Foundations of a Sustainable Economy

Umar Burki is Associate Professor at USN School of Business, University of South-Eastern Norway, and holds an adjunct position as Associate Professor at Bjorknes University College, Norway.Toseef Azid is Professor of Economics at the College of Business and Economics, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia and visiting professor at Tazkia Islamic University College, Indonesia.Robert Francis Dahlstrom is the Joseph C. Seibert Professor of Marketing in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University and Adjunct Professor of Marketing at BI-Norwegian Business School.

• 1. Sustainability and morality Part I: Theoretical foundations 2. Sustainability principles and triple bottom line performance in supply chains 3. The circular economy 4. Environmental policy enforcement Part II: Religion and sustainability 5. Concept of sustainability in Abrahamic religions 6. A Buddhist approach for a sustainable existence 7. Ontological authority of sustainability in Buddhist and Hindu traditions: the art of planetary maintenance 8. Market behavior and sustainable development in the Islamic Framework 9. Religion and development: an Islamic approach to socio-economic development 10. Accountability and Ssstainability in Islamic accounting literature Part III: Empirical evidences 11. Financial development and ecological footprint nexus: a comparative analysis 12. Inequality and sustainability 13. Socio-economic metabolism of Canada: a case study of energy flows from 1990 to 2011 14. Environmental quality and happiness: a perspective of developed and developing countries 15. Altruism a critical prerequisite for sustainable development: implications for Waqf Institutions in Islamic Republic of Iran 16. Social enterprise and Waqf: an alternative sustainable vehicle for Islamic social finance 17. Sustainable development and the work of Ibn Khaldun: the case of Indonesia 18. People, planet and profitability (3Ps): a gender management perspective 19. Challenges and opportunities

"Foundations of Sustainable Economy: Moral, Ethical and Religious Perspectives offers readers valuable views of sustainability scholarship from around the world. Together, these studies and cases offer readers the elements of a mosaic that readers can use to form their own interpretation of what is happening on planet Earth today regarding sustainability." — Mark Peterson, Professor of Marketing, University of Wyoming.