The Business of Sustainability – Cheap Research Essays

‘There is too big a contradiction between the requirements of business and the requirements of sustainability to

ever be able to achieve sustainable development’.
Do you agree? Discuss, referring to examples and/or case studies to illustrate and defend your response and

argument.

Requests for extensions need to be made to the convenor before the due date. Assignments submitted without an

authorised extension after the due date will be penalised. The University Assessment Policy on Griffith website provides

for a deduction of 10% of the mark for each day the assignment is late. Assignments more than 5 days late risk the award

of zero marks.

READINGS

There is no set textbook for this course. A suggested reading list has been provided for each of the course weeks. Some

readings on this list are available through the Digitised Readings Folder at Learning@Griffith. Others readings are

available in the Additional Readings Zip Folder which I will be making available to each of you in Week 1.

This course guide also contains other readings which you can source for yourselves via the Library. Students are welcome

to find extra readings of their own, including contemporary media pieces on relevant topics.

As part of weekly seminar preparation, you are expected to do at least two relevant readings each week.

* Indicates reading in your Additional Readings folder.
# Indicates reading is in Digitised Readings folder on L@G.
SEMINARS: READINGS & DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
PLEASE NOTE: The seminar discussion will be on the same lecture topic delivered that week, so students will need to do

the reading each week before the lecture.
WEEK 1 (a) Introduction
(b) CO-DEPENDENTS:
Business-Environment Relationship

Readings
#Howes, M. 2005, Politics and the Environment: Risk and the role of government and industry. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin.

Ch. 2. (E-book)

#*Schweickart, D. 2009. ‘Is Sustainable Capitalism an Oxymoron?’ Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 8:

559-580.

Editorial. 2011. ‘The green growth narrative: Paradigm shift or just spin?’ Global Environmental Change 21: 1157-1159.

#Hawken, P. 1992. ‘The Ecology of Commerce’. Inc., April 93-100. Available:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/19920401/4023.html#
Discussion Questions

1. Is there a (environmental) problem?
2. How can we understand the ‘business-environment relationship’ and what are some of its key features?
3. How and why are some key environmental problems a concern for business?
WEEK 2 WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?
Understanding Environmental Problems

Readings

#Costanza, R. and S. Jorgensen (eds). 2002. Understanding and solving environmental problems in the 21st century: toward

a new, integrated hard problem science. London: Elsevier.
#Carter, N. 2007. The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press. Ch. 7. (E-book)
#Doyle, T. & D. McEachern. 2008. Environment and Politics. 3rd Ed. London: Routledge. Ch. 1. (E-book)
Curran, G. 2013. ‘The Climate Challenge: Reconciling the National and Collective Interest’, in G. Curran & E. van Acker

eds. Government and Business in Volatile Times. Sydney: Pearson, Ch. 12.

#Jacques, P., R. Dunlap and M. Freeman. 2008. ‘The organisation of denial: Conservative think tanks and environmental

scepticism’. Environmental Politics 17(3): 349-385.
Discussion Questions:

1. What are the main features of environmental problems?
2. What are some of the main causes of environmental problems?
3. Which of these causes do you consider offer the best explanation/s for environmental problems, and why?
WEEK 3 CAN WE HAVE IT ALL?
The Sustainable Development Discourse

Readings
*Zaccai, E. 2012. ‘Over two decades in pursuit of sustainable development: Influence, transformations, limits’.

Environmental Development 1 (2012) 79–90

*Baker, S. 2007. ‘Sustainable development as symbolic
commitment: Declaratory politics and the seductive appeal of ecological modernisation
in the European Union’. Environmental Politics, 16:2, 297-317

*Blühdorn, I. 2007. ‘Sustaining the unsustainable: Symbolic
politics and the politics of simulation’ Environmental Politics, 16:2, 251-275
Dryzek, J. 2005. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 7.
#Howes, M. 2005, Politics and the Environment: Risk and the role of government and industry. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin,

Chapter 6. (E-book)
#Chasek, P., Downie, D. & J. Welsh Brown. 2006. Global Environmental Politics. 4th edn. Boulder: Westview. Ch. 1.

#Jordan, A. 2008. ‘The Governance of Sustainable Development: Taking Stock and Looking Forwards’. Environment and

Planning C 26(1): 17-33.

#Seghezzo, L. 2009. ‘The Five Dimensions of Sustainability’. Environmental Politics 18(4): 539-556.
Discussion Questions:

1. How do you understand the concepts of sustainable development and sustainability?
2. Why is the notion of sustainable development ‘highly contested’?
3. What does the ‘triple bottom line’ refer to and how central is it to business operations?
WEEK 4 THE ALL-IMPORTANT CONTEXT
Globalisation, Corporations & The Environment

Readings
Curran, G. and E. van Acker. 2010. ‘After the Global Financial Crisis: Reconfiguring Globalisation’. In G. Curran & E.

van Acker eds. Business and the Politics of Globalisation: After the Global Financial Crisis, Sydney: Pearson, esp pages

1-14.
#Hawken, P., Lovins, A. & L. Hunter Lovins. 1999. Ch. 1 “The next industrial revolution” in Natural Capitalism: Creating

the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston/London: Little Brown. Available:

http://www.natcap.org/images/other/NCchapter1.pdf
Dauvergne, P. and J. Lister. 2012. ‘Big brand sustainability: Governance prospects and environmental limits’. Global

Environmental Change 22: 36-45.
Rabet, D. 2011. ‘The Interplay of foreign multinational corporations and the state in environmental governance’. Paper

presented to the Australasian Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, ANU Canberra, 26-28 September.
Bendall, J. 2004. Barricades and Boardrooms: A Contemporary History of the Corporate Accountability Movement, Technology.

Business and Society Programme Paper Number 13 June 2004. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development:

Geneva. Available:
http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/504AF359BB33967FC1256EA9003CE20A/$file/bendell3.pdf

#Bakan, J. 2008. ‘The Externalising Machine’. In Burchell, J. (ed). The Corporate Social Responsibility Reader. New York:

Routledge.

#Bakan, J. 2006. ‘Are you working for a psycho?’ The Ecologist 34(9) November. Available:

http://kropfpolisci.com/corporate.power.bakan.pdf

#Gouldson, A. and J. Bebbington. 2007. ‘Corporations and the Governance of Environmental Risk’. Environment and Planning

C 25(1): 4-20.

#Forbes, L. and J. Jermier. 2010. ‘The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Ecology of Commerce’. Organization and

Environment 23: 465-481.
Discussion Questions:

1. Has business’ role as a social change actor altered significantly since the advent of rising concern for the

environment?
2. What does the global financial crisis tell us about sustainable governance?
3. Does the corporation’s form and legal structure impact on its relationship to society, how it does business, and

how it responds to sustainability pressures?
WEEK 5 WHAT CAN/DO GOVERNMENTS DO?
Governance and Policy Tools

Readings
#Carter, N. 2007. The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press. Chs 9 & 10. (E-book)
Chasek, P., Downie, D. & J. Welsh Brown. 2006. Global Environmental Politics. 4th edn. Boulder: Westview. Chs 3 & 4.

#Newell, P. 2008. ‘The political economy of global environmental governance’. Review of International Studies 34:

507-529.
#Doyle, T. & D. McEachern. 2008. Environment and Politics.3rd Ed. London: Routledge. Ch. 7. (E-book)

Janicke, M. and S. Lindemann. 2010. ‘Governing Environmental Innovations’. Environmental Politics 19(1): 127-141.
Lemos, S. and A. Agrawal. 2006. ‘Environmental Governance’. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31: 297-325.
Dauvergne, P. and J. Lister. 2012. ‘Big brand sustainability: Governance prospects and environmental limits’. Global

Environmental Change 22: 36-45.
Rabet, D. 2011. ‘The Interplay of foreign multinational corporations and the state in environmental governance’. Paper

presented to the Australasian Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, ANU Canberra, 26-28 September.

#Daubjberg, C. and D. Halpin. 2010. Generating Policy Capacity in Emerging Green Industries: The Development of Organic

Farming in Denmark and Australia. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 12(2): 141-157.
#Dovers, S. 2005. Chapter 9, “Participation, transparency and accountability” in Environment and Sustainability Policy:

Creation, Implementation, Evaluation. Annandale: Federation Press.

*Curran, G. and R. Hollander. 2002. ‘Comparing Policy Mindsets: ESD and NCP compared’. Australian Journal of

Environmental Management 9(3): 158-168.
Discussion Questions:

1. Identify the main environmental governance approaches, nationally & globally.
2. Do you consider these approaches adequate and sufficient to achieve SD?
3. What role should business play in implementing these policy approaches?
WEEK 6 WHAT CAN BUSINESS DO?
Corporate Social Responsibility & Ecological Modernisation

Readings

CSR:

* Crouch, C. 2006. ‘Peripheral Vision Modelling the Firm in its Market and Organizational Environment: Methodologies for

Studying Corporate Social Responsibility’. Organization Studies 27(10): 1533–1551
O’Faircheallaigh, C. 2013. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Globalisation’, in G. Curran & E. van Acker eds.

Government and Business in Volatile Times. Sydney: Pearson, Ch. 10.
#Reinhardt, F. and R. Stavins. 2010. Corporate Social Responsibility, business strategy and the environment. Oxford

Review of Economic Policy 26(2): 164-181.
#Lyon, T. and J. Maxwell. 2008. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective. Review

of Environmental Economics and Policy 2(2): 240-260.
Banerjee, S.B. 2008. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: The good, the bad and the ugly’. Critical Sociology 34(1): 51-79.
#Montiel, I. 2008. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability: Separate Pasts, Common Futures’.

Organization and Environment 21: 245-269.
#Crane, A., D. Matten and J. Moon. 2008. ‘Ecological citizenship and the corporation: Politicising the new corporate

environmentalism’. Organization and Environment 21: 371-389.
#Beder, S. 2008. ‘The Corporate Assault on Democracy’. University of Wollongong Research Online. Available:

http://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/159
#Redmond, L. 2005/6. ‘The Challenge of CSR’. Reform 87 Available online:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/reform/reform87/5.html
Nwete B, 2007, “Corporate Social Responsibility and Transparency in the Development of Energy and Mining Projects in

Emerging Markets: Is Soft Law the Answer?” German Law Journal, 8 311-339

Seminar Questions:

1. What is the link between corporate social responsibility and sustainability?
2. What is the fundamental tension at the heart of corporate social responsibility?
3. Can business reconcile this tension? If so, how; if not, why not? Use examples.

Ecological Modernisation:

#Carter, N. 2007. The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press. Ch. 8. (E-book)

*Williamson, D. & Lynch-Wood, G. 2012. ‘Ecological modernisation and the regulation of firms’. Environmental Politics,

21:6, 941-959

* Langhelle, O. 2000. ‘Why ecological modernization and sustainable development should not be Conflated’. Journal of

Environmental Policy & Planning, 2:4, 303-322
#Dryzek, J. 2005. The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 8.

Curran, G. 2011. ‘Modernising climate policy in Australia: climate narratives and the undoing of a Prime Minister’.

Environment and Planning C 29(6): 1004-1017.

#York, R. and E. Rosa. 2003. ‘Key Challenges to Ecological Modernisation Theory’. Organization and Environment 16:

273-288.

#Fisher, D. & W. Freudenberg, W. 2001. ‘Ecological modernisation and its critics:
assessing the past and looking toward the future’. Society and Natural Resources, 14: 701–709.

#Dryzek, J., C Hunold, D Schlosberg, D Downes, & H-K Hernes. 2002. ‘Environmental Transformation of the State: USA,

Norway, Germany & UK’. Political Studies 50: 659-682.
Seminar Questions:

1. How is ecological modernisation different from sustainable development?
2. What challenges and opportunities does an ecological modernisation approach provide for business?
3. What are some of the main criticisms of ecological modernisation?
WEEK 7 WHAT ABOUT US?
Political and Pro-active Environmentalism

Readings
Doyle, T. & D. McEachern. 2008. Environment and Politics. 3rd Ed. London: Routledge. Ch. 6. (E-book)

Forbes, L. and J. Jermier. 2010. ‘The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Ecology of Commerce’. Organization and

Environment 23: 465-481.

Hawken, P. 2007. To Remake the World. Orion Magazine 26(3): 61-63. Available:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/265/

Chasek, P., Downie, D. & J. Welsh Brown. 2006. Global Environmental Politics. 4th edn. Boulder: Westview. Ch. 2.

Hawken, P. 1992. The Ecology of Commerce. Inc., April 93-100. Available:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/19920401/4023.html#
Discussion Questions:

1. What are some of the main business attitudes towards the environment?
2. How has the environment movement impacted on business and its practices?
3. Now that environmentalism is well established, have business relations with environmentalists changed?
WEEK 8 THE MARKET ROUTE
Market Based Instruments

Readings

*Australian Government. 2014. Energy White Paper: Green Paper. Executive Summary. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.

*Vezirgiannidou, S-E. 2013. ‘Climate and energy policy in the United States: the battle of ideas’. Environmental

Politics, 22:4, 593-609

*Wright, C. & Nyberg, D. 2014. ‘Creative self-destruction: corporate responses to climate change as political myths’.

Environmental Politics, 23:2, 205-223

*Talberg, A. & Swoboda, K. 2013. Emissions trading schemes around the world. Parliamentary Library: Canberra:

Parliamentary Library. 6 June

*Spaargaren, G. & Mol, A. 2013. ‘Carbon flows, carbon markets, and low-carbon lifestyles: reflecting on the role of

markets in climate governance. Environmental Politics, 22:1, 174-193

Carter, N. 2007. The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy, 2nd edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University

Press. Ch. 12. (E-book)
#Lemos, S. and A. Agrawal. 2006. ‘Environmental Governance’. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31: 297-325.

#Bakker, K. 2005. ‘Neoliberalising nature? Market Environmentalism in water supply in England and Wales’. Annals of the

Association of American Geographers 95(3): 542-565.

Beder, S. 2006. ‘The Changing Face of Conservation: Commodification, Privatisation and the Free Market’. University of

Wollongong Research Online. Available: http://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/40

#Compston, H. 2009. ‘Introduction: political strategies for climate policy’. Environmental Politics 18(5): 659-669.

#Christoff, P. 2005. ‘Policy Autism or Double-Edged Dismissiveness? Australia’s Climate Policy under the Howard

Government’. Global Change, Peace & Security 17: 29-44.

#Crowley, K. 2007. Is Australia Faking It? The Kyoto Protocol & The Greenhouse Policy Challenge. Global Environmental

Politics 7:118-139.
Discussion Questions:

1. What are market instruments as applied to environmental policy?
2. Why is climate change considered one of the biggest ‘market failures’ and do you agree with this assessment?
3. How can integrated environmental policy and management help to harmonise economic, social and ecological

imperatives?

WEEK 9 STUDY WEEK – No Lecture or Seminar This Week

WEEK 10 THE MAJOR ‘FIXES’
Eco-Efficiency and Cleaner Production

Readings

#Janicke, M. and S. Lindemann. 2010. ‘Governing Environmental Innovations’. Environmental Politics 19(1): 127-141.
The Eco-efficiency Group. 2013. University of Queensland. URL: http://www.ecoefficiencygroup.com.au/Experience.aspx
United Nations Environment Programme and World Business Council for Sustainable Development.1998. Cleaner Production and

Eco-efficiency: Complementary Approaches to Sustainable Development, Paris: UNEP and Geneva: WBCSD. Available online at

http://www.wbcsd.ch/DocRoot/R2R1IIWwjO2GLlAjpiLU/cleanereco.pdf.
University of Queensland. 2007. Cleaner Production Case Studies. Available online at

http://www.gpem.uq.edu.au/CleanProd/case_studies/case_studies.htm.

Seiler-Hausmann, J-D, C. Liedtke and E. Ulrich von Weizsacher (eds). 2004. Eco-efficiency and beyond: towards the

sustainable enterprise. Sheffield: Greenleaf.
Discussion Questions:

1. What do ‘eco-efficiency’ and ‘cleaner production’ refer to?
2. Do these measures suit all kinds of businesses?
3. What are some of the main benefits to business of eco-efficiency, ‘eco-design’ and/or cleaner production?

WEEK 11 THE HOLY GRAIL
Green Markets & Renewable Energy

Readings

*Turner, G., Elliston, B. and Diesendorf, M. 2013.‘Impacts on the biophysical economy and environment of a

transitionto100% renewable electricity in Australia’ Energy Policy 54: 288–299

*International Energy Agency (IEA). 2013. Medium Term Renewable Energy Market Report 2013. Author: Van der Hoeven, M.

IEA.
*Curran, G. 2012. ‘Contested Energy Futures: Shaping Renewable Energy Narratives in Australia’. Global Environmental

Change 22(1): 236-244.
*Falk, J. and Settle, D. 2011. ‘Australia: Approaching an energy crossroads’. Energy Policy 39 (2011) 6804–6813
#Angel, J. 2005/6. ‘CSR: Saving the Environment?’ Reform 87 Available online:

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/alrc/publications/reform/reform87/7.html

Beyond Zero Emissions. 2010. Zero Carbon Australia: Stationary Energy Plan. Available: http://bze.org.au/node/1145 (Both

full report and synopsis available for download).

Turner, G, Elliston, B. and Diesendorf, M. 2013. ‘Impacts on the biophysical economy and environment of a transition to

100% renewable electricity in Australia’, Energy Policy, 54: 288-299.

Elliston, B. Diesendorf, M. and McGill, I. 2012. ‘Simulations of scenarios with 100% renewable electricity in the

Australian National Electricity Market’, Energy Policy 45, p. 606-613

Diesendorf, M. 2010. The Base Load Fallacy. In Energy Science. Briefing Paper 16. March. Available at:

http://www.energyscience.org.au/ (accessed July 2010).

Toke, D. 2011. ‘Ecological Modernisation, social movements and renewable energy’. Environmental Politics 16:273-288.
#Giddens, A. 2009. The Politics of Climate Change. Cambridge: Polity Press. Ch. 6: Technologies and Taxes.

Janicke, M. 2008. ‘Ecological modernisation: new perspectives’. Journal of Cleaner Technology 16:557-565.
*Curran, G. 2012. ‘Contested Energy Futures: Shaping Renewable Energy Narratives in Australia’. Global Environmental

Change 22(1): 236-244.
Diesendorf, M. 2007. Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy. Sydney: UNSW Press

#Saddler H, M. Diesendorf and R. Denniss R 2007, ‘Clean energy scenarios for Australia’, Energy Policy 35(2):1245–56.

#Kinrade, P. 2007. ‘Towards a Sustainable Energy Future in Australia’. Futures 39:230–252.
Discussion Questions:

1. What are some of the main types of green business/market opportunities?
2. What are some of the main impediments to advancing the renewable energy sector in Australia?
3. How important is the notion of ‘social partnership’ between business and society to the achievement of

sustainable development?

WEEK 12 SOCIETY STEPPING UP
The Business of Collaborative Consumption

Readings – NB Many of these readings and others are in a separate folder in Learning@Griffith Contents: Additional

Readings

*Botsman, R and R Rogers (2010) What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Harper Collins.

*Botsman, R. and L. Anderson (2011) ‘Share Options’. The Big Issue. May 2-8: 12-14.

*Schor, J. (2008) ‘Tackling Turbo Consumption’. Cultural Studies 22(5): 588-598.

Spaargaren, G. and A.P.J. Mol. 2008. ‘Greening Global Consumption. Politics and Authority’. Global Environmental Change

18: 350-359.

*Alexander, S. (2011) ‘The Voluntary Simplicity Movement: Reimagining the good life beyond consumer culture’.

International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability 7(3): 133-50.

Alexander, S. and S. Ussher (2012) ‘The Voluntary Simplicity Movement: A multi-national survey analysis in theoretical

context’. Journal of Consumer Culture 12(1): 66-86.

Hamilton, I. and R. Denniss (2005) Affluenza: When too much is not enough. Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin.

Schor , J. 2007. ‘In Defense of Consumer Critique: Revisiting the Consumption Debates of the Twentieth Century’. The

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 611: 16-30.

*Dauvergne, P. 2010. ‘The Problem of Consumption’ Global Environmental Politics, 10(2): 1-10

*Spaargaren, G. and Mol, A. 2008. ‘Greening global consumption: Redefining politics and authority’. Global Environmental

Change 18: 350– 359

Discussion Questions:

1. Is material consumption a major cause of unsustainability?
2. Is a collaborative approach to consumption a possible solution to over-consumption?
3. What prospect do you see for collaborative-consumption based businesses in today’s world?

WEEK 13 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

ADDITIONAL READING MATERIAL

The following is a collection of additional reading material (primarily books and journal articles), particularly useful

for the further research required for assignments and knowledge extension of specific topics. Most of the following

material is available in or through the Griffith Library. Please note that this is only a sample of additional material

available. It is also up to you to seek out additional sources, particularly journal articles.

Useful journals include:
Environmental Politics
Global Environmental Change
Global Environmental Politics
Environment and Planning C
Organization and Environment
Environmental Values
Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management
Journal of Corporate Citizenship
Business Strategy and Environment
Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Review

JOURNAL ARTICLES (some as outlined in weekly readings + extra ones):

Bakker, K. 2005. ‘Neoliberalising nature? Market Environmentalism in water supply in England and Wales’. Annals of the

Association of American Geographers 95(3): 542-565.

Bansal, P. and K. Roth. 2000. ‘Why companies go green: A model of ecological responsiveness’. Academy of Management

Journal 43: 717-736.

Bailey, D., de Ruyter, A., Michie, J. and Tyler, P. 2010. ‘Global restructuring and the auto industry’, Cambridge Journal

of Regions, Economy and Society 3: 311-318.

Beder, S. 2008. ‘The Corporate Assault on Democracy’. University of Wollongong Research Online. Available:

http://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/159

Beder, S. 2001. ‘Neoliberal Think Tanks and Market Environmentalism’. University of Wollongong Research Online.

Available: http://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/36

Beder, S. 2006. ‘The Changing Face of Conservation: Commodification, Privatisation and the Free Market’. University of

Wollongong Research Online. Available: http://ro.uow.edu.au/artspapers/40

Christoff, P. 2005. ‘Policy Autism or Double-Edged Dismissiveness? Australia’s Climate Policy under the Howard

Government’. Global Change, Peace & Security 17: 29-44.

Crowley, K. 2007. Is Australia Faking It? The Kyoto Protocol & The Greenhouse Policy Challenge. Global Environmental

Politics 7:118-139.

Compston, H. 2009. ‘Introduction: political strategies for climate policy’. Environmental Politics 18(5): 659-669.

Crane, A, Matten, D. & Moon, J. 2008. ‘Ecological citizenship and the corporation: Politicising the new corporate

environmentalism’. Organization & Environment 21:371-389.
Curran, G. 2012. ‘Contested Energy Futures: Shaping Renewable Energy Narratives in Australia’. Global Environmental

Change 22(1): 236-244.

Curran, G. 2011. ‘Modernising climate policy in Australia: climate narratives and the undoing of a Prime Minister’.

Environment and Planning C 29(6): 1004-1017.

Curran, G. 2009. ‘Ecological Modernisation and Climate Change in Australia’. Environmental Politics 18(2): 201-217.

Curran, G. and E. van Acker. 2010. ‘After the Global Financial Crisis: Reconfiguring Globalisation’. In Curran, G. and E.

van Acker (eds). Business and the Politics of Globalisation: After the Global Financial Crisis. Sydney: Pearson.

Daubjberg, C. and D. Halpin. 2010. Generating Policy Capacity in Emerging Green Industries: The Development of Organic

Farming in Denmark and Australia. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 12(2): 141-157.

DeVries, B., D. van Vuuren and M. Hoogwijk. 2007. ‘Renewable energy sources: Their global potential for the first-half of

the 21st century at a global level: An integrated approach’. Energy Policy 35: 2590–2610

Dryzek, J., C. Hunold, D. Schlosberg, D. Downes, and H-K Hernes. 2002. ‘Environmental Transformation of the State: the

USA, Norway, Germany and the UK’. Political Studies 50: 659-682.

Fisher, D. and W. Freudenberg, W. 2001. ‘Ecological modernisation and its critics:
assessing the past and looking toward the future’. Society and Natural Resources 14: 701–709.

Friedman, M. 1970. ‘The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits’. New York Times Magazine, 13

September. Available:
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/dunnweb/rprnts.friedman.dunn.pdf

Forbes, L. and J. Jermier. 2010. ‘The New Corporate Environmentalism and the Ecology of Commerce’. Organization and

Environment 23: 465-481.

Hawken, P. 2007. To Remake the World. Orion Magazine 26(3): 61-63. Available:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/265/

Hawken, P. 1992. The Ecology of Commerce. Inc., April 93-100. Available:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/19920401/4023.html#

Hysing, E. 2009. ‘Greening Transport: Explaining urban transport policy change’.
Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 11(3): 243-261.

Gouldson, A. and J. Bebbington. 2007. ‘Corporations and the Governance of Environmental Risk’. Environment and Planning C

25(1): 4-20.

Janicke, M. and S. Lindemann. 2010. ‘Governing Environmental Innovations’. Environmental Politics 19(1): 127-141.

Jacques, P., R. Dunlap and M. Freeman. 2008. ‘The organisation of denial: Conservative think tanks and environmental

scepticism’. Environmental Politics 17(3): 349-385.

Janicke, M. 2008. ‘Ecological modernisation: new perspectives’. Journal of Cleaner Technology 16:557-565.

Jordan, A. 2008. ‘The Governance of Sustainable Development: Taking Stock and Looking Forwards’. Environment and Planning

C 26(1): 17-33.

Kelly, G. (2007). ‘Renewable Energy Strategies in England, Australia and
New Zealand’, Geoforum, 38: 326-338.

Lemos, S. and A. Agrawal. 2006. ‘Environmental Governance’. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 31: 297-325.

Lyon, T. and J. Maxwell. 2008. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment: A Theoretical Perspective. Review of

Environmental Economics and Policy 2(2): 240-260.

Montiel, I. 2008. ‘Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Sustainability: Separate Pasts, Common Futures’.

Organization and Environment 21: 245-269.

Newell, P. 2008. ‘The political economy of global environmental governance’. Review of International Studies 34: 507-529.
Rabet, D. 2011. ‘The Interplay of foreign multinational corporations and the state in environmental governance’. Paper

presented to the Australasian Political Science Association (APSA) Conference, ANU Canberra, 26-28 September.

Ross, A. and S. Dovers. 2008. Making the harder yards: environmental policy integration in Australia. Australian Journal

of Public Administration. 67: 245-260.

Reinhardt, F. and R. Stavins. 2010. Corporate Social Responsibility, business strategy and the environment. Oxford Review

of Economic Policy 26(2): 164-181.

Schweickart, D. 2009. Is Sustainable Capitalism an Oxymoron? Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 8:

559-580.

Seghezzo, L. 2009. ‘The Five Dimensions of Sustainability’. Environmental Politics 18(4): 539-556.

Toke, D. 2011. ‘Ecological modernisation, social movements and renewable energy’. Environmental Politics 20(1): 60-77.

York, R. and E. Rosa. 2003. ‘Key Challenges to Ecological Modernisation Theory’. Organization and Environment 16:

273-288.
BOOKS AND OTHER SOURCES:

Costanza, R. & Sorgensen, S. eds. 2002. Understanding and solving environmental problems in the 21st C: toward a new,

integrated hard problem science. London: Elsevier.

Bakan, J. 2004. The Corporation: The pathological pursuit of profit and power. New York: Free Press.

Dovers, S. 2005. Environment and Sustainability Policy: Creation, Implementation, Evaluation. Annandale NSW: Federation

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