Andy Gouldson

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model for small businesses and environmental management: a new model for development? and a new opportunity for co-operation between small businesses, environmental management, and regional development and management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of integrated pollution control (IPC) on the economic and environmental aspects of the UK's manufacturing industry and concluded that IPC fails to fully establish the imperative for action on environmental issues and as a result it is unlikely to promote the radical innovations associated with ecological modernisation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the key contributions of the political science and systems theory based literatures on environmental governance, and use them to analyse the governance of biodiversity in Europe, highlighting how vertical and horizontal interplay between the governance framework for biodiversity and the broader institutional setting or regime have characterized the implementation of the Habitats Directive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the origins and enactment of social change in a complex-systems epistemology with inherent limitations, often producing managerial governance recommendations and foregrounding material over social drivers of change.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the potential for mandatory reporting to address these problems and conclude that mandatory reporting is, at best, a partial solution, and that it is a combination of voluntary and mandatory reporting, underpinned by active investor interest in the data being reported, that offers the greatest potential for progress.