Around the World in 80 Species (eBook, PDF)

Exploring the Business of Extinction
Redaktion: Atkins, Jill; Atkins, Barry

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Investigates corporate efforts to prevent extinction across 80 threatened species of flora and fauna, focusing on corporate behaviour, corporate narrative and rhetoric, and corporate accountability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429793912
• Artikelnr.: 54673599

Autorenporträt

Jill Atkins holds a Chair in Financial Management at Sheffield University Management School, UK, and is a visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Barry Atkins has a background in script-writing and editing for BBC Radio and TV.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Around the world in 80 species: What is mass extinction and can
we stop it?; Chapter 2 How can accounting, integrated reporting and
engagement prevent extinction?; Chapter 3 A deep ecology perspective on
extinction; Chapter 4 Species extinction and closing the loop of argument:
Imagining accounting and finance as the potential cause of human
extinction; Chapter 5 Recovered species? The eastern North Pacific grey
whale unusual mortality event, 1999-2000; Chapter 6 The Natural Capital
Protocol and the honey bee; Chapter 7 Extraction and extinction: The role
of investors in ensuring the marine health of the planet; Chapter 8 The
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and
Flora (CITES): An appraisal.; Chapter 9 Extinction accounting by South
African listed companies; Chapter 10 Business contributions to extinction
risk mitigation for black rhinos in Laikipia, Kenya; Chapter 11 Extinction
accounting by the public sector: South African National Parks; Chapter 12
Extinction accounting in European zoos: Reporting and practice of
conservation programmes to prevent animals from extinction; Chapter 13 An
RSPB perspective on extinction and extinction prevention: How is the RSPB
collaborating and partnering with business to prevent extinction?; Chapter
14 Endangered house sparrows and thriving red kites: Do we have useful
metrics for sustainability?; Chapter 15 Deforestation risk and the tissue
industry in Italy; Chapter 16 Accounting for captive belugas: a whale of a
business; Chapter 17 An ecological auto-ethnography of a monarch butterfly;
Chapter 18 Accounting for survival of polar bears: an arctic icon on thin
ice; Chapter 19 Panda accounting and accountability: Preventing giant panda
extinction in China; Chapter 20 Some reflections on extinction accounting,
engagement and species