environmental performance

How much does regulation matter in shaping corporate behavior? This pathbreaking, in-depth study of fourteen pulp manufacturing mills in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand reveals that steadily tightening regulatory standards have been crucial for raising environmental performance. But while all firms have shown improvement, some have improved more than others, many going substantially beyond compliance.

• australia and new zealand
• canada australia
• compliance
• corporate behavior
• corporate environmental management
• crucial
• economic constraints
• empirical study
• environmental activists
• environmental performance
• management style
• pulp
• regulatory standards
• reveals
• shades of green
• shown improvement
• style shades
• variation

The built environment is responsible for an estimated 45% of all green house gas emissions. It is during the design process where decisions are made and which can have the greatest influence on the reduction of the impact of the built environment. The architectural brief is seen by architects as the most crucial part of the entire design process in terms of achieving high quality buildings. Environmental design strategies are often considered as being of lesser importance.

• achieving
• architects
• building design
• built environment
• continual improvement
• crucial
• decisions
• design process
• design strategies
• environmental design
• environmental performance
• gas emissions
• green house
• high quality
• international case studies
• quality buildings
• sustainability
• theoretical issues

The concept of the "triple bottom line" (TBL) -- the idea that business activity can simultaneously deliver financial, social and environmental benefits -- was introduced in the early 1990s. A decade on, "The Triple Bottom Line: Does It All Add Up?" brings together the world's leading experts on corporate responsibility to assess the implications, benefits and limitations of the TBL.

• achieved
• carol adams
• corporate responsibility
• corporate social responsibility
• doane
• environmental accounting
• environmental benefits
• environmental performance
• financial targets
• howes
• jan bebbington
• jonathon porritt
• julie richardson
• paul monaghan
• rob gray
• rupesh
• tbl
• tom baxter
• triple bottom line
• vernon jennings