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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Environment - Business Imperatives (Hardcover)
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Environment - Business Imperatives (Hardcover)
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This book tackles a largely neglected topic: small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) and their environmental impact. Over 90% of all
firms are SMEs. Their importance to the health of national and
international economies is recognized. But what of their
environmental impact? Individually, this may be small but,
collectively, they pose a huge and largely unregulated threat to
national and indeed the global environment. There have been many
failed attempts to engage SMEs in environmental stewardship. Why is
this? And where are the success stories needed to set best-practice
examples? Environmental protection is widely touted as being a
win-win scenario for business with economic spin-offs in terms of
energy and waste reduction quickly producing payback for capital
expenditures. Why is the "good environmental management equals good
business management" message not getting through? In Small and
Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Environment Dr Ruth Hillary brings
together an outstanding international collection of experts from
government, international and national support agencies, academics
and the business community to present arguments about the key
environmental business imperatives facing the small-firm sector.
The book is divided into four sections:Attitudes and Perceptions of
Small Firms to the Environment and SustainabilityEnvironmental
Management in the Smaller FirmPractical Strategies for Reaching
SMEsCase Studies from around the World. In these sections, the book
examines the threats - such as trade, supply chain issues and
legislative compliance - but is also solution-oriented, with
considerable discussion of the management tools smaller firms can
use to improve their environmental performance. It aims to provide
practical strategies for smaller firms and to that end includes a
range of informative case studies from around the world. Small and
Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Environment is the most
comprehensive book on the subject available and will prove
invaluable not only to SMEs themselves, seeking to understand a
rapidly changing world, but to consultants and small-business
advisors, local and central government and to all those in academia
looking for ways to improve the environmental performance of small
businesses.
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