The Business of Biodiversity 1st Edition by Everard ISBN 1845642082 978-1845642082
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ISBN 10: 1845642082
ISBN 13: 978-1845642082
Author: M. Everard
This highly accessible book introduces biodiversity as a clear and pressing priority for business and provides an up-to-date briefing on biodiversity issues and concerns for business, students and academics, NGOs, government and regulators, and other interested parties. It outlines practical ase studies from around the world to
demonstrate principles and consequences provides a guide for practical decision-making in business (and other organizations).
Biodiversity used to be an issue of high acknowledged importance, for example
following the Convention on Biological Diversity (introduced at the Rio Summit in 1992) and the UK’s first Biodiversity Strategy shortly thereafter. Yet, despite subsequent global commitments to reversing the rate of species loss at the WSSD (Johannesburg 2002) later endorsed by the EU (the Gothenburg Target),
the key role of business in achieving a sustainable relationship with biodiversity has received little explicit attention over recent years.
The writing of this book was initially demand-led, through requests from large businesses requesting advice from the author (in his private consultancy role) on why
biodiversity is important and how to tackle it. The capacities of ecosystems to support continuing human wellbeing including economic viability has, over recent years, diminished in the business arena into more simplistic tools such as ISO140001 and
similar measures, while economic and social parameters have increased in profile. A renewed, focused exploration of the direct links between business and biodiversity in a changed and fast-changing world, including its implications and recommendations for
appropriate actions, sheds new light on the importance of addressing this crucial vector of sustainable development and suggests novel, self-beneficial responses for business.
Table of contents:
Part I Biodiversity basics
1.1 What is biodiversity?
1.1.1 Definitions of biodiversity
1.1.2 How biodiversity got there.
1.1.3 Biodiversity and human development
1.2 Why does biodiversity matter
1.2.1 The heritage of life.
1.2.2 Engines of creation.
1.2.3 Our part to play
1.2.4 A common destiny.
1.2.5 An evolving concept.
1.3 Biodiversity and business.
1.3.1 The capitalist ecology.
1.3.2 Goods and services.
1.3.3 Goods and products
1.3.4 Services
1.3.5 The ethical dimension
1.3.6 Ecosystem services
1.3.7 The business response
1.3.8 Trading on biodiversity
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1.4 Benefits and burdens
1.4.1 The perfect market.
1.4.2 Present imperfect
1.4.3 ‘The tragedy of the commons’.
1.4.4 Intergenerational equity
1.4.5 The absolute value of biodiversity
1.4.6 Internalising costs to biodiversity
References.
Part II Biodiversity and business
2.1 People and nature.
2.1.1 Our evolutionary past.
2.1.2 Population pressures.
2.1.3 Our industrial playthings
2.1.4 Society’s ‘footprint’
2.1.5 Putting a price on biodiversity
2.1.6 Cultural values
2.1.7 Humanity and biodiversity.
2.2 The business of business
2.2.1 The origins of the Industrial Revolution
2.2.2 Economics as the sole driver.
2.3 Biodiversity and sustainable development.
2.3.1 Nature in mind
2.3.2 The evidence of biodiversity loss.
2.3.3 Where now for nature and humanity
2.3.4 A brief history of conservation
2.3.5 The origins of the concept of sustainable development.
2.3.6 Developing sustainably
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2.4 The changing business agenda.
2.4.1 Looking backwards and forwards
2.4.2 A changing world.
2.4.3 Biodiversity in the context of sustainable business
2.4.4 Preparing for a changing world
Part III Beyond the limits
3.1 Biodiversity pushed too far
3.2 All at sea.
3.2.1 The Grand Banks
3.2.2 The industrialisation of the fishing business
3.2.3 DIY madness
3.2.4 Our own backyard
3.2.5 All at sea.
3.2.6 Subsidies, fishing and biodiversity.
3.2.7 Hard lessons.
References.
3.3 Felling our future
3.3.1 Sweden’s forest heritage.
3.3.2 Not just the trees.
3.3.3 Subsidies, forests and biodiversity.
3.3.4 Making the business case work
3.4 Breaking ground.
3.4.1 Changing the landscape
3.4.2 Subsidies, land use and biodiversity
3.4.3 Healing the land.
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3.5 Liquid assets.
3.5.1 A medium for development
3.5.2 Running into the sand.
3.5.3 Wetlands and groundwater.
3.5.4 Water and crops
3.5.5 Hydrological poverty
3.5.6 Biological wealth drying up.
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3.6 Biodiversity in the balance.
3.6.1 The thickening red line.
3.6.2 Mixing it up.
3.6.3 Declining diversity.
3.6.4 Declining functionality.
3.6.5 Sliding to extinction.
3.7 Changing course.
3.7.1 Biodiversity and reputation
3.7.2 Can business draw us back from the edge?
Part IV Acting for biodiversity
4.1 So what can I do?.
4.2 Business close to biodiversity
4.2.1 Drop wise..
4.2.2 The wood from the trees.
4.2.3 Fishing for the future
4.2.4 Trading for tomorrow.
4.2.5 Eating well
4.2.6 The hole story.
4.2.7 So what can my business do?.
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4.3 One step removed.
4.3.1 Protecting ecosystems enjoyed by customers.
4.3.2 Bound by natural limits
4.3.3 A changing climate for business
4.3.4 Taxing times.
4.3.5 Treading more lightly.
4.3.6 So what can my business do?.
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4.4 More distant from nature
4.4.1 Dimensions of dependence
4.4.1.1 Risk management
4.4.1.2 Resource productivity.
4.4.1.3 Business influence.
4.4.1.4 Maximising biodiversity on landholdings.
4.4.1.5 Stakeholder relationships
4.4.1.6 Corporate culture…
4.4.2 Practical actions and advantages
4.4.3 So what can my business do?.
References.
4.5 Empowering people and nature
4.5.1 A changing world view
4.5.2 Products and services sympathetic with biodiversity.
4.5.3 Restoration of nature
4.5.4 Investing in our future
4.6 From action to strategy..
Part V Biodiversity and strategy
5.1 The business of biodiversity.
5.1.1 Price is king
5.1.2 Strategy and planning.
5.1.3 The tough get going.
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5.2 The business of sustainability
5.2.1 Our place in society
5.2.2 Integrating economy, ecology and society
5.2.3 Embedding biodiversity into corporate strategy
5.2.4 Becoming sustainable.
5.2.5 Getting to grips.
5.2.6 Biodiversity and sustainability
References.
5.3 Restoration.
5.3.1 Squeezed by history
5.3.2 Sustainable lives.
5.3.3 In balance.
5.3.4 Restoration.
5.3.5 Growing business.
Reference
Part VI Epilogue
6.1 Epilogue
Part VII Appendix
Appendix: Some definitions of biodiversity
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