Global Perspectives on Green Business Administration and Sustainable Supply Chain Management by Syed Abdul Rehman Khan;

Author:Syed Abdul Rehman Khan; [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: IGI Global

Anne Hidalgo is serving as the Mayor of Paris since 2014. She is the first woman to hold such office. Her ‘Paris Breathes’ initiative since 2016 prohibits any motor vehicle to enter some parts of the city on the first Sunday of the month. On that day, the electric vehicles are free, along with bike rentals. She has promised public metro to work for 24*7. She has proposed a ban on diesel vehicles. She has introduced the Velib bike- hire system and expanded it to 43 cities from just 6 cities. She has advocated for pedestrian spaces and green spaces, thereby contributing to environmental protection.

Arundathi Roy a great Indian writer in English has contributed a great deal to environment protection. She is an activist on several social and political causes. She has expressed her concern for nature through her writings, especially in the Booker Prize winning God of small things. She has also actively participated in activities of Narmada Bachao Andolan and Saving Niamgiri Hills. Many researchers have highlighted her writings in strong favor of protection of environment. She has also voiced her opinions against globalization, which is a threat to environment.

Berta Cáceres grew up in violent torn Central America. She has seen her mother a midwife and a social activist who gave protection and care for refugees from El Salvador. She learnt from her the value of standing up for disenfranchised people. She grew up to become a student activist. In 1993 along with others, she founded National Council of Popular and Indigenous organizations of Honduras (COPINH). The purpose of the organization was to address the threats posed to Lenca people by illegal logging, fight for their territorial rights and improve their livelihoods. She mounted pressure through campaign against the Agua Zarca Dam, based on the request of the local community. She brought the injustice involved in it to the attention of international community. Gunmen shot her dead in her home in 2016. She is the recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. She is an acclaimed writer covering themes like lands, livelihoods and property rights, environment and development, the political economy of gender, poverty and inequality, agriculture and technological transformation, legal change, etc. Her most popular and powerful book is, A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. The book won many prizes and influenced governments to change policies on women and their property rights. Indian Government passed the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act in 2005 spurred by her book and the succession movement she led. Both married and unmarried women hold equal rights along with men in the inheritance of the property, specifically agricultural land.

Carol Martha Browner was informally referred to as the ‘Climate Czar’, while serving as the Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama administration. As Administrator of the EPA under President Clinton she started a successful program to deal with contaminated lands in urban areas.

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