Environmental Sustainability and Development in Organizations Challenges and New Strategies

This book aims to analyze contexts and perspectives in the relationships between environmental sustainability, human development and organizations. The book combines different scientific approaches for enhancing our understanding of environmental sustainability, development economics and evaluate what the actual conditions in emerging economies are and how developing new process could improve the well-being of developing countries. Employing a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, the authors work to determine the main related factors and outcomes of the relationship between challenges and new strategies in the environmental sustainability, ultimately seeking to guide public policies to enhance the welfare of the population of an emerging economy.

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Ecopreneurship as an Instrument for Sustainable Development: Grand Narratives, Local Stories Anastasia-Alithia Seferiadis, Leah de Haan and Sarah Cummings Environmental and Natural Resources Research: The Case of a Research Institute in Colombia Alexander Cotte and Clara Inés Pardo Martínez What can the Stock-Flow-Service Nexus Offer to Corporate Environmental Sustainability? Luis Gabriel Carmona, Kai Whiting, Angeles Carrasco and Edward Simpson Land Tenure, Ethnicity, and Desertification in Darfur Osman Suliman Presenting the Challenges and Offering New Strategies to Private and Public Organizations for Environmental Sustainability Hasan Volkan Oral and Hasan Saygin Sustainability from the Business Model to the Communities Ciro Martínez Oropesa Strategies to Improve Environmental Performance Edilberto Miguel Avalos Ortecho Partnership for Sustainable Development: Experiences from Manizales, Colombia, to Improve Environmental Education Initiatives Paola Andrea Calderón-Cuartas, Javier Mauricio Naranjo-Vasco, Cristian Moreira-Segura and Wilmar Osorio-Viana Successful National Financial and Industrial Strategies for the Adoption of New Renewable Energies and the Creation of Exporting Companies Jaime Torres – González The Sea and the Hegemonic Condition of Economic Power: Challenges for Colombia Enrique Alfonso Ochoa, Madelcy Del Carmen Pedroza and Jaime Eduardo Gonzalez

Clara Inés Pardo Martínez, Post-Doctoral in energy and environmental policies, PhD in economics, certified auditor, with experience in advisory services, consulting, and management in areas such as the environment, quality, health and security, energy. Activities in academic and management research on energy economics, energy efficiency, climate change, environmental systems, research methods, empirical analysis, social responsibility and industrial productivity. Consultant for Interamerican Development Bank, World Bank, United Nations Development Program, Latin-American Organization for Energy, among other. Alexander Cotte Poveda, PhD (c) has an Economics degree from the University Georg August Göttingen in Germany, Masters in Economics from the University of the Andes, and Economics. Professor at the Universidad Santo Tomas of the Faculty of Economics. International Consultant for the World Bank and European Union in areas such as R&D, the environmental systems, etc. Associate Editor of the Journal Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. Publication of books and book chapters with publishers such as Springer, Taylor & Francis Group, Palgrave Macmillan.