Prelims
Integral Ecology and Sustainable Business
ISBN: 978-1-78714-464-4, eISBN: 978-1-78714-463-7
ISSN: 1572-8323
Publication date: 6 September 2017
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(2017), "Prelims", Integral Ecology and Sustainable Business (Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development, Vol. 26), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-832320170000026019
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INTEGRAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
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Contributions to
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT, PEACE ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 26
SERIES EDITOR
MANAS CHATTERJI
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Contributions to
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT, PEACE ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 26
INTEGRAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS
EDITED BY
OVE JAKOBSEN
University of Nordland
LASZLO ZSOLNAI
Corvinus University of Budapest
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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List of Contributors
V. Adinarayanan | Anaadi Foundation, Coimbatore, India |
Anna Bajo Sanjuán | Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, Spain |
Bernd Beermann | Capuchin Franciscan Friary Muenster, Muenster, Germany |
Luk Bouckaert | Center for Economics and Ethics, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
Manas Chatterji | Binghamton University – State University of New York, New York, USA; Peking University, Beijing, China |
Jean-Paul Close | STIR Foundation, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
Daniel Deak | Department of Business Law, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary |
Mara Del Baldo | University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Urbino, Italy |
Thomas Dienberg | Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Muenster, Muenster, Germany |
José Luis Fernández Fernández | Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, Spain |
Manuel Fernandez-Lopez | University of Nordland, Bodo, Norway |
Rita Ghesquiere | Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium |
Nel Hofstra | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
Knut J. Ims | NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway |
Ove Jakobsen | Bodo Graduate School of Business, University of Nordland, Bodø, Norway |
Hendrik Opdebeeck | Center for Ethics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium |
V. Smrithi Rekha | Anaadi Foundation, Coimbatore, India |
José Luis Retolaza Ávalos | University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain |
Octavi Piulats Riu | University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
Markus Warode | IUNCTUS – Competence Center for Christian Spirituality, Muenster, Germany |
Doirean Wilson | Middlesex University Business School, London, UK |
Laszlo Zsolnai | Business Ethics Center, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary |
Foreword
In this volume, we address questions pertaining to the relationship between business, the natural environment, ethics and spirituality. While traditional economic theory generally assumed firms maximize profits, it has long been acknowledged that other factors may be important to understanding firm activities. The role of ethics and spirituality in society is clearly significant; yet economists have traditionally had little to say on these topics and how they intersect with economic activity. We present contributions from eminent scholars in economics, philosophy, business and spirituality to try to begin to address this gap.
Manas Chatterji
Binghamton, NY, USA
Preface
This book, ‘Integral Ecology and Sustainable Business’, is a collection of chapters from economists, business scholars, philosophers, lawyers, theologians and practitioners who are working in Europe, North America and Asia. The work sets out to highlight the meaning of sustainability in relation to both human and non-human life. It offers a series of new and invigorating approaches to sustainable business practices and sustainability leadership.
In May 2016, the Annual European SPES Conference on ‘Integral Ecology, Earth Spirituality and Economics’ met in Bodo, Norway, under the auspices of the Center for Ecological Economics and Ethics of the Bodo Graduate School of Business, University of Nordland, and in association with the European SPES Institute and the Business Ethics Center of the Corvinus University of Budapest.
Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si’ (Praise Be: On the Care of Our Common Home) provided an excellent opportunity and impetus for building a conversation between spirituality, ecology and business. Integral Ecology proposed in the encyclical integrates concerns for people and the planet. Integral Ecology shows a path to sustainable development through frugal consumption, acknowledging the intrinsic value of nature and, for sure, the promotion of social equality.
Here is a selection of the papers presented at our conference in Bodo. We hope the readers will find among them the inspiration to reconsider the role of humanity in nature and to look again, or perhaps for the first time, at the interconnection between ethics, spirituality and ecology, and, hopefully, seeing them in new, creative and progressive ways which will have an impact on their thinking and practice.
Ove Jacobsen
Laszlo Zsolnai
Editors
Acknowledgement
The editors would like to thank David Beake for his dedicated work for improving the English of the chapters of the book.
- 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