Dear Colleagues,
"Greener Management International" Issue 48 is a special theme issue:
TEACHING BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY
CASES, SIMULATIONS AND EXPERIENTIAL APPROACHES
edited by Chris Galea, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
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If there is one area of business education that requires, out-of-the-
box, creative thinking it is sustainability. Business sustainability,
by its relative newness (and hence uncertainty), its dependence on
interdisciplinary thinking, its need to work with different
stakeholders, its non-traditional operating approaches and so on,
demands that we train our managers in wholly new ways. This need for
new and non-traditional teaching approaches is reflected in this
collection of unorthodox teaching pedagogies. The underlying philosophy
behind them is that deep learning for sustainability needs ultimately
to be experiential: that is, learning while doing rather than a passive
absorption of facts and figures. While much of the underlying theory of
sustainability may be taught using more traditional lecture and reading
approaches, the implementation of true business sustainability requires
students to experiment - to win and lose - while grappling with the
myriad challenges and frustrations posed by sustainability: the same
challenges and frustrations, one might add, that companies bent on
implementing sustainability face on a daily basis in the outside world
in which they operate.
This issue of "Greener Management International" will be essential
reading for business educators everywhere and is a taster for the
forthcoming book (Spring, 2007) "Teaching Business Sustainability 2".
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The original volume "Teaching Business Sustainability: From Theory to
Practice"
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
* Introduction
Chris Galea, St Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada
* Easter Island: A Case Study in Non-sustainability
David K. Foot, University of Toronto, Canada
* The War of the Woods: A Forestry Giant Seeks Peace
Monika I. Winn, Faculty of Business, University of Victoria, Canada
Charlene Zietsma, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of
Western Ontario, Canada
* Personalising Sustainability: An Interactive Activity to Reinforce
the Presentation of The Natural Step (TNS)
Joshua Skov, Good Company, USA
* Sustainable Games People Play: Teaching Sustainability Skills with
the Aid of the Role-play ‘NordWestPower’
Anke Truscheit and Christoph Otte, University of Oldenburg, Germany
* Using Experiential Simulation to Teach Sustainability
Susan Svoboda, Realia Group, USA
John Whalen, Sustainable Value Partners, Inc., USA
* Different Planets: Belief, Denial and Courage. The Role of Emotion in
Turning Learning into Action
Penny Walker, Independent Consultant, UK
* Getting Out There: Incorporating Site Visits and Industry Assessments
in Pollution Prevention and Sustainability Education
Kim Fowler, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Jill Engel-Cox, Battelle Memorial Institute, USA
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