Managing Climate Change Business Risks and Consequences

Leadership for Global Sustainability
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-29689-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 253 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

Reihe: Global Sustainability Through Business

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoner, J.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I CLIMATE CHANGE AND RISK MANAGEMENT * Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION: Framing the Inquiry into risk management and climate change * Chapter 2: ASKING "THE RIGHT QUESTION": * Chapter 3: BASIC CONCEPTS OF RISK MANAGEMENT * PART II THE KEY PLAYERS MANAGING THE RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE * Chapter 4: RISK MANAGING INSTITUTIONS - THE INSURERS * Chapter 5: CORPORATE RISK MANAGERS - THE INSURED * Chapter 6: GOVERNMENT REGULATORS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL - RULE SETTERS, JUDGES, AND REFEREES * Chapter 7: THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING NGOS, THE PRESS - COMMENTATORS, CRITICS, AND CHEERLEADERs * SECTION III BEYOND "INSURANCE" * Chapter 8: GOING FORWARD - DESIRABLE EVOLUTION IN GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY RISK MANAGEMENT

Über Autor(innen)

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.