Sustainable Production

Building Canadian Capacity

Edited by Glen Toner
Categories: Environmental & Nature Studies, Natural Resources, Environmental Protection & Preservation, Science, Technology & Society, Science, Environmental Politics & Policy
Series: Sustainability and the Environment
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774812511, 272 pages, May 2006
Paperback : 9780774812528, 272 pages, January 2007
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774840934, 272 pages, November 2011
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774855419, 272 pages, January 2007
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Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. New Century Ideas and Sustainable Production / Glen Toner and
David V.J. Bell

Part 1: Sustainable Production and Its Context

2. From Eco-Efficiency to Eco-Effectiveness: Private Sector
Practices for Sustainable Production / Bob Masterson

3. Policy Instruments and Sustainable Production: Toward Foresight
without Foreclosure / Robert Paehlke

Part 2: The Knowledge-Based Economy, Social Capital, and
Product Design

4. Developing Sustainability in the Knowledge-Based Economy:
Prospects and Potential / Keith Newton and John Besley

5. Sustainability, Social Capital, and the Canadian ICT Sector /
David Wheeler, Kelly Thomson, and Michael A. Perkin

6. Innovation, Architecture, and the Changing Role of Design
Professionals: Assessing the Ford Model U / Carey Frey

Part 3: External and Internal Drivers of Sustainable
Production

7. Collaborative Public Policy for Sustainable Production: A Broad
Agenda and a Modest Proposal / John Moffet, Stephanie Meyer, and Julie
Pezzack

8. Mobilizing Producers toward Environmental Sustainability: The
Prospects for Market-Oriented Regulations / Mark Jaccard

9. Sustainable Production and the Financial Markers: Opportunities
to Pursue and Barriers to Overcome / Blair W. Feltmate, Brian A.
Schofield, and Ron Yachnin

10. Engaging Senior Management on Sustainability / Kevin
Brady

Conclusion

11. Whither Sustainable Production? Sustainable Enterprise and the
Role of Government / David V.J. Bell and Glen Toner Index

Description

The issues associated with sustainable production are among the most
important facing the world in the early 21st century. While most of the
scholarship in this area has been produced in the United States and
Europe, not much has been written from a Canadian perspective.
Sustainable Production establishes a Canadian presence in the
sustainable production debate by analyzing the opportunities and
constraints facing the public and private sectors as Canada strives to
move public policy and industrial practice forward. Sustainable
production envisions an industrial system that would maximize resource
efficiency, minimize environmental impacts, and replenish natural
capital, while providing safe and satisfying employment opportunities.