Dear Colleagues,
As part of Greenleaf's ongoing series of special offers to celebrate our 10th anniversary, we are announcing another 30% discount offer on two of our recent major tiles: Earth Matters: Indigenous Peoples, the Extractive Industries and Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability challenges and Solutions at the Base of the Pyramid: Business, Technology and the Poor
Order online and receive 30% discount.
Offer ends March 12th. See below for more details.
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EARTH MATTERS
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Edited by Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh, Department of Politics and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia and Saleem Ali, University of Vermont, USA
272pp | 234 x 156 mm
Hardback: ISBN 978-1-906093-16-7 £35.00 €47.50 $65.00
You can view or download 'The Introduction' and 'Conclusion' free of charge
"This book challenges the extractive industry to examine some difficult dilemmas confronting miners and indigenous peoples in terms of corporate social responsibility ... Any mining executive – indeed any developer – concerned about the social context of a project will find this a stimulating and thought-provoking read."
– Tom Albanese, CEO, Rio Tinto
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Earth Matters gathers key experts from around the world who discuss corporate initiatives in Alaska, Ecuador, Australia, Canada, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Russia. The book explores the great diversity that characterises initiatives and policies under the name of 'corporate social responsibility', the highly contingent and contextual nature of corporate responses to indigenous demands, and the complex and evolving nature of indigenous–corporate relations. It also reveals much about the conditions under which CSR can contribute to a redistribution of benefits and costs from large-scale resource development.
Earth Matters will be essential reading for those working in and studying the extractive industry worldwide, as well as those readers looking for a state-of-the-art description of how CSR is functioning in perhaps its most difficult setting.
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SUSTAINABILITY CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS AT THE BASE OF THE PYRAMID:
BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY AND THE POOR
Edited by Prabhu Kandachar and Minna Halme
xii + 532 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardback | ISBN 978-1-906093-11-2 | Published 22 September 2008
List price: GBP50.00 EUR75.00 USD95.00
Free to view/download: "Foreword" by Stuart L. Hart and "Introduction" by Prabhu Kandachar and Minna Halme
"In summary, it appears that building BoP businesses that create enduring and sustainable community value requires an entirely new strategic process and corporate capability. This wonderful collection of essays assembled by Prabhu Kandachar and Minna Halme addresses virtually all of the challenges to realising this opportunity - and more. In the pages that follow, you will find a rich set of contributions by a diverse set of highly qualified authors. Indeed, between these covers lie many answers, but also a host of new and important questions regarding the promising new approach to sustainable development called the Base of the Pyramid."
Stuart L. Hart
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Around the turn of the millennium it had become painfully evident that development aid, charity or 'global business-as-usual' were not going to be the mechanisms to alleviate global poverty. Today, there is little dispute that poverty remains the most pressing global problem calling for innovative solutions. One recent strategy is the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) concept developed by Prahalad and Hart, which relies on entrepreneurial activity tapping into the previously ignored markets of the economically most disadvantaged. It is a process requiring innovations in several disciplines: technological, social and business.
This book covers a number of areas. First, much of the current BoP discussion emphasises targeting products to the needs of the poor. But do we actually know what the real needs of the poor are? This book takes a bottom-up human-centred approach and examines examples that truly engage the poor in BoP product and service development. What types of needs assessment methodologies are indicated considering the cultural differences in BoP countries? Are the existing methodologies adequate? Do they need to be redefined and redeveloped?
Second, the book considers how we can balance poverty alleviation and stimulate economic growth without stressing the ecosystem. Tragically, the poor are hardest hit by the adverse effects of environmental deterioration such as water shortages, climate change or the destruction of habitats. While the economic welfare of the poor is critical, the BoP approach must balance its inherent paradox of encouraging greater consumption while avoiding further pressures on environmental sustainability. The link between the BoP approach and sustainable development is a key feature of this book.
Third, it looks at innovation and asks what kinds of 'bottom-up' innovation (open source, technological, social and business) support BoP initiatives (and sustainable development)?
Fourth, the book deals with the relationship between development assistance and BoP. Is a BoP strategy the antithesis to development aid or can these two co-exist or even complement each other?
Finally, the book raises questions about the relationship between corporate responsibility and BoP. Is BoP a new form of corporate neo-colonialism or a new form of corporate responsibility?
Although the BoP concept has unleashed an extensive and generally enthusiastic response from academics, businesses, NGOs and governments, the knowledge domain around this concept is still in the early stages of development. This book addresses that need with a focus on the needs of the end-users - the poor - as a starting point for BoP products and innovations. With contributions from both supporters and critics, it provides a treasure trove of global knowledge on how the concept has developed, what its successes and failures have been and what promise it holds as a long-term strategy for alleviating poverty and tackling global sustainability.
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