveness -- The next industrial revolution -- From products to services -- From end-of-pipe to integration -- Remarks by Klaus Töpfer 1997, 1999 -- Leapfrog: Short-term strategies for sustainability -- Zero emissions -- Zero emissions: An environmental engineering firm's challenge -- Zero emissions in construction -- Zero emissions: Clustering of industries (industrial ecology in practice) -- Industrial symbiosis -- Remarks (1999): Erling Pedersen -- Industrial ecology -- Is industrial ecology a new science? -- Industrial ecology in France -- Industrial ecology in practice: The French case -- Monitoring what matters -- Developments in indicators: Total material requirement (TMR) -- Environmental diplomacy -- The rise of the 'bio-diplomat' -- Environmental diplomacy in the US -- Environment and security -- Part 2. Partnerships for change -- Partnerships within industry -- The Keidanren appeal on environment -- Partnerships between government and business in Japan -- Japan's environmental policies -- Partnerships between government and business in Argentina.

The Campana-Zarate environmental care agreement in Argentina -- Part 3. Tools for change -- Governmental policy tools -- An overview of tools and strategies for environmental management -- Governmental policy tools: From command and control to governance -- Whatever works -- Governmental policy tools: Governance (creating the conditions for change) -- Project XL: Good for the environment, good for business, good for communities -- Governmental policy tools: Eco-taxes -- Taxes earmarked for environmental protection: The French experience -- Management tools -- Environmental policy of businesses: Evolution and future vision -- Management tools: Strategic environmental management in evolution -- A new playing field? -- Management tools: Strategic environmental management in evolution -- Environmental management in the global economy -- Design tools -- Eco-conception: Driver of environmental management and competitiveness -- Design tools: Design for environment -- Beyond life-cycle assessment: An integrative approach to design for environment -- Analytical tools -- Integrating environmental considerations into products and processes -- Financial tools -- The value of communicating your environmental policyto Wall Street -- Financial tools: Environmentally friendly investment -- Making an investment in your future -- Financial tools: Public-private leveraging -- Remarks: Louis Boorstin -- Financial tools: Environmental reporting -- Remarks: Lorraine Ruffing -- Financial tools: Environmental reporting -- Technology tools -- Trends in environmental issue sand the Toyota Action Plan -- Technology tools: The fuel cell -- Technology tools: Innovation born of necessity -- Innovation born of necessity: Environment-friendly diesel from natural gas -- Technology tools: Innovation born of necessity.

The market for environmental (ozone-depleting-substance-free) products in developing countries under the Montreal Protocol -- Part 4. Civic actions for change -- Party politics -- Ways out of the growth trap -- The German Greens and the end of ideology -- Community-based currency and exchange -- The short-circuit approach -- The media -- Media/environment -- Environmental activism -- A daring partnership pays off: Activists help teach Dow Chemical to cut pollution - and costs -- Environmental activism: Non-governmental organisations teaming up with business for a specific goal -- Green alliances: Environmental groups as strategic bridges to other stakeholders -- Environmental activism: Bottom-up change -- Employee participation: An important resource in environmental development -- Internet activism -- Car sharing -- CityCarClub/car sharing: Experience of a municipality with an innovative mobility service as a strategic move towards sustainable development -- Symbolic acts -- Peugeot creates the first large carbon sink: Ten million trees in the battle against global warming -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Back cover.