| Business Strategy for Water Challenges: From Risk to Opportunity Contributor(s): Orr, Stuart (Author), Pegram, Guy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1910174270 ISBN-13: 9781910174272 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development - Business & Economics | Business Ethics - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 307.12 |
| Series: Doshorts |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.27 lbs) 78 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Water is a resource under increased stress, with its management now cited as one of the greatest risks to business continuity and growth. This concise guide for professionals offers strategic steps for developing a corporate water stewardship strategy. It will enable you to: define business water risks, and the opportunities associated with those risks; explore, through sector-specific profiles, risks associated with regulation, reputation, external response and engagement, and physical incidents; develop a clear plan and process for creating, managing and mainstreaming a corporate water strategy; identify several initiatives and new risk tools that your company can use to stay on top of best practice in water management. With the advent of risk tools, and a growing list of testaments around business risk from water, we are now able to respond more appropriately to how this resource is impacted by and impacts upon business. Use this book as your guide as you begin to build your company's strategy around water. |
Contributor Bio(s): Orr, Stuart: - "Stuart Orr is Head of Water Stewardship at WWF. He works closely with business and public institutions to improve and prioritize the management of water resources. Stuart sits on a number of corporate sustainability boards, partnerships and think-tanks - all lovingly obsessed with the management of our most precious shared resource. Most of his publications have been on water risk, measurement, agriculture, water policy and corporate governance."Pegram, Guy: - Guy Pegram is a water planning engineer by training but spends most of his time dealing with the regulation and management of natural resources and infrastructure. He leads the dynamic and multi-disciplinary management consultancy Pegasys, through which he has spent the past 15 years addressing catchment water resources issues in Africa. More recently Guy has been involved in the global discussions around corporate water stewardship and the role of water in developing economies, which together pose the challenge and opportunity to build water and climate resilience into business and government activities. |