Strategies for sustainable organizations: enciromental responsibility and eco-efficiency

Abstract

Environmental ethics has promoted reflections in different disciplines that, in short, try to accelerate a profound change that is required to move towards sustainable development; the change of the vision of man towards nature. The human being as part of a network of life cannot link up with other species from a sense of ownership, but recognizing their rights, rather, he must act responsibly for their development would be compatible with the survival of future generations. In this work is an approach to the concept of environmental liability which was introduced by the ethics of the environment is made. Then, the implication of environmental responsibility in companies as key actors in the development of countries is particularly reviewed. Main levels of environmentally responsible management that are presented in the consulted literature, are also presented in generic way, and finally some considerations of eco-efficiency are presented, one of the strategies of management that allows the company to be friendly with the environment and obtain economic benefits at the same time.