"The Top 50 Sustainability Books" provides a unique insight into the best sustainability books on the market today. The University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership conducted a survey of more than 3,000 specialists to compile its list. Topics addressed in these books range from climate change and poverty through to globalisation. The commentary also incorporates the views of those surveyed with regards to contemporary sustainability issues, whether social, environmental or economic in nature.
A few titles that particularly caught the attention of the team at Article 13 for their seminal contribution to business sustainability include:
- "Our Common Future", by the World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987.
- "For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward the Community, the Environment and a Sustainable Future", by Herman Daly and John Cobb, 1989.
- "The Civil Corporation: The New Economy of Corporate Citizenship", by Simon Zadek, 2001.
- "Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits", by C.K. Prahalad, 2004.
- "Capitalism as if the World Matters", by Jonathan Porritt, 2005.
- "Business as Usual: My Entrepreneurial Journey, Profits and Principles", by Anita Roddick, 2005.
- "An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It", by Al Gore, 2006.
- "The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review", by Nicholas Stern, 2007.
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