Innovative approaches to global sustainability / edited by Charles Wankel and James A.F. Stoner ; in collaboration with Shaun K. Malleck ... [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Exploring new frameworks, practices, and initiatives for a sustainable world / James A.F. Stoner and Charles Wankel -- "SOAR" from the mediocrity of status quo to the heights of global sustainability / Jacqueline M. Stavros and Joseph R. Sprangel Jr. -- Sustainable wealth creation beyond shareholder value / Mats A. Lundqvist and Karen Williams Middleton -- Limits of shareholder value to achieving global sustainability / Frank Figge and Tobias Hahn -- Green chemistry and EVA : a framework for incorporating environmental action into financial analysis / Geoff Archer ... [et al.] -- Monkey see, monkey do? Some observations on sustainable innovations in zoos / Nicole A.M. Horstman ... [et al.] -- Toward environmental sustainability : developing thinking and acting capacity within the oil and gas industry / Laurie P. Milton and James A.F. Stoner -- Designing undergraduate education on "managing for sustainability" / Paul Shrivastava, Douglas E. Allen, and Tammy Bunn Hiller -- The sustainability coordinator : a structural innovation for managing sustainability / Gordon Rands, Barbara Ribbens, and David R. Connelly.

"We are now at a time in human history when we must implement original and daring ideas in order to combat our environmentally destructive habits. And we must learn from these experiments at an unprecedented rate in order to ensure the survival of all life on Earth. This volume's contributors offer a variety of fresh and unique approaches to global sustainability. They recognize that working toward the goal of a socially just and ecologically sustainable existence is the only game worth playing."--BOOK JACKET.