{"product_id":"unsustainable-measurement-reporting-and-the-limits-of-corporate-sustainability-hardback-9781479822003","title":"Unsustainable; Measurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability (Hardback) 9781479822003","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnsustainable\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMeasurement, Reporting, and the Limits of Corporate Sustainability\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMatthew Archer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479822003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.517 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Deftly shows how expanding quantification practices around corporate sustainability are serving to perpetuate rather than seriously challenge the role of corporations in causing climate change.\" - Marina Welker, Cornell University \"Engagingly written and featuring an impressive breadth of research, \u003ci\u003eUnsustainable\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical ethnography of corporate sustainability practices, challenging businesses (and the rest of us) to reckon with what we mean by `sustainability' and how we think we can measure and manage it.\" - Andrew Orta, Author of Making Global MBAs: The Culture of Business and the Business of Culture. \"Blows open the disguises of sustainability discourse and corporate sustainability metrics, taking readers on an important journey to demonstrate the ways that politics of sustainability matters. In a world of climate crises, the marketization of sustainability and the outsized influence of corporations in everyday life, ecosystems, and the planet itself, \u003ci\u003eUnsustainable\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary book and a tool to help confront systems that perpetuate the problems.\" - Farhana Sultana, Syracuse University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a business-friendly approach to global sustainability\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental impact. Large documents containing summaries of yearly emissions rates, carbon output, and utilized resources are shared on companies' social media pages, websites, and employee briefings in a bid for public confidence in corporate responsibility.\u003cbr\u003e And yet, Matthew Archer argues, these metrics are often just hollow symbols. \u003ci\u003eUnsustainable\u003c\/i\u003e contends with the world of big banks and multinational corporations, where sustainability begins and ends with measuring and reporting. Drawing on five years of research among sustainability professionals in the US and Europe, \u003ci\u003eUnsustainable\u003c\/i\u003e shows how this depoliticizing tendency to frame sustainability as a technical issue enhances and obscures corporate power while doing little, if anything, to address the root causes of the climate crisis and issues of social inequality. Through this obsession with metrics and indicators, the adage that you can't manage what you can't measure transforms into a belief that once you've measured social and environmental impacts, the market will simply manage them for you.\u003cbr\u003e The book draws on diverse sources of evidence—ethnographic fieldwork among a wide array of sustainability professionals, interviews with private bankers, and apocalyptic science fiction—and features analyses of name-brand companies including Volkswagen, Unilever, and Nestlé. Making the case for the limits of measuring and reporting, Archer seeks to mobilize alternative approaches. Through an intersectional lens incorporating Black and Indigenous theories of knowledge, power and value, he offers a vision of sustainability that aims to be more effective and more socially and ecologically just.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591089680664,"sku":"9781479822003","price":74.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unsustainable-measurement-reporting-and-the-limits-of-corporate-sustainability-hardback-9781479822003","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}