Title Making things greener : motivations and influences in the greening of manufacturing / Mardie Townsend

Published Aldershot : Ashgate, 1998

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Description xi, 203 pages ; 22 cm Series Studies in green research Studies in green research. Contents 1. "Unless we Change we'll Get Where we're Going" -- 2. Human Behaviour Towards the Environment - Patterns and Understandings -- 3. 'Green' Industry - Myth or Reality? -- 4. Structuration Theory - a Framework for Analysis of 'Green' Industry -- 5. Methodological Approach -- 6. Why Companies Go 'Green' - What the Literature Says -- 7. Motivations for the 'Greening' of Industry - 'Insider' Views -- 8. Help from Inside and Outside - Factors Assisting the 'Greening' of Industry -- 9. Hurdles and Hindrances - Factors Inhibiting the 'Greening' of Industry -- 10. A Typology of 'Green' Companies -- 11. Tips for Growing 'Greener' - Conditions Needed for 'Green' Industry to Expand Analysis Attitudes Company management Environmentalism Manufacturing Natural resource management Overseas item Sociology Sustainable development Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Green technology -- Australia. Industrial ecology -- Australia. Industries -- Environmental aspects. Manufacturing processes -- Environmental aspects. Production engineering -- Environmental aspects -- Australia. LC no. 98070992 ISBN 1840143851

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