Miami University in Oxford, Ohio offers a course entitled "Sustainability Perspectives," based on this text. The course was awarded "The Instructional Innovation Award" at the 1996 annual meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, an association of Decision Science professionals headquartered at Georgia State University in Atlanta. The 1990's have seen the development of important new approaches to sustaining corporate development & protecting the environment. Corporations are beginning to realize their responsibilities for a healthy environment. Sustainable development is viewed as an integrated, ecological, economic, & social system in which both economic growth & quality-of-life improvements can occur in a unified system complementary to the maintenance of natural capital. Sustainability Perspectives for Resources & Businesses shows the reader that a sound understanding of the concepts involved in sustainable development is beneficial to businesses, natural resources, & the population in general. This textbook was written to help students & professionals involved in business, science, or engineering to understand the changes occurring in the workplace. It serves as a step toward understanding how business & science, as professional communities, are adapting to new information about risks to the environment. Various chapters are devoted to resources, values, & valuation systems. Each section develops principles such as resilience & integrity in the economy & the environment.

Orie L. Loucks is Ohio Eminent Scholar of Applied Ecosystems and Professor of Zoology at Miami University O. Homer Erekson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Economics for the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University Jan Willem Bol is Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Raymond Gorman is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Finance for the Richard T. Farmer School of Business and Director of the Center for Sustainable Systems Studies at Miami University Pamela C. Johnson was Assistant Professor of Management at Miami University Timothy c. Krehbiel, B.A., McPherson College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Wyoming Timothy C. Krehbiel is Associate Professor of Decision Sciences and Management Information Systems at Miami University James M. Childs, Jr., is Academic Dean and Professor of Ethics at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, OH Norman Grant was Professor of Geology at Miami University and is now retired H. Gregory Hume is a Waste Reduction Specialist at the Center for Applied Environmental Technologies at the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing Sciences Allison R. Leavitt is an instructor and doctoral student in the inter-disciplinary doctoral option, Department of Botany, Miami University Alison Ohl is a research associate for Scudders, Stevens, and Clark in Cincinnati, OH David W. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of Marketing at Miami University. He is an active case writer with special expertise in business ethics Steven Skeels received his undergraduate and masters degrees in Finance from Miami University. He presently is a scrap metals broker for David J. Joseph Company in Cincinnati, OH Nigel Strafford is a doctoral student in organizational management at Case Western Reserve University Esi Wurapa is a former graduate assistant in the Miami University Sustainability Project and is now an environmental manager for Ford Motor Company