Intrinsic Capability

The following sections are included:

• Preface
• About the Editors
• Contents

This book is about a global experiment conducted with two aims. The first aim relates to a new approach to solving global problems such as poverty, pollution, habitat loss and climate change. The second aim is to bring about better lives for all…

The following sections are included:

• Small towns in the boundaries
• Co-creating hybrid worlds
• As means of a conclusion

The origins of modern reporting in Russia trace back to 1721 during The Emperor’s All-Russian Peter I (Peter the Great) ruling period. As the head of state Peter I led a reformation campaign aiming to modernise Russia’s social and political systems including the development of reporting systems. Inspired by Enlightenment ideas from the West, the Emperor promoted European law-enforcement practice and reformation of the education system. This also included the creation of the first business school. Such changes had a powerful impact on the development of early Russian reporting systems…

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Anthropocentric and ecocentric epistemology
• Ecocentric strategy development
• Ecocentric business strategies
• Ecocentric business and marketing solutions
• An ecocentric strategic marketing vision
• Managerial relevance and further research
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgment

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• The ubiquity of “accounting”?
• Accounting and where to draw its parameters?
• From remote modernity to intrinsic sustainability: A role for social and environmental accounting?
• Social and environmental accounting and sustainability: The story so far?
• Reflections and conclusions?

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Ideas of change — Foucault’s work on episteme change
• China’s ecological civilisation policy explained
• Chinese ancient philosophical traditions
• New forms of accountability in China
• China’s emerging ecological civilisation and the capability approach

In this piece of work, I will try something I have never done before: write an emic account of Vietnamese culture and its impact on our relationship with Nature. An emic perspective, meaning the perspective of a person living within a culture, is one common approach used in anthropological and cultural research (Helfrich, 1999). The validity of the method rests on the premise that a person living within and having enculturated into their native culture has an insider’s knowledge and tends to understand their own way of living the best. However, the work will also draw on research by other Vietnamese and foreign authors. I must also add that my recent experience living abroad has helped me better understand and appreciate my original culture…

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• A rapidly transforming city
• Towards sustainable development
• Unsustainable development
• The case of Kileleshwa neighbourhood
• Cultural architecture
• The emergent architecture of Kileleshwa neighbourhood
• An ecological perspective
• Conclusion

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• The post-colonial theory
• Habermas’ communicative action theory
• The interconnectedness between Habermas’ theory of communicative action and the post-colonial theory
• The new post-colonial theory
• Applying Habermas and the post-colonial theory in Ghana’s mining industry: The stakeholder accountability and transparency dimension
• Conclusion

The following sections are included:

• A discursive history
• Lessons from industrial ecology
• Case study
• Framework for educating towards sustainability
• Teachers: Bridging the gaps between self and world
• Concluding remarks

Ecus Ltd. is a multidisciplinary environmental consultancy with offices across the UK. We are contributing to the Intrinsic Capability project to help identify the inherent connections people have to the environment and how these can be used by organisations and business to better understand and face their customers…

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Background of the agrarian crisis in India
• The need for social entrepreneurship in the agrifood sector

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Case studies
• Conclusions and reflections

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Coletivo Líquida Ação
• Foz Afora: Artistic residency at the Doce River estuary
• Conclusion

The authors of the preceding chapters speak well enough for themselves in their own voices, from all quarters of the world, with their own perspectives, and yet, we argue, they are united. They are united because they all see the world, and work within it, with the same possibility of knowledge…

The following sections are included:

• References
• Index