Index
Integral Ecology and Sustainable Business
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(2017), "Index", Integral Ecology and Sustainable Business (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 26), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 267-276. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-832320170000026018
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INDEX
Adhibhautika
, 159
Adhidaivika
, 159
Adhyatmika
, 159
Agricultural activities
, 81–82
AiREAS
, 193
Alternative ways for economic development
, 8
Animals
, 130
wild
, 133–134
Animating objective reality
, 40–43
Anthropocene
, 80, 159
gradual dissolution of meaningful purpose underlying nature
, 84–85
impact of idealism on view of nature
, 82–83
integral ecology
, 80
mythology to rationalism and empiricism
, 81–82
philosophical questions on nature
, 80–81
rationalistic and empirical foundation of
, 85–86
spirituality
, 86–87
stoicism as philosophical answer “par excellence” during holocene
, 83–84
Anthropocentric business models
, 11
Anthropomorphic ethics
, 33, 37–40
Arab Spring
, 159
Archaic societies
, 38
Arctic ice
, 68
Aristotelian epistemology
, 17
Authenticity
, 4, 16
Cartesian revolution
, 16–20
relational goods in economics
, 24–27
Schweitzer and eco-turn in philosophy
, 20–24
Awareness-driven clustering
, 9–10
“Ayam atma brahma” process
, 161
Ayurveda
, 161, 162
Balanced Scorecard
, 115
Beauty of nature
, 94
Behavioral integrity
, 210
Bhuta Yajna
, 164
Bible, The
, 131, 136
“Big Seven” factors
, 60
Biocentric ethics
, 37–40, 104
Bioconservative humanists
, 256
Bioethics
, 37
Biotechnology
, 253–254
Biotic community
, 42, 43
Blue economy
, 116–117
Brahman
, 161
Brainport
, 190–191
Brunello Cucinelli Spa
, 10, 212–214
Buddhism
, 21, 61, 71
Buddhist cosmology
, 72
Buddhist economics
, 5, 71–74
Business
Brunello Cucinelli Spa
, 212–214
context development
, 151–152
Loccioni Group
, 214–216
Mercurio Net Srl
, 216–218
models
, 186, 212, 213
spirituality and
, 149–150
Business administration, sustainability in
, 110–118
Capital
, 237–238
Capuchin Friary in Muenster, Germany
, 90
Care for nature
, 6, 80
Cartesian
Cartesian-Newtonian sciences
, 41
context
, 4
revolution
, 16–20
Catastrophe
, 138–140
Catholic Church
, 38
Charismatic leaders
, 209–210
China, CSR
, 232
Christian
Philosophy
, 86
tradition contemplation
, 96
Circular Economy
, 116, 117
Cities
, 182, 193–194
destructive force of city clusters
, 196
and towns
, 194–195
Civilization
aggregate of civilization-related and planetary problems
, 32
balance between nature and
, 130–132, 135–137
Clever marketing tactics
, 9, 170
Cluster leadership
, 183
Clustering
awareness-driven
, 9
human motivation to cluster
, 182–183
spiritual clustering of energies
, 197
Collectivism
, 230
Colonization process
, 131
Commonwealth of life
, 74–75
Communitarian offer
, 45–47
Confronting Consumption
, 157
Confucius
, 71
Consciousness
, 161
ecological
, 8
reflective
, 150
sacramental
, 93
social
, 160
Consequentialist ethics
, 34, 35
Constitutions
, 185
Consumerism
, 170, 172–173
impact of
, 174
affecting environment
, 177
consequences of ‘Pocket’
, 175
debt
, 171
impact on environment
, 174–175
implications for health and well-being
, 175–176
mirror of human condition
, 176–177
technology and
, 172–173
Consumption
, 172, 176
Consumption-based economic clusters
, 188
Contemplating on nature
, 96
Contemplation of God
, 96
Conversion
, 91–92
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
, 7, 10–11, 102, 207, 230
impact of
, 232
communication of
, 230–231
ranking
, 231
Cosmology
, 161, 163
Cradle-to-Cradle Model. See Eco-Effectiveness
Crafts
, 81
Creation, building space for experiencing Franciscan spirituality of
, 94–97
“Creative destruction”
, 11
Creativity
creativity and blurring of human person/technology boundary
, 257
human person
, 256
protecting or improving creativity
, 253–254
technology transforming man or instrument for man
, 255–256
transhumanism and creativity
, 253
Current socio-economic system
, 172
“Darshana”
, 161
Debt
, 171, 175
Decision myopia
, 158
Deep Ecology
, 5, 71–74, 149
Defoe, Daniel
, 126
Descartes
, 24
Descartes Discours de la Méthode
, 4, 16
Deva Yajna
, 163
Disasters
, 158
Disharmonious actions
, 156
Distancing
, 157
“Divinity”
, 61
Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy
, 80
Dwelling
safe
, 128–129
save dwelling and food
, 134–135
e-shopping
, 173
Earth
, 9, 57, 127–128, 187
Eastern perspective, quality of life
, 56–58
see also Western perspective, quality of life
Ebay
, 173
Eco-effective management model
, 117
Eco-effectiveness
, 115, 117
Eco-turn in philosophy, Schweitzer and
, 20–24
Ecocentric perspective
, 56
Ecocritical approach
, 124
ecocriticism as new insight
, 124–125
Friday
, 132–140, 141
literature role
, 125
Robinson Crusoe
, 126–132
Ecocriticism
, 7, 124–125
Ecological consciousness
, 149
business context development
, 151–152
future and self-concept
, 150–151
spirituality and business
, 149–150
spirituality in Western context
, 148–149
Ecological crisis
, 32, 159
Ecological footprint
, 117
“Ecological mortgage”
, 149
Ecological peace
, 56
Ecological perspective, legal regulation limits from
, 37
animating objective reality
, 40–43
anthropomorphic ethics
, 37–40
biocentric ethics
, 37–40
substitution of retributive logic for reverence of life
, 43–45
Ecological processes, social intervention in
, 33
Ecology
, 80, 90–91
conversion
, 91–92
incarnation or embracing world
, 92–93
power of relationship
, 93–94
theological characteristics for Franciscan theology of
, 91
Economic regulation, focal points of
, 33
critics of unlimited growth theory
, 33–35
foresight-based regulation, promoting integration, serving cooperation in living world
, 35–37
Economic(s)
, 69–70, 80
activities
, 81–82
and Business Ethics
, 113
cycles
, 197–198
development
, 80, 103
ecology
, 206
economic-activity systems
, 73
growth
, 175
relational goods in
, 24–27
sustainability in
, 110–118
system
, 25
theory
, 113
value focus
, 158
Economy of Communion project (EoC project)
, 216–217
Education
, 62, 188–191
Embracing world
, 92–93
Emotions
, 133
Empirical analysis
, 219–220
Empirical-Technical Level
, 109
Empiricism, mythology to
, 81–82
Employee relationships
, 231–232
Encyclical
, 69
Letter Laudato sì
, 68–70, 204, 205–207
Enterprise theories
, 113, 115
Entrepreneurs
, 219
Entropic thrift
, 74
Environmental
goods and services
, 74
issues
, 231–232
law
, 43, 44
law regulation
, 36
studies
, 125
Environmentalism
, 174
Epicurean ethics
, 26
Epistemological approach to sustainability
chronological delimitation of sustainability
, 107–108
conceptualization of sustainability
, 104–106
sustainability beyond ecology
, 103–104
sustainability in economy and business administration
, 110–118
taxonomic proposal for study of sustainability
, 108–110
Epistemological perspective
, 111–112
Equality
, 84
Ethical/ethics
breakthrough of
, 196–201
business
, 210–211
ecology
, 207
ethical-driven leadership
, 219
goods
, 27
leadership
, 209
leadership
, 209–212
literature
, 219
rules of
, 214
system
, 259
Explicating
explicating–delineating conceptualization
, 106
framework
, 105
Facebook
, 173
Farming
, 162–163
Fiction
, 125
“Flumen” project
, 216
“Focolare” Movement
, 217
Food
, 128–129
Foresight-based regulation
, 33
promoting integration, serving cooperation in living world
, 35–37
Franciscan ecological approach
, 98
Franciscan perspective, integral ecology from
approach
, 90–91
building space for experiencing Franciscan spirituality of creation
, 94–97
Franciscan spirituality and management
, 97–99
theological characteristics for Franciscan theology of ecology
, 91–94
Franciscan spirituality
, 90
acting on behalf of nature
, 96
building space for experiencing Franciscan spirituality of creation
, 94
contemplating on nature
, 96
layout of garden
, 96–97
learning from nature
, 95
and management
, 97–99
praying with nature
, 95
Franciscan theological approach
, 90
Fraternity
, 84
Friday
, 125, 132
balance between nature and civilization
, 135–137
catastrophe
, 138–140
comparison of two novels
, 141
dream of another world
, 137–138
nature
, 133
wild animals
, 133–134
Frugality
, 69
as art de vivre
, 26
commonwealth of life
, 74–75
Deep Ecology and buddhist economics
, 71–74
‘Laudato si’
, 68–70
Fuel cell micro-CHP system
, 174
Gaia (living community of Earth)
, 42
Garden layout
, 96–97
Germs of legal regulation
, 47–49
Global footprint
, 117
Global Reporting Initiative (2016)
, 113
Global warming
, 68
Globalism
, 47
Gradual dissolution of meaningful purpose underlying nature
, 84–85
Green capitalism
, 26
Green cultural studies
, 124
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
, 25, 160
Gross National Happiness (GNH) index
, 25, 160
Harmony
, 159
Health, implications for
, 176
Hinduism
, 61, 71
Holocene
, 86–87
stoicism as philosophical answer “par excellence” during
, 83–84
Homo consumens
, 172
Homo economicus
, 24
Homo reciprocans
, 73
Householding
, 74
Human activity
, 159
Human Development Index
, 160
Human ecology
, 159
Human intervention
, 41
Human motivation to cluster
, 182–183
Human person
creativity
, 256
creativity and blurring of human person/technology boundary
, 257
Human responsibility
, 45
Human rights
, 231–232
Human-induced stresses
, 159
Humanism
, 258–259
as perfectionism
, 254–255
Hunting
, 130
Idealism on view of nature, impact of
, 82–83
Impulse shoppers experience
, 175
Incarnation
, 92–93
Inclusive Wealth Indicators
, 160
Indian cosmology
, 163
Indian knowledge systems
, 161–165
Indian philosophical systems
, 158
Indigenous worldviews
, 160
Individualism
, 230
individual human motivation
, 195–197
individual sustainability
, 104
Industrial
activities
, 182
ecology
, 116
organisations
, 188
Industrial Revolution
, 116
Industrialisation era
, 182
Industrialization
, 6, 80, 83, 243
Infrastructure
basic
, 194
executive providing
, 195
‘Inherently myopic’ humans
, 176
Inner peace
, 56
Integral ecology
, 3, 68, 80, 81, 93, 204, 218–220
Brunello Cucinelli Spa
, 212–214
and ethical leadership
, 209–212
Laudato sì Encyclical letter
, 205–207
Loccioni Group
, 214–216
Mercurio Net Srl
, 216–218
SBMs
, 207–208
sustainable leadership and business model
, 212
Integrated infrastructure
, 194
Integrating conceptualization
, 106
Interconnectedness
, 158–159
International law
, 45
Internet
, 173
Intrinsic value of nature
, 5–6, 68, 239
commonwealth of life
, 74–75
Deep Ecology and buddhist economics
, 71–74
‘Laudato si’
, 68–70
Irreversible process
, 80
Islamic Philosophy
, 84–85
Jewish Philosophy
, 84–85
Justice
, 90–91
Kapha
, 162
“Klostergarten” project
, 97–98
Kondratiev Waves
, 196–197
“Krinein” (decide)
, 32
Labour
, 182, 237–238
Large-scale activities
, 159
Law
, 42, 49
of entropy to economy
, 34
international
, 45
natural
, 33
soft
, 45
solidarity
, 37
in well-ordered society
, 37
Leadership
, 209
approaches and models development
, 10
characteristics and organizational culture of business
, 10–11
responsible
, 211
style
, 211
Leaf community
, 216
Learning from nature
, 95
Legal regulation
, 36
Legal regulation, focal points of
, 33
critics of unlimited growth theory
, 33–35
foresight-based regulation, promoting integration, serving cooperation in living world
, 35–37
Legal regulation limits from ecological perspective
, 37
animating objective reality
, 40–43
anthropomorphic ethics
, 37–40
biocentric ethics
, 37–40
substitution of retributive logic for reverence of life
, 43–45
Legal regulation to future generations, challenge of extending
, 45
communitarian offer
, 45–47
germs of legal regulation
, 47–49
Legal Sciences
, 109
Life, commonwealth of
, 74–75
Loccioni Group
, 10, 214–216
Logical semantics poles
, 102
Long-term outlook
, 151
Luddites
, 252, 254
Macro-Systemic dimensions
, 111
Mainstream economics
, 5–6
Management Models
, 113
Managerial perspective
, 204
Manifestation
, 161
Manufacturers
, 9
Market economies, correction of
, 47
Market metaphysics
, 68
Marketing scenario
, 170
Marketing tactics
, 170
Marketization process
, 73
Marketplace
, 182
Maximally exposed individual
, 44
Meaning, significance of
, 60–61
Medieval Christianity
, 148
Meditation process
, 164
Membership
, 74
Mercurio Net
, 10
Srl
, 216–218
Meso-organizational dimensions
, 111
Metafunction
, 41–42
Methodology poles
, 102
Micro-personal dimensions
, 111, 113
Millennium age’s consumer culture
, 9
Moby Dick
, 125
Modern communication channels
, 197–198
Modernization theory
, 114
Moral creativity
, 209
Moral imagination
, 209
Moral leadership
, 219
Mutuality
, 245
MySpace
, 173
Nara Yajna
, 164
Natural capitalism
, 116, 117, 242
Natural law
, 33
Nature
, 16, 22, 23, 80, 133, 157
acting on behalf of
, 96
balance between civilization and
, 130–132, 135–137
beauty of
, 62
contemplating on
, 96
learning from
, 95
philosophical questions on
, 80–81
praying with
, 95
spirituality and
, 86–87
understanding and valuing
, 238–242
see also Social interventions in nature
Negative emotions
, 176
Neo-Marxist theory
, 114
Neoclassical economics
, 34
Neoliberal theory
, 114
Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
, 16
Nirvana
, 72
Noble horse. See Thymos horse
“Noblesse oblige”
, 72
Nonanthropocentric worldview
, 71
Nonreductionist
, 71
Nonviolence (ahimsa)
, 73
Numerous tactics
, 177
Ontology poles
, 102
Organic movements
, 244
Organizational culture
, 209
Organizational sustainability
, 104
Pancha Maha Yajnas
, 163
Participation Society
development of hierarchies
, 183
education
, 188–191
human clustered organisations
, 184
natural human community spirituality
, 185–186
spiritual change
, 187–188
human motivation to cluster
, 182–183
reorganisation of practical reality
, 194–201
sustainocracy
, 191–193
Peace
, 90–91
Perfectionism, humanism as
, 254–255
Persistent fragmentation
, 236
Perverse reality
, 196
Philosophical Anthropology
, 109
Philosophical questions on nature
, 80–81
Philosophical system
, 161
Philosophy of Nature
, 109
Pita
, 162
Pitru Yajna
, 164
Planetary boundaries
, 158
Planetary resources
, 27
Pleasure
, 182
Political economic format
, 185
Political economic structures
, 188–189
Political Theory
, 109
Polluter practices
, 61
Posthumanism
, 7, 258–259
Posthumanization
, 257
Poverty
, 93
Prajnanam brahma process
, 161
Praying with nature
, 95
Price
, 6
“Prima facie” duty
, 46
Principle of “reverence for life” (Ehrfurcht fur das Leben)
, 4
Prioritizing money
, 176
Private vices public benefits
, 26
Process of dynamic
, 9
Procreation
, 182
Productivity
, 182
Profit, People, and Planet
, 111
Profit-driven fishing in Arctic
, 68
Protection
, 182
Psycho-social health
, 200
Psycho-social health breakthrough
, 200
Public Administration Sciences
, 109
Pure rational perception
, 17
Purity
, 61
Quality of life
, 5, 56
connecting east and west
, 58
Eastern perspective
, 56–58
Western perspective
, 59–62
“Rajasic”
, 56, 57
Rationalism, mythology to
, 81–82
Rationalistic and empirical foundation of Anthropocene
, 85–86
“Realms of Philosophy”
, 109
Reflective consciousness and agency
, 150
Regenerative firms
, 242–247
characteristics
, 245
theory of firm
, 236–238
traditional firm vs. regenerative firm
, 246–247
understanding and valuing nature in economics
, 238–242
Relational goods in economics
, 24–27
Reorganisation of practical reality
, 194
breakthrough of ethics
, 196–201
destructive force of city clusters
, 196
executive providing infrastructures
, 195
res extensa
, 19
Reverence for life
, 16
principle
, 23–24
retributive logic substitution for
, 43–45
Rishi Yajna
, 164
Robinson Crusoe
, 125, 126
animals
, 129–130
balance between nature and civilization
, 130–132
dangerous sea
, 127
Earth
, 127–128
public memory
, 126–127
safe dwelling, weapons and food
, 128–129
wilderness, wild animals
, 128
Romantic Movement
, 148
Sankhya
, 161
Sarvam khalvidam brahma process
, 161
“Sattvic”
, 56, 57, 58, 62–63
Schweitzer, Albert
, 16, 20
Schweitzer and eco-turn in philosophy
, 20–24
Schweitzer’s principle
, 4, 24
Science Delusion, The
, 157
Self-aware hierarchical leadership
, 200
Self-concept
, 148–149, 150
future and
, 150–151
Self-realization
, 72
Self-reflexive
, 160
Servant leadership
, 210
Services
, 183
Shakthi worldview
, 156, 161
Indian knowledge systems
, 161–165
interconnectedness
, 158–159
planetary boundaries
, 158
problems of disconnecting worldview
, 157
“Shakthi”
, 8
Shallow ecology
, 71
Shanti
, 158, 159
Slow Food Movement
, 26
Smart city development
, 194
Social consciousness
, 160
Social dilemmas
, 171
Social interventions in nature
arguing in favor of social intervention
, 32–33
challenge of extending legal regulation to future generations
, 45–49
focal points of current economic and legal regulation
, 33–37
limits of legal regulation from ecological perspective
, 37–45
Social justice
, 80
Social organization
, 230
Social peace
, 56
Social–ecological clustering process
, 192
Societal factors
, 230
Societal sustainability
, 104
Society
, 230
Soft law
, 33, 45
Solidarity
, 37
Speranza
, 135, 137, 138, 141
Spiritual change
, 187–188
Spiritual goods
, 27
Spirituality
and business
, 149–150
nature and
, 86–87
in Western context
, 148–149
St. Francis of Assisi
, 90
Stakeholder
, 112, 211
Steady-state economy
, 34
STIR Foundation
, 182
Stoicism
, 26, 85
as philosophical answer “par excellence” during Holocene
, 83–84
Strong sustainability
, 104
Structural framework
, 105
Structuralist theory
, 114
Surya Namaskar
, 162
Sustainability
, 3, 7, 16, 102, 113, 170, 190
and Business Ethics
, 102
Cartesian revolution
, 16–20
chronological delimitation of
, 107–108
conceptualization of
, 104–106
beyond ecology
, 103–104
in economy and business administration
, 110–118
relational goods in economics
, 24–27
Schweitzer and eco-turn in philosophy
, 20–24
sustainable business
, 11
sustainable development
, 70
sustainable leadership
, 212–218
sustainable progress
, 159
taxonomic proposal for study of
, 108–110
Sustainable business models (SBMs)
, 207–208
and ethical leadership
, 209–212
Sustainocracy
, 182, 191–193
Swara Yoga
, 162
Synergy
, 158
“Tamasic”
, 56, 57
Tarpana
, 164
“Tat tvam asi” process
, 64, 161
Taxonomic proposal for study of sustainability
, 108–110
Techno-economic modelling framework
, 174
Techno-economies
, 173–174
Technology
, 252
and consumerism
, 173–174
creativity and blurring of human person/technology boundary
, 257
and management
, 252–253
morality of technologies
, 256
The Old Man and the Sea
, 125
Theory of Economic Growth to Development Economics
, 114
Thymos horse
, 83
Tournier, Michel
, 132
Traditional farming
, 163
Transcendent
, 96
Transcendental Level
, 108, 109, 112
“Transdisciplinary” solution-oriented science
, 68
Transformational leaders
, 210
Transhumanism challenge in business
creativity and blurring of human person/technology boundary
, 257
humanism as perfectionism
, 254–255
humanism vs. posthumanism
, 258–259
morality of technologies vs. creativity of human person
, 256
protecting or improving creativity
, 253–254
technology and management
, 252–253
technology transforming man or instrument for man’s creativity
, 255–256
transhumanism and creativity
, 253
Triple Bottom Line (TBL)
, 111, 115
‘Tropisms’
, 244
“Turbo-capitalism”
, 10
Über den Humanismus
, 258
Unlimited growth theory, critics of
, 33–35
Unruly horse. See Epithymia horse
Vata
, 162
Vice
, 136
Virtues
, 204
characterizes
, 219
specific cardinal
, 211
Vulnerability
, 27, 92, 134, 195, 199
Weak sustainability
, 104
Weapons and food
, 128–129
Well-being, implications for
, 176
Western context, spirituality in
, 148–149
Western perspective, quality of life
, 59
beauty of nature
, 62
life satisfaction
, 59–60
significance of meaning
, 60–61
third dimension
, 61
Western Philosophy
, 80, 81–82
Wild animals
, 128, 133–134
Worldwide financial crisis
, 27
Yoga
, 162
YouTube
, 173, 194
Zero Emissions Research Initiative (ZERI)
, 116–117
- Prelims
- Part 1 Introduction
- Introduction: Why Integral Ecology is Needed for Reforming Business
- Part 2 Sustainability and the Meaning of Life
- Authenticity and Sustainability: The Search for a Reliable Earth Spirituality
- Social Interventions in Nature
- Quality of Life
- Frugality and the Intrinsic Value of Nature
- Part 3 Toward Integral Ecology
- Integral Ecology and the Anthropocene
- Integral Ecology from a Franciscan Perspective
- Epistemological Approach to Sustainability
- Rereading Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) and Friday (Tournier) – An Ecocritical Approach
- Developing Ecological Awareness and Responsible Business
- Shakthi Worldview: An Inclusive and Expansive Worldview for a Sustainable Future
- Part 4 Practicing Sustainability
- For Richer or Poorer in Sickness for Wealth: What Price Consumerism?
- Participation Society
- Moral and Virtues-Based Leadership for Enhancing Integral Ecology
- A Note on Corporate Social Responsibility
- Regenerative Firms
- The Challenge of Transhumanism in Business
- About the Authors
- Index