Reading List

Sustainability Topics (see Related Topics below)

Author    Title    Year   
Anderson, R. Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model 1999
Benyus, J. Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature 2002
Brown, L. Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth 2001
Bunch, R. Two Ears of Corn: A Guide to People-Centered Agricultural Improvement 1995
Daly, H. Beyond Growth : The Economics of Sustainable Development 1997
Desimone, L. & F. Popoff Eco-efficiency: The Business Link to Sustainable Development 1997
Desoto, H. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else 2000
Diamond, J. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 2005
Easterly, W. The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics 2002
Elkington, J. Cannibals With Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business 1998
Hart, S. Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World’s Most Difficult Problems 2005
Hawken, P. The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability 1994
Hawken, P., Lovins, A. & L. Hunter Lovins Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution 2000
Holliday, C. Walking the Talk: The Business Case for Sustainable Development 2002
Larson, A. & Johnson, R. An Overview Of The Historical Context For Sustainable Business In The United States 1960-2000
McDonough, W. & Braungart, M. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things 2002
Nattrass, B. The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation 1998
Neuwirth, R. Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World 2004
Prahalad, C. K. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits 2004
Robert, K. The Natural Step Story: Seeding a Quiet Revolution 2002
Sachs, J. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time 2005
Schumacher, E.F. Small Is Beautiful : Economics as if People Mattered 1973
Sen, A. Development as Freedom 2000
Several Harvard Business Review on Business and the Environment 2000
Sirolli, E. Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies 1999
Stiglitz, J. Globalization and its Discontents 2003

Related Topics

Author    Title    Year   
Bhagwati, J. In Defense of Globalization 2004
Christensen, C. The Innovator’s Dilemma 1997
Christensen, C. & Raynor, M. The Innovator’s Solution 2003
Diamond, J. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1999
Foster, R. & S. Kaplan Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market–And How to Successfully Transform Them 2001
Freeman, R.E. Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach 1984
Friedman, T. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 2005
Friedman, T. The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization 2000
Gould, S.J. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory 2002
Hamel, G., & Prahalad, C. Competing for the Future 1994
Kauffman, S. At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity 1996
Korten, D. When Corporations Rule the World 2001
Korten, D. The Post-Corporate World 2000
Kuhn, T. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 1962
Miles, M., & A. Huberman Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook 1994
Nace, T. Gangs of America 2003
Nonaka & Takauchi The Knowledge Creating Company 1995
Norman, D. The Design of Everyday Things 2002
Paine, L. Value Shift 2002
Quinn, D. Ishmael 1995
Reinhardt, F. Down to Earth 1999
Schumpeter, Joseph Theory of Economic Development 1934
Senge, P. The Fifth Discipline 1990
Spinosa, Flores & Dreyfus Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity 1997
United Nations The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005