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Environmental Strategy Concepts and Development

Environmental Strategy Concepts and Development. Four Readings related to Business Strategy and the Environment Walley and Whitehead Respondents to Walley and Whitehead Stuart Hart Dupont Sustainability What is meant by Win-Win-..etc. It’s Not Easy Being Green.

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Environmental Strategy Concepts and Development

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  1. Environmental Strategy Concepts and Development • Four Readings related to Business Strategy and the Environment • Walley and Whitehead • Respondents to Walley and Whitehead • Stuart Hart • Dupont Sustainability • What is meant by Win-Win-..etc.

  2. It’s Not Easy Being Green • Should win-win be at the core of an organization’s environmental strategy? • Yes? Why? • No? Why not? Why is win-win dangerous? • Do they say let’s go back to the old ways? • What should be maintained?

  3. It’s Not Easy Being Green • Two era’s of environmental management • (Fischer and Schot) • resistant adaptation • embracing environmental issues with no innovation • win-win derived from second era. • Tradeoffs -Where are the tradeoffs? • What is meant by low-hanging fruit? • Where to make innovations? Is rabbit-out-of-the-hat a way to solve problems?

  4. It’s Not Easy Being Green • What is the “trade-off” zone? • What is the value based approach? • What framework do they recommend? • What is “The Triage Framework?” • Does it make sense? • Does it help to more efficiently and effectively guide environmental spending?

  5. Which way? • Not all win-win opportunities are insignificant (Clarke) • more efficiency in regulatory system still needed (Clarke) • more strategic vision, not operational as win-win assumes. (Clarke) • Are regulations good/bad for competitiveness? (somewhere in between).(Stavins) • What about the rest of the world? (Greeno) • Are they short-sighted? (Bavaria) • Regulations inefficient and political (Cairncross) • Porter’s arguments were for both sides, regulators/industry (Esty) etc. • Anything interesting of note that you found?

  6. Beyond Greening - Sustainability • Hart’s paper… • What is sustainability? • How does it relate to triple bottom-line? • What is an ecological footprint? In which economy does Hart talk about it? • www.myfootprint.org

  7. Beyond Greening • Hart says companies go through three stages • Pollution Prevention (internal focus) • Product Stewardship (external, life cycle focus) • Clean Technology • Hart’s simple diagnostic tool.

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