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Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences: Leadership for Global Sustainability

Leadership for Global Sustainability

  • James A. F. Stoner
  • Charles Wankel
Book

Part of the Global Sustainability Through Business book series (GSB)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Climate Change and Risk Management

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Framing the Inquiry into Risk Management and Climate Change
      James A. F. Stoner, Charles Wankel
      Pages 3-16
    3. Asking the Right Questions: Basic Concepts of Risk Management for Developing Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies
      Sujit Sur
      Pages 17-48

  3. Key Players Managing the Risks of Climate Change

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 49-49
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    2. The Primary Insurance Industry’s Role in Managing Climate Change Risks and Opportunities
      Lára Jóhannsdóttir, James Wallace, Aled Jones
      Pages 51-79
    3. Competitive Advantages and Risk Management: Capitalizing on the Economic Benefits of Sustainability
      Jonathan Smith, Efrain Quiros III
      Pages 81-99
    4. Climate Change Impact on Procurement: Risks and Opportunities
      Lydia Bals
      Pages 101-119
    5. Business and Climate Change Adaptation: Contributions to Climate Change Governance
      Nicole Kranz
      Pages 121-141
    6. Sustainability Reporting’s Role in Managing Climate Change Risks and Opportunities
      Ann Brockett, Zabihollah Rezaee
      Pages 143-158
    7. Climate Change Risk and Informal Recycling: An NGO and Private Sector Partnership in Bogotá
      Candace A. Martinez
      Pages 159-179

  4. Going Forward—Emerging Questions and Desirable Evolution in Global Sustainability Risk Management

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 181-181
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    2. Managing the Risks of Carbon Sequestration: Liability Concerns and Alternatives
      Elizabeth Lokey Aldrich, Cassandra Koerner, Joseph C. Perkowski, Travis L. McLing
      Pages 183-205
    3. Taking Actions to Deal with Climate Change Risks and Opportunities: Harnessing Superordinate Identities to Promote Knowledge Transfer and Creation
      Aimée A. Kane, Alison L. Steele
      Pages 207-225
    4. Final Thoughts
      James A. F. Stoner, Charles Wankel
      Pages 227-228
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 229-237
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About this book

Introduction

Although the title of this volume and its major focus will be on one major aspect of global sustainability - climate change - this volume continues with the overall framing of the series: global sustainability is a multi-faceted, global, multi-generational, economic, social, environmental, and cultural phenomenon and challenge to our species.

Keywords

business climate change environment management risk management sustainability

Editors and affiliations

  • James A. F. Stoner
    • 1
  • Charles Wankel
    • 2
  1. 1.Fordham University’s Graduate School of BusinessUSA
  2. 2.St. John’s UniversityNew YorkUSA

About the editors

CHARLES WANKELAssociate Professor of Management at St. John's University, Peter J. Tobin College of Business, USA.
JAMES A. F. STONERProfessor of Management Systems and Chairholder of Fordham University's James A.F. Stoner Chair for Global Sustainability.

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